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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
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-If Elected ...Hopefuls Differ as They Reject Gay Marriage
Several gay friends and wealthy gay donors to Senator Barack Obama have asked him over the years why, as a matter of logic and fairness, he opposes same-sex marriage even though he has condemned old miscegenation laws that would have barred his black father from marrying his white mother.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/us/politics/01marriage.html?_r=1&sq=gay&st=cse&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&scp=2&adxnnlx=1225544603-Gg/vgI3ffGb+iOSoD6jmwQ
-San Francisco's Prostitutes Support a Proposition
When Proposition K was added to Tuesday's ballot, many people likely snickered at the possibility that San Francisco might take its place alongside such prostitute-friendly havens as Amsterdam and a few rural counties in nearby Nevada.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/us/01prostitute.html
-Law Enforcement and Civil Rights Groups Divided Over California Ballot Measures
On Tuesday, California voters will consider three ballot measures that propose wide-ranging changes to the state's criminal justice system but also pit law enforcement officials against civil rights advocates. One initiative, Proposition 5, would increase financing for drug rehabilitation programs and reduce penalties for some drug- and addiction-related crimes. Another, Proposition 6, would increase financing for law enforcement and increase penalties for drug- and gang-related offenses. And a third, Proposition 9, would expand victims' roles in criminal and parole proceedings, prioritize restitution payments to victims and reduce the frequency of parole hearings for offenders.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/us/01crime.html
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Washington Post
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-The Wrong Way to Win Gay Marriage Rights
These days, Californians may be forgiven for feeling as though they are playing host to a dinner party whose guests keep arguing in nastier and nastier terms. Proposition 8 -- the statewide initiative that seeks to add a ban on same-sex marriages to the California constitution, reversing this spring's court decision legalizing such unions -- has turned into a bitter and expensive campaign, even by this state's standards. (In the worst of the rhetoric, the president of the Pacific Justice Institute, a conservative group supporting Prop 8, publicly compared the fight against same-sex marriage to the fight against Hitler.) Money has been pouring in on both sides of the issue, from churches, businesses and interest groups around the country. With nearly $70 million raised for and against the initiative, contributions to Prop 8 already exceed the combined total of all donations in the 22 previous campaigns over gay marriage measures in other states around the country.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102903209.html
-Anxious eyes on Calif. measure over gay marriage
Five months and thousands of weddings after California's highest court sanctioned same-sex marriage, anxious eyes around the nation will closely follow voters Tuesday as they decide whether to turn back the clock. Given the state's size and influence, the vote on a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage has become a referendum on sexual orientation and civil rights. Both sides call it the "Gettysburg" of the power struggle between the gay rights movement and the Christian right, with the victors capturing momentum in other states.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103102919.html?hpid=moreheadlines
-McCain's veep choice sailed into a holy gale
The lower 48 haven't seen the last of Sarah Palin, win or lose. The presidential campaign has had an odd effect on Palin's unsettled place in political life. It punctured down-home myths about the Alaska governor and trimmed her down to size. Yet it may have helped her to be taken more seriously as a candidate in her own right, in a future election.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/01/AR2008110100858_pf.html
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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-McCain's veep choice sailed into a holy gale
The presidential campaign has had an odd effect on Palin's unsettled place in political life. It punctured down-home myths about the Alaska governor and trimmed her down to size. Yet it may have helped her to be taken more seriously as a candidate in her own right, in a future election. Palin came to the country's attention as a woman in the mold of the man at the top of the Republican ticket. Reformer, independent operator, foe of the status quo. You know, maverick.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/751362.html
-An unfair, shameful proposal
BY HOWARD SIMON
''Gay marriage'' is not on the ballot in Florida. What is on the ballot is prohibiting the legal recognition of anything ``that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof.'' [...] We know some of what the forces behind Amendment 2 have in mind. When Gainesville adopted a domestic-partner health-insurance program to provide coverage for the unmarried partners of city workers, the same folks who drafted Amendment 2 filed suit against the health-insurance program. They claimed it illegally treated city workers and their domestic partners ''as if'' they were married. The courts rejected the challenge. While proponents claim that taking away health benefits from unmarried partners, including seniors, is not their aim, the attorneys general in Michigan, Kentucky, Idaho and Nebraska have ruled that the same type of language in Florida's Amendment 2 requires states to deny health insurance to the domestic partners and children of public employees. Earlier this year, the Michigan Supreme Court upheld the state attorney general's ruling.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/751045.html
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South Florida Blade
http://www.floridablade.com/
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-Swing-state push
Obama's coordinated GLBT effort courts community
Cocktails, private dinner parties, and pub crawls through South Florida gay bars. Special appearances by A-list celebrities and openly-gay politicians. As the media blitz around the presidential election builds to frenzy in this battleground state, GLBT voters are among the key constituents of Barack Obama's campaign coordinators.
http://www.floridablade.com/2008/10-30/news/localnews/5211.cfm
-Queen's gay marriage comments ignite flap in Spain
Spain legalized gay marriage in 2005
A journalist on Friday defended the accuracy of a book in which she quotes Spain's Queen Sofia as criticizing the country's legalization of gay marriage, dragging the normally tightlipped monarchy into a rare public spat.
http://www.floridablade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=22099
-Field Poll: Gay marriage campaign tightens
No on 8 crowd has small lead
http://www.floridablade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=22084
-Catholic bishops give $200K to ban gay marriage
Knights of Columbus lead with $1.4 million in donations
http://www.floridablade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=22072
-Statewide amendments on ballot made easy
What Florida GLBT voters face besides Amendment 2
http://www.floridablade.com/2008/10-30/view/columns/5215.cfm
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365Gay.com
http://www.365gay.com/
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-Ruby-Sachs: Gay reporters on the campaign trail
This morning, a friend of mine sent me an article about the reporters covering the McCain and Obama campaign. According to Out magazine, many of these reporters are gay. It doesn't seem so significant at first. There are gay professionals all over the place and while the visibility doesn't hurt the equality fight it doesn't ramp it up and send it on its way to victory either.
http://www.365gay.com/blog/ruby-sachs-gay-reporters-on-the-campaign-trail/
-Teens charged in football team sodomy hazing
(Las Vegas, New Mexico) Six youths were charged with conspiracy and other crimes stemming from a hazing case at a high school football camp in which young players were allegedly sodomized with broomsticks.
http://www.365gay.com/news/teens-charged-in-football-team-sodomy-hazing/
-Vatican calls for psych tests to weed out gays
(Vatican City) The Vatican said Thursday it is considering psychological testing for prospective priests to screen out candidates "with strong homosexual tendencies" and heterosexuals "unable to control their sexual urges."
http://www.365gay.com/news/vatican-calls-for-psych-tests-to-weed-out-gays/
-Ariz. anti-gay amendment battle focuses on undecided voters
Arizona has been a disappointment to anti-gay marriage activists since 2006, when the state became the first in the nation to reject a ballot measure banning same-sex marriage.
http://www.365gay.com/news/ariz-anti-gay-amendment-battle-focuses-on-undecided-voters/
-More equality ride arrests at Christian colleges
Three members of the nondenominational Soulforce Equality Ride have been released on their own recognizance after being arrested when they entered the campus of Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie.
http://www.365gay.com/news/more-equality-ride-arrests-at-christian-colleges/
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The Advocate
http://advocate.com/
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-Poll: 49% of Likely Voters Oppose Prop. 8
A poll released on Thursday shows that 49% of likely California voters oppose Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that would constitutionally ban same-sex marriage. The Field Poll also showed that 44% of likely voters were in favor of the measure, while 7% remained undecided. The results indicate a narrowing of opinion since the last Field Poll in mid September, when 55% of respondents opposed Prop. 8 and 38% supported it.
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid64723.asp
-Hindus Urged to Vote Against Prop. 8
Navya Shastra, the international Hindu reform organization based in Troy, Mich., sent out a press release Friday urging California voters to reject Proposition 8, which would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry under California law.
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid64752.asp
-In the Belly of No on 8
When former Log Cabin Republicans president Patrick Guerriero came to San Francisco to visit the No on 8 headquarters, he didn't know he'd wind up staying to run the biggest LGBT rights political campaign in history. But with a measly million in the bank and the Mormon church raising money hand over fist, No on 8 needed help, and Guerriero stepped in to close the gap -- and, with any luck, make history.
http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid64738.asp
-Ohio Republicans Still Targeting Gays in Critical State Legislative Races
Ohio has passed both a law and a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, but that hasn't stopped the GOP from trying to stir up antigay sentiment in order to keep its four-seat advantage in the state house of representatives.
http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid64668.asp
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Marriage Equality News
http://samesexmarriage.typepad.com/weblog/
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-Today: Double Your Donation To Prop 8 With The Help Of Tim Gill
Source: Joe. My. God.
Tim Gill, the founder of software giant Quark and gay social network Connextion, has made a $100K matching donation to No On 8. Gill said "Proposition 8 needs all of our support to be defeated and protect marriage for gays and lesbians not just in California, but across the country. This amendment would eliminate the equal treatment of all Californians and write discrimination into the state constitution." Gill will match dollar for dollar all donations made by midnight tonight via the Connextion giving link.
-Andrew Sullivan: Children and Marriage Equality
Source: The Daily Dish | The Atlantic
by Andrew Sullivan
A reader writes:
My 7 year old just learned about gay marriage. Not form his school or teacher, but by the Yes on Prop 8 ad on radio while carpooling to school. He asked me about it and I gave an age appropriate answer. I have no doubt that many other kids will learn about the gay marriage thanks to prop 8 ads. I hope the theocrats realize the irony ... Irony isn't their strong point.
-Ward Connerly: Prop. 8 is discriminatory, plain and simple
Source: Sacramento Bee
by Ward Connerly
During my 12-year term as a regent of the University of California, I had to confront a number of very difficult issues and I know I angered many of my fellow Californians because I actively promoted a principle that goes to the core of who I am as a person. That principle is the right to equal treatment by our government regardless of race, skin color, sex, ethnicity or national origin.
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Pink News - UK
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/
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-Test case for straight man who suffered homophobic abuse at work
A 56-year-old married man who was repeatedly taunted at work about being gay because he lives in Brighton has taken his case to the Court of Appeal. An employment tribunal and an appeal tribunal have both rejected his claims of discrimination.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9457.html
-Call for action after tear gas attack on gay event in Guatemala
A gay human rights group has demanded action after recent attacks on gay events in Guatemala. The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission said that two incidents where tear gas was used need to be properly investigated by the Guatemalan authorities.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9455.html
-Fire union backs sexual orientation questionnaire
West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service has defended an optional questionnaire it sent to all its staff asking them to state their sexual orientation. The service is working with gay equality organisation Stonewall to try and improve diversity within the organisation and conditions for gay, lesbian and bisexual staff.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9454.html
-GP blackmailed by patient over 'gay massage' is struck off
The General Medical Council has struck off a doctor who masturbated a male patient while giving him a massage and then paid him £100 a week not to report the incident.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9453.html
-Singapore's first gay protest postponed to allow for bigger event
A small outdoor protest for gay rights due to take place in Singapore next month has been postponed because of the positive response from the gay community. The Straits Times reports that the event, a first for Singapore, has been postponed until early next year.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9452.html
-Doctor accused of homophobia storms out of disciplinary hearing
A GP who has given differing explanations about a letter published in his name that said gay people needed the "stick of law to put them on the right path" has stopped attending his disciplinary hearing. Dr Muhammad Siddiq, who is President of the Islamic Medical Association, dismissed his barrister at a General Medical Council fitness to practise hearing and then left the proceedings when he was refused an adjournement to find new counsel.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9450.html
-Boris "thrilled" as London wins right to host World Pride in 2012
Pride London has won the right to hold World Pride during the summer of 2012, just ahead of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9447.html
-Scottish Parliament to consider gay blood ban
The LGBT Network has submitted a detailed case to the Scottish Parliament calling for the removal of the ban on men who have sex with men from donating blood. On Tuesday the Public Petitions Committee at Hollyrood will reconsider a petition calling on the Scottish Government to review existing guidelines and risk assessment procedures to allow healthy gay and bisexual men to donate blood.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9445.html
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Daily Queer News
www.dailyqueernews.com
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-DC: 2 Eagle Customers Attacked in Hate Crime
LOU CHIBBARO JR | Washington Blade
D.C. police listed as a hate crime an incident on Oct. 24 in which two men leaving the D.C. Eagle, a gay bar on the 600 block of New York Avenue, N.W., were assaulted by a group of men shouting anti-gay names. Acting Lt. Brett Parson, who oversees the police Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit, said the incident occurred near the corner of 7th Street and New York Avenue, N.W., a short distance from the Eagle's entrance. Read more
-Exploring Practices and Harm in Reparative Therapy
Ex-Gay Exposé:
Exploring Practices and Harm in Reparative Therapy
November 7-9, 2008; Denver, CO
During the weekend of November 7-9, NARTH, a national association of "gay conversion" therapists, is holding its annual conference in Denver. Two local survivors of ex-gay programs, Christine Bakke and Daniel Gonzales, along with Beyond Ex-Gay, and a coalition of local and other gay organizations, are forming a response to speak to the harm groups like NARTH can cause. Sign Up Here
-Indian Police Accused of Brutality against Trans Community
Pink News
Bangalore police have been accused of arresting and mistreating more than 40 people at a peaceful demonstration. The conflict reportedly flared when five hijras (working-class, male-to-female, transgender people) were arrested by police on October 20th in what the local Daily News and Analysis called a "drive against the city's eunuch menace." According to Human Rights Watch, police took them to Girinagar police station, verbally abused them, and beat one severely.
-Patchwork of Safe-Haven Laws Creates Confusion
By Anna Jo Bratton | The Associated Press | Lincoln Journal Star
OMAHA - While lawmakers prepare to tweak Nebraska's much-criticized safe-haven law that allows parents to abandon kids as old as 18, they'll find little nationwide consensus on what age limits should be written into such laws.
Nebraska was the last state to enact a safe-haven law, which is intended to protect unwanted newborns from being abandoned.
But since the law went on the books in July, 23 children have been dropped off at Nebraska hospitals - none of them newborns and three of them from out of state. Read more
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Forwarded from Gays Without Borders
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-Cardinal Newman - nature thwarts Vatican plot
Catholic minister approved Pope's request
Government collusion with attempt to violate Newman's wishes London - "Nature has thwarted the Vatican's heartless plot to violate Cardinal Newman's request to be buried with the man he loved, Father Ambrose St John," said human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. He was commenting on the revelation that Newman's body has decomposed to nothing, leaving an empty grave and frustrating plans by the Catholic Church to dismember his body and display his bones as holy relics. "The Vatican wanted to rebury the Cardinal's remains in a marble tomb, separate from St John, to dampen speculation that he might have been gay. "Newman's and St John's bodies have decomposed together, uniting them forever in the same soil. They cannot now be separated, as the Catholic Church planned. Cardinal Newman's wishes have triumphed over the Vatican's homophobia," said Mr Tatchell.
http://gayswithoutborders.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/cardinal-newman-triumphs-%E2%80%93-nature-thwarts-vatican-plot-corpse-disappeared/
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-Guatemala: Action Alert-Demand an Investigation into Attack on "Our Gay Beauty" Event
On October 18, 2008, two Guatemalan organizations-Amigos contra el Sida and Asociación Gay de Samayac-organized an event called "Our Gay Beauty" in Samayac Suchitepéquez. The event itself was focused on HIV prevention in the context of the campaign by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS. During the evening, someone threw a tear gas bomb into the space where the event was being held. While no one was seriously injured, people fainted, children became excessively tearful, and everyone was affected by the fumes. This is the second time this year that tear gas bombs have been used to attack events held by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community.
http://www.iglhrc.org
-GAY BLOOD DONOR CASE HEARS FINAL "CRUCIAL" EVIDENCE
Gay activists have described as "crucial", final evidence presented today to the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal in a case against the Australian gay blood ban initiated by Launceston gay man, Michael Cain. In a written statement, leading US epidemiologist and bio-statistician, Dr Scott Halpern, challenged calculations of risk associated with allowing gay blood donation that were also presented today by Australian epidemiologist and former Red Cross advisor, Prof John Kaldor. Dr Halpern said that Prof Kaldor had significantly over-estimated the prevalence of HIV in the gay community and failed to distinguish multiple from monogamous relationships in a way which "will result in the highest possible risk".
For more information on gay blood donation visit www.gayblooddonation.org
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-Kenneth Sherrill, a political science professor at Hunter College in New York City, will be speaking in Squires 342 today at 8 p.m. His speech, sponsored by Virginia Tech's LGBTA, will be about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual issues as they pertain to the upcoming election. Read more at:
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/2008/10/29/professor_speaks_on_lgbt_issues__election
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Soulforce
http://www.soulforce.org/
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-Urgent Request on Behalf of the Young Equality Riders
It's Halloween and some of you are preparing for a night out on the town or dressing up your kids so they can pretend to be someone else for the evening. But for young closeted LGBT students inside Christian colleges and universities, harassment is not a trick and life is not a treat. The reality is that they are forced to wear a mask every single day -- one they dare not remove or else face ridicule, condemnation, and expulsion. That's why the Equality Ride is so important -- it literally saves lives.
Can you help us finish the Equality Ride by making a $10, $20, or $50 donation today?
www.soulforce.org/donate
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Anything but Straight
by Wayne Besen
http://www.waynebesen.com/
-Utah Professor Says 'Ex-Gay' Therapy Group Deliberately Misrepresented Her Research
Dr. Lisa Diamond's Charges Come One Week Before NARTH's Annual Convention In Denver
Truth Wins Out released an exclusive video interview today with University of Utah professor, Dr. Lisa Diamond, who said that the National Association of Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) grossly and deliberately distorted her research on sexual orientation. Dr. Diamond's assertion comes one week before NARTH's annual conference in Denver, which will take place Nov. 7-9.
http://www.waynebesen.com/2008/10/top-researcher-ex-gay-therapy-group.html
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White Party
PASS SALE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MONDAY, NOV 3rd
White Party Week Passes are currently discounted 15% off individual ticket purchase prices during the month of October. This discount will end Monday, November 3rd and all passes will be reduced to 10% for all purchases made during the month of November.
If you are planning on attending multiple events during the 24th Annual White Party Week, check out the entire line of passes that are available.
Set your clocks. This sale ends Monday!
http://www.whiteparty.org/
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WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE.
This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.
-Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.
-The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.
-And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'
-(Lucy Burns)
They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.
-(Dora Lewis)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cell mate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
-Thus unfolded the'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.
-For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.
-(Alice Paul)
When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf
-So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because- why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work?
Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?
-(Mrs. Pauline Adams in the prison garb she wore while serving a sixty-day sentence.)
-Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new movie 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder.
-(Miss Edith Ainge, of Jamestown , New York ) All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote. Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes it was inconvenient.
-(Berthe Arnold, CSU graduate)
My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history, saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it, she looked angry.
She was--with herself. 'One thought kept coming back to me as I watched that movie,' she said. 'What would those women think of the way I use, or don't use, my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn.' The right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her 'all over again.'
-HBO released the movie on video and DVD . I wish all history, social studies and government teachers would include the movie in their curriculum I want it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhere else women gather. I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing, but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think a little shock therapy is in order.
-(Conferring over ratification [of the 19th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution] at [National Woman's Party] headquarters, Jackson Pl [ace]
[Washington , D.C. ]. L-R Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, Anita Pollitzer, Alice Paul, Florence Boeckel, Mabel Vernon (standing, right))
-It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.
-The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.'
-Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know.
-We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought sohard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party - remember to vote.
-(Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk , Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, 'Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.')
History is being made.
-If any of you haven't seen 'Iron Jawed Angels', it's well worth the time to watch it.
See you at the polls!
http://www.rense.com/general83/whywomen.htm
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New York Times
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-Editorial: Shepard the Anchor
We do not often cheer on Fox News's coverage of politics. But we did the other day when the anchor Shepard Smith reported on an especially absurd turn in the "Joe the Plumber" saga. John McCain's reference at the last presidential debate to Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, the Ohio plumber who worriedly asked Barack Obama about taxes, was a predictable campaign stunt. It ought to have lasted for half a news cycle, especially after it became clear that Mr. Wurzelbacher's taxes would go down under Mr. Obama's plan. But the Republican nominee simply will not let the plumber go.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/opinion/01sat4.html?ref=opinion
-Grading Obama
The federal No Child Left Behind Act has been the target of much criticism, some ill-founded and some legitimate. Of the latter, the issue of accountability confusion is the most important. Rather than reducing this confusion, Barack Obama's campaign has added to it.
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/grading-obama/?ref=opinion
-With Tense Calm in Congo, Time to Assess Damage
KIBUMBA, Congo - Bodies of dead government soldiers were sprawled in the mud. Famished villagers were huddled in ramshackle houses, surviving off raw carrots and hard, unripe papayas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/world/africa/01congo.html?hp
-Unrepentant Stevens Finds a Welcome at Home
If Senator Ted Stevens is feeling down about his felony convictions, his uphill battle for re-election or the sudden supremacy of another Republican, Gov. Sarah Palin, on the Alaskan political stage, it would be tough to tell from the crunch of determination that has long shaped his face.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/us/politics/01stevens.html?hp
-On the White House: A Presidential Vanishing Act, by Design
It's the week before Election Day. Do you know where your president is? Probably not, and that is by design. With Senator John McCain lagging behind in the polls and many other Republicans fighting for their political lives, the nation's top Republican - President Bush - is intentionally lying low this week, and is likely to do so until after Americans cast their ballots to pick his successor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/us/politics/31web-stolberg.html
-Science Advice for the Next President
Nearly 180 organizations representing the interdependent arenas of science, academia and business are urging the next president to appoint a White House science adviser by Inauguration Day and give the position cabinet-level rank. In letters sent Thursday to Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama, the organizations said scientific and technical advice was needed now more than ever given the importance of the entwined issues of energy security and climate change, mounting issues and opportunities in medicine, and problems in science education and American innovation and competitiveness. The letters reflect broadening concern that the White House has not been sufficiently stressing science.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/science-advice-for-the-next-president/
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Courting Disaster With Obama? Hardly.
The prospect of a Barack Obama presidency seems to be driving the conservative legal establishment around the bend. "Nothing less than the very idea of liberty and the rule of law are at stake in this election," Northwestern University law professor and Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calabresi wrote in the Wall Street Journal this week.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/10/_the_prospect_of_a.html
-How Common Is the Hatred?
I recently wrote a column about the rage that seems to be directed toward Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The source of the rage, I concluded, was a dwindling band of racial and religious diehards who have seen their best days. Two events within the past week suggest that I may have been wrong.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/10/_i_recently_wrote_a.html
-A Middle East Vote
Shortly after the next American president takes office, Israeli elections will set the prospects for U.S. diplomacy. AS TALKS over a two-state settlement have stalled, Israelis and Palestinians lately have resumed old debates about whether a peaceful division of historical Palestine is still possible. Now Israelis will have a chance to vote on the question. The collapse of coalition negotiations in parliament means a general election will be held early next year to determine whether outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is succeeded by a leader committed to his unfinished negotiations with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas or by one who is inclined to set them aside. At best, the outcome could allow the new U.S. president to make a Middle East settlement one of his early foreign policy priorities. But a bad result is at least as likely.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103103601.html
-E.U., U.S. Envoys Visit E. Congo
Over 200,000 people displaced by a rebel advance languish in Congo's provincial capital of Goma.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103103720.html?hpid=topnews
-Mean Enough for Politics?
Elizabeth Dole wins this campaigns' "ugliest ad" contest. Her commercial against Kay Hagan, her Democratic opponent in North Carolina, seems to have Hagan saying, "There is no God." Oh, the marvels of modern technology, and the gutter of present-day politics. Incidentally, Hagan is a Sunday school teacher and an elder at her Presbyterian Church, but why let the truth or any sense of decency get in the way of a good attack strategy? Dole's approach is only the most egregious. Is John McCain really just an Arizona-version of George Bush, as the Obama campaign suggests? Is Obama really a socialist, as the McCain people like to say (along with suggesting, through their not-really-a-plumber Joe that he's not a real American)?
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel/2008/10/mean_enough_for_politics.html
-Libya Makes Last Payment to U.S. Victims' Fund
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103103616.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/public/us
-Election Battle Shifts to Republican Turf
The campaign's final days are playing out largely on territory won by Bush in 2004, as Democrats gain traction in what have been reliably Republican states.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122549772947189811.html
-In Crucial South, Democrats Edge Closer to Republican Incumbents
Across the south, Democratic challengers for the U.S. Senate are making inroads against Republican incumbents, raising the chances that the party can take a filibuster-proof, 60-seat supermajority. Not long ago, most of these incumbents appeared almost certain to hold their seats.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122550003143590001.html?mod=article-outset-box
-Obama's '$4 Billion for Exxon' Myth
Why haven't the 'fact-checkers' done a better job?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122549399683189495.html
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-PRESIDENTIAL RACE: Look for above-average leaders
I've heard a lot about the ''average'' person during my professional lifetime. I've also heard from and about the ''average'' reader enough that I now contribute to more than one literacy fund. This year has been above average in the deployment of the ''average'' descriptor.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/751054.html
-Be not afraid of hope
Have you noticed that the spookiest colors of the season are not orange and black but red and blue? As Halloween slips into Election Day, the race for the White House has scared more grown-ups than any trip to the haunted house. I'm not talking about John McCain's farewell fright tour, although it is sad to see the senator trade in his superhero costume for that of fearmonger. After trying on assorted masks, he's settled on profiling his opponent as ''Barack the Redistributor'' who will take money away from hardworking Americans, ''coddle criminals'' and, no doubt, ask Bill Ayers to be secretary of state.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/751039.html
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Fort Report
http://www.fortreport.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Not so fast: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin might not be permitted to cash in on fame
If her bid for vice president fails, Gov. Sarah Palin could almost surely use her sudden fame to obtain a lucrative book deal or high fees on the lecture circuit, or even get her own TV talk show. But Alaska law might not allow it. A provision of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act restricts outside employment. It says: "The head of a principal executive department of the state may not accept employment for compensation outside the agency that the executive head serves."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-ap-palin-no-cashing-in,0,4930585.story
-An improbable journey: Obama's journey from rookie to rock
Barack Obama entered the presidential race as the youngster in the field, 45 years old and with little national experience. He was getting ready to take on such seasoned rivals as Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and John McCain. And Obama's opponents were ready for him: Too risky, they said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama_bdnov02,0,2084790.story
-Even in the rural heartland, Obama has sparked an explosive conversation
In this weathervane state they love God and guns. But they also see the long shadows of slavery and discrimination
In Warsaw, Missouri, there's a ghost who keeps talking to me through the mouths of strangers. He is the ghost of slavery past, and he casts a long shadow, even across the streets of this cheerful little lakeside town on a sunny autumn day. A local Obama campaign volunteer tells me about a woman she had canvassed who said she personally would vote for Barack but that her daughter wouldn't - and then the mother lowered her voice - "because he's black". Nor would her son: "he's even more racist". How horrible to feel impelled to say that of your own children. The jokey-scary commercial paraphernalia of Halloween is all around, but here are America's real ghosts and witches.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/30/us-elections-barack-obama
-The True Meaning of 'Historic Vote'
Shifting America's animating idea from creation to protection. The most basic explanation for why Barack Obama may win next Tuesday is that voters want economic deliverance. The standard fix for this in politics everywhere is to crowbar the old party out and patch in the other one. It is true as well that the historic nature of the nation's first African-American candidacy would play a big role.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122533132337982833.html
-Muslims Strive for Tolerance -- and Votes
Mukit Hossain has been up since 5 a.m., crisscrossing Northern Virginia in his tiny 10-year-old pickup truck to help turn out the Muslim vote in a presidential campaign that has left many Muslims feeling marginalized. He has stopped five times to pray in the truck, which is covered with political bumper stickers. One says "We Need Syeed" -- Afeefa Syeed, a candidate for Loudoun County supervisor -- and he thinks that may be one reason a state trooper stopped him last week and asked all kinds of personal questions before giving him tickets for a cracked windshield and not wearing his seat belt.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103103693.html
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Inside Higher Education
http://www.insidehighered.com/
-Academic Freedom Under Many Assaults
"Academic freedom," that is, the inalienable right of every college instructor to make a fool of himself and his college by vealy, intemperate, sensational prattle about every subject under heaven, to his classes and to the public, and still keep on the payroll or be reft therefrom only by elaborate process, is cried to all the winds by the organized dons.
-The New York Times, 1916 editorial
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/31/inquiry
-Backsliding for Women's Sports
Most of the major changes in the status of women's intercollegiate sports came a decade or two ago when, through a combination of tough federal enforcement, court challenges, and enlightened decisions by college leaders, many institutions began to lavish more money and attention in an attempt to give equitable treatment to their women's teams and female athletes.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/31/women
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Jewish-Americans for Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRHk0LqayZw
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Pew Research center
http://pewresearch.org/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-Dissecting the Electorate
Democrats Hold Party Identification Edge Across Political Battleground
As shown in a series of charts, the Democratic Party now holds an advantage in several swing states, has increased its advantage in several "blue" states and cut into the GOP's lead in some "red" states since the last presidential campaign. Read more
-Will Obama Carry the White Catholic Vote?
White Catholics have traditionally been swing voters, but their recent apparent shift from support for McCain to Obama was both sharp and swift.
What explains it? Read more
-Democrats Post Gains in Party Affiliation Across Age Cohorts
The proportion of voters identifying with the Democratic Party has grown significantly since the 2004 election, and the shift has been particularly dramatic among younger voters. Read more
-Political Theater
The Element of Surprise
As recently as a month ago, the American public itself was throwing up its hands and saying we can't figure this one out -- too many intangibles. No more. Read more
-Palin Fatigue
Sarah Palin's new wardrobe caught the public's eye but media coverage focused far more on the presidential candidates. Still, more Americans now say they've been hearing too much about Palin than say they've heard too much about Obama. Read more
-Campaign News: Internet Now Major Source, Partisan Divide on Cable
Television remains the dominant source of campaign news, but the percent of people who say they get most of that news from the internet has tripled since 2004. Cable channels now beat the networks as a source of campaign news but their audiences differ along party lines. Read more
-On the Continent
Xenophobia -- and Anti-Semitism -- Are on the Rise in Europe
A growing minority of citizens in several European countries holds unfavorable opinions of Jews. Negative views of Israel, sympathy with the Palestinian cause, rising anti-Americanism, and a backlash against globalization and immigration all play a role in this trend. Read more
Daily Number
-77% - Something Scary
More than three-in-four Americans now think the U.S. economy is either in a recession (58%) or -- horrors -- even a real depression (19%). Check back every weekday for another number in the news. Read more
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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Editorial: Shepard the Anchor
We do not often cheer on Fox News's coverage of politics. But we did the other day when the anchor Shepard Smith reported on an especially absurd turn in the "Joe the Plumber" saga. John McCain's reference at the last presidential debate to Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, the Ohio plumber who worriedly asked Barack Obama about taxes, was a predictable campaign stunt. It ought to have lasted for half a news cycle, especially after it became clear that Mr. Wurzelbacher's taxes would go down under Mr. Obama's plan. But the Republican nominee simply will not let the plumber go.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/opinion/01sat4.html?ref=opinion
-Grading Obama
The federal No Child Left Behind Act has been the target of much criticism, some ill-founded and some legitimate. Of the latter, the issue of accountability confusion is the most important. Rather than reducing this confusion, Barack Obama's campaign has added to it.
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/grading-obama/?ref=opinion
-With Tense Calm in Congo, Time to Assess Damage
KIBUMBA, Congo - Bodies of dead government soldiers were sprawled in the mud. Famished villagers were huddled in ramshackle houses, surviving off raw carrots and hard, unripe papayas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/world/africa/01congo.html?hp
-Unrepentant Stevens Finds a Welcome at Home
If Senator Ted Stevens is feeling down about his felony convictions, his uphill battle for re-election or the sudden supremacy of another Republican, Gov. Sarah Palin, on the Alaskan political stage, it would be tough to tell from the crunch of determination that has long shaped his face.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/us/politics/01stevens.html?hp
-On the White House: A Presidential Vanishing Act, by Design
It's the week before Election Day. Do you know where your president is? Probably not, and that is by design. With Senator John McCain lagging behind in the polls and many other Republicans fighting for their political lives, the nation's top Republican - President Bush - is intentionally lying low this week, and is likely to do so until after Americans cast their ballots to pick his successor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/us/politics/31web-stolberg.html
-Science Advice for the Next President
Nearly 180 organizations representing the interdependent arenas of science, academia and business are urging the next president to appoint a White House science adviser by Inauguration Day and give the position cabinet-level rank. In letters sent Thursday to Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama, the organizations said scientific and technical advice was needed now more than ever given the importance of the entwined issues of energy security and climate change, mounting issues and opportunities in medicine, and problems in science education and American innovation and competitiveness. The letters reflect broadening concern that the White House has not been sufficiently stressing science.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/science-advice-for-the-next-president/
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Courting Disaster With Obama? Hardly.
The prospect of a Barack Obama presidency seems to be driving the conservative legal establishment around the bend. "Nothing less than the very idea of liberty and the rule of law are at stake in this election," Northwestern University law professor and Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calabresi wrote in the Wall Street Journal this week.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/10/_the_prospect_of_a.html
-How Common Is the Hatred?
I recently wrote a column about the rage that seems to be directed toward Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The source of the rage, I concluded, was a dwindling band of racial and religious diehards who have seen their best days. Two events within the past week suggest that I may have been wrong.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/10/_i_recently_wrote_a.html
-A Middle East Vote
Shortly after the next American president takes office, Israeli elections will set the prospects for U.S. diplomacy. AS TALKS over a two-state settlement have stalled, Israelis and Palestinians lately have resumed old debates about whether a peaceful division of historical Palestine is still possible. Now Israelis will have a chance to vote on the question. The collapse of coalition negotiations in parliament means a general election will be held early next year to determine whether outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is succeeded by a leader committed to his unfinished negotiations with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas or by one who is inclined to set them aside. At best, the outcome could allow the new U.S. president to make a Middle East settlement one of his early foreign policy priorities. But a bad result is at least as likely.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103103601.html
-E.U., U.S. Envoys Visit E. Congo
Over 200,000 people displaced by a rebel advance languish in Congo's provincial capital of Goma.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103103720.html?hpid=topnews
-Mean Enough for Politics?
Elizabeth Dole wins this campaigns' "ugliest ad" contest. Her commercial against Kay Hagan, her Democratic opponent in North Carolina, seems to have Hagan saying, "There is no God." Oh, the marvels of modern technology, and the gutter of present-day politics. Incidentally, Hagan is a Sunday school teacher and an elder at her Presbyterian Church, but why let the truth or any sense of decency get in the way of a good attack strategy? Dole's approach is only the most egregious. Is John McCain really just an Arizona-version of George Bush, as the Obama campaign suggests? Is Obama really a socialist, as the McCain people like to say (along with suggesting, through their not-really-a-plumber Joe that he's not a real American)?
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel/2008/10/mean_enough_for_politics.html
-Libya Makes Last Payment to U.S. Victims' Fund
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103103616.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/public/us
-Election Battle Shifts to Republican Turf
The campaign's final days are playing out largely on territory won by Bush in 2004, as Democrats gain traction in what have been reliably Republican states.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122549772947189811.html
-In Crucial South, Democrats Edge Closer to Republican Incumbents
Across the south, Democratic challengers for the U.S. Senate are making inroads against Republican incumbents, raising the chances that the party can take a filibuster-proof, 60-seat supermajority. Not long ago, most of these incumbents appeared almost certain to hold their seats.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122550003143590001.html?mod=article-outset-box
-Obama's '$4 Billion for Exxon' Myth
Why haven't the 'fact-checkers' done a better job?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122549399683189495.html
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-PRESIDENTIAL RACE: Look for above-average leaders
I've heard a lot about the ''average'' person during my professional lifetime. I've also heard from and about the ''average'' reader enough that I now contribute to more than one literacy fund. This year has been above average in the deployment of the ''average'' descriptor.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/751054.html
-Be not afraid of hope
Have you noticed that the spookiest colors of the season are not orange and black but red and blue? As Halloween slips into Election Day, the race for the White House has scared more grown-ups than any trip to the haunted house. I'm not talking about John McCain's farewell fright tour, although it is sad to see the senator trade in his superhero costume for that of fearmonger. After trying on assorted masks, he's settled on profiling his opponent as ''Barack the Redistributor'' who will take money away from hardworking Americans, ''coddle criminals'' and, no doubt, ask Bill Ayers to be secretary of state.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/751039.html
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Fort Report
http://www.fortreport.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Not so fast: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin might not be permitted to cash in on fame
If her bid for vice president fails, Gov. Sarah Palin could almost surely use her sudden fame to obtain a lucrative book deal or high fees on the lecture circuit, or even get her own TV talk show. But Alaska law might not allow it. A provision of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act restricts outside employment. It says: "The head of a principal executive department of the state may not accept employment for compensation outside the agency that the executive head serves."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-ap-palin-no-cashing-in,0,4930585.story
-An improbable journey: Obama's journey from rookie to rock
Barack Obama entered the presidential race as the youngster in the field, 45 years old and with little national experience. He was getting ready to take on such seasoned rivals as Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and John McCain. And Obama's opponents were ready for him: Too risky, they said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama_bdnov02,0,2084790.story
-Even in the rural heartland, Obama has sparked an explosive conversation
In this weathervane state they love God and guns. But they also see the long shadows of slavery and discrimination
In Warsaw, Missouri, there's a ghost who keeps talking to me through the mouths of strangers. He is the ghost of slavery past, and he casts a long shadow, even across the streets of this cheerful little lakeside town on a sunny autumn day. A local Obama campaign volunteer tells me about a woman she had canvassed who said she personally would vote for Barack but that her daughter wouldn't - and then the mother lowered her voice - "because he's black". Nor would her son: "he's even more racist". How horrible to feel impelled to say that of your own children. The jokey-scary commercial paraphernalia of Halloween is all around, but here are America's real ghosts and witches.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/30/us-elections-barack-obama
-The True Meaning of 'Historic Vote'
Shifting America's animating idea from creation to protection. The most basic explanation for why Barack Obama may win next Tuesday is that voters want economic deliverance. The standard fix for this in politics everywhere is to crowbar the old party out and patch in the other one. It is true as well that the historic nature of the nation's first African-American candidacy would play a big role.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122533132337982833.html
-Muslims Strive for Tolerance -- and Votes
Mukit Hossain has been up since 5 a.m., crisscrossing Northern Virginia in his tiny 10-year-old pickup truck to help turn out the Muslim vote in a presidential campaign that has left many Muslims feeling marginalized. He has stopped five times to pray in the truck, which is covered with political bumper stickers. One says "We Need Syeed" -- Afeefa Syeed, a candidate for Loudoun County supervisor -- and he thinks that may be one reason a state trooper stopped him last week and asked all kinds of personal questions before giving him tickets for a cracked windshield and not wearing his seat belt.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103103693.html
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Inside Higher Education
http://www.insidehighered.com/
-Academic Freedom Under Many Assaults
"Academic freedom," that is, the inalienable right of every college instructor to make a fool of himself and his college by vealy, intemperate, sensational prattle about every subject under heaven, to his classes and to the public, and still keep on the payroll or be reft therefrom only by elaborate process, is cried to all the winds by the organized dons.
-The New York Times, 1916 editorial
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/31/inquiry
-Backsliding for Women's Sports
Most of the major changes in the status of women's intercollegiate sports came a decade or two ago when, through a combination of tough federal enforcement, court challenges, and enlightened decisions by college leaders, many institutions began to lavish more money and attention in an attempt to give equitable treatment to their women's teams and female athletes.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/31/women
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Jewish-Americans for Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRHk0LqayZw
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Pew Research center
http://pewresearch.org/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-Dissecting the Electorate
Democrats Hold Party Identification Edge Across Political Battleground
As shown in a series of charts, the Democratic Party now holds an advantage in several swing states, has increased its advantage in several "blue" states and cut into the GOP's lead in some "red" states since the last presidential campaign. Read more
-Will Obama Carry the White Catholic Vote?
White Catholics have traditionally been swing voters, but their recent apparent shift from support for McCain to Obama was both sharp and swift.
What explains it? Read more
-Democrats Post Gains in Party Affiliation Across Age Cohorts
The proportion of voters identifying with the Democratic Party has grown significantly since the 2004 election, and the shift has been particularly dramatic among younger voters. Read more
-Political Theater
The Element of Surprise
As recently as a month ago, the American public itself was throwing up its hands and saying we can't figure this one out -- too many intangibles. No more. Read more
-Palin Fatigue
Sarah Palin's new wardrobe caught the public's eye but media coverage focused far more on the presidential candidates. Still, more Americans now say they've been hearing too much about Palin than say they've heard too much about Obama. Read more
-Campaign News: Internet Now Major Source, Partisan Divide on Cable
Television remains the dominant source of campaign news, but the percent of people who say they get most of that news from the internet has tripled since 2004. Cable channels now beat the networks as a source of campaign news but their audiences differ along party lines. Read more
-On the Continent
Xenophobia -- and Anti-Semitism -- Are on the Rise in Europe
A growing minority of citizens in several European countries holds unfavorable opinions of Jews. Negative views of Israel, sympathy with the Palestinian cause, rising anti-Americanism, and a backlash against globalization and immigration all play a role in this trend. Read more
Daily Number
-77% - Something Scary
More than three-in-four Americans now think the U.S. economy is either in a recession (58%) or -- horrors -- even a real depression (19%). Check back every weekday for another number in the news. Read more
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FLORIDA DIGEST - November 01, 2008
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~~FLORIDA GLBT NEWS~~
Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Florida voters confused by six state amendments
Except for gay marriage, there's been "absolutely no interest" in the ballot amendments, he said. "I think they're going to get over 50 percent, but it'll be hard to get to 60 percent."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/sfl-flfamendments1101sbnov01,0,3002401.story
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-AMENDMENT 2: An unfair, shameful proposal
''Gay marriage'' is not on the ballot in Florida. What is on the ballot is prohibiting the legal recognition of anything ``that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof.'' This is a vote to ban civil unions, domestic partnerships and anything else that activists decide is ''marriage-like.'' If it passes, it will take years of lawsuits before the consequences -- intended and unintended -- of this dangerously vague proposal are known.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/751045.html
-Debate over Amendment 2
The Rabbinical Association of Greater Miami strongly opposes the so-called ''Marriage Amendment.'' Amendment 2 purports to define marriage as ``the legal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife.'' This is a redundancy; Florida law recognizes marriage as solely between a man and a woman. Further, the amendment would prohibit the state from recognizing any relationship ``that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof.''
RABBI RALPH P. KINGSLEY, president, RAGM
RABBI FREDERICK L. KLEIN, executive vice president, RAGM, Miami
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/751030.html
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GLCC South Florida - Ft. Lauderdale
GLCCSF BEST PLACE TO VOLUNTEER YOUR TIME
BLADE'S BEST OF 2008 OF GAY SOUTH FLORIDA
"The GLCCSF is one of the largest gay community centers in the U.S., offering social services, support groups, and advocacy for the South Florida community. Services including Youth Advocacy groups, the Transgender Equal Rights Initiative, and Lavender Events for Women are all part of the GLCC operations; and there are over 50 other organizations who call The Center home, including the Dolphin Democrats, and GLBT-supportive chapters of Alcoholic Anonymous. And we'd be amiss to not mention the monthly Bingo games, which of course, are a hoot." "Paul Hyman and his staff have performed a miracle with the GLCC: a few years ago, the Center was on the brink of financial ruin, due to a real estate fiasco with their landlord. But through some savvy re-organization they turned the place around, got their hands on several millions of dollars in financing, as of Spring 2009 they'll move into their new digs off Dixie Hwy." If you would like to volunteer at the Center, call Linda Jain, Customer Service Manager at 954-463-9005.
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GARY RESNICK RECEIVES NEW ENDORSEMENTS FROM KEY BROWARD COUNTY LEADERSHIP
Wilton Manors Florida
Broward County Property Appraiser Lori Parrish, Clerk of Courts Howard Forman and Broward County School Board Chair Robin Bartleman all pledged support for Gary Resnick for Wilton Manors Mayor. These long time County officials chose Resnick as their candidate for Mayor because of his true commitment to the residents of Wilton Manors. "Gary Resnick has been a fighter for lower taxes and a more efficient city government," boasted Parrish. Education has always been an important issue for Commissioner Resnick both in Wilton Manors and Countywide. His participation on the Joint City-County-School Oversight Committee as well as his dedication to local school initiatives indicate his strong commitment to all students. "I know first hand that Gary Resnick cares about our kids and our public schools," noted the Chair of the Broward County School Board, Robin Bartleman.
www.GaryResnick.com
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Stonewall Library & Archives - Ft. Lauderdale
Join US for our November F4U (Films for Us) selection
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November 2, 2008
8:45 pm
Cinema Paradiso
503 SE 6th Street
Fort Lauderdale
$9; seniors and students $7; members of Stonewall, ArtsUnited or FLIFF $5
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ArtsUnited sponsors "Ready? OK!" at FLIFF this Sunday
ArtsUnited is sponsoring the comedy "Ready? OK!" on November 2, at 8:45pm at Cinema Paradiso. This heart-warming comedy is about a harried single mom struggling to understand her young son's obsession with dresses, dolls, and girl's cheerleading, but not the cheerleaders. Sometimes all it takes to figure things out is a deep breath and the perfect cheer! Tickets are $9 General/ $5 FLIFF Members. To buy tickets go to www.fliff.org , or buy at the door at 503 SE 6th Street, Fort Lauderdale. Parking is free Sunday evenings on the street and at the Courthouse Parking Garage next door. To see a trailer of the film visit ArtsUnited's new MySpace page at
www.myspace.com/artsunitedonline
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A note from Mark LaFontaine
For years now, I have wanted to participate in the Smart Ride. This bicycle ride is held annually to raise awareness that HIV/AIDS is still prevalent here in our community. The money raised from this 165 mile bike ride will go directly to local AIDS charities in combating this illness. As someone who has been personally affected by the HIV/AIDS crises for over 16 years now, I am fully aware of the needs that infected people have regarding access to healthcare, medication, housing and employment. We need these organizations to ensure that our brothers and sisters are being cared for and that the youth are educated on the risks that exist.
PLEASE consider sponsoring me by making a pledge at www.thesmartride.org/3/pledge/ My rider number is 398. You need to put that into the form and then follow the directions as presented. Please support this most worthy cause and remember that your contributions are tax deductible. ( the Accountant in me. J )
Sincerely,
Mark LaFontaine
~~FLORIDA GENERAL NEWS~~
Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Florida voters confused by six state amendments
Many have no idea how to vote on six amendments. Voters pouring into polls jazzed about voting for president might encounter something they did not expect: a half-dozen proposed amendments to Florida's Constitution written in government jargon about obscure topics. Drowned out by presidential politics, the ballot amendments ranging from the land ownership rights of Asian immigrants to the taxable status of solar panels are proving mystifying to many voters, according to interviews. And with supporters left to promote their amendments on shoestring budgets - think Web ads featuring a talking bear - whether any of them will reach the required 60 percent threshold is a crapshoot.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/legislature/sfl-flfamendments1101sbnov01,0,3025390.story
-Both parties pushing to get Broward County out to vote in final days before election
Turnout at the polls can turn the tide, so candidates and supporters are
making a frantic plea in final days before election
Candidates and their supporters are going non-stop from now until the polls close on Election Night, with phone bank operations, door-to-door campaigning, and appearances by political and entertainment celebrities. "Absolutely critical" is how Tim McClellan, manager of the northeast Broward County campaign office for John McCain, describes the 72 hours until Election Day.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbgotv1101sbnov01,0,7710606.story
-Stay alert: Hurricane season hasn't blown over yet
The tropics are quiet, but hurricanes can form in November - and even after
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/local/sfl-flbnovember1101pnnov01,0,6512292.story
-Verbal threats alleged against U.S. Rep. Hastings in District 23 contest
The race between longtime U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings and his challenger, Dr. Marion Thorpe, in District 23, has apparently taken a nasty turn. Thorpe, former Florida chief medical officer, filed a police report claiming Hastings verbally assaulted him after Thursday night's debate at a Boca Raton synagogue.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbhastings1101sbnov01,0,2088286.story
-Election rumors are out there - way out there. We cut the tall tales down to size.
Nope, there's no dress code for voters. As election rumors multiply, we cut the tall tales down to size. From the plausible-sounding but untrue, to the completely far-fetched and just as untrue, election-related rumors are flying around Florida at the speed of e-mail. The tales are cropping up all over the state, containing claims about what people can wear to the polls and suggestions that some votes routinely aren't counted.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbelectionrumor1101sbnov01,0,1490481.story
-Ghost of Mark Foley: 2006 race set precedent for wrong name on ballot
A precedent involving former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley - the Republican who resigned two years ago over a scandal involving salacious instant messages to underage male House pages - is playing out in this year's election. It doesn't involve extra-marital affairs admitted to by his successor, Democrat Tim Mahoney. It's not even in Palm Beach County. It involves the name that will appear on the ballot in a Broward judicial race.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbjudgerace1101sbnov01,0,3922132.story
-Election rumors are out there, we cut the tall tales down
From the plausible-sounding but untrue, to the completely far-fetched and just as untrue, election-related rumors are flying around Florida at the speed of e-mail.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/sfl-flbelectionrumor1101sbnov01,0,2355021.story
-Florida Mortgages: 29 percent of homeowners have negative equity
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/sfl-flzunderwaterdig11010sbnov01,0,4674044.story
-A Wilton Manors mystery: Does ghost haunt City Hall?
Staffers noted unusual activity at building built in 1957; a team went in to check it out
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/community/news/wilton_manors/sfl-flbghosts1031sboct31,0,1261603.story
-Sen. Hillary Clinton: Why Floridians should vote for Barack Obama
As Americans head to the polls on Nov. 4, we have an important responsibility: to choose a president who will make the changes we need here at home and strengthen America's standing around the world. I am enthusiastically supporting Sen. Barack Obama, because I know that he will be that president. He shares my commitment to changing our nation's course and addressing the economic crisis taking a toll on the financial markets, small businesses and middle class families. And Sen. Obama shares my view that the next president must say to the world that America's resolve is unyielding: The United States stands with Israel.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-forum31hillarysboct31,0,1364054.story
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-FLORIDA LEGISLATURE | BROWARD COUNTY
Democrats hope to make gains in Broward legislative races
Two relative newcomers hope the presidential election and the surge in Democratic registrations will help unseat two Republicans in Broward legislative districts.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/750996.html
-Close eye kept on Broward's polls
As Election Day nears, some worry how Broward County's understaffed elections department will fare. A bumpy primary, early-voting gridlock, new voting technology, concerns about machine shortages, a small and overtaxed staff, one of the state's lengthiest ballots, a potential record turnout. Add that up and it's clear why Broward County ranks at the top of the watch list for some national voting watchdogs. There's also the red-lettered ad still featured at the top of the Broward Supervisor of Elections' website: ''VSTs Needed!'' Those would be technicians to run voting equipment for a presidential election only days away. Pay: $190 a day.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/750989.html
-Go slow with biofuels
OUR OPINION: Tri-Rail goes green, but beware unintended consequences Let us say, first, that Tri-Rail's efforts to reduce air pollution by switching to biodiesel for most of its engines is commendable. Biodiesel, a blend of organic and fossil fuels, produces much less carbon dioxide and other hydrocarbon emissions that contribute to global warming. The cost of switching fuels is negligible, so this is a win-win -- especially since Tri-Rail is running more trains.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/749432.html
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Clocks go back at 2 a.m. Sunday
~~FLORIDA GLBT NEWS~~
Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Florida voters confused by six state amendments
Except for gay marriage, there's been "absolutely no interest" in the ballot amendments, he said. "I think they're going to get over 50 percent, but it'll be hard to get to 60 percent."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/sfl-flfamendments1101sbnov01,0,3002401.story
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-AMENDMENT 2: An unfair, shameful proposal
''Gay marriage'' is not on the ballot in Florida. What is on the ballot is prohibiting the legal recognition of anything ``that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof.'' This is a vote to ban civil unions, domestic partnerships and anything else that activists decide is ''marriage-like.'' If it passes, it will take years of lawsuits before the consequences -- intended and unintended -- of this dangerously vague proposal are known.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/751045.html
-Debate over Amendment 2
The Rabbinical Association of Greater Miami strongly opposes the so-called ''Marriage Amendment.'' Amendment 2 purports to define marriage as ``the legal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife.'' This is a redundancy; Florida law recognizes marriage as solely between a man and a woman. Further, the amendment would prohibit the state from recognizing any relationship ``that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof.''
RABBI RALPH P. KINGSLEY, president, RAGM
RABBI FREDERICK L. KLEIN, executive vice president, RAGM, Miami
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/751030.html
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GLBT GOTV Center
COUNT DOWN TILL ELECTION DAY
Sunday November 2nd
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Monday November 3rd 2008
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GLCC South Florida - Ft. Lauderdale
GLCCSF BEST PLACE TO VOLUNTEER YOUR TIME
BLADE'S BEST OF 2008 OF GAY SOUTH FLORIDA
"The GLCCSF is one of the largest gay community centers in the U.S., offering social services, support groups, and advocacy for the South Florida community. Services including Youth Advocacy groups, the Transgender Equal Rights Initiative, and Lavender Events for Women are all part of the GLCC operations; and there are over 50 other organizations who call The Center home, including the Dolphin Democrats, and GLBT-supportive chapters of Alcoholic Anonymous. And we'd be amiss to not mention the monthly Bingo games, which of course, are a hoot." "Paul Hyman and his staff have performed a miracle with the GLCC: a few years ago, the Center was on the brink of financial ruin, due to a real estate fiasco with their landlord. But through some savvy re-organization they turned the place around, got their hands on several millions of dollars in financing, as of Spring 2009 they'll move into their new digs off Dixie Hwy." If you would like to volunteer at the Center, call Linda Jain, Customer Service Manager at 954-463-9005.
www.glccsf.org
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GARY RESNICK RECEIVES NEW ENDORSEMENTS FROM KEY BROWARD COUNTY LEADERSHIP
Wilton Manors Florida
Broward County Property Appraiser Lori Parrish, Clerk of Courts Howard Forman and Broward County School Board Chair Robin Bartleman all pledged support for Gary Resnick for Wilton Manors Mayor. These long time County officials chose Resnick as their candidate for Mayor because of his true commitment to the residents of Wilton Manors. "Gary Resnick has been a fighter for lower taxes and a more efficient city government," boasted Parrish. Education has always been an important issue for Commissioner Resnick both in Wilton Manors and Countywide. His participation on the Joint City-County-School Oversight Committee as well as his dedication to local school initiatives indicate his strong commitment to all students. "I know first hand that Gary Resnick cares about our kids and our public schools," noted the Chair of the Broward County School Board, Robin Bartleman.
www.GaryResnick.com
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Stonewall Library & Archives - Ft. Lauderdale
Join US for our November F4U (Films for Us) selection
READY? OKAY!
November 2, 2008
8:45 pm
Cinema Paradiso
503 SE 6th Street
Fort Lauderdale
$9; seniors and students $7; members of Stonewall, ArtsUnited or FLIFF $5
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ArtsUnited sponsors "Ready? OK!" at FLIFF this Sunday
ArtsUnited is sponsoring the comedy "Ready? OK!" on November 2, at 8:45pm at Cinema Paradiso. This heart-warming comedy is about a harried single mom struggling to understand her young son's obsession with dresses, dolls, and girl's cheerleading, but not the cheerleaders. Sometimes all it takes to figure things out is a deep breath and the perfect cheer! Tickets are $9 General/ $5 FLIFF Members. To buy tickets go to www.fliff.org , or buy at the door at 503 SE 6th Street, Fort Lauderdale. Parking is free Sunday evenings on the street and at the Courthouse Parking Garage next door. To see a trailer of the film visit ArtsUnited's new MySpace page at
www.myspace.com/artsunitedonline
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A note from Mark LaFontaine
For years now, I have wanted to participate in the Smart Ride. This bicycle ride is held annually to raise awareness that HIV/AIDS is still prevalent here in our community. The money raised from this 165 mile bike ride will go directly to local AIDS charities in combating this illness. As someone who has been personally affected by the HIV/AIDS crises for over 16 years now, I am fully aware of the needs that infected people have regarding access to healthcare, medication, housing and employment. We need these organizations to ensure that our brothers and sisters are being cared for and that the youth are educated on the risks that exist.
PLEASE consider sponsoring me by making a pledge at www.thesmartride.org/3/pledge/ My rider number is 398. You need to put that into the form and then follow the directions as presented. Please support this most worthy cause and remember that your contributions are tax deductible. ( the Accountant in me. J )
Sincerely,
Mark LaFontaine
~~FLORIDA GENERAL NEWS~~
Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Florida voters confused by six state amendments
Many have no idea how to vote on six amendments. Voters pouring into polls jazzed about voting for president might encounter something they did not expect: a half-dozen proposed amendments to Florida's Constitution written in government jargon about obscure topics. Drowned out by presidential politics, the ballot amendments ranging from the land ownership rights of Asian immigrants to the taxable status of solar panels are proving mystifying to many voters, according to interviews. And with supporters left to promote their amendments on shoestring budgets - think Web ads featuring a talking bear - whether any of them will reach the required 60 percent threshold is a crapshoot.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/legislature/sfl-flfamendments1101sbnov01,0,3025390.story
-Both parties pushing to get Broward County out to vote in final days before election
Turnout at the polls can turn the tide, so candidates and supporters are
making a frantic plea in final days before election
Candidates and their supporters are going non-stop from now until the polls close on Election Night, with phone bank operations, door-to-door campaigning, and appearances by political and entertainment celebrities. "Absolutely critical" is how Tim McClellan, manager of the northeast Broward County campaign office for John McCain, describes the 72 hours until Election Day.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbgotv1101sbnov01,0,7710606.story
-Stay alert: Hurricane season hasn't blown over yet
The tropics are quiet, but hurricanes can form in November - and even after
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/local/sfl-flbnovember1101pnnov01,0,6512292.story
-Verbal threats alleged against U.S. Rep. Hastings in District 23 contest
The race between longtime U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings and his challenger, Dr. Marion Thorpe, in District 23, has apparently taken a nasty turn. Thorpe, former Florida chief medical officer, filed a police report claiming Hastings verbally assaulted him after Thursday night's debate at a Boca Raton synagogue.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbhastings1101sbnov01,0,2088286.story
-Election rumors are out there - way out there. We cut the tall tales down to size.
Nope, there's no dress code for voters. As election rumors multiply, we cut the tall tales down to size. From the plausible-sounding but untrue, to the completely far-fetched and just as untrue, election-related rumors are flying around Florida at the speed of e-mail. The tales are cropping up all over the state, containing claims about what people can wear to the polls and suggestions that some votes routinely aren't counted.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbelectionrumor1101sbnov01,0,1490481.story
-Ghost of Mark Foley: 2006 race set precedent for wrong name on ballot
A precedent involving former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley - the Republican who resigned two years ago over a scandal involving salacious instant messages to underage male House pages - is playing out in this year's election. It doesn't involve extra-marital affairs admitted to by his successor, Democrat Tim Mahoney. It's not even in Palm Beach County. It involves the name that will appear on the ballot in a Broward judicial race.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbjudgerace1101sbnov01,0,3922132.story
-Election rumors are out there, we cut the tall tales down
From the plausible-sounding but untrue, to the completely far-fetched and just as untrue, election-related rumors are flying around Florida at the speed of e-mail.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/sfl-flbelectionrumor1101sbnov01,0,2355021.story
-Florida Mortgages: 29 percent of homeowners have negative equity
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/sfl-flzunderwaterdig11010sbnov01,0,4674044.story
-A Wilton Manors mystery: Does ghost haunt City Hall?
Staffers noted unusual activity at building built in 1957; a team went in to check it out
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/community/news/wilton_manors/sfl-flbghosts1031sboct31,0,1261603.story
-Sen. Hillary Clinton: Why Floridians should vote for Barack Obama
As Americans head to the polls on Nov. 4, we have an important responsibility: to choose a president who will make the changes we need here at home and strengthen America's standing around the world. I am enthusiastically supporting Sen. Barack Obama, because I know that he will be that president. He shares my commitment to changing our nation's course and addressing the economic crisis taking a toll on the financial markets, small businesses and middle class families. And Sen. Obama shares my view that the next president must say to the world that America's resolve is unyielding: The United States stands with Israel.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-forum31hillarysboct31,0,1364054.story
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-FLORIDA LEGISLATURE | BROWARD COUNTY
Democrats hope to make gains in Broward legislative races
Two relative newcomers hope the presidential election and the surge in Democratic registrations will help unseat two Republicans in Broward legislative districts.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/750996.html
-Close eye kept on Broward's polls
As Election Day nears, some worry how Broward County's understaffed elections department will fare. A bumpy primary, early-voting gridlock, new voting technology, concerns about machine shortages, a small and overtaxed staff, one of the state's lengthiest ballots, a potential record turnout. Add that up and it's clear why Broward County ranks at the top of the watch list for some national voting watchdogs. There's also the red-lettered ad still featured at the top of the Broward Supervisor of Elections' website: ''VSTs Needed!'' Those would be technicians to run voting equipment for a presidential election only days away. Pay: $190 a day.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/750989.html
-Go slow with biofuels
OUR OPINION: Tri-Rail goes green, but beware unintended consequences Let us say, first, that Tri-Rail's efforts to reduce air pollution by switching to biodiesel for most of its engines is commendable. Biodiesel, a blend of organic and fossil fuels, produces much less carbon dioxide and other hydrocarbon emissions that contribute to global warming. The cost of switching fuels is negligible, so this is a win-win -- especially since Tri-Rail is running more trains.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/749432.html
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
GLBT DIGEST - October 30, 2008
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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-DEAR AMY: I am 20 years old and gay. I met a guy more than two years ago.
We became friends and started hanging out. Within six months, we were living together -- but not as a couple. I told him early on that I had feelings for him, and he shot me down. He made it clear that he was straight. After that, my feelings for him only grew. Now I really do believe that I am in love with him.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/20/AR2008102000995.html
-Anti-gay marriage groups look for Ariz. redemption
Arizona has been a disappointment to anti-gay marriage activists since 2006, when the state became the first in the nation to reject a ballot measure banning same-sex marriage.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103001013.html
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Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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-Boynton Beach woman killed partner by stabbing her more than 200 times,
police say
Woman stabbed her ex-partner with screwdriver, police say
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/community/news/boyntonbeach/sfl-flpkalish1030pnoct30,0,3845075.story
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Steve Rothaus
http://www.MiamiHerald.com/gay
Go to this link for the following articles:
-Miami a finalist for 2014 Gay Games
Boston, Cleveland, Miami and Washington DC Will Bid to host Gay Games IX Cape Town, South Africa -- Groups from Miami (Florida), Cleveland (Ohio) Boston (Massachusetts), and Washington (D.C.), have submitted letters of intent to bid for the ninth edition of the Gay Games, to be held in 2014, officials announced at the close of the Federation of Gay Games (FGG) annual meeting in Cape Town, South Africa.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/
-HIV/AIDS education for teens booked into Broward jail
Broward Sheriff's Office news release:
BSO and C2P Talk HIV For Troubled Teens
Boys and girls being processed at BSO's Juvenile Assessment Center (JAC) will gain some valuable HIV/AIDS education and awareness material in the booking process thanks to a new Connect to Protect and BSO partnership. The Connect to Protect, or C2P, program for the JAC was developed in cooperation with the Children's Diagnostic & Treatment Center in light of alarming statistics regarding youngsters and HIV. According to the CDTC, people under the age of 25 account for half of all new HIV infections and in Florida AIDS-related illness are the ninth leading cause of death for teenagers 15 to 19 years old. It's the fifth leading cause of death for all people 20-24 years old. The mission: curtail the crisis by targeting the 12 to 24 age group.
http://www.MiamiHerald.com/gay
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365Gay.com
http://www.365gay.com/
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-Gay-baiting enters S.C. politics
Voters in Lancaster and York counties are getting automated phone calls from a phony gay organization that says it supports the Democratic candidate for the local South Carolina state Senate seat, a move a national group called "gay baiting."
http://www.365gay.com/news/gay-baiting-enters-sc-politics/
-Obama on track for electoral college majority
Barack Obama has pulled ahead in enough states to win the 270 electoral votes he needs to gain the White House - and with states to spare - according to an Associated Press analysis that shows he is now moving beyond typical Democratic territory to challenge John McCain on historically GOP turf.
http://www.365gay.com/news/obama-on-track-for-electoral-college-majority/
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The Advocate
http://advocate.com/
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-Candlelight Vigil Organized to Counter Yes on 8 Prayer, Fast in San Diego
For weeks, places of worship throughout California have been calling on their congregations to fast, pray and worship -- all to "protect marriage." On the heels of the California supreme court's landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, churches across the state have organized to combat the effort, collecting the necessary signatures to land Proposition 8, which would nullify the ruling, on the ballot.
http://advocate.com/news_detail_ektid64597.asp
-California Elementary School Comes Under Prop. 8 Fire
A Hayward, Calif., elementary school has come under fire by Proposition 8 supporters because a kindergarten teacher there asked her students to sign cards pledging not to use antigay slurs. The cards, provided by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network as part of its National Ally Week last week, became a flash point in the debate over Prop 8., which would constitutionally ban same-sex marriage in California, on Tuesday when the ProtectMarriage.com coalition challenged the state's schools superintendent to a debate, the Associated Press reports. But the No on 8 campaign, which has used the superintendent, Jack O'Connell, in television ads, declined the opposition's offer.
http://advocate.com/news_detail_ektid64600.asp
- The Advocate's Big Four Report: Ohio
The Advocate continues its coverage of four swing states this week with Ohio, the state that could well decide the 2008 election ... and the state that John Kerry lost by a scant 119,000 votes in 2004. This story is the first of four pieces focusing on the state's political dynamics, LGBT concerns, and how it all will play out on Election Day.
http://advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid64564.asp
-Delinquency: It's Not Just for Juveniles
Faced with the prospect of a constitutional ban on marriage equality in Arizona, the woman behind defacing Yes on 102 posters that say "Yes to Hate" channels her inner teenager -- and lives to tell about it.
http://advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid64546.asp
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Marriage Equality News
http://samesexmarriage.typepad.com/weblog/
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-DNC condemns Indiana anti-gay campaign mailing
Source: The Bilerico Project
by Bil Browning
On Tuesday I posted to Bilerico-Indiana about an anti-gay flier sent by the Indiana Democratic State Committee on behalf of State Representative candidate Andy Schemenaur. The mailing, paid for by the state party, called for "a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as existing only between one man and one woman." This flies directly in the face of the state party platform, the national Democratic Party platform, public statements from the Democratic presidential ticket, and recent efforts by the state party to kill a state amendment. Since the flier had been passed around via e-mail for a couple weeks with nary a word from any local LGBT or party leadership, I called on them to stand up and publicly condemn the flier. Soon after I posted, the story got wings nationally. I'm proud to say that today not only has the local Stonewall Democrats made their "displeasure" known, but so have the National Stonewall Democrats and the DNC. Statements, pictures of the flier and more [on Bilerico.]
-CT: Justices of the Peace ordered not to refuse to marry same-sex couples
Source: 365 Gay News
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has warned justices of the peace they cannot refuse to perform same-sex marriages. City clerks will begin issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples beginning the week of Nov. 10, following a state Supreme Court ruling that Connecticut's civil unions law failed to provide equality. Under the civil union law passed in 2005, justices of the peace could refuse to perform ceremonies for same-sex couples. But in a legal opinion issued Wednesday by Blumenthal, it will be illegal to refuse to perform a same-sex ceremony simply because the couple is gay.
-Andrew Sullivan: The Right To Discriminate
Source: The Daily Dish | The Atlantic
by Andrew Sullivan
Full text by permission. Source retains copyright.
Althouse makes marriage equality opponent Dean Broyles's argument clearer: Let me see if I can make Broyles's point. I think he means to say that if same-sex marriage remains a legal right, enshrined in state constitutional law, then homosexual relationships will come to be regarded normal and good, and, consequently, anyone who objects to them will start to look like a bigot who should not be permitted to have his way. Thus, in order to preserve the right to discriminate against gay people and to keep schools from teaching children that gay couples are perfectly nice and so forth -- all things Broyles wants -- it's important to outlaw gay marriage, because it will be a powerful force in changing perceptions about gay people and those who think gay people are doing something terribly wrong.
Yes! That's it.
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Pink News - UK
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/
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-Indian police accused of brtuality against trans community
Bangalore police have ben accused of arresting and mistreating more than 40 people at a peaceful demonstration.
The conflict reportedly flared when five hijras (working-class,
male-to-female, transgender people) were arrested by police on October 20th in what the local Daily News and Analysis called a "drive against the city's eunuch menace."
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9433.html
-London hosts its first trans film festival
Transgender, intersex, androgyny, gender variant, trans feminists, gender queer, and gender fluid persons of all natures will be represented at next month's London Transgender Film Festival. Organisers said the event is "long overdue."
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9438.html
-Jerusalem's gay oasis under threat from financial crisis
A community centre for the gay community in Jerusalem is facing closure because of the credit crunch. A "high percentage" of Jerusalem Open House's annual budget is built on grants and gifts from abroad.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9437.html
-Little Britain panders to hatred and homophobia, claims academic
Popular comedy show Little Britain has more in common with Bernard Manning than the generation of subversive comedians who followed in his wake, according to a new academic work. LSE researcher Deborah Finding's study, I Can't Believe You Just Said That: figuring gender and sexuality in Little Britain, forms the basis of a chapter in a new book of essays on the BBC show to be published next year.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9431.html
-More celebs come out in support of gay marriage
Ugly Betty star America Ferrara is the latest Hollywood star to publicly oppose a measure that would ban gay marriage in California. She has appeared with co-stars Tony Plana and Ana Ortiz on Spanish language TV stations in an advert for No on Prop 8.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9428.html
-Stonewall Scotland to investigate gay brain drain
A new research project aims to investigate the migration of gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans people from Scotland. Stonewall Scotland said the LGBT brain drain is a serious issue, including the flight from rural areas to cities such as Glasgow or Edinburgh.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9427.html
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-WSU Students Wearing Red to Support Gays
By The Associated Press | Seattle Times
PULLMAN - Hundreds of Washington State University students rallied at noon today at Glenn Terrell Mall for gay students who were recently attacked. Many wore red to show support and carried signs that said, "End Hate." Radio station KRPL reports that Washington State University President Elson Floyd canceled a business trip to return to campus for the rally. Students stopped him from speaking, saying this was the administration's time to listen. Campus and Pullman police are investigating three possible hate crimes earlier this month in two assaults on campus and one on College Hill.
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-Ireland: McAleese urges action on homophobic bullying
President Mary McAleese today urged young people to stand up against those who bully their peers on the grounds of their sexual orientation. Mrs McAleese addressed a national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youth forum in Galway. "Celebrating and respecting diversity among young people is at the heart of this important forum. Homophobic bullying continues to be a society-wide issue, including in our schools and the link between it and suicide sends a clear message that this trend must be reversed," she said.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/1030/breaking48_pf.html
-Just one 'preacher of hate' deported in last three years
Only one so-called "preacher of hate" has been deported from Britain in the last three years despite Government claims to be tackling extremists, it has been disclosed.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3274959/Just-one-preacher-of-hate-deported-in-last-three-years.html
-ILGA-Europe's LGBT families campaign has taken a new dimension today when Different Families, Same Love roving exhibition was launched at Vienna City Hall. This launch preceded ILGA-Europe's Annual Conference taking place in Vienna. The exhibition was displayed at the arcade of the historic Vienna City Hall and shall remain open for the duration of both ILGA-Europe and ILGA World conference until 6 November.
http://www.ilga-europe.org/europe/news/different_families_same_love_roving_exhibition_launched_at_vienna_city_hall
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From Transgender Equality
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-One week after Washington State University's Week Without Violence celebration, the Pullman community was shocked by four attacks against Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender individuals whose incidents were separated by days. On Oct. 16, Kristopher Shultz, WSU junior, was walking home for a book when he said he heard someone shout at him. The moment he turned around, his face was met with a fist, followed by kicks in his side.
http://www.uiargonaut.com/content/view/6798/48/
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Southern Poverty Law Center
http://www.splcenter.org
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-Over the last few days, we've been swamped with requests for information about the two neo-Nazi skinheads who planned a murderous rampage ending with the assassination of Barack Obama. We've been consulted by law enforcement because of our expertise. We reported on our website that one of the skinheads involved was affiliated with a newly formed organization called the Supreme White Alliance (SWA). The SWA is headed by a man named Steven Edwards, who is steeped in a violent culture of racial extremism. We've been following his activities for some time. You can find out more about Edwards in a report by ABC's Nightline that aired last night. The skinheads' plot to kill Obama and murder other African Americans is a chilling reminder of the threat posed by these domestic terrorists. Unfortunately, I fear we're entering a dangerous period. Obama's candidacy has aroused fierce passions among white supremacists. And during times of economic hardship, minorities are often targeted as scapegoats for our country's problems. We cannot afford to take threats like this lightly. With your help, we're doing everything we can to track and expose violent racists - and we'll continue providing the best intelligence available to law enforcement. Thanks for being on our team. With your moral and financial support, we'll continue this important fight against the forces of hate and intolerance.
Morris Dees
Founder
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/10/28/alleged-plotter-against-obama-was-member-of-supreme-white-alliance/?splcnewsletter=dnewsgen-102908
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-DEAR AMY: I am 20 years old and gay. I met a guy more than two years ago.
We became friends and started hanging out. Within six months, we were living together -- but not as a couple. I told him early on that I had feelings for him, and he shot me down. He made it clear that he was straight. After that, my feelings for him only grew. Now I really do believe that I am in love with him.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/20/AR2008102000995.html
-Anti-gay marriage groups look for Ariz. redemption
Arizona has been a disappointment to anti-gay marriage activists since 2006, when the state became the first in the nation to reject a ballot measure banning same-sex marriage.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103001013.html
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-Boynton Beach woman killed partner by stabbing her more than 200 times,
police say
Woman stabbed her ex-partner with screwdriver, police say
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/community/news/boyntonbeach/sfl-flpkalish1030pnoct30,0,3845075.story
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http://www.MiamiHerald.com/gay
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-Miami a finalist for 2014 Gay Games
Boston, Cleveland, Miami and Washington DC Will Bid to host Gay Games IX Cape Town, South Africa -- Groups from Miami (Florida), Cleveland (Ohio) Boston (Massachusetts), and Washington (D.C.), have submitted letters of intent to bid for the ninth edition of the Gay Games, to be held in 2014, officials announced at the close of the Federation of Gay Games (FGG) annual meeting in Cape Town, South Africa.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/
-HIV/AIDS education for teens booked into Broward jail
Broward Sheriff's Office news release:
BSO and C2P Talk HIV For Troubled Teens
Boys and girls being processed at BSO's Juvenile Assessment Center (JAC) will gain some valuable HIV/AIDS education and awareness material in the booking process thanks to a new Connect to Protect and BSO partnership. The Connect to Protect, or C2P, program for the JAC was developed in cooperation with the Children's Diagnostic & Treatment Center in light of alarming statistics regarding youngsters and HIV. According to the CDTC, people under the age of 25 account for half of all new HIV infections and in Florida AIDS-related illness are the ninth leading cause of death for teenagers 15 to 19 years old. It's the fifth leading cause of death for all people 20-24 years old. The mission: curtail the crisis by targeting the 12 to 24 age group.
http://www.MiamiHerald.com/gay
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365Gay.com
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-Gay-baiting enters S.C. politics
Voters in Lancaster and York counties are getting automated phone calls from a phony gay organization that says it supports the Democratic candidate for the local South Carolina state Senate seat, a move a national group called "gay baiting."
http://www.365gay.com/news/gay-baiting-enters-sc-politics/
-Obama on track for electoral college majority
Barack Obama has pulled ahead in enough states to win the 270 electoral votes he needs to gain the White House - and with states to spare - according to an Associated Press analysis that shows he is now moving beyond typical Democratic territory to challenge John McCain on historically GOP turf.
http://www.365gay.com/news/obama-on-track-for-electoral-college-majority/
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The Advocate
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-Candlelight Vigil Organized to Counter Yes on 8 Prayer, Fast in San Diego
For weeks, places of worship throughout California have been calling on their congregations to fast, pray and worship -- all to "protect marriage." On the heels of the California supreme court's landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, churches across the state have organized to combat the effort, collecting the necessary signatures to land Proposition 8, which would nullify the ruling, on the ballot.
http://advocate.com/news_detail_ektid64597.asp
-California Elementary School Comes Under Prop. 8 Fire
A Hayward, Calif., elementary school has come under fire by Proposition 8 supporters because a kindergarten teacher there asked her students to sign cards pledging not to use antigay slurs. The cards, provided by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network as part of its National Ally Week last week, became a flash point in the debate over Prop 8., which would constitutionally ban same-sex marriage in California, on Tuesday when the ProtectMarriage.com coalition challenged the state's schools superintendent to a debate, the Associated Press reports. But the No on 8 campaign, which has used the superintendent, Jack O'Connell, in television ads, declined the opposition's offer.
http://advocate.com/news_detail_ektid64600.asp
- The Advocate's Big Four Report: Ohio
The Advocate continues its coverage of four swing states this week with Ohio, the state that could well decide the 2008 election ... and the state that John Kerry lost by a scant 119,000 votes in 2004. This story is the first of four pieces focusing on the state's political dynamics, LGBT concerns, and how it all will play out on Election Day.
http://advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid64564.asp
-Delinquency: It's Not Just for Juveniles
Faced with the prospect of a constitutional ban on marriage equality in Arizona, the woman behind defacing Yes on 102 posters that say "Yes to Hate" channels her inner teenager -- and lives to tell about it.
http://advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid64546.asp
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-DNC condemns Indiana anti-gay campaign mailing
Source: The Bilerico Project
by Bil Browning
On Tuesday I posted to Bilerico-Indiana about an anti-gay flier sent by the Indiana Democratic State Committee on behalf of State Representative candidate Andy Schemenaur. The mailing, paid for by the state party, called for "a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as existing only between one man and one woman." This flies directly in the face of the state party platform, the national Democratic Party platform, public statements from the Democratic presidential ticket, and recent efforts by the state party to kill a state amendment. Since the flier had been passed around via e-mail for a couple weeks with nary a word from any local LGBT or party leadership, I called on them to stand up and publicly condemn the flier. Soon after I posted, the story got wings nationally. I'm proud to say that today not only has the local Stonewall Democrats made their "displeasure" known, but so have the National Stonewall Democrats and the DNC. Statements, pictures of the flier and more [on Bilerico.]
-CT: Justices of the Peace ordered not to refuse to marry same-sex couples
Source: 365 Gay News
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has warned justices of the peace they cannot refuse to perform same-sex marriages. City clerks will begin issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples beginning the week of Nov. 10, following a state Supreme Court ruling that Connecticut's civil unions law failed to provide equality. Under the civil union law passed in 2005, justices of the peace could refuse to perform ceremonies for same-sex couples. But in a legal opinion issued Wednesday by Blumenthal, it will be illegal to refuse to perform a same-sex ceremony simply because the couple is gay.
-Andrew Sullivan: The Right To Discriminate
Source: The Daily Dish | The Atlantic
by Andrew Sullivan
Full text by permission. Source retains copyright.
Althouse makes marriage equality opponent Dean Broyles's argument clearer: Let me see if I can make Broyles's point. I think he means to say that if same-sex marriage remains a legal right, enshrined in state constitutional law, then homosexual relationships will come to be regarded normal and good, and, consequently, anyone who objects to them will start to look like a bigot who should not be permitted to have his way. Thus, in order to preserve the right to discriminate against gay people and to keep schools from teaching children that gay couples are perfectly nice and so forth -- all things Broyles wants -- it's important to outlaw gay marriage, because it will be a powerful force in changing perceptions about gay people and those who think gay people are doing something terribly wrong.
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-Indian police accused of brtuality against trans community
Bangalore police have ben accused of arresting and mistreating more than 40 people at a peaceful demonstration.
The conflict reportedly flared when five hijras (working-class,
male-to-female, transgender people) were arrested by police on October 20th in what the local Daily News and Analysis called a "drive against the city's eunuch menace."
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9433.html
-London hosts its first trans film festival
Transgender, intersex, androgyny, gender variant, trans feminists, gender queer, and gender fluid persons of all natures will be represented at next month's London Transgender Film Festival. Organisers said the event is "long overdue."
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9438.html
-Jerusalem's gay oasis under threat from financial crisis
A community centre for the gay community in Jerusalem is facing closure because of the credit crunch. A "high percentage" of Jerusalem Open House's annual budget is built on grants and gifts from abroad.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9437.html
-Little Britain panders to hatred and homophobia, claims academic
Popular comedy show Little Britain has more in common with Bernard Manning than the generation of subversive comedians who followed in his wake, according to a new academic work. LSE researcher Deborah Finding's study, I Can't Believe You Just Said That: figuring gender and sexuality in Little Britain, forms the basis of a chapter in a new book of essays on the BBC show to be published next year.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9431.html
-More celebs come out in support of gay marriage
Ugly Betty star America Ferrara is the latest Hollywood star to publicly oppose a measure that would ban gay marriage in California. She has appeared with co-stars Tony Plana and Ana Ortiz on Spanish language TV stations in an advert for No on Prop 8.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9428.html
-Stonewall Scotland to investigate gay brain drain
A new research project aims to investigate the migration of gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans people from Scotland. Stonewall Scotland said the LGBT brain drain is a serious issue, including the flight from rural areas to cities such as Glasgow or Edinburgh.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9427.html
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-WSU Students Wearing Red to Support Gays
By The Associated Press | Seattle Times
PULLMAN - Hundreds of Washington State University students rallied at noon today at Glenn Terrell Mall for gay students who were recently attacked. Many wore red to show support and carried signs that said, "End Hate." Radio station KRPL reports that Washington State University President Elson Floyd canceled a business trip to return to campus for the rally. Students stopped him from speaking, saying this was the administration's time to listen. Campus and Pullman police are investigating three possible hate crimes earlier this month in two assaults on campus and one on College Hill.
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-Ireland: McAleese urges action on homophobic bullying
President Mary McAleese today urged young people to stand up against those who bully their peers on the grounds of their sexual orientation. Mrs McAleese addressed a national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youth forum in Galway. "Celebrating and respecting diversity among young people is at the heart of this important forum. Homophobic bullying continues to be a society-wide issue, including in our schools and the link between it and suicide sends a clear message that this trend must be reversed," she said.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/1030/breaking48_pf.html
-Just one 'preacher of hate' deported in last three years
Only one so-called "preacher of hate" has been deported from Britain in the last three years despite Government claims to be tackling extremists, it has been disclosed.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3274959/Just-one-preacher-of-hate-deported-in-last-three-years.html
-ILGA-Europe's LGBT families campaign has taken a new dimension today when Different Families, Same Love roving exhibition was launched at Vienna City Hall. This launch preceded ILGA-Europe's Annual Conference taking place in Vienna. The exhibition was displayed at the arcade of the historic Vienna City Hall and shall remain open for the duration of both ILGA-Europe and ILGA World conference until 6 November.
http://www.ilga-europe.org/europe/news/different_families_same_love_roving_exhibition_launched_at_vienna_city_hall
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From Transgender Equality
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-One week after Washington State University's Week Without Violence celebration, the Pullman community was shocked by four attacks against Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender individuals whose incidents were separated by days. On Oct. 16, Kristopher Shultz, WSU junior, was walking home for a book when he said he heard someone shout at him. The moment he turned around, his face was met with a fist, followed by kicks in his side.
http://www.uiargonaut.com/content/view/6798/48/
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Southern Poverty Law Center
http://www.splcenter.org
Contact rays.list@comcast.net for the full article
-Over the last few days, we've been swamped with requests for information about the two neo-Nazi skinheads who planned a murderous rampage ending with the assassination of Barack Obama. We've been consulted by law enforcement because of our expertise. We reported on our website that one of the skinheads involved was affiliated with a newly formed organization called the Supreme White Alliance (SWA). The SWA is headed by a man named Steven Edwards, who is steeped in a violent culture of racial extremism. We've been following his activities for some time. You can find out more about Edwards in a report by ABC's Nightline that aired last night. The skinheads' plot to kill Obama and murder other African Americans is a chilling reminder of the threat posed by these domestic terrorists. Unfortunately, I fear we're entering a dangerous period. Obama's candidacy has aroused fierce passions among white supremacists. And during times of economic hardship, minorities are often targeted as scapegoats for our country's problems. We cannot afford to take threats like this lightly. With your help, we're doing everything we can to track and expose violent racists - and we'll continue providing the best intelligence available to law enforcement. Thanks for being on our team. With your moral and financial support, we'll continue this important fight against the forces of hate and intolerance.
Morris Dees
Founder
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/10/28/alleged-plotter-against-obama-was-member-of-supreme-white-alliance/?splcnewsletter=dnewsgen-102908
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-Same-Sex Marriage on the Ballot in Arizona, a Second Time
Under a state law enacted in 1996, it is illegal for same-sex couples to marry in Arizona. The law has been upheld by the state's courts, and there is no visible movement - among voters or lawmakers - to overturn it. Nonetheless, Arizonans on Tuesday will be asked to vote for the second time in two years on a proposal to amend the state's Constitution to bar same-sex marriage. A similar ballot measure was rejected in 2006.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/us/politics/30marriage.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=gay&st=cse&oref=slogin
-At Rallies of Faithful, Contrasts in Red and Blue
Supporters of Senators Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr. often look like Benetton-colored billboards, decked out for their candidates in Obama-Biden hats, T-shirts and buttons. Supporters of Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin like logo merchandise, too, but tend more toward pompoms (yes, pompoms), homemade signs ("Pitbulls 4 Freedom"), flag pins and chest paint.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/us/politics/30trail.html?hp
-Editorial: The Success of Early Voting
A lot is going wrong in this election, from malfunctioning electronic voting machines to voters being purged mistakenly from the rolls. But one thing is going very right: early voting. In the more than 30 states that allow early or no-excuse absentee voting, voters have been casting ballots in record numbers. Early voting has many advantages. The main one is that it makes it likely that more eligible voters will participate in democracy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/opinion/30thu1.html?ref=opinion
-Afghanistan Tests Waters for Overture to Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan - The Afghan government and its allies in the region have begun approaching the Taliban and other insurgent groups with new intensity to test the possibilities for eventual peace talks, Western diplomats and Afghan officials here say. The diplomatic approaches have been stepped up over the last several months by the Afghan government, as well as by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the officials said. They are part of a broad political effort to stem the downward spiral of violence in Afghanistan and the steep decline of public support for the government during a year that has proved to be the bloodiest of the past seven.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/world/asia/30taliban.html
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Washington Post
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-Call Him John the Careless
From the invasion of Iraq to the selection of Sarah Palin, carelessness has characterized recent episodes of faux conservatism. Tuesday's probable repudiation of the Republican Party will punish characteristics displayed in the campaign's closing days.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102903199.html
-Exxon Mobil Profits Rise a Record 58 Percent in Third Quarter
Exxon Mobil Corp. smashed its own record for quarterly profits today, ringing up $14.8 billion in net income in the third quarter powered by soaring summertime crude oil prices. Exxon Mobil's earnings at $2.86 a share are up 58 percent from the same period in 2007 and higher than what analysts expected, capping a week of strong profit numbers from the world's biggest oil companies, all of whom benefited the spike in oil prices in July. Royal Dutch Shell also posted higher earnings today, beating analysts' estimates with $8.54 billion of profits for the third quarter.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103001401.html?hpid=topnews
-What We've Learned About McCain
As we near the end of another presidential campaign, it is useful to ask ourselves what we have learned about the candidates that we did not know before. When you reflect back on all the rallies, the speeches, the ads and the debates, what insights have you gained about their goals, their methods, their characters? I will turn to Barack Obama next, but today's subject is John McCain.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102903201.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
-Pakistan Begins Rescue Efforts As Quake Death Toll Tops 170
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 29 -- The government began recovery and rescue efforts Wednesday after a strong predawn earthquake jolted an impoverished area in southwestern Pakistan, killing more than 170 people, injuring hundreds and destroying thousands of houses and government buildings.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/28/AR2008102804116.html?hpid=moreheadlines
-Syrian riot police form ring around US Embassy
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Tens of thousands of Syrians turned out Thursday for a massive government-orchestrated protest against a deadly U.S. raid near the Iraqi border. A mile away, hundreds of Syrian riot police formed a protective ring around the closed U.S. Embassy, but the flag-waving crowds dispersed peacefully after a couple of hours later, with students heading to schools and employees to work.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103000666.html?hpid=moreheadlines
-Palin faces new ethics complaint over kids' travel
A new ethics complaint has been filed against Sarah Palin, accusing the Alaska governor of abusing her power by charging the state when her children traveled with her. The complaint alleges that the Republican vice presidential nominee used her official position as governor for personal gain, violating a statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. It follows a report by The Associated Press last week that Palin charged the state more than $21,000 for her three daughters' commercial flights, including events where they weren't invited, and later ordered their expense forms amended to specify official state business.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102902730.html?hpid=sec-politics
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Fort Report
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-Accused skinheads to face magistrate at hearing
A federal magistrate will decide if authorities can continue to hold two white supremacists accused of plotting to kill dozens of black people including Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The two men are scheduled to go before a magistrate in Memphis on Thursday for a hearing. The magistrate will decide if authorities have enough evidence against the men to keep them behind bars.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-30-accused-skinheads_N.htm?csp=34
-CAMPAIGN 2008: Where does Sarah Palin go from here?
Win, and it's D.C. But lose, and it's everybody's guess
At her packed rallies across the country, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin talks about her desire to be the nation's next vice president, yet that hasn't stopped some in attendance from encouraging her toward a higher office. Homemade "Palin 2012" and "President Palin" signs now appear at those campaign events. And it doesn't take long to hear Palin's supporters state that she is the Republican Party's best bet to claim the White House four years from now. Win or lose, they say, Palin has claimed a place in the party's future.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-palin30oct30,0,7769067.story?track=rss
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Michael Moore Says Take Action, Check Out Brave New Films
When you downloaded Michael Moore's Slacker Uprising, we knew you were the type who not only enjoyed high quality, hard-hitting political videos, but that you liked seeing them for free. We partnered with Michael Moore to distribute Slacker Uprising because the film conveys the need to stand up, get involved, and do something -- now! It's a message we're deeply committed to at Brave New Films. That's why we bring you short videos on issues facing all of us: the economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, health care, corporate greed and more. That's why we've given you a free Brave New Films video subscription, so that you can join over 8 million people who have seen John McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare, the 2 million who watched FOX Attacks Obama, and the 1.5 million who viewed John McCain vs. John McCain. Be part of this growing Brave New movement to get involved and take action. Check out the videos below for a taste of the great content to come from Brave New Films in 2009.
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-Election Day Examined
Exit Poll Preview
In an exclusive interview, Joe Lenski, co-founder and Executive Vice President of Edison Media Research discusses his organization's plans for conducting exit polls on November 4, given this year's special challenges.
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-Political Theater
McCain Support Continues Downward Spiral
A breakdown of voting intentions by demographic groups shows that since mid-September, McCain's support has declined significantly across most voting blocs. Read more
-The Color of News: How Different Media Covered the General Election
When it comes to coverage of the campaign for president 2008, where one goes for news makes a difference, according to a new study. Read more
-Among Florida's Hispanics, Voter Registration Swings Democratic
Unlike in the rest of the country, the Latino vote in the Sunshine State has tended to be heavily Republican; but changing politics and demographics have produced a substantial shift in the electoral rolls. Read more
-Swing States Sway Campaign Media
In the final days of the race for president, seemingly nothing but the algebra of the electoral map appears to have staying power in election news coverage. Read more
-Religious Rights
Brutalism v. Church: A Congregation Sues D.C. Over Historic Landmarking
To the city of Washington D.C., it's a classic example of Brutalist architecture; to church members, it's a costly concrete block that obstructs their ability to practice their Christian Science faith. Read more
-Busting Budgets
Depressed Economy Wallops States
With calendar 2008 nearing an end, Stateline.org's annual state-by-state review of major accomplishments finds lawmakers girding for big spending cuts in 2009 and beyond. Read more
-Daily Number
61% - Voters See Obama Victory
While only a month ago voters were evenly split on which candidate would win the election, about six-in-ten voters (61%) now see Obama as most likely to win with only 17% seeing a McCain victory. Check back every weekday for another number in the news. Read more
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-Same-Sex Marriage on the Ballot in Arizona, a Second Time
Under a state law enacted in 1996, it is illegal for same-sex couples to marry in Arizona. The law has been upheld by the state's courts, and there is no visible movement - among voters or lawmakers - to overturn it. Nonetheless, Arizonans on Tuesday will be asked to vote for the second time in two years on a proposal to amend the state's Constitution to bar same-sex marriage. A similar ballot measure was rejected in 2006.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/us/politics/30marriage.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=gay&st=cse&oref=slogin
-At Rallies of Faithful, Contrasts in Red and Blue
Supporters of Senators Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr. often look like Benetton-colored billboards, decked out for their candidates in Obama-Biden hats, T-shirts and buttons. Supporters of Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin like logo merchandise, too, but tend more toward pompoms (yes, pompoms), homemade signs ("Pitbulls 4 Freedom"), flag pins and chest paint.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/us/politics/30trail.html?hp
-Editorial: The Success of Early Voting
A lot is going wrong in this election, from malfunctioning electronic voting machines to voters being purged mistakenly from the rolls. But one thing is going very right: early voting. In the more than 30 states that allow early or no-excuse absentee voting, voters have been casting ballots in record numbers. Early voting has many advantages. The main one is that it makes it likely that more eligible voters will participate in democracy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/opinion/30thu1.html?ref=opinion
-Afghanistan Tests Waters for Overture to Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan - The Afghan government and its allies in the region have begun approaching the Taliban and other insurgent groups with new intensity to test the possibilities for eventual peace talks, Western diplomats and Afghan officials here say. The diplomatic approaches have been stepped up over the last several months by the Afghan government, as well as by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the officials said. They are part of a broad political effort to stem the downward spiral of violence in Afghanistan and the steep decline of public support for the government during a year that has proved to be the bloodiest of the past seven.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/world/asia/30taliban.html
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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-Call Him John the Careless
From the invasion of Iraq to the selection of Sarah Palin, carelessness has characterized recent episodes of faux conservatism. Tuesday's probable repudiation of the Republican Party will punish characteristics displayed in the campaign's closing days.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102903199.html
-Exxon Mobil Profits Rise a Record 58 Percent in Third Quarter
Exxon Mobil Corp. smashed its own record for quarterly profits today, ringing up $14.8 billion in net income in the third quarter powered by soaring summertime crude oil prices. Exxon Mobil's earnings at $2.86 a share are up 58 percent from the same period in 2007 and higher than what analysts expected, capping a week of strong profit numbers from the world's biggest oil companies, all of whom benefited the spike in oil prices in July. Royal Dutch Shell also posted higher earnings today, beating analysts' estimates with $8.54 billion of profits for the third quarter.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103001401.html?hpid=topnews
-What We've Learned About McCain
As we near the end of another presidential campaign, it is useful to ask ourselves what we have learned about the candidates that we did not know before. When you reflect back on all the rallies, the speeches, the ads and the debates, what insights have you gained about their goals, their methods, their characters? I will turn to Barack Obama next, but today's subject is John McCain.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102903201.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
-Pakistan Begins Rescue Efforts As Quake Death Toll Tops 170
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 29 -- The government began recovery and rescue efforts Wednesday after a strong predawn earthquake jolted an impoverished area in southwestern Pakistan, killing more than 170 people, injuring hundreds and destroying thousands of houses and government buildings.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/28/AR2008102804116.html?hpid=moreheadlines
-Syrian riot police form ring around US Embassy
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Tens of thousands of Syrians turned out Thursday for a massive government-orchestrated protest against a deadly U.S. raid near the Iraqi border. A mile away, hundreds of Syrian riot police formed a protective ring around the closed U.S. Embassy, but the flag-waving crowds dispersed peacefully after a couple of hours later, with students heading to schools and employees to work.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103000666.html?hpid=moreheadlines
-Palin faces new ethics complaint over kids' travel
A new ethics complaint has been filed against Sarah Palin, accusing the Alaska governor of abusing her power by charging the state when her children traveled with her. The complaint alleges that the Republican vice presidential nominee used her official position as governor for personal gain, violating a statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. It follows a report by The Associated Press last week that Palin charged the state more than $21,000 for her three daughters' commercial flights, including events where they weren't invited, and later ordered their expense forms amended to specify official state business.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102902730.html?hpid=sec-politics
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Fort Report
http://www.fortreport.com/
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-Accused skinheads to face magistrate at hearing
A federal magistrate will decide if authorities can continue to hold two white supremacists accused of plotting to kill dozens of black people including Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The two men are scheduled to go before a magistrate in Memphis on Thursday for a hearing. The magistrate will decide if authorities have enough evidence against the men to keep them behind bars.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-30-accused-skinheads_N.htm?csp=34
-CAMPAIGN 2008: Where does Sarah Palin go from here?
Win, and it's D.C. But lose, and it's everybody's guess
At her packed rallies across the country, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin talks about her desire to be the nation's next vice president, yet that hasn't stopped some in attendance from encouraging her toward a higher office. Homemade "Palin 2012" and "President Palin" signs now appear at those campaign events. And it doesn't take long to hear Palin's supporters state that she is the Republican Party's best bet to claim the White House four years from now. Win or lose, they say, Palin has claimed a place in the party's future.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-palin30oct30,0,7769067.story?track=rss
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Michael Moore Says Take Action, Check Out Brave New Films
When you downloaded Michael Moore's Slacker Uprising, we knew you were the type who not only enjoyed high quality, hard-hitting political videos, but that you liked seeing them for free. We partnered with Michael Moore to distribute Slacker Uprising because the film conveys the need to stand up, get involved, and do something -- now! It's a message we're deeply committed to at Brave New Films. That's why we bring you short videos on issues facing all of us: the economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, health care, corporate greed and more. That's why we've given you a free Brave New Films video subscription, so that you can join over 8 million people who have seen John McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare, the 2 million who watched FOX Attacks Obama, and the 1.5 million who viewed John McCain vs. John McCain. Be part of this growing Brave New movement to get involved and take action. Check out the videos below for a taste of the great content to come from Brave New Films in 2009.
http://bravenewfilms.org/?utm_source=rgemail
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Pew Research center
http://pewresearch.org/
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-Election Day Examined
Exit Poll Preview
In an exclusive interview, Joe Lenski, co-founder and Executive Vice President of Edison Media Research discusses his organization's plans for conducting exit polls on November 4, given this year's special challenges.
Read more
-Political Theater
McCain Support Continues Downward Spiral
A breakdown of voting intentions by demographic groups shows that since mid-September, McCain's support has declined significantly across most voting blocs. Read more
-The Color of News: How Different Media Covered the General Election
When it comes to coverage of the campaign for president 2008, where one goes for news makes a difference, according to a new study. Read more
-Among Florida's Hispanics, Voter Registration Swings Democratic
Unlike in the rest of the country, the Latino vote in the Sunshine State has tended to be heavily Republican; but changing politics and demographics have produced a substantial shift in the electoral rolls. Read more
-Swing States Sway Campaign Media
In the final days of the race for president, seemingly nothing but the algebra of the electoral map appears to have staying power in election news coverage. Read more
-Religious Rights
Brutalism v. Church: A Congregation Sues D.C. Over Historic Landmarking
To the city of Washington D.C., it's a classic example of Brutalist architecture; to church members, it's a costly concrete block that obstructs their ability to practice their Christian Science faith. Read more
-Busting Budgets
Depressed Economy Wallops States
With calendar 2008 nearing an end, Stateline.org's annual state-by-state review of major accomplishments finds lawmakers girding for big spending cuts in 2009 and beyond. Read more
-Daily Number
61% - Voters See Obama Victory
While only a month ago voters were evenly split on which candidate would win the election, about six-in-ten voters (61%) now see Obama as most likely to win with only 17% seeing a McCain victory. Check back every weekday for another number in the news. Read more
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~~FLORIDA GLBT NEWS~~
The Florida Alliance for Retired Americans and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida present:
Proposed Amendment 2 (The so called Marriage Protection Amendment)
Keynote Speaker: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
When: Thursday, October 30th
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Lauderdale West Clubhouse, Room 111, 1141 N..W.85th Avenue, Plantation, Florida 33322.
Questions will be taken from the audience.
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You're Invited to the 2008 Equality Florida Broward Gala!
The Museum of Art - Ft. Lauderdale
Sunday, November 16 - 5pm to 7pm
Tickets - $125
https://secure.ga4.org/01/Equalityflorida/events/browardgala/purchase.tcl?&_cm_=1
~~FLORIDA GENERAL NEWS~~
Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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-Latest Broward early voting waiting times
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2008/10/latest_early_voting_waiting_ti_2.html
-Latest Palm Beach County early voting wait times
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-1030palm-wait-times,0,1646779.story
-Boat show opens in Fort Lauderdale
The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show kicks off amid fears that the tough economy will put a damper on the annual event. The largest boat show in the world opens today. Attendance is expected to be 10 percent down from last year, at around 130,000. But brokers are hoping that the super rich are less affected by the recession, so they're focusing on higher-end yachts. Those can sell for around $20 million. For more skittish buyers, brokers say they're ready to slash some prices.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-1030-boatshow,0,4748769.story
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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-Citizens' hurricane mitigation discounts help condo associations
Condominium and homeowners associations that have added storm shutters, reinforced doors or roofs and put in impact-resistant glass to make their buildings more storm-resistant can get a bigger break on their windstorm insurance. Citizens Property Insurance, the state-run insurer, in September began offering discounts of up to 45 percent for taking mitigation steps. As with hurricane coverage for single-family homes, apartments and condo units, the insurer was required to double mitigation credits it offered the associations.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/748458.html
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Fort Report
http://www.fortreport.com/
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-Election revolt over provisional ballots
After Florida's 2000 election debacle, Congress thought it had found a way to avoid turning away voters whose qualifications were in question: allow them to cast a provisional ballot. But a record voter turnout this year, plus a new voter verification law, could lead to the casting of thousands of provisional ballots Tuesday.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article881423.ece
-Latest Quinnipiac poll says Florida too close to call in presidential race
Florida, the must-win state for Republican presidential nominee John McCain, is too close to call, according to the latest poll. Quinnipiac University has Democratic rival Barack Obama up 47-45 in Florida, well within the poll's margin of error of 2.6 percent.
http://floridacapitalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081029/CAPITOLNEWS/81029006
-CAMPAIGN 2008: Where does Sarah Palin go from here?
Win, and it's D.C. But lose, and it's everybody's guess
At her packed rallies across the country, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin talks about her desire to be the nation's next vice president, yet that hasn't stopped some in attendance from encouraging her toward a higher office. Homemade "Palin 2012" and "President Palin" signs now appear at those campaign events. And it doesn't take long to hear Palin's supporters state that she is the Republican Party's best bet to claim the White House four years from now. Win or lose, they say, Palin has claimed a place in the party's future.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-palin30oct30,0,7769067.story?track=rss
-Republican stranglehold in three key South Florida congressional districts in jeopardy
Puerto Rican-born chef Julio Alicea, 63, used to be a Republican, voting in solidarity with the cause of Cuban exiles. Not this year. "We are losing the American Dream. Who cares about Cuba?" he said, after casting an early ballot Tuesday for Raul Martinez, the Democratic challenger of Lincoln Diaz-Balart.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/article881416.ece
-Wasserman Schultz rap's Sarah Palin's 'pathetic' attempt to question Obama's Israel credentials
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, just issued this sharp statement:
"Gov. Sarah Palin - who prior to her nomination for Vice President had never spoken publicly about Israel in any major forum - has no standing to question Barack Obama's unshakeable commitment to Israel and its security. "He has demonstrated this commitment over many years through word, deed, legislation, and votes. "Frankly, her attempts to question Barack Obama on Israel are unfounded and pathetic." Wasserman Schultz was responding to Palin wondering if Obama truly supports Israel.
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2008/10/wasserman_schultz_raps_sarah_p.html
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~~FLORIDA GLBT NEWS~~
The Florida Alliance for Retired Americans and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida present:
Proposed Amendment 2 (The so called Marriage Protection Amendment)
Keynote Speaker: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
When: Thursday, October 30th
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Lauderdale West Clubhouse, Room 111, 1141 N..W.85th Avenue, Plantation, Florida 33322.
Questions will be taken from the audience.
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You're Invited to the 2008 Equality Florida Broward Gala!
The Museum of Art - Ft. Lauderdale
Sunday, November 16 - 5pm to 7pm
Tickets - $125
https://secure.ga4.org/01/Equalityflorida/events/browardgala/purchase.tcl?&_cm_=1
~~FLORIDA GENERAL NEWS~~
Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Latest Broward early voting waiting times
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2008/10/latest_early_voting_waiting_ti_2.html
-Latest Palm Beach County early voting wait times
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-1030palm-wait-times,0,1646779.story
-Boat show opens in Fort Lauderdale
The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show kicks off amid fears that the tough economy will put a damper on the annual event. The largest boat show in the world opens today. Attendance is expected to be 10 percent down from last year, at around 130,000. But brokers are hoping that the super rich are less affected by the recession, so they're focusing on higher-end yachts. Those can sell for around $20 million. For more skittish buyers, brokers say they're ready to slash some prices.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-1030-boatshow,0,4748769.story
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Citizens' hurricane mitigation discounts help condo associations
Condominium and homeowners associations that have added storm shutters, reinforced doors or roofs and put in impact-resistant glass to make their buildings more storm-resistant can get a bigger break on their windstorm insurance. Citizens Property Insurance, the state-run insurer, in September began offering discounts of up to 45 percent for taking mitigation steps. As with hurricane coverage for single-family homes, apartments and condo units, the insurer was required to double mitigation credits it offered the associations.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/748458.html
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Fort Report
http://www.fortreport.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Election revolt over provisional ballots
After Florida's 2000 election debacle, Congress thought it had found a way to avoid turning away voters whose qualifications were in question: allow them to cast a provisional ballot. But a record voter turnout this year, plus a new voter verification law, could lead to the casting of thousands of provisional ballots Tuesday.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article881423.ece
-Latest Quinnipiac poll says Florida too close to call in presidential race
Florida, the must-win state for Republican presidential nominee John McCain, is too close to call, according to the latest poll. Quinnipiac University has Democratic rival Barack Obama up 47-45 in Florida, well within the poll's margin of error of 2.6 percent.
http://floridacapitalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081029/CAPITOLNEWS/81029006
-CAMPAIGN 2008: Where does Sarah Palin go from here?
Win, and it's D.C. But lose, and it's everybody's guess
At her packed rallies across the country, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin talks about her desire to be the nation's next vice president, yet that hasn't stopped some in attendance from encouraging her toward a higher office. Homemade "Palin 2012" and "President Palin" signs now appear at those campaign events. And it doesn't take long to hear Palin's supporters state that she is the Republican Party's best bet to claim the White House four years from now. Win or lose, they say, Palin has claimed a place in the party's future.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-palin30oct30,0,7769067.story?track=rss
-Republican stranglehold in three key South Florida congressional districts in jeopardy
Puerto Rican-born chef Julio Alicea, 63, used to be a Republican, voting in solidarity with the cause of Cuban exiles. Not this year. "We are losing the American Dream. Who cares about Cuba?" he said, after casting an early ballot Tuesday for Raul Martinez, the Democratic challenger of Lincoln Diaz-Balart.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/article881416.ece
-Wasserman Schultz rap's Sarah Palin's 'pathetic' attempt to question Obama's Israel credentials
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, just issued this sharp statement:
"Gov. Sarah Palin - who prior to her nomination for Vice President had never spoken publicly about Israel in any major forum - has no standing to question Barack Obama's unshakeable commitment to Israel and its security. "He has demonstrated this commitment over many years through word, deed, legislation, and votes. "Frankly, her attempts to question Barack Obama on Israel are unfounded and pathetic." Wasserman Schultz was responding to Palin wondering if Obama truly supports Israel.
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2008/10/wasserman_schultz_raps_sarah_p.html
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