Brian Powell
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Safety was becoming an issue ... The mound was pretty bad; in the late going it was hard for the pitchers to get traction. For safety and the betterment of the game, I thought we should stop. It was a close game at 6-4 in the second inning, then everyone started to struggle.
What's ironic is that all the anti-gay rhetoric increased support for same-sex marriageMore quotes »
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Brian Powell: NY Daily News Defends NYPD's 'Stop-And-Frisk' Policy, Warns 'The Body Count Will Start Rising'
"You think rising cell phone thefts are bad? Wait till car thefts soar back over 100,000 a year. Wait till you start hearing about mushrooms and learn that the word refers to children who have been struck by stray bullets." So opined the editorial board from Media Matters for America Read more »
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Brian Powell: The New Hampshire Union Leader Pushes For Voter ID Law By Citing Discredited Liar James O'Keefe
The Union Leader, New Hampshire's most-read newspaper, published an editorial yesterday urging the state House of Representatives and the Governor to approve SB 289, a bill passed by the state senate that would require voters to show photo identification from Media Matters for America Read more »
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Brian Powell: CNN Demonstrates The Importance Of "Providing Context" When Hosting Tony Perkins
In the wake of President Obama's declaration of support for marriage equality and the passage of North Carolina's anti-gay marriage amendment, CNN broadcast a variety of segments focusing on the historic implications of this week's events. Three of CNN's from Media Matters for America Read more »
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Obama's support for gay marriage was inevitable
President Obama's announcement Wednesday that he was done "evolving" and now supports same-sex marriage was, in retrospect, inevitable. Vice President Joe Biden made it so Sunday, when he remarked almost casually that he had grown "comfortable" with gay from Oregon Live Read more »
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katejb published Death of former Dover county councillor Brian Powell
Brian Powell, former Kent County Council's chief educational officer for the Dover division, died on Sunday (6th) after a long illness. In his post he was responsible for many primary and secondary schools in Dover and Deal during times of proposed wide- from Kent Online Read more »
