John McCain has softened his stance on gay adoption. Via his Director of Communications, Jill Hazelbaker: “McCain could have been clearer in the interview in stating that his position on gay adoption is that it is a state issue, just as he made it clear in the interview that marriage is a state issue. He was not endorsing any federal …

Today the Massachusetts Senate repealed the 1913 law limiting marriages performed there to residents of the state. The bill passed by a general voice vote with no objections. The bill now moves to the state House of Representatives where it is expected to pass overwhelmingly. Governor Deval Patrick has promised to approve the bill “proudly”, which will put a recognized-at-home …

With his newest ad, Barack Obama continues to stress his willingness and ability to be a strong military leader and hypes his relationship with Republican Senator Dick Lugar, the long-time Bush-lackey war hawk who last year broke ranks and called for an end to the war. Still, this ad proves that when it comes to electioneering, terrorism continues to sell.

Pharmaceutical giant Roche has announced that they are suspending further research into HIV drugs because none of the drugs they are working on appear to improve on drugs already on the market. “Research scientists currently working in HIV will be reassigned to other activities,” Linda Dyson, a spokeswoman in Roche’s U.S. office in New Jersey, said in an e-mail. Dyson …

Drooling, enfeebled, medicated, Cheney acolyte. War hawk, Constitution burner, trophy wife. Pretty much hits on all the left’s attacks on McCain. It’s a pity the humorless National Review would never really pull a New Yorker in this way.

Room Eight, a blog about NYC politics co-founded by popular Politico.com columnist Ben Smith, has been quietly fighting a subpoena from Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson’s office. The subpoena demanded to know the identity of the Room Eight anonymous blogger “Republican Dissident” who had criticized Johnson’s office. The subpoena carried a warning in capital letters that disclosing its very existence …

Catching up on my YouTube subscriptions, I watched this latest post from my favorite anti-theist, Pat Condell. A one-time stand-up comedian, Condell is much more appealing to me than rant kings Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins. Still, I’m almost surprised that his famous 2007 post, The Trouble With Islam, hasn’t gotten him killed.

The Second Circuit Court, which covers New York, Connecticut, and Vermont, has issued an apparently precedent-setting ruling that if you are caught with illegal drugs and admit to having shared them with others, you can also be charged with dealing. Ricky P. Wallace argued that he should not have been convicted of cocaine distribution because he merely shared the drug …

Without fanfare or press conferences, two lanes of Broadway from 42nd Street south to Herald Square have been permanently closed for the construction of a 7 block-long public esplanade to be outfitted with planters, seating, and a bike lane. In a surprising reshaping of the urban landscape, the city is creating a public esplanade along a portion of one of …

For the second year running, GLAAD has named ABC as the major television network which has best presented the lives of LGBT people. Among cable channels surveyed, FX was named as best. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) today released its second annual GLAAD Network Responsibility Index, a report that maps the quantity, quality and diversity of images …

Hillside Campground, Saturday, 10pm Camper 1: Yes, they’re very hot. Too bad about them being botoxed. Camper 2: Botoxed? What a turnoff. Camper 1: Not botoxed. I said they’re both tops. Camper 2: Oh! What are their names again? To be fair to Camper 2, I heard “botoxed” as well.

According to the Times Of India, a lack of available women caused by the practice of aborting female fetuses is causing a “marked increase in gay activity” and male prostitution in the northwest state of Gujarat. AHMEDABAD: The 2001 census ranked Mehsana as the district with the worst skewed sex ratio of just 801 women per 1000 men. The after …

An Italian prosecutor who has brought down several local mafia families says that gay mafiosi are “too scared to come out of the closet”, but that American crime families are more forgiving of homo wiseguys. Antonio Ingroia, who has helped bring several bosses to justice, said: “Being gay is still a taboo for Italian society in general, let alone the …

Thanks to dictator Robert Mugabe’s fubar regime, hyperinflation in Zimbabwe has forced the government to cease printing their $500M notes (above) and switch to $25 and $50 billion Zimbabwean dollar notes. The price of a newspaper in Zimbabwe is now $25B ZD. At the time of yesterday’s above-linked story, a beer in a Zimbabwean bar was $150B ZD, or $6 …

From Sunday’s New York Times interview with John McCain: Question: President Bush believes that gay couples should not be permitted to adopt children. Do you agree with that?Mr. McCain: I think that we’ve proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no I don’t believe in gay adoption.Q: Even if the alternative is the kid …

Many marrying mo’s in California are requesting no wedding gifts, instead they are asking friends and family to donate to the fight against Proposition 8. Gays and lesbians marrying in California are ditching traditional wedding gifts and asking friends to contribute money to fight a ballot measure that would make their unions illegal. A month after California began legally marrying …

Via Queerty, here’s the latest result of today’s poll on World Net Daily, which ask readers to “sound off” on New Yorker’s Obamas-as-terrorists cover. At the moment, 60% of their wingnut readers believe the cartoon is “isn’t too far from the dangerous truth about the Obama family.” Embiggen for the idiocy.

Today Michelangelo Signorile blasts the hypocrisy of John McCain’s stance on gay marriage, pointing out yesterday’s Los Angeles Times story which discusses the fact that McCain got engaged to his present wife Cindy while still legally married to his first wife, who had just been in a devastating car accident. In fact, McCain got his marriage license with Cindy several …

In what may be the best thing to happen to Gotham’s waning nightclub scene in many years, Mayor Bloomberg’s office has announced that he is looking into repealing New York City’s nightlife-stifling cabaret law. That 82 year-old restriction prevents three or more people from dancing in a bar or restaurant unless that establishment has a city-issued cabaret license, a treasured …