After getting a ticket for driving the wrong way on the freeway, Andy Magee figured it would be easy to explain that it was all a mistake. "I had an honest but perhaps naive idea that this would be resolved in five minutes," Magee said last week.

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The Republican Party put an inordinate amount of faith in Norm Coleman's long-shot legal challenge, spending a million bucks on the idea that he'd catch a break in court.

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Prop 8: Who To Blame and What To Do Now?

The California Supreme Court's decision to uphold Proposition 8 should come as a surprise to no one. I wasn't surprised, although if Iowa taught us one thing it's that anything is possible. There was a lot of anger after the decision came down and rightfully so.

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A once-prominent art dealer was arrested on Thursday on an indictment charging that he stole $88 million from investors, collectors and artists who had consigned paintings and sculpture to his Upper East Side gallery, the authorities said...

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(AP) State Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders says he was speaking his conscience when he stood up and yelled "tyrant!" at U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey last week, during a speech in which Mukasey later fainted.

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California doctors who have religious objections to gays and lesbians must nevertheless treat them the same as any other patient or find a colleague in the office who will do so, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday.

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Now California statutes limiting institution to opposite-sex couples 'unconstitutional'

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Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) is the state's largest and most powerful business lobby, but in recent years WMC has become much more than that. To the dismay of some of its own members, the group has taken a very deliberate partisan turn to the right.

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On January 1, 2008, residents of Northern Virginia began paying seven new taxes that will raise $326 million a year.

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