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As Gay Population Rallies Behind Lady Gaga, Pop Star Returns Favor
As LGBT supporters rally behind Lady Gaga’s rising superstardom, the international pop sensation has been quick to return the favor.
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, more commonly known as Lady Gaga, has been considered by many to be the next superstar. After becoming the first artist to achieve four Billboard #1 hits from a debut album – with “Just Dance,” “Poker Face,” “LoveGame,” and “Paparazzi,” all from her album, “The Fame” – Lady Gaga is now poised to release her sophomore album, “The Fame: Monster,” next week. The lead single, “Bad Romance,” is currently number one on iTunes, and the eight-track album is anticipated by her fans with massive excitement.
Lady Gaga has grown exponentially in fame since the release of “The Fame” back in August of last year, which has sold 3 million copies worldwide, garnering the pop star 61 award nominations and 20 awards. With the release of …
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After Meager Turnouts, Fear of Apathy Among Young Surges
Young voters (18-29), who made up 18% of the electorate in 2008, supported Democrat Presidential Candidate Barack Obama by a margin of 66-32%, helping to propel him to victory over Republican opponent John McCain. One year later, young voters again made up 18% of the electorate, but the returns at the end of the night showed a very different outcome.
In both Virginia and New Jersey, Republicans won the gubernatorial elections by significant margins; Republican Bob McDonnell won 58% of the vote in Virginia to Democrat Creigh Deeds’ 41%, and challenger Chris Christie won 49% of the vote in New Jersey to oust incumbent governor Jon Corzine, who took 44.5% of the vote.
Exit polling in both states suggest that turnout among younger voters was way down from 2008. In Virginia, voters under the age of 30 made up just 10% of those who voted, compared with last year’s 21%. New Jersey …
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Pick Me, Mr. Baucus!
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus needs a lesson in crafting a bill that will get wide-enough support to actually get passed in the Senate without catering to the demands of Republicans who have no intention of voting for the bill anyway. And apparently I’m just the person to give said lesson.
Here’s the thing: because you know (don’t act like this is a surprise) that none of the Republicans are going to vote for the bill no matter what, you don’t need to make them any concessions. That’s the problem with the bill Baucus just made public today: it was a bipartisan bill without bipartisan support. And because it was so bipartisan (read: contorted to match the demands of stubborn Republicans), even some of the Democrats don’t want to vote for it. That’s not how you get a bill passed. Since none of the Republicans are going to vote for it, the …
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I Think We All Agree With Obama on This One
Obama got in a wee bit of trouble this week when he told ABC’s Terry Moran - off the record, which apparently didn’t stop Terry from tweeting it all (which has journalistic implications I don’t even want to think about right now) – that Kanye West was acting like a “jackass” when he stole the microphone from VMA winner Taylor Swift to tell the audience, and all of America, that Beyonce’s video was better.
Unspoken rules of presidential politeness aside, does anyone actually disagree with Obama? Like, does anyone here not think that Kanye was a jackass? A complete, total, obnoxious jackass? I don’t particularly like Taylor Swift’s music, but to steal the microphone from someone accepting an award to proclaim to the world that they didn’t deserve it is just unacceptable. (Of course, props have to go to Beyonce for bringing Ms. Swift back on during her own acceptance speech so that Swift …
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Scientists May Have Inroad to HIV Vaccine
I’ll be careful in reporting this, because journalists have been known to exaggerate advances in the sciences, particularly in the medical field. But a group of scientists in California have isolated two antibodies, known as PG9 and PG16, which in some patients have been able to stop various HIV strains from multiplying and progressing to the severe disease AIDS, reaffirming the belief that an HIV vaccine is possible. From the LA Times:
A team based at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla reports today in the journal Science that they have isolated two so-called broadly neutralizing antibodies that can block the action of many strains of HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS… the antibodies target a portion of HIV that researchers had not considered in their search for a vaccine. Moreover, the target is a relatively stable portion of the virus that does not participate in the extensive mutations
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