Marco Rubio chipped a tooth while eating a frozen Twix bar, so naturally tonight he issued a money beg declaring that he’s continuing to “fight tooth and nail” and asking his followers to “chip in” to his increasingly beleaguered campaign. Rubio has been told to eat soft foods while his repaired tooth sets and the Twitterverse is snarkily leaping upon …

Last month the head of the Russian Orthodox Church declared that young men become terrorists because they are outraged about gay pride parades. Today he is in Cuba with Pope Francis for the first meeting between the heads of their churches in over 1000 years. With ten centuries worth of bickering to discuss, naturally the first thing they did was …

CNN reports: Donald Trump on Friday threatened to sue Ted Cruz for “not being a natural born citizen” if the Texas senator “doesn’t clean up his act” and stop running negative ads against him. Trump and Cruz are in a tight race in South Carolina heading into the state’s primary later this month. Cruz communication director Rick Tyler said Trump …

The 17th and final GOP candidate to enter the race has become the 11th to drop out. Via the Washington Post: Former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore has suspended his long-shot campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Gilmore got 12 votes in the Iowa caucuses and 133 in New Hampshire’s primaries on Tuesday. Gilmore, 66, officially entered the presidential race on …

By a 20-19 vote, today the Virginia Senate approved a bill which allows government employees to refuse to officiate same-sex marriages because Jesus. The bill was sponsored by GOP state Sen. Charles Carrico [photo], who has introduced a slew of other anti-LGBT bills. Democratic Virginia state Sen. Adam Ebbin reacts via press release: Senator Adam P. Ebbin (D-Alexandria) expressed deep …

Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade: President Obama and lesbian comedian Ellen DeGeneres exchanged praise with each other for advancing gay rights — DeGeneres saying Obama changed laws, Obama saying DeGeneres changed hearts and minds — in an interview on her TV show set to air Friday. During an appearance by Obama on her show, DeGeneres initiated the exchange …

NBC News reports: Millions of Americans across the Northeast should brace for what could be the coldest temperatures in over a decade this Valentine’s Day weekend, forecasters warned Friday. The National Weather Service said the “life threatening” icy blast was set to arrive in the region Saturday, but the coldest air would not arrive until Sunday morning — with several …

Politico snorts: Damn, it feels good to be a Clinton. Or so it would seem, according to Ted Cruz’s latest ad released Friday. The Cruz campaign released its first ad explicitly going after Hillary Clinton on Friday, set to the tune of Geto Boys’ “Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta.” “Damn it feels good to be a Clinton. …

Via email from Brian Brown: I’ve got some breaking news that could blow up the presidential contest: We have just launched a powerful new television commercial in South Carolina taking on Donald Trump for abandoning the fight for marriage even though 78% of South Carolina voters (and 50 million voters in other states) cast ballots deciding that marriage should be …

Miranda Blue has the story at Right Wing Watch: At a stop in Atlanta this week, Graham spoke about the need for conservative Christians to not only vote, but to run for office, saying that if every city in America had a Christian mayor, we wouldn’t have “evil” and “wicked” policies like LGBT nondiscrimination measures. “Can you imagine the impact …

“I am a Christian and the Word says if you are ashamed of Jesus He will be ashamed of you. I don’t intend to have that conversation with my maker. It is an integral part of who I am my faith. Now, at the same time, I’m not running to be ‘Pastor-In-Chief.’ It is not the calling of a political …

Bryan Fischer and Porno Pete are exulting today over a study just issued by the British science periodical Nature which links buttsex to “anal incontinence.” While the survey doesn’t break down the respondents by sexual orientation, both haters are overlooking the inconvenient fact that more than eight times as many women reported having anal sex than the men did, making …

Warner Music has formally surrendered in its years-long battle to retain the copyright to Happy Birthday To You. Via the New York Daily News: The universally beloved, though lyrically limited, song, “Happy Birthday to You” will soon be available for free to filmmakers and the like, thanks to a music publishing company’s decision to back off fighting a judge who …

Yesterday afternoon the West Virginia House of Delegates overwhelmingly approved a bill that would legalize discrimination against LGBT citizens on the basis of “sincerely held religious beliefs.” The bill now goes to the West Virginia Senate, where the GOP holds a slim two-seat majority. Today the Huntington Herald-Dispatch wants to know what you think. You know what to do.

Today’s installment of Infighting Is Funny comes, as it so often does, via Breitbart: TV host Glenn Beck attacked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Thursday, saying “too many people are looking at Trump and believing that man has ever opened a Bible … that’s the biggest crock of bullcrap I’ve ever heard.” Beck, founder of TheBlaze.com, spoke at a rally …

A Valentine’s Day clip from Matt Baume: “How’d you meet the people you love? I asked my followers how they met their partners, and they sent me some really sweet stories. I’ve gathered some of my favorites and I’m so excited to share them with you.”

As the February 24th public auction of his church approaches, Harlem hate Pastor James David Manning last night declared a three-step plan to thwart the “white sodomite faggots” who are secretly conspiring with Mayor Bill De Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Watch below. Manning’s first action will be next Friday, when he will hold a press conference at City Hall, …

Netflix today invited credentialed members of the press to the opening of the South Carolina campaign headquarters for President Frank Underwood. The press release promises “unique photo and GIF opportunities” plus a “VIP space for media and surprises.” All of this, of course, is a promotion for the fourth season of House Of Cards. There will be a BBQ and …

Last fall Russian police launched an investigation into whether Apple’s so-called “gay emojis” violate the national ban on gay propaganda. Yesterday Indonesia asked Facebook to block them entirely. TIME reports: Indonesian authorities on Thursday said they would ask Facebook and its popular messaging service WhatsApp, to block subscribers from using emojis and stickers with LGBT themes. Ismail Cawidu, spokesperson at …

Ted Cruz is continuing to pull Donald Trump to the right on same-sex marriage. In the early days of his campaign Trump had little to say about Obergefell, other than expressing faint opposition and saying it’s now the “law of the land.” Later he said that Kim Davis should do her job. But last month he vaguely promised to enable …