Well, this is an odd bird. For most of the clip, Republicans Against 8 sing a love song to Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin, but then close with a plea to vote against Prop 8. Talk about mixed messages.

John McCain has responded to a list of LGBT-related questions submitted by the Washington Blade. In his responses, McCain speaks fondly of such noted gay figures as former Rep. Jim Kolby (R-AZ), lesbian activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, and Mark Bingham, at whose funeral McCain spoke. Unfortunately, the submitted questions do not mention McCain chief of staff Mark Buse, …

Pam Spaulding: “You can’t say this ad by the 85,000-member National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association doesn’t go right to the point.” This ad will run this week to coincide with the vice presidential debate.

Independent candidate for the Canadian parliament David Popescu told a high school debate audience yesterday that he recommended that gays be executed. Canadian authorities are investigating and may charge Popescu with a hate crime. David Popescu was invited to participate in a federal candidates’ discussion at Sudbury Secondary School on Tuesday. He made the comment after a student asked his …

Amway billionaire Rich Devos, the owner of NBA team Orlando Magic, has donated $100K to support Florida’s Amendment 2, which would make gay marriage double-extra banned in Florida. Protesters have been appearing at outside Magic games at Orlando’s Amway Arena. Inside the Amway Arena, a voice over the public-address system announced that the next two people to buy upper-bowl tickets …

The parodies of the kids singing allegiance to Obama have already begun.

D’oh! I took down a just-posted story about the dissolution of Belgium as I had linked a story from September last year. I think it popped up in my news reader yesterday in a list of stories about European markets responding to the US banking meltdown. Here’s the more current story. The turbulence at Fortis, the Belgo-Dutch banking and insurance …

Now we’re talking! Jonathan Lewis, entrepreneur and political activist and scion of the Cleveland-based Progressive Insurance Cos. fortune, is pledging to chip in $500,000 to defeat Proposition 8 if the entertainment industry does the same. The proposition would restrict marriage in California to unions between a man and a woman. His matching offer comes after Brad Pitt, and Steven Spielberg …

A group of Freepers are beginning a 24-hour pre-debate prayer marathon today to make sure that Jeebus keeps Sarah Palin from making a fool of herself. Some are also fasting. * Pray for Wisdom for Senator McCain and Governor Palin* Pray for their safety and that of their families* Pray for their relationship to God to be strengthened during this …

As I’ve been predicting here for the last year, tomorrow Michael Bloomberg will officially announce his intention to overturn NYC term limits in order to run for a third term as mayor. In an act that promises to upend New York City’s political world, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg plans to announce Thursday that he will seek a third term as …

Bowing to the ferocious pressure of Christianists, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed the bill designating Harvey Milk Day as a statewide holiday in California. In his veto message issued Tuesday, the governor said that while he respected the measure’s intent, he thinks Milk’s “contributions should continue to be recognized at the local level.” Conservative groups had lobbied Schwarzenegger not to …

The McCain campaign released this photo of Sarah Palin faux dueling with McCain’s top foreign policy adviser Randy Schuemann. What’s she saying?

This 13 year-old history buff was reenacting the Great Depression in front of the Stock Exchange yesterday. Today Congress will take another run at the Great Bailout. Top lawmakers said the Senate proposal, worked out after a day of behind the scenes maneuvering, would include tax breaks for businesses and alternative energy and higher government insurance for bank deposits. “It …

Andrew Sullivan notes that the government has not complied with recent changes to travel rules for the HIV+ and that he will be “required to leave the US for good next March.” The Bush administration has not yet lifted the regulation barring people with HIV from entering the United States, despite the law lifting the ban overwhelmingly passed by the …

Risking the long arm of the Showtune Police, I snuck around the barrier and grabbed this shot of the front side of the new TKTS booth in Times Square, which is due to open this month. The ticket windows are under the bleachers. The classic TKTS booth is (almost) back with a bold new look: the discounted theater-ticket sales window …

Palin: “As for homosexuality, I am not going to judge Americans and the decisions that they make in their adult personal relationships. I have one of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years happens to be gay and I love her dearly. She’s not my ‘gay’ friend, she is one of my best friends who happens to have …