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• What the Maine Vote Really Means

  As you no doubt know by now, the voters of Maine have voted for bigotry and overturned a legislatively-enacted recognition of same-sex marriages in that state. What does this mean, really? Clearly, it means that we're not there yet. As a friend of mine wrote this morning, ...' [...]
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  Fetched: November 04, 2009, 1:42pm EST
  

• Elections: Teabaggers and Decency Lose

  So the local issues -- the two governorships -- went the way of local issues, the two national races both went for the Democrats. The teabaggers, in all of their ludicrous glory, managed to lose a seat that had been in Republican hands for almost 160 years. That ... [...]
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  Fetched: November 04, 2009, 10:43am EST
  

• Election Day: What’s to Think About?

  So it's Election Day tomorrow, if you haven't noticed, which it's easy not to in an odd-numbered year with (almost) no federal offices on the ballot. I've been reading about some of the hot state races around the country, particularly the District-23 soap opera here in my home state, but [...]
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  Fetched: November 04, 2009, 1:44am EST
  

• Are There No Workhouses?

  This is horrible: Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say. And remember, that number comes before the effects of the Great Recession have [...]
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  Fetched: November 04, 2009, 1:44am EST