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Watching Mitt Romney giggle as he “apologized” on Fox News for an episode in prep school in which he and a gang of boys chased down a kid who had bleached his hair and cut off his bangs, Rachel Maddow noticed that Romney has [...]

From the You Can’t Please All the Gay Republicans Any of the Time Department comes this:
“That the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the passage of Amendment One, to finally speak up for marriage equality is offensive and callous,” said Log Cabin Republicans president R. Clarke Cooper in a statement. “Log Cabin [...]

Update from Trish: Obama sent this email message to further amplify his thoughts on the subject:
Today, I was asked a direct question and gave a direct answer:
I believe that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.
I’ve always believed that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally. I was reluctant to use the [...]

It’s hard to imagine an American president gushing about the wonders of another country the way Switzerland’s newest citizen, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, does in this video.
Were the United States to have a conflict with Switzerland, whose side is hypothetical Pres. Bachmann on?
Bachmann took the astounding initiative to become a Swiss citizen for what can [...]

“Everything changes,” Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom famously said on CNN in March. “It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.”
Fehrnstrom’s gaffe resonated because it fed into the public’s perception that Mitt Romney is a flip-flopper who changes his views to match those of whatever [...]

Email is insufficient for some things — like breaking up a romance, quitting a job and this:
Rick Santroum sent an email to his supporters on Monday night announcing that he would back Mitt Romeny for the presidency and that everyone needs to support “our nominee” to defeat Barack Obama. In a long explanation, which [...]

Raw Story:

n journalist Robert Draper’s new book on the 112th Congress, “Do Not Ask What Good We Do,” he describes a dinner meeting among top Republicans on the day of Pres. Obama’s Inauguration, Jan. 21, 2009. The purpose of the meeting that day — the same day George Bush, whose policy failures they had been [...]

esterday, Billy Graham, who was once considered the spiritual leader of the Protestant church in America, shredded his place in history by endorsing Amendment 1, a ballot initiative in his home state of North Carolina that would ban gay marriage. The amendment is redundant because marriage equality is already illegal in the state, but it [...]