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Midlands play tackles GP health inequality

Pink Paper  4 days ago

A new play is being shown in Birmingham which tackles the health care inequality faced by lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Britain.
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Gallup Poll: Obama's job approval drops below 50%

America Blog  6 days ago

Dropping under 50% isn't the worst thing in the world to happen. The big change seems to be on the issue of the economy and the health care fight.
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RachelWatch: Health Care in the Home Stretch

365 Entertainment and Sports  Nov 19 09

Breaking News Rachel started us off with the news that a district judge in Lousiana ruled that shoddy work by the Army Corps of Engineers led to the flooding of St.
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House panel approves domestic partner benefits

Topix Gay News  Nov 19 09

After a heated debate over gay rights and extending benefits in an economic downturn, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday passed 23 to 12 legislation that would provide health care and other employment benefits to the domestic partners of gay and lesbian federal employees.
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Lambda Legal sues because health care isn't a luxury

Bilerico  Nov 18 09

A few months ago, saying they needed to cut spending, the state of Arizona rescinded domestic partner benefits for same-sex partners of state employees.
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Queer the Census!

Queers United  Nov 18 09

As it stands the 2010 census will not include a question about sexual orientation or gender identity.
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RachelWatch: Sarah Palin and Terror

After Ellen  Nov 17 09

Today: Health care delays, freakouts over imprisoning terrorist, and whatserface has a book out and she’s never going to let you forget it.
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Reform Vital to Homeless HIVers

HIVPlusMag.com  Nov 13 09

Crisis in health care is responsible for much of the homelessness among people with HIV, President Clinton tells advocates.
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Catholics Threaten to Stop Feeding Homeless Over Gay Marriage

Gay Agenda  Nov 13 09

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn’t change a proposed same-sex marriage law, a threat that could affect tens of thousands of people the church helps with adoption, homelessness and health care.
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DC Catholic church says it won’t help poor if it can’t discriminate against LGBT people

Qnews  Nov 12 09

St. Mathhew’s Cathedral, Washington, DC Flickr photo by MVI

The Roman Catholic church threatened Wednesday to shut down the social service programs it runs for the District of Columbia if the DC city council adopts a marriage equality law in its current form.
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RachelWatch: Stupak: The Pitts

365 Entertainment and Sports  Nov 10 09

Government-Run Health Care (But Only for Women) Rachel started us off with an overview of the legislative poison pill that is the Stupak-Pitts amendment.
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More Government = Less Choice?

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Nov 09 09

Frum argues that "Obamacare could ban abortion." His thoughts on the bill more broadly: Small employers can now escape the obligation to provide health care for their employees by paying an 8% payroll tax.
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On Snow And Cameras, Or, Health Care Gets A Day Off

Bilerico  Nov 09 09

Whether you are deliriously happy, incredibly sad, or still uncertain about how you feel about what has emerged from the House this weekend, it's probably safe to say that one thing everyone is.
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Digest for November 6th through November 8th

The Republic of T  Nov 09 09

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for November 6th through November 8th: Robert Kuttner: The Audacity to Change – Right-Wing Unleashes Racism on Rep Cao – Whose Health Care Victory? – Op-Ed Columnist: The Night They Drove the Tea Partiers Down – [.
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RachelWatch: Weiner vs. the Tea Partiers

After Ellen  Nov 09 09

Today: More from Rachel’s Al Gore interview, reactions to the Fort Hood shootings, and the countdown to the House health care vote.
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Anti-Gay Artur Davis was the Only Black Vote Against Health Care

Rod Online  Nov 09 09

In April, the predictably anti-gay Artur Davis—the black conservative Democrat from Birmingham, Alabama who boasts an abysmal 45 percent Human Rights Campaign score—was the only member of the Congressional Black Caucus to vote against the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes.
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Obama’s New Kind of Politics:All Politics, All the Time

Gay Patriot  Nov 09 09

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/05/all-the-presidents-hacks/   find Barone point. http://www.washingtonexaminer.
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Who voted how on health care in the House

America Blog  Nov 08 09

The New York Times has an interactive map of the House vote on health insurance reform yesterday. The lone Republican who voted yes, Anh Joseph Cao, from Louisiana, claims he "voted for life" last night.
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Considering Why Democrats Are Holding Health Care Vote on Saturday?

Gay Patriot  Nov 08 09

Unless we get linked by a very high-traffic blog, Saturdays and Sundays tend be our slowest days where we see a huge drop-off in the number of visits we get.
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2009 Elections Show it’s not just House Democrats from McCain Districts who Face Consequences of Vote for PelosiCare

Gay Patriot  Nov 07 09

The conventional wisdom is that the 49 Democrats from congressional districts that backed John McCain last fall are those likely to tip the balance in the current debate on health care.
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