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...Perhaps even more significant than analyzing bills after the fact is being able to influence debates beforehand. "The holy grail of this new movement is to develop the technology for collaborative analysis of bills online," says Rafael DeGennaro, a longtime congressional staffer and former president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. An example of the impact of legislative annotation took place as far back as a year ago, when conservative blogger N.Z. Bear posted a PDF version of the 2007 Senate Immigration Bill, helping opponents of the bill rally around particularly controversial details that might otherwise have escaped their attention...
...money to fend off attacks from tax-exempt advocacy organizations - known as 527 groups, after the section of the tax code under which they are formed - which, Obama said, will spend "millions and millions of dollars in unlimited donations" to damage his reputation. (So far, a well-funded 527 movement against him has not materialized.) His Republican rival, John McCain, said Obama "has completely reversed himself and gone back, not on his word to me, but the commitment he made to the American people." McCain, has said he will accept the public funding available for the general campaign, although...
...there. Attitudes have definitely changed. If you don't wave your sexuality in people's faces, they let you be. There are jokes sometimes, but no organized anti-queer violence as in the West." But, as Bhan admits, there may be greater resistance in future as the movement becomes more widespread and successful...
...most sweeping gay rights decision ever, striking down laws in Texas and other states that had criminalized sex between gays. The court erected a shield of privacy around sexual behavior for all consenting adults, and in doing so paved the way for other milestones in the gay rights legal movement, including judicial victories for gay marriage in Nov. 2003 in Massachusetts and this year in California...
...Smith - who declared unilateral independence from Britain of what was then called Rhodesia - vowed that "not in one thousand years, not in my lifetime" would black majority rule come to the country. Fifteen years later he retired to his farm, after being ousted from power - by a liberation movement led by Robert Mugabe...