Yet another eventful year has come and gone for this here website thingy. In 2011 we saw over 20 million pageviews on over 10,000 posts on which you crazy kids left over 1.2 million comments. Each of those figures are up about 25% on last year, so…go US! As I mentioned in this post last year, blogging is like a …

Frothy Mix says that he supports the annulment of all existing same-sex marriages, either via a federal marriage amendment or some other unspecified mechanism. Zack Ford has the clip. (Tipped by JMG reader Kevin)

Over the loud objections of many progressives, today President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which, among many other things, includes a GOP-authored provision for the indefinite and untried detention of terrorism suspects. Obama had threatened to veto the bill because of that issue, but today said: “The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not …

As we’ve discussed here, GOP and Tea Party-dominated state legislatures have been frighteningly successful in their campaign to create voting roadblocks for young, black, and immigrant voters. All of those groups traditionally vote for Democrats. Visit this interactive map for the current requirements across the nation. (Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

That “best year ever” bar has been set pretty low, hasn’t it? Let’s recap, shall we? In 2011 we saw GOProud publicly disinvited from the nation’s largest annual wingnut conference. We saw GOProud denounced and ridiculed by conservative icons. We saw GOProud members involved in two laughable “hate crime” incidents that were widely mocked across the blogosphere as having been …

At this writing midnight is some eleven hours way, but as you can see there are already thousands of people crammed into the pens across Times Square. You can watch the craziness live from a number of cams in different locations.

The top chart is America, the bottom chart is Britain. You can also see charts from around the world and the full Top 100 most-played from the U.S.

Featuring my favorite Broadway star, Sutton Foster. Plus Patti Lupone, Glenn Close, Audra McDonald and lots of others.(Via – Evan Hurst)

1953’s Mogambo, starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, and Grace Kelly.

Naming himself at #1, Scott “Nazis Were Gay” Lively has published a list of the ten most “pro-family” asshats for 2011. First to respond to this despicable honor is World Net Daily founder and Just For Men spokestool, Joseph Farah: “I am very grateful to be honored by Abiding Truth Ministries and to be included among such distinguished and courageous …

“Thank you all for replying and let me make a suggestion. The direction and state of the gay community requires someone on this planet to lift certain rocks and look under them. Please don’t blame me for trying to look for clues to better life for all of us. Unless you take on a role that I decided to do …

From the Chicago Tribune: The gay community wasn’t trying to antagonize Catholics when it drew up a plan that would send its floats past the Belmont Avenue church next June. Last year’s Chicago Pride Parade drew more than 700,000 spectators, and organizers and city officials agreed it had outgrown its old route. The change of venue was meant to address …

Mediaite has the story.

From Cindy Jacobs’ guide to her group’s coming 21 day prayer fast to convince God that he must create a “Bible-based government.” Ask the Lord to remove the lie of “Separation of Church and State” from this nation’s governmental philosophy and from Believers mindsets! There is no such language in the Constitution. The wording of the Amendment is “Congress shall …