In an interview with 365gay.com earlier this week, Rep. Barney Frank, a member of the House leadership, was asked about the status of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 law that contradicts the Constitution’s “full faith and credit” clause by permitting states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriage conducted in other states. [...]

“In fact, the cable news instant punditry and constant 24-hour nonsense, in which people assess Pres. Obama after three minutes, and after eight minutes — ‘Has he failed? Has he succeeded?’ — the lunacy of that kind of opinionating is clear to most Americans but hasn’t actually dawned on the people putting this stuff out…The [...]

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s performance delivering the Republicans’ response to Pres. Obama’s address to Congress last week was widely panned, even in his own party. Now he has revealed that an anecdote he used to illustrate his party’s belief that government regulation is deadly was false:
Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech [...]

In the annals of political hypocrisy, it’s hard to imagine examples more egregious than the sight these days of Republicans in Congress racing to the cameras to kvetch about government spending. Now they’re for fiscal responsibility? Now?
Interestingly, the five state that pay the most in taxes while receiving the least in federal spending are more [...]

“This town talks to itself and whips itself into a frenzy with its own theories that are completely at odds with what the rest of America is thinking. If you watched cable TV, you’d see our support was plummeting, we were in trouble. It was almost like living in a parallel universe.”
— David Axelrod [...]

Our long national nightmare is nearly over.

Despite its seemingly liberal-esque name, The Tallahassee Democrat is anything but. So it’s perhaps not surprising that one of its columnists wrote a piece that seems on the surface to be a well-considered view of the other side of the coin on Florida’s own recent vote to enshrine anti-gay bigotry in our state constitution.
Bill [...]

Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., the former presidential candidate who was one of the first Republican women to serve as a cabinet secretary — she was Reagan’s transportation secretary and Bush I’s labor secretary — has tossed her long and distinguished record of public service onto history’s ash heap by releasing what is, hands-down, the sleaziest [...]

If the election were decided by numbers of endorsements from newspaper dailies, Barack Obama would win in a landslide. Editor & Publisher counts 194 papers casting editorial votes for Obama, including, as Jon noted, the Anchorage Daily News, while only 82 make the case for McCain.
The Roswell Daily Record, read by 11,700 New Mexicans as [...]

The endorsement from the Anchorage Daily News skewers John McCain, goes easier on Sarah Palin:
“[McCain] declared that ‘the fundamentals of our economy are strong’ at 9 a.m. one day and by 11 a.m. was describing an economy in crisis … His behavior in this crisis — erratic is a kind description — shows him to [...]