News + Politics
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As the Fireworks Clear
It wasn’t the rockets’ red glare tonight, but all the colors of the fireworks over the National Mall that kept the District’s attention as the...
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Ridiculous lawsuit against DC Baptist Church for performing gay marriage gets wide coverage [video]
”Why did I do it? It’s funny now, because, you know what? That’s not of God. I just got pissed off and did it…. I...
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GOProud Among Those Calling on Steele to Resign
GOProud has joined with several other Republicans — including, as reported by Politico, former National Republican Congressional Committee chair Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) — in...
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Gay parade float burns in suspicious fire in Anchorage, AK
”I don’t understand why people would be so cruel. Why be so cruel?… It will be amazing, I’m sure, because everything was destroyed, everything. All...
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More — Reports, at Least — From the White House Q-and-A
There was much more — at least, in the way of reporting — from the Thursday, July 1, meeting between White House Domestic Policy Adviser...
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The Constitutional Question
At the White House LGBT media briefing on Thursday, July 1, White House Domestic Policy Adviser Melody Barnes took questions on a range of issues....
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“This Year’s Maverick” … (He “Ain’t Gay”)
From The New York Times Magazine this weekend comes a lengthy profile — “This Year’s Maverick” — of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Graham has been...
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Pay for Gays: Google to compensate gay partnered employees for unfair tax on benefits
”We said, ‘You’re right, that doesn’t seem fair,’ so we looked into it…. From that initial suggestion, we said, let’s take a look at all...
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LGBT Media Representatives Get a White House Q-and-A
Today, Metro Weekly, along with eight other LGBT media outlets, attended a briefing on LGBT issues by White House Domestic Policy Adviser Melody Barnes. White...
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HRC Endorses Kagan Nomination
Today, the Human Rights Campaign announced its endorsement of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. From HRC: “Elena Kagan has demonstrated her understanding...
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Reality Distortion
Reality can be so confusing. Once again, as we traipse our way through a Supreme Court nomination hearing in the Senate and as Republican presidential...
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Questionable Consumption
A couple of weeks ago, I went to Tampa, Fla., to spend a weekend with my mother and two of my teenaged San Diegan nephews...
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Judging Kagan
The first Republican to question President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, at this week's Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings in the...
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Acquitted, But Not Exonerated
It took a sober and, at times, soft-spoken Judge Lynn Leibovitz little more than an hour Tuesday, June 29, to plow through what she termed...
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MPD Training Returns
It's not easy to determine who is the primary aggressor in an intimate-partner violence (IPV) situation involving same-gender couples, says Amy Loudermilk. ''What we're seeing...
