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...Culture Wars: The Musical outside the District of Columbia's Superior Court on Wednesday. On one side of the plaza, a group protesting the first day of same-sex marriage licensing in D.C. belted out familiar melodies with political lyrics, bellowing "This is the final straw with God" to the tune of "Ants Go Marching." A few yards away, a group of supporters responded with an impromptu riff on "This Little Light of Mine," drowning their opponents as they sang, "Standing on the side of love, we're gonna see them shine...
...change arrived with little hoopla in the nation's capital. Counterprotesters searched for protesters to counter, and both were easily outnumbered by journalists, who enveloped the newly licensed as they exited the courthouse. "Oh, it's like a dream come true," said Angelisa Young, who was the first to be licensed, with Sinjoyla Townsend. "I'm truly happy. I'm ecstatic." Young said they arrived at 6 a.m., and they were two of hundreds who arrived before noon. (See pictures of the gay-rights movement...
...path to enactment, as it is envisioned now, requires two steps. First, the House would pass the exact bill that cleared the Senate on Christmas Eve - even though it is loaded with provisions that many in the House say they would not accept in a final product. Next, the two chambers would fine-tune that bill with a set of compromises that they would pass under a filibuster-proof procedure known as budget reconciliation, which requires only 51 votes to clear the Senate...
...climate change, only to be left exposed as the measures have been shredded or buried altogether in the procedural thicket of the Senate. So it's no surprise that the inclination of House Democrats toward this most perilous vote of all has been to tell the Senate: You go first...
...most recent prime-time news conference, which was carried live July 22 on cable news, NBC, CBS and ABC, reached a combined audience of 24.7 million, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, a political scientist at Towson University who studies presidential communications. To compensate, Obama's message advisers spent the first year keeping their boss on as many outlets as they could - with 129 press interviews in his first 10 months in office, compared with 44 for George W. Bush and 51 for Bill Clinton. Whenever possible, Obama positioned himself to speak to the American people directly, with four prime-time...