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...still undecided), the Nevada Senator currently doesn't enjoy much of an edge at all. In fact, since Obama resigned his seat on Sunday and Delaware Senator Joe Biden, the Vice President-elect, is unlikely to come to the Hill for votes, reaching the filibuster-proof 60-vote barrier is tougher than ever...
...California Protesting a Gay-Marriage Ban While Barack Obama may have broken the color barrier by becoming the nation's first African-American President, the gay and lesbian community in California has erupted in protests following the approval of Proposition 8, which overturns a state supreme court decision upholding gay marriage. On Nov. 8, some 10,000 people, far more than authorities had expected, marched through Hillcrest, the hub of San Diego's gay community. Many opponents of the measure blamed religious groups for the its passage, particularly the Mormon church, which one source estimated had donated some $15 million...
...constitutions are meant to push back against fickle and sometimes bigoted democratic movements, states should protect their own order, and all their citizens, by insisting upon a super-majority threshhold when amendments are at hand. While this may be understood as a limitation placed on individual will, such a barrier would ultimately protect a state’s entire population from reckless legal dynamism...
...realize that we have heard more about historic victories and breaking the racial barrier in the past week than we heard about Joe Six-pack in the weeks before the election. In a sense, it does Obama a disservice to celebrate his race—as though the only important thing he ever did was to be black. A weariness that borders on cynicism has settled around the topic of Obama as a black man, especially among those who love Obama for reasons that have nothing to do with his race. Much to the annoyance of non-black Obama supporters...
...language barrier can be a great benefit or it can ruin everything. The effort to communicate is a form of foreplay. It creates a nice kind of tension...