California’s highest court agreed today to hear several new legal challenges to Proposition 8, the ballot measure which outlawed same-sex marriage in The Golden State, but refused to allow a stay of implementation until it rules.
The three challenges, which will be heard jointly, all allege the voter-approved measure abridges civil rights of a minority group. [...]
62 days until President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden take the oath of office, and Congressman Ron Paul is already contemplating another doomed presidential campaign. Paul, like other oft-mentioned 2012 candidates, will need to lay the groundwork for his campaign in the next 9 months, says Jesse Benton, Paul’s grandson-in-law and Press Secretary.
The [...]
Ayman al-Zawarhi, believed by most intelligence analysts to be the “brains” behind Osama bin Laden and his terrorist organization al Qaeda, posted a new message to Islamic militant websites, chiefly aimed at distorting Middle Easterners’ views of President-Elect Barack Obama.
Zawahri’s racist reaction to the Presidential election underscores the importance of Obama’s name and the preconceived [...]
In an exercise of intellectual curiosity—otherwise known as a department dicta—I subscribed to the email lists of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, MoveOn.org, and Dennis Kucinich’s Weekly UFO Roundup to keep an eye on the competition’s online strategy. John Edwards kindly returned to the shadows of a now-competitive (blue) [...]
I’m thinking of making this a recurring theme over the next four years (and, God-willing, no longer):
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I remember being a kid, watching the now-defunct WWF on TV and loving every minute of posturing, grand-standing, and fake punches and falls.
It’s the same reason I love to watch RNC Chairman races.
There are only 168 people that have a vote: make no mistake, they’re the only ones that matter. Every Right-of-center talking head on [...]
Today, Google’s philanthropic unit unveiled a groundbreaking new tool, Flu Trends, which, through Google’s advanced algorithms, can accurately track and predict geographically the outbreak of Influenza (flu). The project’s effectiveness hinges on the simple idea that people who are feeling ill will turn to the Web for information.
Google, which [...]
The Republican Party, fighting off its damning relegation as a “Southern Party,” is at a defining cross-road. With the fresh wounds of a failed presidential campaign and slimmer vote tallies in the House and Senate, the G.O.P. must chose a new direction, but it’s a choice that won’t come easily or without [...]
YouTube, the popular online video sharing platform, will soon begin streaming full-length television shows and films, an indication the Google subsidiary is threatened by the new kid on the block, Hulu, a joint venture of NBC Studios and News Corp, which has offered full-length shows and films since its launch earlier this [...]
It’s hard out here for a pimp, yo.
Craig Newmark, founder of the popular internet classifieds listing site Craigslist, and crew intend to make it markedly tougher for our prostitute friends to post an ad on their “Erotic Services” message board, reports Reuters. Authorities from 40 US states, the District of [...]
Barack Hussein Obama is, as Sarah Silverman notes, a “super f*cking shitty name.” What was once a taboo among his opponents and quite possibly his greatest political liability is now an immediate diplomatic asset: His name, and all the racial and ethnic preconceived notions that accompany it.
Despite frequent descriptions of his Christian [...]
I offer this jarring example of the true “trickle down” nature of Obama’s redistributionist policies.
Just makes you sick, huh? No doubt Obama’s sharing comrades—Mr. Rogers, Barney, Dora the Explorer—are tickled pink, or purple in the dinosaur’s case.
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Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), number four Democratic leader in the House, has been tapped by President-elect Barack Obama to serve as White House Chief of Staff, reports Lynn Sweet.
Conservative leaders and pundits, to no surprise, quickly launched missives to pigeonhole Emanuel as a sharp-elbowed hyper-partisan tied to special interests. Indeed, his [...]
