More marriage updates

Vermont overrides the governor’s veto.
DC council votes to recognize same sex couples married in other states.
Iowa state legislature starts the wrangling over a marriage amendment.

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another chip away at the Patriot Act

Four members of the House of Representatives have introduced legislation to reign in the power granted by the Patriot Act to the investigative tool known as the National Security Letter (NSL). The National Security Letters Reform Act of 2009 would return the issuing requirements of NSLs to pre-9/11 requirements. This has been hailed by the [...]

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news that makes me smile

This will warm the cockles of your heart.
Anthony Morris’s job search hit a snag this month when the Queens Borough Public Library notified him that he could not get a new library card until he paid about $80 in fines.
Mr. Morris, 31, had been unemployed for eight months and did not have the money. But [...]

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