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washingtonmonthly.com - 10/23/2009
Coburn reaches out to those he loathes
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COBURN REACHES OUT TO THOSE HE LOATHES.... How desperate is Tom Coburn to derail health care reform? He's willing to reach out to the LGBT community. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) penned an op-ed for the online version of the LGBT...
blogs.dailymail.com - 10/29/2009
Your tax dollars used against you
— blogs.dailymail.com — Sometimes, it is best for the Media Gatekeeper (really, that is what they teach in J-school; we... are the Gatekeepers) to just leave the gate open and let the townspeople roam freely over the information. It is truly the vision newspaper publisher E.W. ... (more) Your tax dollars used against you

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thehill.com - 10/20/2009
Coburn pens op-ed for LGBT mag pressing case against health reform
— thehill.com — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) took to the website of a national gay and lesbian newsmagazine to make... the case against health reform proposals before Congress. Coburn penned an op-ed for the online version of the LGBT magazine The Advocate posted Monday ... (more) Coburn pens op-ed for LGBT mag pressing case against ...

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Just How Relevant Is Political Science?
nytimes.com - 10/20/2009
Just How Relevant Is Political Science?
— nytimes.com — After Senator Tom Coburn , Republican of Oklahoma, this month proposed prohibiting the National Science Foundation from... “wasting any federal research funding on political science projects,” political scientists rallied in opposition, pointing out that ... (more) Just How Relevant Is Political Science?

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The New Republic blogs:  Tom Coburn: An Unwitting Cog of the Gay Agenda

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Tom Coburn: An Unwitting Cog of the Gay Agenda
The New Republic blogs — ... doing exactly that, and in the digital pages of the country s leading gay news magazine no less (full disclosure: I am a contributing writer to the Advocate ). When I first reported on GOProud back in April, some of the disgruntled Log Cabinites I spoke to warned that enemies of gay rights would use the organization as a convenient cover for their anti-gay political agenda. Liberals are making just that point about the Advocate piece, with the Washington Monthly s Steve Benen arguing that Coburn is arguably the single most anti-LGBT lawmaker in Congress. Yet if there ...

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