Posts tagged family
Sarah Palin 2012? Ex-Alaska Governor Still Not Ruling Out Presidential Run
Jul 2nd
JUNEAU, Alaska — Sarah Palin isn’t going to fade away. Someone else in her position might have
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Loading ...Mark Kirk Raised $2.3M This Spring; Spent $1.4M
Jul 2nd
Mark Kirk’s Senate campaign reports that he raised $2.3 million dollars in the spring quarter, despite weathering a scandal that appeared to damage his campaign. Of that $2.3 million, the campaign says $1 million came in the month of June alone, a month in which continued revelations about exaggerations and embellishments of Kirk’s resume caused the Republican candidate to run from the press , literally and figuratively. The total makes this the best fundraising quarter in Kirk’s campaign effort to date, as the Chicago Tribune reported .
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Al & Tipper Gore NOT Attending Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding
Jul 2nd
In more Chelsea Clinton wedding news, Al and Tipper Gore will not be attending the former first daughter’s nuptials, the New York Daily News reports. A statement released by the Gores’ camp said they “are not attending the wedding. They both wish Chelsea well, believe she is a wonderful young woman, and they share in the family’s excitement.” But did Al and Tipper even make it onto the guest list to begin with
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Alvin McEwen: What dummy chose Tony Perkins as a witness against Elena Kagan?
Jul 2nd
During Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearing, one fact falling under the radars unfortunately are the witnesses invited to testify against her.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Stephanie Cutter: HealthCare.gov Gives Consumers Control of Health Care
Jul 1st
A little more than three months ago, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law and instructed his team to get to work on implementing it so the American people could begin to see the benefits of a consumer-driven market place.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Matthew Anderson: America’s on "Lockdown"
Jun 30th
I’ve noticed that people in my city no longer populate the roadways, corridors, highways and passageways as they used to. People are not traveling with the same frequency as before the great “Recession.” People’s purchase patterns differ also. Discount stores are experiencing a heyday, a renaissance, where patrons openly attend these establishments with a greater frequency and a more diminished embarrassment than before
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Michael Rogers: [VIDEO] The Boys in Obama’s Pocket
Jun 29th
For a few moments last week, the President carried in his pocket a picture of two boys standing in front of the White House, the younger one with his arm thrown across his older brother’s shoulder. The boys are at the heart of a lawsuit that could — and should — end the ugliest anti-gay state law in the country: Florida law bans gay people from providing loving homes to children who would otherwise be without a family of their own. In a world where conservatives believe an underfunded orphanage bests a loving family with a same-sex relationship, it’s scary that they turned their archaic beliefs into law
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Keli Goff: Should the Children of Candidates Always Be Off-Limits? As Meg Whitman Reminds Us, Not Always
Jun 29th
There seemed to be few issues that the final candidates in the 2008 presidential election agreed on, except for one.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...McCain Falsely Claims Phoenix Is ‘Number-Two Kidnapping Capital of The World’
Jun 28th
On this past Sunday’s “Meet The Press”, Senator John McCain, in the midst of discussing comprehensive immigration reform, said something rather startling about Phoenix, Arizona: DAVID GREGORY: Is immigration reform in a comprehensive way possible this year or in this term?
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Robert Byrd DEAD: West Virginia Democrat Was Longest Serving Senator In History
Jun 28th
WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a fiery orator versed in the classics and a hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to the state of his Depression-era upbringing, died Monday. He was 92.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Alvin McEwen: Horrible case of abuse highlights the cluelessness of ‘pro-family’ groups
Jun 28th
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters The recent CNN special report Gary and Tony Have a Baby – about a gay couple seeking to adopt a child – is the subject of much discussion. While some in the lgbt community either praised it for showcasing lgbt families or criticized it for not enough diversity, some religious right leaders have been extremely negative with their comments. Such as Family Research Council’s Tony Perki ns: Equally tragic, one of the men said that no one has ever given him a reason why their lifestyle choice is harmful.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Alyssa Thomas: 6-Year-Old Turns Up On Terror Watch List
Jun 27th
An airline ticket agent informed the family of their predicament when they embarked on recent trip from Cleveland to Minneapolis. “They said, ‘Well, she’s on the list.’ We’re like, okay, what’s the story? What do we have to do to get off the list?
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Robert Nyman DEAD: Massachusetts Lawmaker Dies After Being Found In Pool
Jun 27th
HANOVER, Mass.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...James Zogby: Abusing the Living and Dead
Jun 26th
I am not easily shocked. I’ve been doing this work for too many years and I’ve seen too much to become outraged by bad behavior or acts of indecency or inhumanity. But two stories that recently came across my desk were so disgraceful, and in some ways dangerous, that I feel compelled to write about them.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Alvin McEwen: False study proves Family Research Council’s anti-gay animus
Jun 26th
I was looking over a “study” published by the Family Research Council which supposedly proves that there is a “significant problem of homosexual misconduct in the military.”
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, Alleged Jamaican Drug Lord, Pleads Not Guilty In New York
Jun 25th
NEW YORK — Jamaican gang leader Christopher “Dudus” Coke, appearing in U.S. court after the government had sought for months to extradite him from his home, pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he ran a massive drug ring in the eastern United States from his Caribbean stronghold
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