Indefensible marriage act ruled unconstitutional for the 3rd time

Source: Eideard

A federal judge has boosted the campaign for gay marriage by overturning a law which denied federal benefits to same-sex couples. Claudia Wilken, a district court judge for the northern district of California, ...
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Examiner Editorial: What Memorial Day is really about

Source: Washington Examiner

Many Americans are be taking advantage of this three-day weekend to travel, fire up their grills or head to the beach. But Memorial Day is more than just the de facto start of summer. It was created to honor th ...
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Greenwich: Ground Zero For Campaign Cash

Source: Hartford Courant

It seemed that everyone at the party was a millionaire. In one corner was NBA basketball star Grant Hill. In another was Linda McMahon, who spent $50 million of her own money in 2010 in a race for the U.S. ...
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Patz case sparked missing-child awareness

Source: Newsday

The Etan Patz abduction 33 years ago helped spark a movement that put missing children's faces on milk cartons and, more recently, text messages to cellphones and electronic messages on highway billboards.That effort, law enforcement experts sa ...
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This week in the War on Women: You're for equality or you're not. Period.

Source: Daily Kos

This week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that he will once again try to bring the Paycheck Fairness Act up for a vote that Republicans unanimously blocked in 2010: Now they have an opportunity to back up their ...
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

Source: Investors Insight

What If California Were Greece? The Separation of Bank and State Coming Together or Flying Apart? Europe in Recession A Slowing US Economy Where’s My Quantitative Easing? Home for a Week! New York and Italy It is simply hard to tear your eyes away from ...
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Drone sale not critical, Turkey should find solution to terror itself

Source: Today's Zaman

Turkish defense policy experts have maintained, rather, that Turkey should depend on itself in finding a solution to its terrorism problem, be it an armed or non-armed solution. Turkey seeks to buy armed dro ...
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‘Trust us,’ Turkey tells US in drone sale controversy

Source: Today's Zaman

“An ally that is so critical should not be treated with suspicion. It should be trusted,” Gül told a press conference, which included Turkish journalists, on Monday in Chicago, where he attended a NATO summit. Furthermore, some members of t ...
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Analysis: Big M&A banks move down-market in hunt for fees

Source: The Star Malaysia

NEW YORK (Reuters): The slow market for merger deals is driving big-name investment banks into combat with smaller rivals for business from companies they usually ignore. Goldman Sachs Group Inc , Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase ...
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