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Does This Mean Edwards is Now For Gay Marriage?

Paul Jenkins | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics

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It is shocking that politicians with personal lives as deeply flawed as Edwards, the Clintons, McCain and others, set themselves up as defenders of an institution they have raped of all moral significance.

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Friday Talking Points [41] -- The Silly Season

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

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I have a confession to make. I actually watch the network news. Maybe I should enter into a twelve-step program or something. But I don't watch the ...

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Eulogy for "Marriage Evasion" in Massachusetts: 1913-2008

Edward Stein | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Massachusetts, California Gay Marriage, Interracial Marriage, Loving vs. Virginia, Defense of Marriage Act, Gay Marriage, Politics News

On July 31, Massachusetts finally repealed a law passed in 1913 that prohibited residents from other jurisdictions from marrying in Massachusetts if they were unable to marry in their home state.

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Massachusetts Senate Expands Gay Marriage Rights To Out-Of-State Couples

AP | STEVE LeBLANC | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gay Marriage, Deval Patrick, Mitt Romney, Massachusetts, Politics News

BOSTON — Out-of-state gay couples got one step closer to a Massachusetts wedding Tuesday when the state Senate voted to repeal a 1913 law that h...

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Top GOP VP Choices: Failed Business Leaders, Former Dems, Confirmed Bachelors and Creationists

Paul Jenkins | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

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If you thought the Republican primary field was a bit of a joke, wait until you get a closer look at the front runners for the vice presidential slot.

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Never-Ending Alimony in Massachusetts

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Harvard, Lifetime Alimony, Mit, Divorce Lawyers, Alimony Reform, Equal Protection., 2nd Wives, Justice, Massachusetts Divorce Lawyers, Alimony, Civil Unions, Massachusetts Civil Unions, Massachusetts, Politics News

Divorce in Massachusetts means never have to say goodbye to your ex. Decades after your divorce, you can be dragged to court, or you can do the dragging yourself.

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Friday Talking Points [35] -- Tim Russert Memorial Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

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Nobody seriously annoyed me this week, but I will launch a pre-emptive finger-wagging, to anyone on the left who can't resist the urge to be disrespectful of Tim Russert's memory right now.

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Hurrah for Gay Marriage

Erica Jong | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Homosexuality, California, Massachusetts, Sex, Heterosexuals, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Let's hope the anti-gay lunatic fringe eventually sees gay marriage as a blessing not a curse. It certainly promotes stability and family. And it's certainly good for kids.

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Romney Poses Bigger Threat to Obama than McCain

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics

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McCain needs a vice president who can help right the tottering GOP ship. He has no choice but to implore Mitt Romney to sign on to the ticket.

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The New York Times on Obama and Deval -- Assume Nothing, Question Everything

Tom Alderman | Posted 03.27.2008 | Media

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If you subtract the elements of fractious legislative relations, change agent, new voice, articulate, what's the only thing left to compare between Obama and Deval?

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A Warning to Our Superdelegates

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

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It is increasingly unseemly for superdelegates to stand by as the Clinton campaign resorts to techniques that would have made Jesse Helms blush 20 years ago.

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Clinton's General Election Disaster in the Making

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics

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Of the many strange spins the Clinton campaign has sold the media, few are as troubling as the idea that she is the stronger general election candidate.

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The Clinton Health Care Fallacy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

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Clinton isn't really for universal health care, or she would be advocating a socialized system not unlike Canada's, Great Britain's, or France's: free and accessible medical care.

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Clinton Spinning Into Twilight Zone

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics

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The Clinton operation's dismissive attitude towards the states that she loses feels uncomfortably like a post-facto snub by the aggrieved party in a break up: "he's not really my type anyway."

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Massachusetts College-Kids Went To Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics

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In what became a relatively close battle, Sen. Hillary Clinton won the Massachusetts primary despite the fact that her rival, Sen. Barack Obama, had t...

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My Super Duper Tsunami Tuesday Primary Picks

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

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Between Obama and Clinton, it's going to be a virtual tie. Both campaigns will immediately release spin on why they are now the frontrunner, and why the other should politely drop out of the race.

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Despite Kennedy Endorsement, Obama Faces Uphill Fight In Mass

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

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On the surface, Sen. Barack Obama should be rolling in Massachusetts. He just wrapped up the endorsement of the Bay State's beloved native son, Ted Ke...

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Obama's Image Problem In The Jewish Community

Heidi Pickman | Posted 01.24.2008 | Home

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Obama is having a problem courting a segment of the Jewish population. Some Jewish voters worry that his time spent in a predominantly Muslim country as a youth means that he is not a friend of Israel.

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Mitt Romney: "Make All the Promises You Have To"

Dan Brown | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

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Romney may be an excellent business consultant and an friendly guy, but as a politician he is all ambition and no soul.

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Liveblog! GOP Square-Off In South Carolina — Including Ron Paul!

J. Neffinger, G. MacNicol, D. Shea and R. Sklar | Posted 01.10.2008 | Media

Welcome to South Carolina, where all the candidates have their best game faces on. It must be the fact that they had a day to get some sleep — they are all better, sharper, and more relaxed than they have seemed in, well, days. In campaign time, that's like a week in Cabo.

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The Top 10 State Tech Leaders

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 12.08.2007 | Business

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Why do Colorado and Ohio rank higher than the Empire State in small business innovation?

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Mitt Romney Did Not Have Lawn Relations With That Immigrant

236.com | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

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After last week's heated exchange between Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani at the CNN/YouTube debate over providing sanctuary to illegal aliens, Romney h...

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Harvard 37, Yale 6... Happy Thanksgiving, Anyway

Alex Remington | Posted 11.21.2007 | Living

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Squinting to see the road through the rain and fog on I-95, I tried to suppress the memory of my team playing like Notre Dame on quaaludes and losing 37-6 to Harvard.

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We're Here, We're Queer, Get Used to It!

Sara Whitman | Posted 10.14.2007 | Living

Read More: Massachusetts, Pride, Gay Parenting, Gay Rights, Living News

In Milton, Massachusetts, it seems that there are some people who are going to have to learn not only are we here, but we're legally married and have kids in the school.

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