Beloved Defender of the Constitution Ron Paul Just Voted Against the Constitution Again

On May 9 of 2012, the House of Representatives voted to pass the Amendment 1096 to H.R. 5326, shortly before H.R. 5326 itself passed the House. Amendment 1096, introduced by Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, forbids the President from directing the …

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Will Democrats Make Equal Marriage Rights A Plank In Their Platform?

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It’s a nice thing that prominent individual Democrats are now indicating some openness to marriage equality. Such expressions aren’t what matter in the end, however. It’s the law that makes the difference.

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Shorter University A School That Closes Doors And Narrows Minds

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Shorter University students will carry with them an association with bigotry and intolerance. Diplomas from such an institution of education will qualify Shorter graduates to work for small range of employers within a small ideological territory. Who will want to graduate with that kind of handicap?

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John Boehner Doesn’t Want Jobs For America If It Helps Gay People

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Speaker of the House John Boehner doesn’t understand that marriage equality is a jobs issue. Legalize same sex marriage, and you’ll create new wedding industry jobs in every community across the nation.

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North Carolina Truth: you can marry your Cousin in Charlotte but not your Partner in Pinehurst

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After North Carolina voters turned out to reject equal rights for gay and lesbian couples this week, I thought this report from Politicol was just too outrageous to be true: North Carolina Bans Gay Marriage but You Can Marry Your …

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Obama Now Has The Right Position, But Won’t DO Anything With It

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President Obama now says that he personally supports same-sex marriage, but intends to do nothing to stop states like North Carolina from prohibiting same-sex marriage. Like Abraham Lincoln before him, he is allowing Southern bigots to trample the authority of the national Constitution. We all know how well that strategy worked out.

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North Carolina’s Ban On Equal Marriage Invites Mockery Of The South

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Southerners don’t like to be made fun of for their nasty little regional culture, but then they go ahead and confirm the worst ideas that people have about them, engaging in loud public acts of cruel stupidity. A case in point is North Carolina’s passage yesterday of a state constitutional ban on marriage equality.

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Barack Obama Still Won’t Support Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage, Despite Biden.

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Vice President Biden simply didn’t want to say Obama’s position on same sex marriage out loud, because to do so would be to remind Democratic voters that Barack Obama is ideologically much more like a Republican than they would like to admit.

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The Bigotry That Billy Graham and Barack Obama Share

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I suddenly remembered that Barack Obama had met with Billy Graham. How can Barack Obama reconcile Billy Graham’s opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians when Obama believes… and that’s where the thought fizzled out. Barack Obama, of course, has expressed opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians himself.

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Republicans Push Out Romney Staffer. For Performance? No, for being Gay.

Some credit is due to Mitt Romney for hiring political staffer Richard Grenell despite the fact Grenell is openly gay. Think about that sentence. Is this still a world in which people who don’t discriminate against gay people are worthy …

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Jill Stein Wins South Carolina and Connecticut Primary Contests

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If you support equal rights for gays and lesbians, don’t do what Barack Obama does, privately hoping that someone else will make the change. You have to take your opinion public, and vote for a candidate who isn’t afraid to speak up for what’s right. If you support marriage equality, support the Jill Stein for President campaign.

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What’s The Big Deal About Secret Service Prostitutes?

If it was Barack Obama who hired a prostitute in Colombia, I could understand calling that a scandal, though it wouldn’t really be very political. If the Secret Service agents and American soldiers had passed classified secrets on to the prostitutes, I could understand calling that a scandal. But, there’s nothing of that sort in this story, so what makes it a scandal?

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Obama Campaign Wants Gays and Lesbians To Hush Up

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Obama won’t even speak on the issue of marriage equality, but his aides expect GLBT voters to believe that he secretly supports their right to marriage equality, and is merely biding his time before he actually does anything about it because he’s afraid of what people will say. What we know of Obama makes it difficult to trust his aides in this suggestion.

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Irregular Times Donations, April 2012: Planned Parenthood and Village Enterprise

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We the writers for Irregular Times sell political shirts for three reasons: 1. To pay for the hosting and logistical costs associated with keeping Irregular Times up and running. 2. To help spread messages that we believe in. 3. To …

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In “Slut” Debacle, Rush Limbaugh Reflects Us

It would be nice to be able to say that Rush Limbaugh is an outlier for shouting “slut!” at a woman who dared to testify regarding contraceptive coverage policy on Capitol Hill. But I don’t think I can honestly say …

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Sad Note on the “This Slut” Meme

Number of Twitter Posts (tweets) featuring the phrase “This Slut” between March 21 and March 25 2012: 356 Number of these tweets uttering the anti-Limbaugh protest meme “This Slut Votes“: 2 Number of these tweets declaring some particular woman or …

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Steny Holder Holding Pelosi’s Purse? Is that the Best you can Do?

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There’s a lot to be said about Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland. Instead of focusing on American jobs, Steny Hoyer spent his time voting for a toothless bill declaring that “the people of the United States have turned to God.” …

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Map It: Hurricanes and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States

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Eat your heart out, John Hagee.

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