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NAACP Endorses Marriage Equality 'Unequivocally'
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 5:22 PM EDT (Gawker)
Today marks another step forward — and trouble for the National Organization of Marriage's plan to drive a wedge between LGBT voters and black voters. The NAACP has endorsed marriage equality, as first reported by Senior Vice President Maxim Thorne on Twitter. The NAACP Boar …
Once again, Arizona is the nation's laughingstock
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 4:50 PM EDT (The Arizona Republic)
By Laurie Roberts, columnist, The Arizona Republic -- Cue Secretary of State Ken Bennett: "I'm not a birther. I believe the president was born in Hawaii or at least I hope he was. But my responsibility as secretary of state is to make sure that the ballots in Arizona are correc …
Forget the apology to Trayvon Martin's parents, Geraldo Rivera once again blames hoodie 'thug wear' for shooting (Video)
Sat May 19, 2012 4:15 PM EDT
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'I owe the Gay Community an apology': Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, noted psychiatrist, recants study on Gay 'cure'
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 3:04 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, considered by some to be the father of modern psychiatry, lay awake at 4 o'clock on a recent morning knowing he had to do the one thing that comes least naturally to him. He pushed himself up and staggered into the dark. His desk seemed impossibly far aw …
Fox News Tea Party Panel Asks: Is Rep. Allen West Is Too Moderate?
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 2:55 PM EDT ()
The 2012 elections are not just a challenge for incumbent President Obama, but for a number of freshmen Congressmen swept into the House of Representatives by the Tea Party movement in 2010. On Fox News today, anchor Uma Pemmaraju hosted a panel featuring Tea Party Express le …
Maine the least religious American state, Utah the most; Salt Lake City the most religious city, Portland, Oregon the least
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 11:07 AM EDT (Bangor Daily News and The Salt Lake Tribune)
Maine has fewer residents who claim a religious affiliation than any other state in the union. The Pine Tree State is the only one in the country in which less than 30 percent of the population belong to a religious denomination or independent Christian church, according to a c …
Rush Limbaugh: The Fact That Not 'Everybody Knows That Obama Did Cocaine' Shows 'That Obama Wasn't Vetted'
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 10:30 AM EDT (Media Matters for America)
From the May 18 edition of Premiere Radio's Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
The Only True Way to Save Marriage From Obama
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 7:37 AM EDT (Truthdig)
By Joe Conason: For honoring his conscience on the issue of marriage equality, President Obama earned angry rebukes from all quarters on the right...In this historic moment for human rights, listening to the likes of Ailes (now on his third marriage) and Limbaugh (currently ma …
Fox News Finds Another Poll To Distort - Its Own: Broadcaster Downplays Finding That If Election Were Held Today, Obama Would Win
Seeded on Sat May 19, 2012 7:19 AM EDT (Media Matters for America)
Fox News is attempting to downplay and discredit its own poll, which found that if the election were held today, voters would re-elect President Obama by a 7-point margin. This is hardly the first time Fox has tried to distort poll findings to advance a certain narrative. Fox …
Romney Sounding Like Cheney on Foreign Policy
Sat May 19, 2012 6:48 AM EDT
Chris Matthews talks with the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson and The Atlantic's Steve Clemons about whether or not Mitt Romney has a clear foreign policy.
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GOP Mississippi State Rep Condemns Gays To Death, Claims They Harm Children, Spread Disease
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 5:07 PM EDT (Think Progress)
Mississippi state Rep. Andy Gipson (R) has attacked gays on his Facebook wall, calling homosexuality a sin and citing Leviticus 20:13, which calls for people who are gay to be put to death. In a follow-up post, he defended his remarks, adding claims that homosexuality is …
Virginia Lawmaker And Senate Candidate: 'Sodomy Not a Civil Right'
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 3:55 PM EDT (Crooks and Liars)
During an interview on CNN with Republican Virginia state delegate Robert Marshall, host Brooke Baldwin compared the struggle for LGBT rights to discrimination against African Americans and asked the lawmaker why he voted to block Richmond prosecutor Tracy Thorne-Begland from b …
Study: Increased Equality For Women And African-Americans Has Boosted U.S. Productivity
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 3:44 PM EDT (Think Progress)
One study by four economists even found that expanding opportunities for women and African Americans over the last 50 years has offered a serious boost to U.S. productivity growth: Fairness, they contend, has made the economy more productive. Chang-Tai Hsieh, Erik Hurst, Charl …
Wendell Potter: Sarah Palin's rhetoric torpedoed Medicare savings
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 3:08 PM EDT (The Center for Public Integrity)
By Wendell Potter - The Affordable Care Act might havebeen able to curtail spending further if it hadn’t been for Sarah Palin’s reckless rhetoric. It was Palin who charged that a provision of the law allowing Medicare to pay doctors for having end-of-life discussion …
House Republican Plan to Overhaul Medicare Opposed by Original Advocate
Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 2:48 PM EDT (Center for American Progress)
One of the original advocates of overhauling Medicare by providing direct but limited government support to individual patients says the current House Republican plan that includes this provision should be rejected by Congress. In a hearing before the House Ways and Means Comm …
Pat Robertson: Destroy Your Friend's Buddha Statue (Video)
Thu May 17, 2012 6:00 PM EDT
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Anti-Choice Group, Susan B. Anthony List, Compares Obama's America To Totalitarian State (VIDEO)
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 5:51 PM EDT (Wonkette » top)
The Susan B. Anthony List, the self-declared “nerve center” of the pro-life movement, has decided that the Obama administration is attempting to rule our minds “1984″ steez, seeing as it wants contraception covered under the health care bill and for Plan …
Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum: New York Times 'brags' America is becoming non-white
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 5:27 PM EDT (Eagle Forum Blog)
For decades, the NY Times has been promoting immigration policies that heavily favored a huge influx of non-whites. Today's lead story brags: WASHINGTON — After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no l …
Rep. Mike Coffman: 'I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. But I do know that in his heart he's not an American.'
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 4:57 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.)..."I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that," Coffman said. "But I do know this, that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American." After a short pause, which Elbert County Repub …
Romney: I Stand By What I Said, Whatever It Was (Video)
Thu May 17, 2012 4:34 PM EDT
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Mike Huckabee tells Citizens United supporters Obama 'surrounded himself with morally repugnant political whores with misshapen values and gutter-level ethics'
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 4:38 PM EDT ()
In a letter to Citizens United supporters, Mike Huckabee made clear his feelings about President Barack Obama. Commenting about how he doesn't trust the president, he went on to say that Obama has surrounded himself with "morally repugnant political whores with misshapen va …
Robotic arm controlled by a person's thoughts
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 4:17 PM EDT (ITN)
Cathy Hutchinson, who lost the use of her limbs after a stroke, has been able to drink coffee using a robotic arm controlled by her thoughts. The 58-year-old used a brain implant to control the robot, the first time she had picked up anything since she was left paralysed nearl …
Norquist: Put Jindal on the ticket
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 3:36 PM EDT (Daily Beast)
The case for Jindal has been made before and now the argument is joined by Grover Norquist
Gallup Poll: Americans See Obama as Solid Favorite to Win Election
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 4:39 PM EDT (gallup.com)
Fifty-six percent of Americans think Barack Obama will win the 2012 presidential election, compared with 36% who think Mitt Romney will win. Democrats are more likely to believe that Obama will win than Republicans are to believe Romney will. Independents are nearly twice as li …
There Is No Such Thing As 'Traditional Marriage'
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 4:24 PM EDT (Outside the Beltway)
The debate over same-sex marriage usually begins with someone on the right claiming that they oppose the idea of two men or two women being married because they wish to defend “traditional marriage.” What becomes clear after a short while, though, is that their idea …
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