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The martyred Iowa couple who plan to erect 1000 anti-gay billboards across the nation took center stage at a Ted Cruz “religious freedom” rally attended by thousands on Friday night. CNN reports: A crowd of over 2,500 men, women and young children turned out for the three-plus hour event. Upon arrival at the venue, guests received Ted Cruz Pocket Constitutions, …

If you weren’t a fan of Ellen Page before, you will be now. ABC News reports: While Sen. Ted Cruz was grilling pork chops at the Iowa State Fair today, actress Ellen Page, wearing a hat and sunglasses, snuck her way up to the grill and asked the GOP presidential candidate about “the persecution of gays in the workplace and …

Well, that didn’t take long. Despite a national furor over far-right extremist radio talker Jan Mickelson’s call to literally enslave undocumented immigrants, questionably documented immigrant Ted Cruz had no problem returning to Mickelson’s show to declare that the evil “atheist Taliban” is stealing America’s right to scream about Jesus at all times. Right Wing Watch has the audio:

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The Guardian reports: Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has chosen a couple who are aiming to put up 1,000 billboards attacking same-sex marriage to be part of his Iowa leadership team. Betty and Richard Odgaard, who lost a civil case in January after refusing to allow a gay couple to marry at their restaurant, have already erected one anti-gay marriage …

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From the same right-wing publicists that brought you Lindsey Graham destroying a phone and Ben Carson playing Operation.

Actually this campaign was launched by the martyrs promoted last week by Ted Cruz. Via Glenn Beck’s site: The Görtz Haus Gallery, a one-stop wedding venue, restaurant and flower shop that Betty and Dick Odgaard have run for the past 13 years in Grimes, Iowa, is slated for official closure on July 31, following intense controversy over the Christian owners’ …

In 2011 Brent Bozell called President Obama “a skinny ghetto crackhead” during an appearance on Fox News but Ted Cruz is delighted to highlight Bozell’s endorsement on his YouTube campaign channel. RELATED: The Family Research Council will honor Bozell with its “Vision & Leadership Award” at Duggar Fest 2015.

“Let me do a little psychoanalysis. If you look at Star Trek: The Next Generation, it basically split James T. Kirk into two people. Picard was Kirk’s rational side, and William Riker was his passionate side. I prefer a complete captain. To be effective, you need both heart and mind. The original Star Trek was grittier. Kirk is working class; …

Yesterday Ted Cruz convened a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, which he chairs, in order to call for reining in the “judicial tyranny” of the Supreme Court. One of the three witnesses he called was NOM chairman John Eastman. MSNBC reports: Eastman agreed with Cruz’s proposals on judicial term limits and retention elections, but added one more …

To promote his Iowa “Rally For Religious Liberty” Ted Cruz has interviewed the owners of Gortz Haus Gallery, who in 2013 sued the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, claiming that public accommodation laws violate their right to refuse to host same-sex weddings at their bistro. Their lawsuit came after a gay couple filed a complaint after having been turned away. In …

Ted Cruz appears to be worried that he won’t qualify for the first presidential debate. Per the rules announced by Fox News, only the ten highest-polling candidates will be invited. In a memo sent to fellow GOP campaigns on Wednesday, Chris Wilson, who serves as director of research and analytics for the Cruz campaign, called Fox News’ standards for deciding …

Ted Cruz has the turned his book feud with the New York Times into a campaign clip.

Via Politico: On Thursday, a Times spokesperson said that the book was excluded because the paper had found its sales to be mostly “strategic bulk purchases” — a common practice among political authors, but a claim hotly disputed by Cruz’s campaign. “The Times is presumably embarrassed by having their obvious partisan bias called out. But their response — alleging ‘strategic …

Via Politico: This week, HarperCollins, the book’s publisher, sent a letter to The New York Times inquiring about Cruz’s omission from the list, sources with knowledge of the situation said. The Times responded by telling HarperCollins that the book did not meet their criteria for inclusion. “We have uniform standards that we apply to our best seller list, which includes …

It’s not raging already?