Commenting on Barack Obama’s first week in the Oval Office, Salon’s Mike Madden noted that “with a few strokes of a pen… President Obama undid…
Rep. Bill Young (R-Florida), chiming in on the controversy over President Obama’s executive order that the Guantanamo Bay prison be shuttered within a year:
“Number…
I’m ashamed to say as of late I’ve been watching a few episodes of 24. It can’t be said enough how conservative the show is.…
Feministing has a post up about the weighty social issues the MTV show The Real World is tackling this season. The current season of the…
Says the Associated Press:
State Sen. Dennis Damon is introducing a bill to end the prohibition on gay marriage in Maine. House Republican Josh Tardy,…
Ben Smith has a good catch: during his first run for State Senate in 1996, Barack Obama responded to an issues questionnaire from Outlines, a…
You’ve probably heard by now, but in Oakland, 22-year-old Oscar Grant of Hayward, California was shot and killed by a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)…
A new study shows that old age, conservatism, and frequent attendance of religious services were the best indicators of whether someone voted for Prop 8,…
I’ve argued before that laws restricting certain types of offensive speech are a bad idea, and I think this story out of Boston is a…
The Los Angeles Times says that California Attorney General Jerry Brown is getting flak for his new theory in favor of the invalidation of Proposition…
Over at Feministe, Cara says that perhaps it’s time that people stopped blaming gays for the loss of their own rights:
I’m personally really sick…
The Economist reports on some controversy in New York’s state government regarding gay marriage. The most entertaining part is this quote from State Senator Ruben…
First Sam Nunn said Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is worth “taking another look at,” now this:
[Colin] Powell is the expected guest on CNN’s GPS…
Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the reluctant torture advocate (via Tapped):
“We don’t want to be known for torturing people. At the same time we don’t want…
One of the more interesting developments in conservative evangelicalism is the burgeoning “Creation Care” movement. Organizations like the Evangelical Environmental Network, and to a lesser…
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