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Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai rejects gay rights move

“I totally agree with the president,” he said, state media report. Homosexual acts are currently illegal in Zimbabwe. Mr Mugabe once said gays were “worse than pigs and dogs”, sparking international condemnation. Gay rights has become a controversial issue in several African countries in recent months. Mr Tsvangirai joined his long-time rival Mr Mugabe in a power-sharing government a year ago but relations between the two men remain tense…” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8588548.stm added by: Mariased

Brick Fatwa Libertarian Also Gets Fat Government Checks

There's this ex-militiaman named Mike Vanderboegh who lives in Alabama and every so often he tells his fellow psychos to go out and break Democratic windows, with bricks. He describes himself as a “Christian libertarian.” He is a Welfare Queen. Even though the Vanderboegh's latest Kristallnacht call was his response to the expansion of government-subsidized medical benefits, and even though Vanderboegh is insured through his wife, guess what? Vanderboegh said he once worked as a warehouse manager but now lives on government disability checks. He said he receives $1,300 a month because of his congestive heart failure, diabetes and hypertension. This is kind of the violent domestic terrorist equivalent of a college libertarian attending a state school. Or the dangerous extremist version of TV's Coach, Craig T. Nelson, telling Glenn Beck: “I've been on food stamps and welfare. Did anybody help me out? No!” If this Vanderboegh guy were a Muslim the FBI would've arrested him in a sting and right now Lindsey Graham would be saying he's too dangerous to try in a civilian court. Instead he is just sitting there collecting government checks and issuing his little internet fatwas. God Bless America. http://gawker.com/5503007/brick-fatwa-libertarian-also-gets-fat-government-check… added by: pjacobs51

U.S. House Passes Health Care Reform, GOP Calls Bill "Dead On Arrival" In Senate

Late last night the U.S. House narrowly approved its version of the health care reform bill by a vote of 220-215. Only one Republican, first termer Rep

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U.S. House Passes Health Care Reform, GOP Calls Bill "Dead On Arrival" In Senate

Democrats advance hotly contested climate bill

WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats on a key committee on Thursday ignored a Republican boycott and pushed a climate bill through by a 11 to 1 vote. But the committee chairman also noted that she's willing to amend the bill to make it more palatable and to get the 60 votes needed to pass the full Senate.

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Obama says the public option is not dead

In recent weeks, lawmakers opposed to passing a public option have been insisting that it is “dead” and Democratic leaders need to move forward without it. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) has said that the “public doesn’t support it,” Sen

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Update: Senate rejects concealed weapons

The Senate rejected a bid by the gun lobby to expand gun rights by letting people carry concealed weapons across state lines. The Senate voted 58-39, rejecting the “Thune amendment”, proposed by John Thune, a South Dakota Republican

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BREAKING: Sen. Lindsey Graham SC-R to vote to confirm Sotomayor to U.S. Supreme Court

AP Published: July 22, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor breaking with his party’s conservative leaders. The South Carolinian had hinted during Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings that he might back President Barack Obama’s first high court nominee

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BREAKING: Sen. Lindsey Graham SC-R to vote to confirm Sotomayor to U.S. Supreme Court