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House Bill 2673 has cleared the Oregon House on a 37-23 vote. The Bill allows people with birth certificates issued in the state to be updated in a private interaction with the Oregon Health Authority, allowing people to avoid public paper trails and court involvement.

I don't watch a whole lot of TV. But this morning, I was in a place where CNN was on and I watched a Virginia Repub congressman, who is on the House Budget Committee, talk about voting against the healthcare bill (Trumpcare, if we must).

I wasn't surprised by the fact that he's voting against the bill. He says it doesn't go far enough. I suspect he means that it doesn't go far enough to further enrich and keep the rich alive, while the middle class and poor can pray.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is the most powerful man in the world.
How do I know that? CNN said so.
Not only that, Vladimir Putin has a plan for destroying the West—and that plan looks a lot like Donald Trump.

“We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals…. And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it.”

~ President Donald Trump

The employment report on Friday was without a doubt a blowout success.

Based on the exit polls, the xenophobic, right-wing PVV will NOT be winning today's election in Netherlands.
However, the center-left didn't do all that well either.

are closer to temporary safety than this family pictured last week.

An Iraqi special forces soldier helps a family carry their child to cross from Islamic State controlled part of Mosul to Iraqi forces controlled part of Mosul, Iraq, March 4, 2017. Picture taken March 4, 2017. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – RTS11IXU

Dave Garcia is Director of Policy and Community Building at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. On Monday, March 6, he spoke out about the Supreme Court choosing not to address the rights of Gavin Grimm.