No White, Republican, Heterosexual, Church-Going, Male Prosecutor is Qualified …Huffington Post (blog)Virginia's Republican-controlled House rejected the judicial nomination of a gay Richmond prosecutor on the grounds that his past "indicated that he would press an activist agenda from the bench." Mr. Thorne-Begland, the [Continue]

AFP Dear Pasty Republican Billionaires: Haven't You Got Anything Better to Do?Huffington PostYou can't read US political news lately without seeing a story about a septuagenarian Republican one-percenter with a hate-on for the president pouring millions of his fortune into a new Super PAC. Thanks to Citizens United, right-wing sugar [Continue]

KGMI Just Plain Wrong: House Republican Bill Undermines the Violence Against Women ActHuffington Post (blog)Last month, Democratic and Republican Senators came together to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. The bill they approved would address the high rates of domestic violence committed against Native American women, ensure that LGBT [Continue]

CBS News 5 Ways Conservatives Are Destroying the Institution of MarriageHuffington Post (blog)Blue Families reveals that it is also the product of a conservative economic program that has wreaked havoc on the family lives of struggling Americans. We have been consistently stunned, though alas not shocked, by the anguished tones used by those [Continue]

Sydney Morning Herald The National Security State Wins (Again)Huffington Post (blog)Now that Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, the media is already handicapping the presidential election big time, and the neck-and-neck opinion polls are pouring in. But whether President Obama gets his second term or …Obama camp [Continue]

Kansas City Star Republicans on Immigration: The Pot Calling the Kettle BlackHuffington Post (blog)The newest "talking point" we're hearing from Hispanic Republicans about immigration is that Barack Obama hasn't fulfilled his promise to push for immigration reform during his first year in office, when Democrats controlled both [Continue]

Facebook's Saverin Has a New Conservative Fan BaseHuffington PostMr. Saverin has been getting a lot of hate for this move to lower his tax bill, but he has also received a lot of praise, surprisingly from America's real patriots, the conservative base. The Heritage Foundation's Mike Brownfield wrote a blog post … conservative [Continue]

Compass Colorado, Conservative Political Group, Robocalls On Civil Unions …Huffington PostOver the weekend many Coloradans received a robocall claiming that the special legislative session that begins today is somehow diverting funds from economic recovery and instead spending them on this special session to pass civil unions.and [Continue]

ABC News Barney Frank Criticizes House Republican On Jobs, Wall Street ReformHuffington PostBut when Blackburn answered the same questions by pivoting to a Republican talking point about women losing jobs under Obama, Frank responded with derision. "This is a good political science lesson for people on what political parties' talking [Continue]

TIME Scott Walker: Wisconsin Republicans Should Focus On Recall RaceHuffington PostScott Walker said Friday that Republicans gathering for the annual state convention this weekend should be focused on ensuring he and five other Republicans survive June 5 recall elections, even as an intraparty fight over endorsing GOP candidates for …Walker [Continue]