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...need look no further than last weekend, when Sunday Night Football played host to the premiere of the “Gears of War 2” trailer. The trailer, entitled “Last Day,” features cinematic shots of thoughtful computer-rendered soldiers as they cast their final glances at an idyllic landscape before embarking on a subterranean mission against an unseen alien foe. Much like the first “Gears of War” commercial, which was set to Gary Jules’s haunting cover of Tears for Fears?...
...Columnist Kathleen Parker has been drowning in hate mail since calling for Sarah Palin's head. Chris Buckley, the son of the late William F. Buckley Jr., went AWOL and lost his position at the National Review. Before the party can reclaim its soul, the unbelievers within must be cast...
Prompting celebration among conservative activists and dismay among proponents of gay rights, in Florida, 62% of voters cast their ballots in favor of Amendment 2, which also limits the legal definition of marriage to the union between "one man and one woman as husband and wife." The initiative, sponsored by the conservative organization Florida4Marriage, declares that "no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized...
Sixty-five percent of Massachusetts voters cast their ballots in favor of decriminalizing possession of less than 1 oz. of marijuana. Possession of small quantities of pot will now be punishable by a $100 civil fine. Backers of the initiative said the goal was to match the offense with a more appropriate punishment, but critics, including the state's attorney general and Governor Deval Patrick, worry that decriminalizing possession will increase drug consumption and possibly lead to more automobile and workplace accidents by people under the influence...
...astronauts on board the International Space Station sent a video message encouraging people to vote; they did, from 200 miles up. A judge in Ohio ruled that homeless people could use a park bench as their address in order to register. A couple flew home from India just to cast their ballots. Obama's Ohio volunteers knocked on a million doors on Monday alone. That night, a Florida official locked himself in the Seminole County election headquarters and slept overnight with the ballots to make sure nothing went wrong with the vote. Early-voting lines in Atlanta were 10 hours...