How’s The ‘Voting Republican’ Thing Working Out For Ya?

As absurd as it seems, the GOP must have borrowed its entire playbook from this 2008 ad. Watch:
As absurd as it seems, the GOP must have borrowed its entire playbook from this 2008 ad. Watch:
Two NBA stars talk about what the word “gay” means. Considering that Joakim Noah was just fined two weeks ago for using an anti-gay slur toward a fan, this is a good message for him to ponder as well:
On April 13, 2008, Mary Brooke Oberwetter and a group of friends went to the Jefferson memorial to commemorate the 265th birthday of Mr. Jefferson. But park police didn’t want them shaking it with Uncle TJ. They were arrested. Fast forward to May 17, 2011, and the appeal of that case was decided in favor of the cops. Last weekend, a flash mob of folks came to the memorial and defied that, dancing until they, too, were arrested.
Two things we know, one thing we don’t, and four great videos.
Minnesota’s constitution has a strange amendment slated for the November 2012 ballot that defines marriage as a “union between one man and one woman.” Whether you agree or disagree, we suggest you watch this video first:
There’s no way to know the answer to that question unless this executive order is signed into law. Robert Reich explains:
Can Ayn Rand fans like Paul Ryan, Ron Johnson and Rand Paul really talk the moral majority into abandoning Jesus’ teachings?
Republicans were supposed to win the special election in New York last night—but that was before they voted en masse for Paul Ryan’s plan to phase out Medicare. Here’s the simple ad that turned the tide:
State Sen. Lena Taylor’s fiery defense of the right to vote in Wisconsin, which would be severely undercut by the Voter I.D. Bill, AKA “Voter Suppression Bill.”
In one minute, this scene from “The West Wing” explains some of why D.C. gets crazy about the debt ceiling: