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NYTimes: Desperate Dems Turn Negative To Save Weprin in Final Days

September 12, 2011 – 7:00 am

The New York Times: Panicked Democrats are releasing a barrage of negative television advertising, turning to the national party for a cash infusion and pleading with President Obama’s network of supporters for help as they confront what seemed impossible two months ago: defeat in the heavily Democratic House district last represented by Anthony D. Weiner. […]

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Video of The SSM Speech That Began Weprin's Downfall: "I am an Orthodox Jew but..."

September 10, 2011 – 12:55 pm

David Weprin delivered this speech from the New York Assembly floor on June 15th:

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Scottish Cardinal Draws Line in the Sand on Marriage

September 10, 2011 – 12:00 pm

As we reported recently the Scottish parliament is considering redefining marriage. Scottisch Cardinal O’Brien all but reads them the riot act: Cardinal Keith O’Brien will tell Scottish politicians this evening that ‘the family and marriage existed before the State and are built on the union between a man and a woman.’ The cardinal, president of […]

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One Sperm Donor, 150 Offspring

September 10, 2011 – 11:00 am

A New York Times story that reveals one of the things that happens to the next generation when we ignore the best interest of children in favor of maximizing adult desire: Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor to conceive a baby seven years ago, and they hoped that one day their son […]

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Robert Reilly on Why Real Justice Forbids SSM

September 10, 2011 – 10:00 am

Robert Reilly has worked in foreign policy, the military, and the arts. He writes in MercatorNet: “…it is no longer tolerance, but the demands of justice that seem to require legally equating homosexual marriage with heterosexual marriage, something no other civilization in recorded history has done. But before justice can be enlisted on behalf of […]

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Mark Steyn: Eternal Adolescence Lacking in Romance

September 10, 2011 – 9:00 am

Plus, culture trumps economics, he says in this Orange County Register op-ed: [Laura Ingraham in her new bestseller “Of Thee I Zing” ] opens with a lurid account of a recent visit to a north Virginia mall – zombie teens texting, a thirtysomething metrosexual having his eyebrows threaded, a fiftysomething cougar spilling out of her […]

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Trump Fights Back: Calls Weprin Protests Untruthful

September 9, 2011 – 5:39 pm

Alexis Levinson at The Daily Caller: Following reports by Democrat David Weprin’s campaign that he and others had protested Donald Trump’s endorsement of his opponent, Republican Bob Turner, in the special election to replace disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, Trump’s special counsel Michael D. Cohen called to dispute both the basis of the protest and […]

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Why is Weprin Losing Jewish Support?

September 9, 2011 – 5:06 pm

Hint — the Siena poll shows it’s not Israel, as Gawker reports: One surprise in Siena’s polling, however, is the relative importance of Israel to the race […] according to the numbers, it may be less of a factor than it seems. “I don’t see it at all,” Greenberg said, when asked about the “Israel […]

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Why The Marriage Amendment is a Plus for NC Business

September 9, 2011 – 4:17 pm

Tami Fitzgerald is the executive director of the N.C. Values Coalition, and writes in the News Observer: Groups that oppose the marriage amendment have said the amendment would discourage big corporations from locating in the state and might keep corporations from providing benefits to the partners of gay employees. Nothing could be more baseless. No […]

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Daily Kos: Dov Hikind a "Racist Homophobe" for Endorsing Turner in NY-9

September 9, 2011 – 2:45 pm

Wow. How insensitive can you get? Finally, racist homophobe Dov Hikind, who embarrassingly for us is actually a Democrat in the state Assembly, just endorsed Turner. While Hikind does have some influence (he’s got a radio show), Turner stepped all over any shot at getting this message out yesterday with his blunder at the candidate […]

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Crain's: Asian, Orthodox Jews Swing NY-9

September 9, 2011 – 2:30 pm

Crain’s New York Business reports: Congressional candidate David Weprin is facing criticism from some Orthodox Jews over his defense of same-sex marriage… … Asians, who are 9% of the electorate, could prove to be a swing vote. More than 30,000 have moved into the area since 2000, making them the fastest-growing group.

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Associated Press: Marriage an Issue in NY-9

September 9, 2011 – 2:15 pm

AP: The race to succeed former Rep. Anthony Weiner in New York’s 9th congressional district was never supposed to be close. No Republican has ever been elected to the House in the largely Democratic stronghold that covers parts of Brooklyn and Queens.But the weak national economy, disenchantment with President Barack Obama, and New York-centric clashes […]

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NC Marriage Amendment Sponsor: "This Decision Belongs to the People, Not to Me"

September 9, 2011 – 2:00 pm

The Winston-Salem Journal: Folwell is the speaker pro tem of the N.C. House. The General Assembly will reconvene next week to vote on whether to put a marriage amendment before the voters in 2012. …Folwell said he left the [town hall] meeting convinced that the ballot is the way to decide the controversy. “I had […]

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New Siena Poll: Turner Up by Six in NY-9!

September 9, 2011 – 1:40 pm

Roll Call: For Democrats who hadn’t already started to panic over Tuesday’s special election in New York’s Brooklyn- and Queens-based 9th Congressional district, now would be a good time to start. Republican Bob Turner led Democrat David Weprin by 6 points in the nonpartisan Siena College poll released this morning. … Roll Call is changing […]

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Yeshiva World "We Will Send a Message by Voting for Turner" in NY-9

September 9, 2011 – 1:30 pm

Dave Hirsch’s op-ed in the Yeshiva World: In a frantic move, Friedlander wrote a controversial opinion in the Hamodia which pleaded that Jews divorce religion upon entering the poll booth. “Recently, our community has taken a strong interest in elections and political campaigns,” he noted. “We’ve seen members of our community debating on whether to […]

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