Monthly Archives: July 2016

Mat Staver Has The Mississippi Sadz

Via press release from the Liberty Counsel:  An Obama appointed, former ACLU, federal district court judge, Carlton Reeves, blocked the Mississippi law, known as “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act,” moments before it would have gone into effect. Reeves, who served on the board of the ACLU of Mississippi before he was appointed by President Obama, issued an …

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BRITAIN: Breitbart London Editor May Run To Replace Nigel Farage As Head Of Far-Right Pro-Brexit Party

From Breitbart: In the wake of UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage’s resignation on Monday, Breitbart London’s Editor in Chief Raheem Kassam has told the BBC that he is considering a bid for the party’s leadership. Speaking with Evan Davis on Newsnight, Kassam refused to rule out running for the position as other candidates considered their bids. Davis asked Kassam, …

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SHORT FILM: Son Comes Out To Dad On Prom Night

Out Magazine recaps: In case you didn’t know, Hallmark Cards now has its own streaming service, Feeln. For a few dollars a month you can watch all those feel-good Hallmark Hall of Fame movies as well as original series. Feeln also produces original shorts, including a new addition called The Beginning, which features a young man coming out to his …

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Breitbart: Help Us Pick Trump’s Running Mate

From Breitbart: They say the proof is in the pudding, and Breitbart readers have proven that they have their collective finger on the pulse of American politics more than pundits and talking heads. When we launched the Breitbart Primary Straw Poll with a packed slate of over a dozen candidates, Breitbart readers consistently chose Donald Trump as the nominee. They …

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CNN’s Jeffrey Lord: The KKK Is A Leftist Hate Group

CNN commentator Jeffrey Lord is once again defending Donald Trump with asinine claims about the KKK. You may recall that Lord got into a shouting match with fellow CNN commentator Van Jones a couple of months ago on the same issue when he declared, “Race fuels the progressive movement and has always fueled the progressive movement. Whether it was slavery, …

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Pope Francis Accepts Resignation Of Dominican Cardinal Who Used Anti-Gay Slurs Against US Ambassador

From the Washington Blade: The Vatican announced on Monday that Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez of the Archbishop of Santo Domingo. The Holy See said in a statement that the pontiff has named Monsignor Francisco Ozoria Acosta of the Diocese of San Pedro de Macorís as López’s successor. López has repeatedly used …

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Juno Spacecraft: I’m Here, Jupiter, Deal With It [VIDEO]

CNN reports: NASA says it has received a signal from 540 million miles across the solar system, confirming its Juno spacecraft has successfully started orbiting Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. “Welcome to Jupiter!” flashed on screens at mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. The Juno team cheered and hugged. “This is phenomenal,” said …

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John Cena On Patriotism & Diversity [VIDEO]

Note the family in the background. Mashable sets up the clip: John Cena wants to body slam bigotry in America. In a new public service announcement that feels as if it could just as easily be an ad announcing a “Cena 2016” campaign, the pro wrestler gives an earnest-sounding lecture about how patriotism goes hand in hand with respect for …

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LIVE VIDEO: Juno Spacecraft Enters Jupiter’s Orbit

The big moment starts around 10:30PM but I’m putting the feed up now so you can come back to it later. From the New York Times: The countdown for the Juno spacecraft to reach its destination at Jupiter is now a matter of hours. “Happy Fourth of July, everyone,” Scott Bolton, the principal investigator of the mission, said during a …

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Phil Robertson Blames Murder Rate On Gays [VIDEO]

Phil Robertson delivered some typically reasonable remarks this weekend at the Western Conservative Summit. Mediaite recaps: Later in his speech, the Duck Dynasty patriarch went on a riff about how there were 160,000 murders in America while we were fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it’s kind of intriguing to wonder where he was going with it. Now, if …

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FRANCE: Far-Right National Front Party Leader Slams “Exhibitionist And Militant” Paris LGBT Pride Parade

Louis Aliot, vice president of France’s neo-Nazi National Front, issued a tweet this weekend which denounced the Paris Pride Parade as “exhibitionist” and “militant.” Aliot is the domestic partner of National Front president and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who is the daughter of party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has been convicted multiple times of inciting racial hatred and …

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Orlando Gay Chorus – You’ll Never Walk Alone [VIDEO]

The GALA Choruses Festival took place this weekend in Denver, where the hottest ticket was the performance by the Orlando Gay Chorus. Watch below as the they perform You’ll Never Walk Alone. Halfway through the song, conductor James Rode turned to the audience at the 2500-seat Ellie Caulkins Opera House and motioned for them to stand and join in. As …

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BRITAIN: Brexit Advocate Resigns As Head Of Right Wing Party Now That He “Has His Country Back”

He’s leaving the mess for somebody else to clean up. The BBC reports: Nigel Farage says he is standing down as leader of the UK Independence Party. Mr Farage said his “political ambition has been achieved” with the UK having voted to leave the EU. He said the party was in a “pretty good place” and said he would not …

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John Oliver On Independence Day [VIDEO]

Raw Story recaps: As Americans celebrate our Independence Day, comedian John Oliver wonders if declaring independence from Great Britain was all that good of an idea after all. “First, there is the matter of your accents. These beautiful vowel sounds could have been yours. But instead from sea to shining sea, you speak like you just burnt your tongue on …

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FLORIDA: Orange County Cops & Firefighters Dance To Whitney In #KeepDancingOrlando Tribute [VIDEO]

MUST WATCH. Dancing cops, dancing horses, and even a dancing helicopter. Via ABC News: Weeks after three horrific tragedies hit the Orlando area, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department has found a way to keep the city’s spirits up. A video posted to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page begins with a mock press conference announcing an “important announcement by …

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CANADA: Justin Trudeau Becomes First Sitting Prime Minister To March In LGBT Pride Parade [VIDEO]

The Toronto Pride Parade just kicked off with Justin Trudeau making Canadian history as the first sitting Prime Minister to march in such an event. From the Ottawa Citizen: Other notable politicians marching include Ontario’s premier, Kathleen Wynne, and the mayor of Toronto, John Tory. Before the parade, Trudeau attended an outdoor church service in the heart of the city’s …

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ILLINOIS: Gun Shop Cancels AR-15 Raffle Because Only Non-Profits Can Legally Conduct Such Contests

From the Chicago Tribune: A suburban Chicago gun shop has called off its controversial raffle of a semi-automatic rifle to raise money for the victims of the Orlando, Fla., mass shooting. The owners of Second Amendment Sports in McHenry said they canceled the raffle after questions were raised about the legality of the event. State law allows only nonprofit organizations …

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NEW YORK CITY: Man Critically Injured In Central Park Explosion, Bomb Squad On Scene, Fireworks Suspected

The explosion happened close to a memorial service for Holocaust activist Elie Wiesel, but despite what some are saying on Twitter, there’s no evidence that the incident is related. ABC News reports: A man was severely injured in an explosion in New York’s Central Park today, but it was not yet clear what caused the blast, police said. Three men …

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REPORT: Donald Trump Lifted His Anti-Semitic Attack On Hillary Clinton From A White Supremacist Site

“How surprising!” said absolutely nobody. Mic.com reports: Mic discovered Sunday that Donald Trump’s Twitter account wasn’t the first place the meme appeared. The image was previously featured on /pol/ — an Internet message board for the alt-right, a digital movement of neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white supremacists newly emboldened by the success of Trump’s rhetoric — as early as June 22, …

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Cory Booker Dodges VP Vetting Question [VIDEO]

CNN reports: New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is now referring questions about whether he is being vetted as a potential running mate for Hillary Clinton to her campaign — a shift from as recently as two weeks ago, when he flatly denied he was in the running for the job. “I’m just referring questions about the vice presidency to the …

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