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Sarah Palin's Fans Are Revolting

Joe My God  less than a day ago

Fans of Sarah Palin staged a mini-revolt around her tour bus when they didn't get to meet her during a book signing as they'd been promised.
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Rechargeable zinc-air batteries promise a lot, we'll see if they deliver in 2010

EnGadget  Oct 30 09

Is there any other field of technology that promises as many revolutionary innovations as battery makers do yet delivers so few? We've heard of battery life being made four times, eight times, even twelve times better.
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The Revolt In the Universities

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Sep 29 09

More evidence of continued resistance in Iran. This footage is taken from yesterday and today at Sharif and Tehran universities: Just remember that every one of thse students knows what happened to the others.
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PAX 09: Saboteur Preview

GayGamer  Sep 10 09

Videogames have taught me a number of things over the years, and one of those is that World War II will always be a backdrop for gritty gameplay, especially when the Nazis are involved.
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The bigots who brought Prop 8 to California set their sights on Iowa

Topix Gay News  Aug 26 09

The haters that brought Prop 8 to California "has announced its intention to lead a revolt against same-sex marriage in Iowa" by plaing and winning a statewide referendum on the state ballot that overturns the Iowa Supreme Court's decision this April that legalized marriages between same-sex couples.
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Progressives Betrayed?

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Aug 21 09

by Peter Suderman In the New York Times this morning, Paul Krugman writes that "progressives are now in revolt," and that Obama has lost their trust.
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Krugman on Obama. Devastating.

America Blog  Aug 21 09

NYT columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman: [T]here’s a growing sense among progressives that they have, as my colleague Frank Rich suggests, been punked.
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For Gay Iranian Refugees, a Matter of Life or Death

Gay News Blog  Jul 21 09

NOTE: This is the second of two parts, the first, on the election revolt, was on EDGE in June.The international media clamor surrounding last month’s Iranian election, which saw the contentious re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad result in weeks of protests, demonstrations and violence, may have died down, but the unstable atmosphere lives on for residents of the Islamic republic.
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Gay community split over 'depoliticised' London Pride

Yahoo Gay News / u.tv  Jul 04 09

When the gay clientele of a New York bar staged a revolt against police harassment in June 1969 it sparked the awakening of the homosexual liberation movement.
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Will Gay Iranians Come Out of the Revolt Better --or Worse?

Topix Gay News  Jul 02 09

Ever since the Iranian Revolution empowered a socially conservative theocracy led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979, the country has been a difficult place for gays, lesbians and transgender people to call home.
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Breaking Gay News

Wicked Gay Blog  Jul 01 09

Military board: Discharge gay NY National Guard officer By William Kates | Wednesday Jul 1, 2009 A military administrative board recommended Tuesday that a National Guard officer who publicly announced he’s gay should be discharged for violating the military’s "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy.
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Gay rights movement: 40 years since Stonewall riots

Yahoo Gay News / AFP via Yahoo! News  Jun 26 09

Forty years ago, a New York City bar called the Stonewall Inn shot to global attention when its gay clientele staged a revolt against police harassment, launching the US homosexual rights movement.
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The Weekend Wrap

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Jun 15 09

The Dish covered a coup and a revolt this weekend. Footage of demonstrations and street violence can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
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Advocates for New York's same-sex marriage bill keep fighting, despite Senate revolt (The Post-Standard)

Yahoo Lesbian News  Jun 15 09

Syracuse, NY -- For many gay rights activists in Central New York, last week began with a call to action from the Empire State Pride Agenda.
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Blame It On The Blackberry

Joe My God  Jun 10 09

By all accounts, Monday's NY Senate coup was orchestrated from behind the scenes by billionaire Tom Golisano, a thrice-failed NY gubernatorial candidate.
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Pulpit 'revolt' over gay minister

Yahoo Gay News / BBC News  Jun 06 09

Kirk ministers in Lochcarron and Skye are to reveal to congregations what action they plan over the appointment of a gay clergyman.
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Gordon Brown hanging by a thread

America Blog  Jun 04 09

The UK Labour Party was in trouble even before Tony Blair left. Since his departure the New Labour (a US Republican-lite model, similar to the Democrats) economy that Blair and Brown put together has crumbled.
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