Category: News
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Stacey Campfield Does Not Respond Well to Criticism
Telisha Arguelles Cobb wrote to Campfield, expressing her concern for his extremist views and radical bills. Regarding this email thread, she says, “Look at this kind, compassionate, concerned email I received today from Sen Stacey Campfield (the moron trying to pass the “Dont say Gay Bill” and starve children if they don’t get good grades.…
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TN’s Stacey Campfield Wants to Let Struggling Children Go Hungry
If you follow my posts you’ll know how much I detest the idiocy that is Stacey Campfield, a Republican member of the Tennessee Senate. I owe a significant “tip of the hat” to Mamapundit.com for making me aware of this story. Be sure to visit her blog! Well, Campfield is at it again. Now he is…
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How to Handle a Rabid Dog; or Piers Morgan Interviews Alex Jones
On Tuesday, the state of New York enacted the nation’s strongest gun control laws since the Sandy Hook tragedy of December 14th. The new law will allow the “owners of an estimated 1 million previously legal semiautomatic rifles, such as the Bushmaster model used to kill 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Conn., a…
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Brian Brown is Bad at Fortune-telling; #SCOTUS to Hear #Prop8 Case
Heads up! The Supreme Court just announced that it will hear the federal challenge to Proposition 8 and DOMA. This is the first time SCOTUS has heard a case on marriage equality. (h/t Towleroad) Of course NOM’s Brian Brown tweeted that he believes this is a future win for the side of bigotry. I responded…
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What Constitutes a Hate Crime? Ask Mallory Owens Once She’s Out of the Hospital.
D.A. Ashley Rich says she has no reason to call it a hate crime at this point in the investigation. That’s how the District Attorney is handling the case of Mallory Owens, a twenty-three year old Alabama woman who was celebrating Thanksgiving at her girlfriend’s house in Mobile on Thursday night, when her girlfriend’s brother, Travis Hawkins…
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Texas School District Bans Penguin Play; Tango is Too Taboo?
The book And Tango Makes Three, based on the true story of Roy and Silo, two male Chinstrap Penguins in New York’s Central Park Zoo, suffered its own share of controversy when it was released in 2005. The American Library Association reports that the book was the most challenged book of 2006, 2007, and 2008…
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Papa’s Got a Brand New “Operation Lucky Bag”; Gets Arrested by NYPD
The NYPD has arrested Yakov Dubin, a father from suburban Atlanta who was visiting NYC with his wife and two children, for “stealing” a purse that he found in Central Park. According to the New York Post: “While leaning over, Dubin, 49, spotted an ‘old and dirty purse sitting on the ground underneath the bench.’ After he…
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New York Times Skewers Guy Fieri’s Times Square Restaurant
In one of the best pieces of journalistic annihilation, The New York Times has served up a delicious roast of Guy Fieri’s new American Kitchen & Bar. It is maybe the most humorous review I’ve read in ages, so I won’t spoil it by revealing too much. You should really enjoy it, in full, for yourself.…
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Rachel Maddow Spanks the GOP
If Rachel Maddow and Elizabeth Warren ran on a ticket together in 2016, I’d be the first in line to vote for the pair. On here show, Maddow laid it for the GOP on the night after the election, making the facts clear: “Ohio really did go to President Obama last night. And he really…
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Why I’m Voting for Obama Tomorrow
President Barack Obama is a kind and compassionate leader who cares for ALL of his constituents (unlike Romney who doesn’t care about 47% of the U.S. and will do what he can to stop the LGBT community from living equal lives under Federal law. On November 1st, President Obama replied to Sophia Bailey Klugh, the…
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