Legal eagle Jonathan Turley has an interesting blog that's worth adding to your RSS reader. He follows some of the wackiest cases on it that he doesn't get to discuss when he serves as a legal talking head on the MSM. This partcular case is par for the course -- " McBleach: Man Accuses McDonald’s of Slipping Him an Intentionally Tainted Burger ." In Washington state, Joe Jackson, 65,...
Solange Knowles has the most festive cameltoe of the week [hollywood rag] Madonna pays tribute to Michael Jackson in concert [dlisted] Anderson Cooper eats Sarah Palin's spokeswoman for lunch [towleroad] OMG celebrity tooth makeovers! [cityrag] The most-likely-to-be-gay Jonas Brother is engaged! [yeeeah] Jamie Dornan hates modeling [tabloid prodigy] OMG best third date movies! [pajiba] New Shakira...
Our divine "moral compass" and declarant of "civil war" on same-sex marriage was arrested and charged last night in DC for stalking a woman in Anacostia Park. According to the Washington Post : At about 8:45 p.m., a woman traveling near the intersection Good Hope Road and Anacostia Drive flagged down a U.S. Park Police officer to report that a man in a vehicle nearby was stalking...
PHOTO: Elizabeth Hovde "Political writings from The Oregonian's columnist just right of center" . (See my previous posts Why are anti-gay petitioners afraid of being known? (6/14/009) , Oregonian Elizabeth Hovde antigay? (1/4/09) and OSU prof on Mayor Adams (2/1/09) ) The latest column by Elizabeth Hovde, "Gay activists misread their opponents," The Sunday Oregonian, Jul. 5, 2009,...
Botched Circumcisions Kill 33 Boys in S. Africa Male genital mutilation, also known as circumcision, is as horrific and sometimes deadly as female genital mutilation, and is frequently carried out against the personal wishes of young persons. A high number of deaths from inept cutting of the penis foreskin on teenage males has been reported in the past few days out of South Africa, but not yet attracting...
A major paper has pick up on this story, and capture the outrage over the Stonewall weekend police raid at the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth, Texas. In " A Raid at a Club in Texas Leaves a Man in the Hospital and Gay Advocates Angry ," James McKinley, Jr. of the NYT captures the major issues at play and added a few more details about the event. So many questions have been raised about the...
Colin Powell—who helped craft Don't Ask, Don't Tell in 1993 (picture from that year) after thwarting President Bill Clinton in his efforts to open the military to out gay soldiers—said on CNN's State of the Union today that the policy...
After hiding for seven months, New York State Senator Thomas P. Morahan has said that he will not support civil rights for gays, thus allowing them to marry. Morahan told the Journal News this weekend that he's going to vote against it when it comes to vote in the State Senate. “I understand both sides,” he said. “I prefer civil union, as opposed to traditional marriage.” Someone...
Just like Ted Haggard, Gov. Mark Sanford's "little Sanford" took over the South Carolina governor and was led to his Argentine concubine by Satan, according to his spiritual adviser . Each Sunday afternoon in May, Gov. Mark Sanford and his wife hosted five other couples at the executive mansion for a spiritual "boot camp." Topics discussed during the hour-and-a-half-long sessions...
Some days are better than others, I guess. From The Leaf Chronicle : A disagreement at the local Social Security office Wednesday ended with one of the people dropping her pants. According to a Clarksville Police report, a customer became angry when she and a office clerk got into an argument about the customer's gender. The suspect then allegedly dropped her pants to prove she was a female, according...
How are we supposed to get anything done with health care reform with ridiculous attitudes like this? ( Think Progress ): During a townhall in Waukon, IA Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was asked by a constituent of his: "Why is your insurance so much cheaper than my insurance and so better than my insurance?" When Grassley struggled to explain the details of his own health care plan,...
Matt Comer at QNotes has a great piece on openly gay candidates running for office in my state, as well as a look back at some of the trailblazers in the past. This year North Carolina has three out gay candidates who will be on the ballot -- Mark Kleinschmidt , who's running to serve as the mayor of Chapel Hill, Lee Sartain is making a bid for a seat on the Raleigh City Council, and Owen Sutkowski...
The grand opening sign still hangs above the door of the Rainbow Lounge, but the dance club already has become a rallying point for gay men and lesbians after a raid by law enforcement last week left one man hospitalized with a head injury and prompted...
While just over a million people turned out in London for gay pride, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester called on gay people to "repent and be changed" saying the Church of England must not be "rolled over by culture."
As we fight for equality here, look at what our brothers and sisters face in Uganda . A stringent Bill against homosexuality is in the offing, the state minister for ethics and integrity, Dr. James Nsaba Buturo, has said. Addressing a press conference at the Media Centre yesterday, Buturo said the country was besieged by homosexuality, pornography, prostitution, human sacrifice, drug abuse, embezzlement...
The Issue: California’s voters will be voting on the approval of Proposition 8- The Limit on Marriage Constitutional Amendment. The Amendment proposes defining marriage in the traditional form between a man and a woman. Is The Limit On Marriage Constitutional Amandment the correct direction for California’s Public Policy? The Legislative Analyst’s Office (or LAO), the department of the California Government