- Ohio: SB 5 Includes Anti-Gay Marriage Language
- The Ohio Legislature has already passed a gay marriage ban, AND a referendum put a gay marriage ban in the Constitution in the Bush-Kerry year of 2004. I guess Ohio Republicans would tell you this redundancy was needed because the State Supreme Court limited the impact on parenting and custody relationships. So that necessitated this language. In an anti-union bill. I guess Ohio Republicans are really anti-union!
- Abuse women, but don’t insult your boss
- That seems to be the rule in Hollywood, writes David Carr in the NYT. He serves up the example of Charlie Sheen, star of the popular TV show "Two and a Half Men," which has been put on hiatus. During its eight years, two wives and a paid escort have accused Sheen of abusing them physically and threatening to kill them.
- Arab-American Student Sues FBI Over GPS Tracking Device | TPMMuckraker
- Affifi, an American-born business marketing major at Mission College in Santa Clara, was concerned the black, rectangular device a mechanic found on his vehicle might have been a pipe bomb, according to the lawsuit.
So he did what most college students would do: crowd-sourced his detective work by posting photos of the device on Reddit.com.
…several agents showed up at Affifi's California apartment just a couple days after the photos were posted. Affifi alleges that the unknown agents in three unmarked vehicles subjected him to a hostile interrogation in a "bizarre mission to retrieve the device" and did not honor his request for the immediate presence of his counsel.
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- With One-Vote Margin, Ohio State Senate Passes SB 5 | TPMDC
- The Ohio State Senate just passed the controversial SB 5, aimed a limiting unionized state employees' ability to collectively bargain or go on strike…
Democrats united against the bill, and they needed seven Republican members to join with them to stop it. In the end they got six.
Pushing the bill through the Senate has been tough for supporters of the plan, with the Republican leader of the state Senate removing two Republicans opposed to the measure to get the bill to the Senate floor today.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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