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May 23, 2012 02:26 pm | Breaking News
President Obama’s literary agent is not the only one who was confused over the politician’s birthplace. The U.S. government is on record questioning President Obama’s citizenship status as early as when he was 5 years old, stating it lacked documentation… Continue to Post

May 23, 2012 02:21 pm | Daniel Noe


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May 23, 2012 02:10 pm | Tom Ballantyne Jr.
Let’s get a few things straight here.  As much as we all loved Andrew Breitbart’s moxie, he, like virtually every other national Conservative who was or is a part of the “establishment” (read, those who have established themselves financially, and… Continue to Post

May 23, 2012 02:09 pm | Kris Zane


May 23, 2012 02:07 pm | Derrick Hollenbeck
Democrats know that their supporters are generally not very smart. They know that to get their base to remember and understand a point, they have to reduce it to a “four legs: good, two legs: bad” mantra. In recent years,… Continue to Post

May 23, 2012 02:05 pm | Kris Zane


May 23, 2012 02:01 pm | Susan Stamper Brown
It could be said that a narcissist’s best friend is the reflection he sees of himself in the mirror. No other relationship comes close — unless the narcissist has the unique opportunity to meet another version of himself, which happened… Continue to Post

May 23, 2012 01:55 pm | Ron Arnold
In a scorching showdown letter dated May 10, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan demanded that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson surrender documents she doesn’t want made public. The seething but… Continue to Post

May 23, 2012 01:54 pm | Daniel Noe


May 23, 2012 01:49 pm | Breaking News
Appearing as a guest on Tuesday’s The O’Reilly Factor to promote his book, Exit Interview, former ABC News president David Westin denied seeing a liberal bias among his colleagues when he was head of ABC News, and, when confronted by… Continue to Post

May 23, 2012 01:41 pm | Bruce Karlson
Cory Booker’s comments regarding Barack Obama’s attacks on Bain Capital were, for him, a “twofer.”  I think he believes in the system and understands that profits are not evil. He is hardly a full throated capitalist but cannot buy into… Continue to Post

May 23, 2012 01:31 pm | Michael J. Nellett
What happens when you overdraw your checking account at your bank or credit union? You pay a penalty (overdraft fee), and any other checks you wrote after that are all going to bounce. The result is a lot more wasted… Continue to Post

May 23, 2012 01:21 pm | Breaking News
Super lawyer Gloria Allred cares more about cameras than clients, according to the buxom banker who sued after getting canned by Citigroup, allegedly because her assets were a distraction to co-workers. Debrahlee Lorenzana, who was fired in 2010, said Allred… Continue to Post

May 23, 2012 01:16 pm | Daniel Noe


May 23, 2012 01:06 pm | Breaking News
Democrats have been having a field day with the cry of “tax cuts for the rich” — for which Republicans seem to have no reply. This is especially surprising, because Democrats made the same arguments back in the 1920s, and… Continue to Post

May 23, 2012 12:43 pm | Breaking News
The White House has apparently undermined the secrecy that protects U.S. anti-jihadi operations because it wants to aid Hollywood’s quick production of a movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden, according to a statement from Rep. Peter King, chairman… Continue to Post

May 23, 2012 11:49 am | Breaking News
MADISON — While a lightning rod for controversy and recall, Wisconsin’s Act 10 has paid significant dividends to taxpayers, according to a new analysis by the Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research, at Suffolk University in Boston. Act 10,… Continue to Post

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Strong Support for Gay Marriage Now Exceeds Strong Opposition

By Damla Ergun

Strong public support for same-sex marriage exceeds strong opposition by a significant margin for the first time in ABC News/Washington Post polls, and African-Americans have moved more in favor, perhaps taking their lead from Barack Obama on the issue.
Overall, 53 percent of Americans say gay marriage should be legal, steady the past year but up from 36 percent in just 2006. Thirty-nine percent "strongly" support it, while 32 percent are strongly opposed - the first time strong sentiment has tilted positive. Six years ago, by contrast, strong views on the issue were negative by a broad 27-point margin.
Further, this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates, finds that support for gay marriage has reached a new high among African-Americans in ABC/Post polls, up from four in 10 in recent surveys to 59 percent now.
Another result shows increasing exposure: Seventy-one percent of Americans now say they have a friend, family member or acquaintance who's gay, up from 59 percent in 1998. People who know someone who's gay are 20 points more likely than others to support gay marriage.
Regardless of that shift, Obama's May 9 announcement of his support for gay marriage shows no measurable impact on political preferences. While more support than oppose his position, 51-41 percent, Americans divide on whether it's a political plus or minus, with most saying it's not a major factor in their vote choice.
SUPPORT - Support for gay marriage reached a majority for the first time in an ABC/Post poll in March 2011 and has held there since, at 51 to 53 percent. Strong support has been essentially at parity with strong opposition across that time, a shift from previous years.
In this poll, though, strong opposition to gay marriage is at a new low in polls since 2004, while strong support is at a numerical high, producing a 7-point positive gap.
Notably among groups, 59 percent of African-Americans in this survey express support for gay marriage - up from 41 percent in combined ABC/Post polls this spring and last summer. Likewise, 65 percent support Obama's new position on the issue. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced its support for gay marriage last weekend. 
Fewer whites, 46 percent, approve of Obama's announcement, and 50 percent support gay marriage - numerically (albeit not statistically significantly) the fewest since 2010.
VOTE and GROUPS - While 20 percent see the issue as a major reason to support Obama, about as many, 23 percent, call it a major reason to oppose him, both among groups that look likely to have supported or opposed him anyway. Fifty-five percent say it's not a major factor.
Even among those who approve of the president's support for the issue, nearly six in 10 say it's not an important factor in their vote; 38 percent call it a major reason to support him. More of those who disapprove of his position, half, call it a major reason to oppose him in the election.
Sharp differences among groups persist. Republicans and conservatives oppose gay marriage by more than 2-1, evangelical white Protestants by more than 3-1. While Democrats support it by more than 2-1, the balance is tipped, as is often the case, by independents: Fifty-eight percent support legalizing gay marriage; 43 percent do so strongly.
Among other groups, support for gay marriage reaches 69 percent among adults under age 30 (with 51 percent "strong" support), compared with just 38 percent of seniors. (Half of seniors are strongly opposed). Support is also 14 points higher among college graduates than among non-graduates, 63 to 49 percent. But it's the same, 53 percent, among men and women alike.
FRIEND/FAMILY - As noted, seven in 10 Americans report having a friend, family member or acquaintance who is gay or lesbian. They're much more apt to support gay marriage (59 percent, vs. 39 percent of those who don't know someone who is gay) and also to approve of the president's position on the issue (56 percent, vs. 39 percent of others).
As with support for gay marriage, knowing someone who's gay is notably high among young adults and people with college degrees, 80 percent in each group. It's higher among women than men, 76 vs. 66 percent. Broad majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents (65, 71 and 76 percent, respectively) also report having a friend, family member or acquaintance who is gay. It's 56 percent each, by contrast, among blacks and seniors.
STATE vs. FED - Obama said he supports gay marriage personally but believes the states should decide on its legality; on that the public splits about evenly, with 49 percent favoring state control vs. 46 percent who'd prefer to have the federal government make the rules.
Support for federal legislation is higher (57 percent) among proponents of gay marriage; among those who oppose gay marriage, the same share, 57 percent, prefer state rule. Thirty states have constitutionally banned gay marriage; eight (plus Washington, D.C.) have legalized it (including two in which those laws are yet to take effect).
Political divisions follow, with Republicans 23 points more apt to back state rather than federal rule, Democrats 14 points more likely to favor a single federal law - and independents roughly divided, 50-45 percent, state-federal.
METHODOLOGY - This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone May 17-20, 2012, among a random national sample of 1,004 adults, including landline and cell-phone-only respondents. Results have a margin of sampling error of 3.5 points for the full sample. The survey was produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates of New York, N.Y., with sampling, data collection and tabulation by Abt-SRBI of New York, N.Y.
Analysis by Damla Ergun and Gary Langer.
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Local Governments Have the Power to Restrict Drone Surveillance in the U.S.

The Federal Aviation Administration estimates that there may be as many as 30,000 drones in the U.S. by the year 2020. The FAA's loosened restrictions -- coupled with the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice issuing grants for local police forces to buy unmanned aircraft -- means it's imperative that local governments act swiftly to ban surveillance drones outright or institute robust safeguards for their citizens. Americans cannot afford to wait for the FAA or Congress to act.

The Netherlands Passes Net Neutrality Legislation

New legislation in the Netherlands makes it the first country in Europe to establish a legal framework supporting net neutrality. Additionally, the law contains language that restricts when ISPs can wiretap their users, and limits the circumstances under which ISPs can cut off a subscriber's Internet access altogether. The Dutch law comes after vigorous campaigning by civil society groups, including influential digital rights group Bits of Freedom.

U.S. Law Professors Cast Further Doubt on ACTA's Constitutionality as State Department Confirms No Pre-Review

Fifty leading U.S. legal scholars have cast fresh doubt on the constitutionality of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in an open letter to the Senate Finance Committee. At issue is whether the Office of the United States Trade Representative had authority to enter into the controversial IP enforcement agreement on behalf of the United States when the Deputy U.S. Trade Ambassador signed ACTA in October 2011. The law professors say no, and call on the Senators to "exercise your constitutional responsibility to ensure that ACTA is submitted to the Senate for approval as an Article II treaty, or to the Congress as an ex-post Congressional-Executive Agreement."

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Under a new privacy policy, Twitter will be suggesting accounts for Twitter users to follow based on data collected from an individual's browsing habits on websites that have embedded Twitter buttons. While this is sure to garner scrutiny from the press and public, Twitter is also taking a pioneering step toward respecting users' privacy choices: it has committed to respecting Do Not Track -- a simple browser setting users can turn on to tell website they don’t want to be tracked.
According to a recent investigation by the Swedish news show Uppdrag Granskning, Sweden's telecommunications giant Teliasonera is the latest Western company revealed to be colluding with authoritarian regimes by selling them high-tech surveillance gear to spy on its citizens. Teliasonera has allegedly enabled the governments of Belarus, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Georgia and Kazakhstan to spy on journalists, union leaders, and members of the political opposition.
This December, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will hold the World Conference on International Telecommunications, an all-important treaty-writing event where ITU Member States will discuss the proposed revisions to the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR). But media reports indicate that some proposed amendments to the ITR -- a negotiation that is already well underway -- could potentially expand the ITU's mandate to encompass the Internet.
Iran continues its march towards a "Halal Internet"; Ustream underscores its commitment to freedom of expression and responds to a crippling DDoS attack of expression and adding a Russian-language option; and a Brazilian newspaper uses trademark law to silence a parody website.

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The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether plaintiffs represented by the ACLU have the right to challenge the constitutionality of a controversial law that authorizes the National Security Agency to conduct dragnet surveillance of Americans' international emails and phone calls.
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