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• Forced Discrimination

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  It’s one thing to deny LGBT people equality and fairness by not including them in policies or providing them with benefits that straight people or opposite-sex couples get.  But when you actually seek to punish people for providing equal rights, that’s another.

  Two Republican Texas lawmakers have filed bills that [...]

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• Short Takes

  Sanctions relief offered in nuclear talks in Iran.

  Hot air balloon crash kills a number of foreign tourists in Egypt.

  Gulf Coast oil spill civil trial starts with finger pointing.

  Lots of talk but no action on sequester.

  Surprise — Dozens of Republicans back marriage equality.

  Another winter storm [...]

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• A Little Night Music

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  Kinda sorry I missed this last night…

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• “F” As In Fable

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  Oklahoma is edging closer to mixing fact with fantasy.

  In biology class, public school students can’t generally argue that dinosaurs and people ran around Earth at the same time, at least not without risking a big fat F. But that could soon change for kids in Oklahoma: On Tuesday, the [...]

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• Quote of the Day

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  Alex Parene at Salon on the Sunday morning political chat shows:

  I don’t watch the Sunday shows. Basically ever. I watch clips if something particularly stupid happened, but for the most part, you can get everything you need to know about what happens on these shows by reading the [...]

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• And Your Point Was…?

  It looks like Chuck Hagel will be confirmed as Secretary of Defense.  There are now enough Republicans who say they will not filibuster him to let the vote go forward, and I think the whole falling for the fake news stories about his ties to made-up groups like “Friends [...]

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• Going Out There

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  So apparently there’s been nothing but a lot of chatter about the sequester since I last paid attention to it, which was last week.  Not that I really expected anything to happen, anyway; the whole premise of the way things work now is to bring everyone to the edge and [...]

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• Short Takes

  Syrian opposition turns down U.S., Russian invitations.

  Karzai orders U.S. Special Forces out of key Afghan province.

  The White House preps states for cuts if/when sequestration hits.

  Secretary of State John Kerry is off on his first overseas trip.

  Yet another snowstorm comes barreling out of the Rockies.

  Raul [...]

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• A Little Night Music

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• Cars and More Cars

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  As promised, here are some pictures from the two shows I went to this weekend.  The first group is from the Antique Automobile Club of America national winter meet in Lakeland, Florida, held on Saturday, February 23, 2013, at the Lakeland Convention Center.  There were about 200 cars in classes [...]

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