Ellen Sturtz, the lesbian who confronted the First Lady, Michelle Obama, at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser, reportedly held at the home of a lesbian couple, has written “Why I Confronted the First Lady,” in the Washington Post. Sturtz has received everything from angry criticism – and the use of the word “heckler” plays a [...]
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Greenwald: NSA Mining Data from Google, Facebook, Apple…
Mr. Obama clearly had no intention of revealing this eavesdropping, just as he would not have acknowledged the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, had it not been reported in the press. Even then, it took him more than a year and a half to acknowledge the killing, and he is still keeping secret [...]
Obama to Republicans: Eat It
OF COURSE, Republicans aren’t the only ones to receive Obama’s presidential up yours this week. Beyond showing them who’s boss through the appointment of Susan Rice this week, President Obama’s hypocrisy meter has exploded off the charts, further alienating the national media, online and print. “Every time [President Obama] gets into trouble, he wants to [...]
Queer Talk: 52% of Bloomberg Poll Supports Marriage Equality
A new Bloomberg poll shows that 52% of Americans support marriage equality. That is more a confirmation than new information, but still significant, perhaps especially with the Supreme Court expected to announce rulings on two marriage equality cases later this month. You can see the summation of the focus on marriage equality here. To see [...]
Queer Talk: Michelle Obama Confronts GetEqual LGBT Activist
First Lady Michelle Obama met GetEqual LGBT activist Ellen Sturtz last night, and the confrontation has resulted in both receiving mixed critiques. Sturtz called for President Obama to sign an executive order which would provide job protections for LGBT workers employed as federal contractors, and for the passage of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA). Michelle [...]
Sorry, But Gov. Christie is Right
WHAT A spectacle Gov. Christie created for daring to spend money on a special election and give New Jersey voters their say in who will be their senator. Whether it’s self-interest or not, it is still the right decision. There is no legitimate reason to hold two separate elections, and the reason he’s doing it [...]
Obama Shames Republicans on D.C. Circuit Nominees
HERE WE go again. Waiting to see if the Senate’s majority rule, which actually demands a super majority of 60 votes, will be possible on Wilkins, Pillard and Millett, President Obama’s three nominees for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. As you’ll see in the remarks below, it wasn’t so much a [...]
College GOP Report is Another Wake-Up Call
The study released yesterday by the College Republican National Committee entitled, “Grand Old Party For a Brand New Generation” – a college GOP report – is another wake-up call for the Republican Party. “Wake-up call” is the term RNC Chair Reince Priebus used in describing the 2012 elections. He called for an earlier, post-election study, [...]
Marsha Blackburn Shrugs off Workplace Equality
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy THE CONVERSATION on “Meet the Press” Sunday got interesting and very revealing, with Republican Marsha Blackburn having the unmitigated gall to suggest that women’s economic equality wasn’t of prime importance. MR. AXELROD: How about pay equity laws to ensure that women are treated [...]
Frank Lautenberg Passes
Frank R. Lautenberg, who fought the alcohol and tobacco industries and promoted Amtrak as a five-term United States senator from New Jersey, died on Monday morning in Manhattan. He was 89. [New York Times] THE NEW JERSEY senator was the Senate’s last surviving veteran of World War II. Frank Lautenberg was known as a liberal. [...]
Queer Talk: Illinois House Vote on Marriage Equality Delayed [Video]
On the last day of the session, in the last hours, the much anticipated vote on marriage equality in the Illinois House was delayed. The Sun Times reports: His voice breaking with emotion, state Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chicago) tearfully said Friday that he would not call for a vote on his bill legalizing same-sex marriage [...]
Queer Talk: Virginia a “Gay Rights Battleground”
While locating a “gay rights battleground” is something most of us can do by just looking around wherever we are, this year Virginia is providing a particularly stark example, as an article at Politico noted. A gubernatorial race already defined partly along culture-war lines has grown even more contentious since … Virginia Republicans nominated as [...]
Politico Gives Wingnut Space to Attack Hillary
IN AN op-ed on Politico, a right wing bomb thrower named Keith Koffler explains “Why Democrats Might Reject Hillary Clinton in 2016.” Just for fun, here’s an excerpt: But what those who tout Clinton as a nigh unstoppable force for the 2016 Democratic nomination fail to realize is that Hillary Clinton is the most overrated [...]
Limbaugh: Obama and Christie, “Master-Servant”
It’s a master-servant relationship. That’s exactly the kind of bipartisanship that the Drive-By Media wants. Master-servant. That’s “bipartisan” That’s what’s going on here. (interruption) Master-SERVANT. Master-STAFF. Don’t take it any further than that, Snerdley. I’m not going on, going there. I’m just telling you. Obama’s got the money; Christie needs the money. “Obama wants to [...]
Gallup Poll, Vanderbilt Study Show U.S. is Leaning Left
A new Gallup Poll shows that the U.S. is leaning Left, a bit further so, in terms of “social liberalism,” and a Vanderbilt University study from earlier this year shows that Electeds, both Republican and Democratic, overestimate the conservative leanings of their constituents. From Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs poll: Forty-one percent of Americans now [...]
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