National Coming Out Day 2008

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.

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The hateful ignorance of the McCain/Palin base continues to spiral out of control

Tim Russo recently showed you the hate-filled ignorant base of support for McCain/Palin in Ohio. Make no mistake, that was no anomoly.

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Palin Unlawfully Abused Power

Damn. It's 9:21 p.m. on a Friday night. Nobody's reading blogs right now, but I gotta run with this.

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'Troopergate' Documents Released!! PDF here...

"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.

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Connecticut court overturns same-sex marriage ban

(People have been bombarding my email box with pleas to put up a post on the Connecticut marriage equality ruling.

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NC parking lot owner - no spaces for Obama supporters

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.

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Teen could get 16 years for fatal crash because of first-time pot use two weeks prior

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.

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Equality in Connecticut

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.

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Smackdown from town hall attendee about McCain's condescending question

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.

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Op-ed on black Republicans tells it like it is

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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