A CA measure to create an online poker monopoly has failed.
After watching various interests fight over how to extract the most money from poker players - including a provision to criminalize play on unlicensed sites - the Poker Players Alliance came out in opposition to the bill. Poker players support fair legislation, not punitive taxation.
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http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_c=yybx4t7vqrpu75&xid=yybe3z50fbto8y&done=.yybx4t7vqseu75
Turkey's attempts to mediate Iran's nuclear standoff with the West have evolved into an aggressive effort to forestall new U.N. sanctions.
The assertive campaign is placing Turkey in opposition to longtime allies Israel and the United States.
It also raises the question of whether NATO's only Muslim member is becoming less of a bridge between East
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hmIfrQuYXHTDQ5ni_t3dGYgr9NXQD9FU3KGO0
You name it, the right has opposed it: civil rights, school desegregation, womens rights, labor organizing, the minimum wage, social security, LGBT rights, welfare, immigrant rights, public education, reproductive rights, Medicare, Medicaid.
And through the years the right invoked hysterical rhetoric in opposition...
Source:
http://www.truthout.org/republicans-and-tea-party-no59519
The health-insurance industry has shifted focus in the wake of the reform bill's passage, pivoting from opposition to making sure the new law succeeds beyond most expectations.
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1974757,00.html
Much of what is now called conservatism is nothing but right-wing liberalism.
Conservatism is not opposition to homosexual marriage or abortion or premarital sex or post-modernism or socialism. It is not fundamentalism, six-day creationism, Republicanism, or even the commitment to spread democracy.
Source:
http://www.oregoncatalyst.com/index.php/archives/3045-What-Conservatism-Is-and-Isnt.html
