Monthly Archives: March 2015

One Million Moms Vs One Big Happy

Just in via email: NBC has launched another program attempting to redefine what makes a family. “One Big Happy” is described as a show about best friends Lizzy and Luke who are like family. As kids, they saw each other’s parents go through divorce and have ever since formed an inseparable bond. Now, all grown up and still single, they’ve …

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Pat Robertson: It Would Be Wonderful If Ronald Reagan Would Rise From The Dead

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MICHIGAN: Same-Sex Couples Celebrate First Anniversary Of “Window” Marriages

Via the Associated Press: Families and friends gathered Sunday in four Michigan counties to celebrate the anniversary of about 300 same-sex couples who wed last year during a brief legal window as a result of a challenge to Michigan’s constitutional ban on gay marriages. The marriages took place March 22, 2014, in Ingham, Muskegon, Oakland and Washtenaw counties, where clerks …

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Tweet Of The Day

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LIVE VIDEO: Ted Cruz Makes It Official

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LCR Slams Kerry On Iran Deal

The Log Cabin Republicans today published the above message in a full-page ad in Roll Call. Via press release: “It is absolutely appalling that the negotiations taking place right now between the United States and the Iranian government have avoided any serious discussion of the horrendous human rights abuses taking place in Iran,” Log Cabin Republicans National Executive Gregory T. …

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ITALY: Pope Dines With LGBT Inmates

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The Scary Rise Of The Patriot Movement

The full VICE episode debuted on HBO on Friday. (Tipped by JMG reader SpiderPig)

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GOP Fights Immigration With GIFs

Last week the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee decided to fight immigration reform by posting ten GIFs to their official federal government site. Because Britney Spears and the Little Mermaid might have more traction with the public. Or something.

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Today On TedCruz.com

Via New York Magazine: Despite his effort to win over social media tonight … or the few people awake just after midnight on Monday, what really lit up Twitter was the website TedCruz.com. While TedCruz.org leads to a spiffy new campaign website, TedCruz.com features a black page with the message “SUPPORT PRESIDENT OBAMA. IMMIGRATION REFORM NOW!” Many wondered who orchestrated …

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The Story Of John Arthur & Jim Obergefell

Chris Geidner has written a wonderful profile of the late John Arthur and his husband Jim Obergefell, whose marriage will take center stage at the Supreme Court next month. Geidner’s Buzzfeed piece begins: The plane was only on the ground a matter of minutes. Just enough time for wedding vows and little else. Jim Obergefell and John Arthur had wanted …

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Robert Oscar Lopez: Disgusting Gay Activists Are Incentivizing Home-Wreckers

JMG reader Chris sends us the latest from Robert Oscar Lopez: “[Gays] have unleashed chaos. What they’ve done is they’ve incentivized home-wreckers. They’ve unleashed so much propaganda on the gay community about having kids. There are so many gay people who want kids. And the cheapest way to do it is to find someone who’s in a heterosexual marriage that’s …

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Chic – I’ll Be There

Via the Los Angeles Times: More than 20 years after Chic’s last album, the titans of disco and forefathers of today’s dance music have a brand new single. Billed as Chic featuring Nile Rodgers, the new song “Ill Be There” is a revival of an old sound while still sounding completely contemporary. It’s based on tracks Rodgers originally recorded with …

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Ted Cruz 2016: The First Ads

As he promised, shortly after midnight Sen. Ted Cruz told his supporters that he is running for president. The official public announcement comes today in Virgina. Via the Washington Post: Cruz is scheduled to give the convocation at Liberty University on Monday. By selecting the school, a private Christian college founded by the fundamentalist preacher Jerry Falwell, as the site …

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Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

Clip recap: “It’s been nearly two months since marriage was supposed to start in Alabama, and the state still doesn’t have its act together. Texas just filed a lawsuit to prevent gays and lesbians from taking family medical leave. And it’s going to take at least five different bills to overturn Michigan’s marriage ban.”

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White House Celebrates Fifth Anniverary Of Affordable Care Act Passage

Via press release: On the five-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, one thing couldn’t be clearer: This law is working, and in many ways, it’s working even better than anticipated. After five years of the Affordable Care Act, more than 16 million uninsured Americans have gained the security of health insurance – an achievement that has cut the ranks …

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What Could This News Possibly Be?

Twitter is reacting in predictable fashion.

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Tomorrow: Ted Cruz Makes It Official

Via the Houston Chronicle: Sen. Ted Cruz plans to announce Monday that he will run for president of the United States, according to his senior advisers, accelerating his already rapid three-year rise from a tea party insurgent in Texas into a divisive political force in Washington. Cruz, scheduled to speak Monday at a convocation ceremony at Liberty University in Virginia, …

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Bob Jones III: Sorry About That Time I Called For Gays To Be Stoned To Death

Via Greenville Online: Former BJU president Bob Jones III issued a public apology Saturday for anti-gay comments he made in 1980 calling for homosexuals to be stoned. “I take personal ownership for this inflammatory rhetoric,” Jones said in a statement. “This reckless statement was made in the heat of a political controversy 35 years ago.” His statement came after the …

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IDAHO: House Votes To Impeach Any Judge That Rules For Same-Sex Marriage

By a vote of 44-25 on Friday the Idaho House approved a resolution calling for the impeachment of any federal judge that rules in favor of same-sex marriage. “I think somehow, someday we’ve gotta take a stand,” GOP Rep. Paul Shepherd told the House. A sixth-term state representative from Riggins who owns a sawmill and log home company, Shepherd was …

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