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Boy Scouts proposal would lift ban on gay youths
The Boy Scouts of America announced Friday a proposal to allow gay youths to join the program, a move that, if approved, would mark a dramatic shift for one of the nation's oldest and most traditional youth organizations. The proposal, which would...Tags: Google+, Illegal Immigrants, Clubs and Associations, Religious Events, Mitt Romney
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Santa Monica wins Eliasson sculpture; awaits a much bigger one
Santa Monica will soon be sporting a new piece of civic art by Olafur Eliasson, and while it’s on a considerably less massive scale than the giant temporary waterfalls the Danish-Icelandic artist installed along the East River in New York City as...
Tags: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York City, Arts and Culture, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Arts
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Gun control backers consider strategy after Senate defeat
WASHINGTON — Supporters of stricter gun laws have organization, money and — after the Senate blocked an expansion of background-check requirements — fury. What they don't have is a clear path to changing the political arithmetic of the...
Tags: Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Parties and Movements, Same-Sex Marriage, John McCain, Barack Obama
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Swift, hopeful reaction to immigration bill
WASHINGTON – An eagerly awaited immigration overhaul from a bipartisan group of senators arrived early Wednesday, an 844-page bill that both the political left and right now see as the best chance in decades to achieve fix a broken immigration...
Tags: Rupert Murdoch, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Parties and Movements, Bob Menendez, Human Interest
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Proposed soda ban likely to backfire, study finds
After New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg unveiled his plan to ban the sale of sodas larger than 16 ounces, comedian Jon Stewart complained that the proposal "combines the draconian government overreach people love with the probable lack of results they...
Tags: Cornell University, Consumers, Science and Technology, New York City, The Daily Show (tv program)
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Letters: Misspent school money
Re "Diverse donors unite for school changes," April 15 I have 36 fifth-graders packed into a classroom with the same battered chairs and desks that have been in the room for 18 years, and no doubt several years before me. Maybe this assorted bunch of...
Tags: Elections, Politics
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In Senate gun control vote, tyranny of the minority
"We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone." — National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, in testimony before the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Labor Legislation, Annapolis, Firearms, Gabrielle Giffords
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Senate rejects gun background check measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...
Tags: Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Laws, Parties and Movements, Gabrielle Giffords, John McCain
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US arms control advocates must show they like guns
NEW YORK (AP) — Lobbying for gun control in the United States often means proving how much you like firearms. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose state recently passed some of the strictest gun control measures in the country, often reminds people...
Tags: U.S. Congress, White House, New York City, Firearms, Gabrielle Giffords
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Beat the zealots on immigration reform, then gun control
On Tuesday, I wrote about two senators’ bipartisan plan to expand background checks on gun buyers, saying it was a common-sense measure and should pass. On Wednesday, its sponsors -- Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, an NRA member,...Tags: U.S. Congress, Patrick J. Toomey, Rupert Murdoch, Labor Legislation, Parties and Movements
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Senate blocks expanded gun sale background checks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans, backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats, turned away legislation Wednesday to tighten restrictions on the sale of firearms, rejecting repeated appeals from President Barack Obama and personal pleas by...Tags: Washington, DC, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Laws, John McCain, Barack Obama
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Gun control group goes after Rubio with new ad
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelWASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio — and his presidential ambitions — are the targets of a new attack ad running in Florida this week that looks to pressure the Florida Republican on his gun stance. The ad, seen here, accuses the...
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