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MSNBC Reports: The federal judge who overturned California's same-sex marriage ban ruled Thursday that gay marriages can resume starting Aug. 18. The decision by Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker means gay and lesbian couples will have to wait six days before they can get married. That gives gay marriage opponents time to appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If the appeals court fails to act by 5 p.m. local time next...

Then and now. June of 2009 (emphasis added) :"General Motors hopes that bankruptcy will make the struggling automaker stronger and more competitive. Republicans are hoping it will do the same for them.The GOP sees President Barack Obama's decision to help the unpopular carmaker as an easy opportunity to paint him as a bailout-happy, deficit-drunk spendthrift eager to impose a heavy government hand on a swath of industries. ...Republicans see in GM a chance for their...

I can see it now. Cage matches on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell in a loser leaves town, no holds barred, Texas death match to decide the fate of health care reform. Chuck Schumer hits John Cornyn on the head with a folding chair during an argument over extending tax cuts. Stacy Keibler on CSPAN (OK, that part might not be so bad)."Former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon...

Who says Republicans don't have any new ideas? Former House Majority Leader and current chairman of the Astroturf grassroots organization known as FreedomWorks, Dick Armey, has one. He wants to--hold on to your teabag covered hats--privatize Social Security. Yes, Mr. Armey thinks it's a good idea to put your retirement money in the hands of the Wall Street mafia that creates financial instruments pre-planned for failure so they profit on both ends and you end...

When the  cubs thought Mama Grizzly Sarah was under attack from that no good "lamestream media" again yesterday after this video surfaced  of the former governor's encounter with fellow Alaskan Kathleen Gustafson during the filming of Palin's TLC reality show, Sarah Palin's Duh-laska, they went on the attack:     The headline (since scrubbed) at Gateway Pundit screamed "THAT WAS NO TEACHER: Unhinged Leftist Who Confronted Palin is a Singer in a Drag Queen Band."...

Sharron Angle, the gift that keeps on giving. The well of stupid that never runs dry. From an interview with Action News in Las Vegas on the subject of "Obamacare": "I think we get confused a little bit. Our healthcare system is the best in the world. There's nothing wrong with our healthcare system. Our doctors are the best," says Angle."But how many people get access to the best healthcare in the world," asks Action...

Not that Republicans are serious about this balanced budget amendment nonsense, but let's take a look at what it might look like if it had been in effect in 2009. If, as the amendment would require, federal spending could not exceed federal revenue. Federal revenues for 2009 totaled $2.105 trillion:Mandatory, as in required by law, spending plus interest on the national debt totaled $2.148 trillion: That means nothing for Defense, nothing for Homeland Security, nothing...

Take this paragraph from Andy McCarthy's essay on fear, paranoia, and religious bigotry at National Review Online, substitute the word "communists" for "Islamists" and it sounds like something from another McCarthy at another ugly time in our history:"Most of the American people are in a much different place. They see Islamists advancing, they are beginning to grasp that Islamists (not just terrorists but the whole Islamist movement) mean to change us in very fundamental ways,...

This seems like a stupid question to ask. Of course extremism is a bad thing. Fox News has been making their living off of making the extreme seem palatable. E.J. Dionne wrote about that this week in the Washington Post. You can read the article in its entirety above, but there were a couple of excerpts I found very telling. He is right of course and I could just reprint his article and save a...

The focus of the hate-stirrers and Obama Derangement Syndrome sufferers on the right for the better part of this week has been on Michelle Obama's vacation trip to Spain. It started with this hit-piece by Andrea Tantaros in the New York Daily News in which the First Lady is referred to as "Material girl Michelle Obama" and compared to "Marie Antoinette." Tantaros whined about the "millionaires playground" at which the First Lady and her daughter...