Letter From The Editress: The U.S. Supreme Court & Marriage Equality
A Letter From The Editress: I’ve been trying all day to find the right words to meaningfully express how I feel about today’s historic U.S. Supreme Court decisions on DOMA and Prop 8. This morning, I...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Allows Same-Sex Marriage In California
via Richard Wolf and Brad Heath, USA Today WASHINGTON — A fractured Supreme Court effectively opened the door for same-sex marriages to resume throughout California on Wednesday, saying it did not...
View ArticleMarriage Equality Ruling: Supreme Court Says DOMA Is Unconstitutional
via David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court struck down a key part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act on Wednesday and declared that same-sex couples who are legally...
View ArticleSupreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Decision Could Come Tomorrow, And It’s...
via Richard Wolf, USA Today WASHINGTON — If the range of possible Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage this month requires a scorecard, the potential confusion arising from those decisions may demand...
View ArticleIt’s A Big Week. Don’t Screw It Up, SCOTUS
Filed under: HEADLINES, LGBTQ, POLITICS, SUPREME COURT, THE ISSUES Tagged: Civil Rights, Decision, Discrimination, DOMA, Equality, Gay Marriage, Hearing, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Love, Marriage, Marriage...
View ArticleU.S. Post Office To End Saturday Letter Delivery This Summer
via Ron Nixon, The New York Times Faced with billions of dollars in losses, the Postal Service announced on Wednesday that it would seek to stop Saturday delivery of letters, a sweeping change in mail...
View ArticleJune 1st Is National Day Of Civic Hacking: White House Asks Americans To...
via John Constine, TechCrunch The White House wants you to hack for a better America. Last month it announced the National Day Of Civic Hacking on June 1-2 where many government agencies will liberate...
View ArticleMasterCard Blames The Media For Negative Trend In Consumer Confidence And...
via Kim Bhasin, Business Insider U.S. holiday sales growth was just 0.7 percent this year, missing expectations, according to MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse. There was a drop in consumer confidence...
View ArticleIowa Supreme Court Says Employers Can Fire Employees For Being ‘Irresistible’
via Ryan J. Foley, Chicago Sun-Times A dentist acted legally when he fired an assistant that he found attractive simply because he and his wife viewed the woman as a threat to their marriage, the...
View ArticleYes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus
Happy Holidays from The Brandt Standard via Newseum Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial...
View ArticleFacing Backlash, Instagram Backpedals On Terms Of Service Changes But Doesn’t...
via David Strreitfeld and Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times Facebook may have quelled a full-scale rebellion by quickly dumping the contentious new terms of use for Instagram, its photo-sharing...
View ArticleJohn Boehner Fails To Rally Republican House Members Around ‘Plan B’
via New Jersey Area News Group Things were so bad for Speaker John Boehner Thursday night, support for his Plan B tax bill so diminished, the limits of his power with his own party laid bare, that he...
View ArticleInstagram Now Has The Right To Sell Your Photos Without Telling You
via Declan McCullagh, CNET News Instagram said today that it has the perpetual right to sell users’ photographs without payment or notification, a dramatic policy shift that quickly sparked a public...
View ArticleIn Light Of Sandy Hook Tragedy, Lawmakers Consider Banning Assault Weapons
via Patricia Zengerle and Susan Heavey, Reuters A growing number of lawmakers – including a leading pro-gun senator – called on Monday for a look at curbing assault weapons like the one used in a...
View ArticleRepublican Governor Jindal Wants Oral Contraceptives To Be Available Over The...
via Lauren McGaughy, New Orleans Times Picayune Gov. Bobby Jindal said oral contraceptives should be available over-the-counter in a Thursday evening op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. The...
View ArticlePresident Obama: Legal Recreational Marijuana Should Not Be Top Federal Priority
via Susan Heavey, Reuters President Barack Obama says federal authorities should not target recreational marijuana use in two Western states where it has been made legal given limited government...
View ArticleIllinois Legislature May Vote On Marriage Equality As Early As January
via Greg Hinz, Crain’s Chicago Business Legal gay marriage may be coming to Illinois as soon as next month. After counting heads and consulting with legislative leaders, the chief sponsors of a bill to...
View ArticleCourt Decision Ends Illinois’ Ban On Carrying Concealed Weapons
via Dave McKinney and Fran Spielman, Chicago Sun-Times In a huge win for gun-rights groups, a divided federal appeals court in Chicago Tuesday tossed the state’s ban on carrying concealed weapons and...
View ArticleAmid Protests From Unions, Michigan Becomes A Right To Work State
via Matthew Dolan and Kris Maher, The Wall Street Journal The Republican-led Michigan legislature approved a pair of right-to-work bills, sending them on for the governor’s expected signature, as...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments For Marriage Equality
via Mark Sherman, Associated Press The Supreme Court plunged into the contentious issue of gay marriage Friday when it agreed to take up California’s ban on same-sex unions and a separate dispute...
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