“I’m going to challenge this at the Supreme Court.” – Senator Rand Paul NOTHING inspires libertarians to act out more than a federal government overstepping its authority, with Sen. Rand Paul making quite a statement on Fox News Sunday. I wrote the other day that President Obama’s invasive, extra-constitutional, anti civil liberties snooping was igniting [...]
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Obama Claims Congress Knew About Prism
“The programs are secret in the sense that they are classified. They are not secret, in that every member of Congress has been briefed… These are programs that have been authored by large bipartisan majorities repeatedly since 2006… Your duly elected representatives have consistently been informed.” – President Obama ON FRIDAY, President Obama made a [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
IRS Targeted Conservatives, Obama Not Involved
“I don’t believe this was something thought up in the Cincinnati office, but I have no evidence that goes to the White House.” – Senator Lindsay Graham THE PRESIDENT isn’t the great and powerful Oz, no matter who he is, which should be instructive for conservatives. That it won’t be is clear whenever Rep. Darrell [...]
Candy Crowley and Darrell Issa’s Gut [Video]
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy WHAT is Darrell Issa’s gut telling him and when did it speak up? We heard from it on Sunday when CNN veteran journalist Candy Crowley asked it what it was thinking. Lawrence O’Donnell proves why the elite media in Washington and New York [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Queer Talk: Michele Bachmann, “Outlandish” Comments on The Gays
Think Progress has a list of “The 8 Most Outlandish Moments Of Michele Bachmann’s Time In Congress,” which includes comments on the gays and lesbians, and no doubt encompassed the bisexual and transgender folks, too. Annie-Rose Strasser’s collection of outlandish moments runs the gamut, from Bachmann’s promotion of a “dangerous anti-vaccine conspiracy,” to her insistence [...]
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 [...]
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