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Mother Jones reports that New York-based journalist/blogger Ian Murphy claims to have had a 20-minute phone conversation with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker while posing as billionaire Tea Party kingpin David Koch. The Koch brothers were major backers of Walker’s campaign and are known to have donated millions to astroturf groups posing as ordinary citizens. According to the audio, Walker told …

New York City leaders are furious about a race-baiting anti-abortion billboard just posted in Soho. Public Advocate Bill De Blasio demanded the billboard be taken down. “This billboard simply doesn’t belong in our city. The ad violates the values of New Yorkers and is grossly offensive to women and communities of color,” said De Blasio. The anti-abortion nonprofit organization behind …

From the website Christchurch Earthquake: “To the hundreds of thousands of people who suffered because of the Christchurch earthquake: Ask yourselves: ‘Was the profit from meals, accomodation and transport from 900 poofters and lesbians attending ‘Gay Ski Week’ worth the $4 billion damage, worth the homes destroyed? Was it worth going to sleep night after night not knowing if the …

Media Matters quotes the actual poll: Americans strongly oppose laws taking away the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. The poll found 61% would oppose a law in their state similar to such a proposal in Wisconsin, compared with 33% who would favor such a law. Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Republican …

On the BBC’s Let’s Dance For Comic Relief, controversial former model and author Katie Price dressed as Freddie Mercury in a recreation of Queen’s classic 1984 drag video for I Want To Break Free. Those are her real actual boobies, by the way.

It’s since been deleted, but JMG reader Dave saved us a screen shot example of Sarah Palin sock-puppeting her daughter’s Facebook account.

This weekend Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann told a Minnesota GOP group that she’s “all in” for the 2012 presidential campaign. She added that she would put Glenn Beck in charge of fixing the economy, saying, “That man can explain anything.” Ed Shultz had a field day.

Montana’s House yesterday voted 60-39 to approve Rep. Kristin Hansen’s bill to ban all local LGBT rights ordinances in the state. The House took the first steps Tuesday toward striking down Missoula’s 2010 ordinance that bans discrimination against city residents based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Missoula’s Democratic legislators were infuriated by the passage of House …

A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by Pat Robertson which was intended to allow people to exempt themselves from buying health insurance because God is going to cure all their illnesses. Three of the plaintiffs — Margaret Peggy Lee Mead of Hillsborough, N.C., Charles Edward Lee of San Antonio and Susan Seven-Sky of West Harrison, N.Y. — are …

North Carolina GOP state Sen. James Forrester has introduced a ballot measure that would constitutionally ban the state from recognizing all LGBT unions. North Carolina already bans same-sex marriage by state statute. Three-fifths of both the House and Senate must approve the amendment before it can appear on the ballot; the governor has no veto authority on amendments. Forrester, a …