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Defense Secretary Robert Gates has just announced changes to the enforcement of DADT which go into effect immediately. ”I believe these changes represent an important improvement in the way the current law is put into practice, above all by providing a greater measure of common sense and common decency for handling what are complex and difficult issues for all involved,” …

Sarah Palin has posted a map of Democrats to target in the 2010 election with gun sight icons to indicate the district of each member. Some folks aren’t too happy about this. “RELOAD!” Sarah Palin shouted at right-wing supporters via Twitter on Tuesday after President Obama signed the House health care bill. On her Facebook page, she posted a U.S. …

Bible on the bottom, bible on the top, the 700 Club in between. The man in the photo is the son of Robertson’s lawyer, Jay Sekulow, who runs the anti-gay American Center for Law & Justice.

JMG reader Jack tips us to the below email sent out by Kathy Shaidle in which she derides opposition to Ann Coulter’s college appearances in Canada as “unadulterated faggotry.” Shaidle is considered to be the Canuck version of Coulter and she frequently rails against Muslims, gays, and political correctness. Her blog makes Coulter’s almost pale in comparison.

“I know your values, Madame Speaker, and I know that you strongly support ENDA. Now I want these young people to know what is in your heart. With the knowledge that health care reform has been achieved and that enough votes now exist in the House today to pass ENDA, will you work with Rep. George Miller, Chair of the …

Oy vey. Just when we thought it was all over. But no. With the Senate working through an all-night session on a package of changes to the Democrats’ sweeping health care legislation, Republicans early Thursday morning identified parliamentary problems with at least two provisions that will require the measure to be sent back to the House for yet another vote, …

Teabaggers are throwing bricks through the office windows of House Democrats. The window broken Friday at the Niagara Falls office of Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, D-Fairport, was one of at least four cases of vandalism targeting Democratic offices across the country late last week during the debate over health care reform. A window was also broken at the Monroe County …

Despite internet postings of the home addresses and phone numbers of Democrats who voted for health care reform, GOP leaders have still not condemned the threats of physical violence pouring in from teabaggers. Local police are now protecting the homes of some Democratic House members.

Iceland’s entry has “gay club anthem” written all over it.

For the first time, a slim majority of polled Californians support marriage equality. And a whopping 75% support the repeal of DADT. A Public Policy Institute of California survey released Wednesday found a record high 50 percent of Californians said they back gay marriage, with 45 percent opposed. It comes less than two years after voters approved a constitutional amendment …