Governor Napolitano starts out fine, explaining that there is any reason to amend the Constitution, but then she goes on to say this (sound familiar?): "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman," Napolitano said. "I don't think the constitutional amendment is necessary. The voters of Arizona will have a chance to decide this. Personally, I'm going to oppose it. We already have a statute that defines marriage. The courts have already said the statute is constitutional." Some of the reader comments on the article: I agree with the Governor and think that this is yet another hope by the GOP to polarize the electrate and ginny the hardliners to the polls. Full story...
October 11 is National Coming Out Day. We may be winning the culture war one day at a time (see the marriage equality ruling in Connecticut on Friday), but not everyone has the option of coming out of the closet in this country --* Without ENDA, LGBT citizens can be fired from a job where there are no local anti-discrimination protections.
Tim Russo recently showed you the hate-filled ignorant base of support for McCain/Palin in Ohio. Make no mistake, that was no anomoly.
Damn. It's 9:21 p.m. on a Friday night. Nobody's reading blogs right now, but I gotta run with this.
"Breaking News" as of minutes ago: it was unanimously decided to release the Branchflower report.
From the Anchorage Daily News:
The legislative council just voted 12-0 to release the investigator Steve Branchflower's report on the Troopergate affair.
(People have been bombarding my email box with pleas to put up a post on the Connecticut marriage equality ruling.
What kind of bigot crackpot businessman is this? In Gibsonville, NC, Tim Henderson has decided his distaste for Barack Obama should be channeled into bias against his supporters who wish to use his parking lot.
Teen pleads in crash that killed 3 | www.jconline.com | Journal and Courier
A Crawfordsville teenager has admitted to smoking marijuana about two weeks before causing a two-vehicle crash a year ago that killed two of his classmates and an Indianapolis woman.
Part of the problem with my morning routine is that by the time I get around to checking the news, it isn't news any more.
You might recall the moment in the debate this week when McCain was condescending to one questioner at the town hall, a young black man named Oliver Clark.
Raynard Jackson, a Republican and a D.C.-based political consultant, does a great job of outlining the dilemma of the black Republican in today's GOP in this op-ed.
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