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Stony faces from the Joint Chiefs, just like last year.

From the text of tonight’s speech: “Our troops come from every corner of this country – they are black, white, Latino, Asian and Native American. They are Christian and Hindu, Jewish and Muslim. And, yes, we know that some of them are gay. Starting this year, no American will be forbidden from serving the country they love because of who …

I must confess a sick yet gleeful anticipation for tonight’s SOTU response from Crazy Eyes. Death panels! $200 million per day hotel rooms! Government takeover of 90% of private industry! Obama annexes Mars to China! I cannot wait to hear the latest whopper from Teabagistan. I denounce myself.

The Illinois Supreme Court has agreed to hear Rahm Emanuel’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that he does not meet the eligibility requirements to be mayor of Chicago. It will hear the case without oral arguments or new briefs, allowing for a faster ruling on the matter. The quick proceedings are necessary, with the race less than a month …

“Harry Reid is dangerously close to the 51 votes he needs to pass literally anything he wants through the Senate. That would virtually nullify the gains Republicans made in November! And Joe, the sad fact is that without this rule, the Homosexual Lobby would have already rammed through every last bit of their anti-family legislation: The Homosexual Classrooms Act, the …

Today the Windy City Times republished several 1996 documents in which Barack Obama pledged his support for marriage equality. Presumably they’ve done this to remind everybody as they sit down to watch tonight’s State of the Union address. Pragmatists might claim that had Obama stuck to his guns on same-sex marriage, we’d be in Year Three of the McCain/Palin administration. …

Frito-Lay wants you to know that they have nothing to do with all those gay-themed Doritos ads pretending to be Super Bowl contenders. GLAAD reports: There has been tremendous confusion however, about what these ads actually are. Some say they could run during the Super Bowl – others say the ads were created by fans of Doritos, and will never …

This is the first tweet from Giffords’ account since the shooting and was surely made by a staffer, but it’s very nice nonetheless.

(Via – Right Wing Watch)

In what feels like a rerun of this JMG post about an earlier attack on Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Project, today blogger Renee Martin announces that Savage is unworthy of an MTV show. Because he’s only interested in the civil rights of people who look just him. Or something. Simply because Savage is a gay man, does not mean …