No proof same-sex unions will damage marriage as a brand - Straits Times
24 May 2012, 4:13 pm
However, there is no evidence or argument that same-sex marriages will damage the marriage brand. It will lead to financial gain for the newly enfranchised participants, but not at the expense of the previous participants. The only argument that can ...

Pledge to fix roads in Moree sets aspiring PM on path to Canberra - Fairfield City Champion
23 May 2012, 11:27 am
While the 1967 referendum overwhelmingly endorsed removing discrimination against Aboriginal people from the constitution, it was an amendment to the electoral act five years earlier that enfranchised indigenous people.

Opposition voiced to giving vote to inmates - scotsman.com
22 May 2012, 7:21 pm
However, the court signalled the UK government could decide which prisoners should be enfranchised, meaning serious offenders such as murderers and rapists could be excluded. A Scottish Government spokeswoman said yesterday that Westminster remained in ...

Prisoners must be given right to vote, European court rules - Democratic Underground.com
22 May 2012, 11:29 am
Prisoners in the UK must be given the right to vote, the European court of human rights (ECHR) has ruled, though ministers may determine which inmates should be enfranchised. The appeals section of the Strasbourg court reaffirmed its decision ...

Prisoners must be given the vote in UK, European court rules - Daily Telegraph
22 May 2012, 9:55 am
However, the court signalled that the UK government could decide which prisoners should be enfranchised, meaning serious offenders such as murderers and rapists could be excluded. Judges may even be handed discretion to decide which criminals are allowed the vote.

This Day in History - May 19 - Jamaica Observer
19 May 2012, 2:35 am
1916: Britain introduces Daylight Saving Time, originally called "summer time". 1930: White women are enfranchised in South Africa. 1962: Actress Marilyn Monroe performs a rendition of Happy Birthday for US President John F Kennedy during a fund-raiser at ...

Pop at the pictures: Teenage flicks - The Guardian
16 May 2012, 8:15 am
The shots of young women at typewriters or haunting record shops – with their listening booths and 78s, this may elicit a pang of nostalgia among older readers – show a generation that feels more confident, even partially enfranchised in the ...

Babes of the world unite - Times of Malta
16 May 2012, 3:58 am
News still trying to be conceived A spokesman for the +9 Gift of Life foundation has declared that all unborn babies, conceived both in vitro and out of vitro, will be enfranchised. This will make it even easier for the fetuses of the world to be accepted as humans.

It doesn’t always get “better” - DISCOVER
16 May 2012, 12:51 am
A racial qualification is necessary because in some northern states the Democrats simultaneously enfranchised white males of modest means, and explicitly disenfranchised the small number of non-whites who had obtained enough property so as to vote in earlier elections.

Masterfully performed, 'Ears on a Beatle' is a powerful play - Great Falls Tribune
11 May 2012, 5:51 am
"Tricky Dicky" is worried that Lennon's anti-war movement could influence enough newly enfranchised 18-year-old voters that Nixon might lose his 1972 re-election attempt. Ballantine is a gruff, seasoned agent who was involved in many high ...