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Moments after he stepped off Air Force One at the Phoenix airport this afternoon, President Obama exchanged terse words with wingnut Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who apparently began the incident by shoving an letter into Obama’s hand. Brewer later spoke with a local reporter. “He was a little disturbed about my book, Scorpions for Breakfast,” Brewer said. “I said to …

Newt Gingrich, pandering in Florida: “By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” Gingrich said to applause. He said the development would include commercial and private efforts, and will make apparent, “we clearly have the capacity that Chinese and the Russians will never come anywhere close …

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Google has joined fellow corporate giants Starbucks and Microsoft in backing Washington state’s pending marriage equality bill. Also new to the ever-growing list is aluminum manufacturer Alcoa, which supplies much of the state’s aircraft industry. Speaking of which, where’s Boeing?

Florida’s Cuban population is one of the very few minority groups that forms a major voting block for the Republican party, although younger Cuban-Americans have been bailing in large numbers. Here’s what Mittens is telling Florida’s Cubans: “Newt Gingrich claims to be a Reagan conservative but said he would not change the failed Obama policy to allow travel to Cuba, …

Atlanta’s OutWrite Books is no more. The independent LGBT bookstore, located for the last 15 years at its iconic landmark in Midtown, held its “Last Tango” at the store last night featuring authors such as Franklin Abbott, Collin Kelley, Hollis Gillespie, Mose Hardin, Karen Head and Don Perryman. Owner Philip Rafshoon confirmed the store was closing today. He said there …

Today around 2:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT-related news items. The gays are on channel 108 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What would be your top five gay news stories this week?

Giffords’ resignation letter had to be read by an occasionally sobbing DNC head Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Shultz. I watched this live this morning, you’ll probably need a tissue.