My wife Kate hails from Birmingham, Alabama, it’s in one of the only blue counties in the entire state. I still get on her about the bible-beating ways down there — Alabama and Mississippi provide a lot of fertile material for political blogging. That said, there are living, breathing progressives there — I know quite [...]

From the “You just can’t make this sh** up” file, via CNN‘s Santorum’s War On Teleprompters: Republican Rick Santorum has for quite a while taken issue with candidates on the trail who use a teleprompter. It’s a dig on President Barack Obama, and more recently has been used to attack Mitt Romney – a man [...]

Ron Hill is a Republican who blogs extensively about the religious right hijacking of his party at republicans4freedom.net. It’s painful to see that newly out gay man Ken Mehlman — the former chair of RNC who presided over some of the most anti-gay rhetoric imaginable in the party during his tenure — has done yeoman’s work [...]

We all know it’s true – a gathering of homophobes at a political conference ensures 1) a spike in hotel in-room porn purchases and 2) a lot of homosex. Witness what is going on at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), covered over at Hypervocal.com. This is just one of 10 ads it has collected in [...]

UPDATE: And the winner is…Rick Santorum. The tiny minds of the flaccid stakeholders in the movement to control wombs and demonize the LGBT community met to agree upon which Clown in the GOP Clown Car to unite behind to take out Mittens. If you follow the professional bigot brigade, the some of the 150 or [...]

Washington state Senator Steve Litzow (R-Mercer Island) has announced his full support of the marriage equality bill expected to be introduced this week, making him the first Republican in the state Senate to openly support marriage equality. The Seattle Times editorial board writes: “Outstanding. Litzow is a profile in courage, a freshman lawmaker willing to [...]

Racism in the GOP? Nah… just class from the state of Fred Phelps and the personal email of Rep. Mike O’Neal, via Pat Cunningham of the Rockford Register Star: Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal, from the city of Hutchison, sent an email before Christmas that compared the president’s wife to the Dr. Seuss character The Grinch, [...]

How else are we to interpret this: “Republican Gov. Rick Snyder Thursday signed into law HB 4770 which prohibits public employers from providing partner benefits to domestic partners of public employees.” The reach of this law is sweeping, prohibiting not only state agencies but also counties, townships, cities, school districts and community colleges from providing [...]

Why not? The state of Minnesota, like North Carolina, faces a marriage discrimination amendment at the polls in 2012. Minnesota Senate Majority Leader (er, former) Amy Koch (R, no surprise) had no trouble supporting legislation that would bar same-sex couples from civil marriage. It looks like she was “pulling a Newt” regarding own domestic legal [...]

Seen in Southern Durham today while Kate and I were out at The Streets of Southpoint, a very large mall here: This desperate-for-attention-for-Ron Paul fan is probably from Raleigh or Cary. (LOL, j/k; local inside joke).