Like California's Proposition 8, the Amendment One measure in North Carolina would amend the state constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman — but it would also ban gay civil unions and domestic partnerships. On my way in to work, I count the number of AGAINST AMENDMENT ONE signs on peoples' lawns, compared to the … Read More
Yes On Amendment One Still Ahead, But Weaker
A new Public Policy Polling poll shows that support for North Carolina’s discriminatory Amendment One continues to fall, standing now at 54 percent down from 58 percent a month ago. Opposition is also at its highest at 40 percent, but many voters are still confused about just what the Amendment does, with 10 percent believing it actually legalizes same-sex marriage instead of banning all … Read More
Newt Gingrich Speaks Out For Amendment One
Transcript: Blah blah blah Saul Alinsky blah blah blah Preamble to the Declaration of Independence says the Creator hates gay people blah blah blah guns are great for defending the home blah blah blah blah blah Marriage between a man and a woman is at the heart of our civilization. It’s a belief that is now under attack, yet it’s … Read More
Obama Needs More Backbone
Obama is in North Carolina again today. He's speaking at UNC to talk about college loans…. But President Obama is not expected to touch the subject when he appears in Chapel Hill on Tuesday — even though it is roiling the electorate there…. His delicate sidestep of Amendment One, a ballot initiative to be decided May 8 that would recognize marriage between a man … Read More
The Future Is Here, Rose
From today's Letters To The Editor of the Winston-Salem Journal (emphasis added): The civil-rights argument for gay marriage is a smokescreen ("Same-sex marriage a civil-rights issue, Barber says," April 18). Gay marriage has nothing whatsoever to do with civil rights. Does anyone really believe if the "marriage amendment" is defeated on May 8, we will not soon see gay marriage … Read More
George Zimmerman Is Like The Guy In “To Kill A Mockingbird”
I can't outdo TBogg on this: A member of the family of gun-toting racist murderer and/or world’s worst wannabe mall-cop George “Unarrested” Zimmerman has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder accusing him of being too gosh-darned blackity blackblack to go out and arrest clownish Fox news creation, The Black Panthers: New Edition featuring Bell, Biv, and DeVoe. We … Read More
The Obama “Gaffe”
Here's what Obama said: MR. SINGLETON: Mr. President, you said yesterday that it would be unprecedented for a Supreme Court to overturn laws passed by an elected Congress. But that is exactly what the Court has done during its entire existence. If the Court were to overturn individual mandate, what would you do, or propose to do, for the 30 … Read More
A 15-Year-Old Interviews Church Members About Amendment One
More like this please: This is from 15-year-old, Carter Smith, interviewing people in his (her – Sorry, Dad) church. We need to get on the air with commercials featuring the voices of people who oppose Amendment One. They are needed to educate voters about the harms and impact of the amendment — and the latest PPP poll suggests many voters do not … Read More
Something Else About That Strip Search Case
Greenwald points out a little known detail about the strip search decision: What virtually none of this anti-Florence commentary mentioned, though, was that the Obama DOJ formally urged the Court to reach the conclusion it reached. While the Obama administration and court conservatives have been at odds in a handful of high-profile cases (most notably Citizens United and the health care law), this is yet … Read More
Conservatives Against Amendment One
Lots of them….
This Is How Screwed Up Florida’s Laws Are
So… the Republican National Convention is being held in Tampa this election cycle. And the organizers want to make the convention safe for the conventioneers as they elect Mitt Romney to run against Obama. Unfortunately, they can't override Florida's ridiculous gun laws. So at the end of the day, here's what is permissible and impermissible at the convention site: IMPERMISSIBLE … Read More
The Crazy Conservatives On The Supreme Court Have No Sense Whatsoever
Okay. Imagine this. You are a 35 year old man. One March day, you are a passenger in your family's SUV. Your pregnant wife is driving, and your 4-year-old son is in the back seat. You are driving to a Sunday dinner. Suddenly, you're stopped by a New Jersey state trooper. Since you are the vehicle's registered owner, the officer runs … Read More
Who Has Got The Heavy Burden?
In the most recent New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin takes Supreme Court Justice Kennedy to task: It’s well known by now that Donald Verrilli, Jr., the Solicitor General, had an off day at the Supreme Court last Tuesday, when he was called on to defend the constitutionality of the individual mandate, the part of the Affordable Care Act which requires people … Read More
THIS Is Why The Supreme Court Is Reluctant To Broadcast The Arguments
Because some douchebag might come along and manipulate them for political gain, misprepresenting what actually happened in court. Like this ad from the RNC: As it turns out, the RNC's new ad is about as honest as the RNC's attacks on the health care law itself. A Republican Party web-based advertisement uses altered audio from U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments to attack … Read More
So What If The Mandate Fails
If the Supreme Court decides it doesn't like the individual mandate, what happens to the rest of Obamacare? The Supreme Court can go three ways: (1) If the mandate falls, the rest of the law stands. The outcome: The narrowest ruling the Supreme Court could issue would be one where the individual mandate falls by itself but leaves the rest of … Read More