Divorced on Election Day

Steve Clemons was married on August 18th and "divorced" on November 5th, thanks to the same California voters who overwhelmingly gave their 55 Electoral votes to Barack Obama narrowly passing Proposition 8 and overturning same-sex marriage in that state.  He wonders, [H]ow could people who helped deliver this man to the White House also spit on my decision to enter into ...

eHarmony Goes Gay

The dating site eHarmony is now opening a separate but equal site for gays. The Pasadena-based dating website, heavily promoted by Christian evangelical leaders when it was founded, has agreed in a civil rights settlement to give up its heterosexuals-only policy and offer same-sex matches. EHarmony was started by psychologist Neil Clark Warren, who is known for his mild-mannered television and radio ...

Focus on Family Cutting Jobs

Steve Benen reports feeling schadenfreude at the news that James Dobson's Focus of the Family has announced that it is cutting 202 jobs, the deepest cuts in the organizations 32-year history, fresh off of having spent $539,000 to help pass an anti-gay marriage referendum in Colorado.  He cites Jim Newell's snark: Sure, you have no income now because James Dobson burnt ...

Americans Are Liberal!

Matt Yglesias offers these Pew poll results as a rejoinder to those of us who think a win for Obama isn't a mandate for his policies. Says Matt, "The voters felt they had a choice between a liberal and a conservative, and felt they preferred the liberal and his policy agenda." Well . . . no. For one thing, most of the choices ...

When in Rome, Amigo . . .

President Bush had a minor language gaffe during a light and amiable luncheon with the other G-8 leaders: The life-of-the-party president, mingling before the meal, chatted animatedly about his parents’ health, his birthday and the corruption charges facing one of his best buddies in Europe, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy. “Amigo! Amigo!” Mr. Bush called out cheerily in Spanish when he ...

Supreme Court as a Voting Issue

Dahlia Lithwick takes to the pages of FireDogLake to explain why, in her view, liberals are much less excited about the Supreme Court than conservatives: My own impression, having covered the past two presidential elections is that most liberals simply don’t vote with the composition of the Supreme Court in mind at all, or that it ranks somewhere in their top ...

McCain Shakes Up Campaign Staff. Again.

John McCain has reshuffled his top campaign staff for the second time is a less than a year, elevating Karl Rove protégé Steve Schmidt to the top post. Responding to Republican concerns that his candidacy was faltering, Mr. McCain put a veteran of President Bush’s 2004 campaign in charge of day-to-day operations and stepped away from a plan to have the ...

Homosexual Sets World Sprint Record

Tyson Homosexual ran 100 meters in a wind-aided 9.68 seconds at the U.S. Olympic trials today, in what would have been world record time. I mean, Tyson Gay. Leftie People For the American Way's Right Wing Watch blog reports that, In addition to blocking traffic from websites they don’t like, it looks like the web-geniuses behind the American Family ...

Gay Medic Discharged after ‘60 Minutes’ Appearance

A group "dedicated to ending discrimination against and harassment of military personnel affected by 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'" reports that Darren Manzella has been discharged under said policy. Decorated Army Sergeant Darren Manzella has been discharged under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law banning lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans from military service, effective June 10. The Iraq war veteran was one ...

Fallacy of Mass Appeal

Tyler Cowen argues that we should judge our opinions based on what others think. If no one agrees with you, you should be quite worried. If only a small number of people agree with you, you still should be quite worried. I don't think it's a numbers game, but I think whatever view you end up with, it doesn't ...