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Picketing President Obama Is the Wrong Way to Get Blacks to Back Gay Marriage

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Many, perhaps the majority of blacks, can be won to back same sex marriage as a paramount civil rights issue. Because that's what it is. But picketing President Obama is the absolute wrong way to get them to do that.

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Those Pesky Ballot Propositions - Is This Any Way to Run a Country?

Tom Alderman | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

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Tom Alderman

Deciding whether to 'increase the "rainy day" budget stabilization fund' in a state with the seventh largest economy in the world like California, requires a little more, uh, attention.

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