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Obama seeks revision of HCR plan’s abortion limits

WASHINGTON — President Obama suggested Monday that he was not comfortable with abortion restrictions inserted into the House version of major health care legislation, and he prodded Congress to revise them. “There needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we’re not changing the status quo” on abortion, Mr.

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AmericaBlog Calls For Gay Donor Boycott Of Democratic National Committee

Under the headline Don’t Ask, Don’t Give , John Aravois and Joe Sudbay of the widely-read AmericaBlog today called for a boycott of LGBT donations to the Democratic party over the failures of the Obama administration and the DNC to properly support and advocate for gay causes.

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Fired: KC Chiefs Release Star Running Back Larry Johnson Over "Faggot" Slurs

The Kansas City Chiefs have released star running back Larry Johnson over his usage of “faggot” when speaking to reporters and on his Twitter feed.

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Wal-Mart Bans Gay Couple For Shoplifting (Even Though They Didn’t Do It)

A Wal-Mart in rural Indiana detained two gay attorneys and their two adopted special needs sons and then banned them from patronizing any store in the chain, even though video records proved that the couple had not shoplifted the packages of Bic lighters that employees claimed they had. One of the men had used the store’s self-checkout lane and security cameras clearly showed him scanning the items in question. According to the couple, Wal-Mart security threatened them in the store’s detention room and made disparaging remarks about their “lifestyle.” Even after their innocence was proven by the store’s own surveillance, Wal-Mart refused to compensate the couple for their ruined frozen groceries and is even demanding that they pay ten times the value of the items they were wrongly accused of stealing

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The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted — Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter

Remember the storyline about a new Iranian revolution after the elections this summer? The one fuelled by the internet generation? The one that got the state department to intervene to help Iranians Twitter

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Obama Presses Senate to Act Quickly on Its Health Bill

WASHINGTON — The White House, growing concerned that the Congressional timetable for passing a health care overhaul could slip into next year, is stepping up pressure on the Senate for quick action, with President Obama appearing Sunday in the Rose Garden to call on senators to “take up the baton and bring this effort to the finish line.” Mr. Obama’s remarks came just 14 hours after the House narrowly approved a landmark plan that would cost $1.1 trillion over 10 years and extend insurance coverage to 36 million uninsured Americans; the president called it “a courageous vote.” But the votes had barely been counted when the White House began turning its attention to an even bigger hurdle: getting legislation passed in the Senate. In the Senate, where proposals differ substantially from the House-passed measure on issues like a government-run plan and how to pay for coverage, the bill is stalled while budget analysts assess its overall costs

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Scoring Sunday’s Nuptials: Of Muppets, Monkeys, and Mexican Wrestling

ChiChi! Joo got the yayo, mane?

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Lopez enters late night fray (Chicago Sun-Times)

His new show is called “Lopez Tonight,” but today the comedian is talking politics. It’s true that President Obama did a promo for George Lopez’s new TBS talk show.

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George W. Bush secretly visits Ft. Hood victims

The Bushes entered and departed the sprawling military facility in secret, having told the base commander they did not want press coverage of their visit, a source told Fox News.

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Babies begin learning language in the womb

Science Daily reports findings from a new study which suggest that infants begin picking up elements of what will be their first language in the womb, long before their first babble or coo, and are able to memorize sounds from the external world by the last trimester of pregnancy, with a particular sensitivity to melody contour in both music and language. Newborns prefer their mother's voice over other voices and perceive the emotional content of messages conveyed via intonation contours in maternal speech (a.k.a.

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