The message at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference: Don’t stop talking about abortion and marriage. “The Republican social issues we believe in are more popular than our economic agenda,” said one speaker.
E.W. Jackson was appearing on the Christian Broadcasting Network in March 2012.
The real inside baseball.
Wow.
“[W]e’ve got to end LGBT discrimination in the places where we work,” Obama told the assembled crowd Thursday. Obama has not acted to end LGBT discrimination by federal contractors, a move he said he would support if elected president.
The 21-year-old Rove appeared in a CBS report on the Nixon campaign where he said the Republican Party couldn’t expect to win youth votes when the efforts in outreach are not run by fellow youth.
The former congressman defends himself against a damaging New York Times article. “That’s the other thing about the story. I don’t do salads.”
A national security expert listened in on the White House’s Syria call Thursday. Here are her takeaways. “We didn’t get any closer to a no-fly zone today.”
“I doubt the authors speak for most others at Cato and they certainly don’t speak for the broader movement,” says one unhappy libertarian.
U.S. has concluded Assad used chemical weapons, but no details yet on the specific military support that will be provided.
The Assad regime used chemical weapons to kill more than 100 rebels.
Oops.
Representatives Maloney, Polis, Takano and Pocan offer their thoughts on ENDA, President Obama and the executive order LGBT advocates are hoping he’ll sign.
The Florida senator has recently been the target of some friendly fire on the right, but at the start Faith and Freedom Coalition conference, he’s the star of the show.
Also says Congress will push for legislation to limit how much access contractors have to classified information.
After previously taking care to avoid personal positions on several LBGT issues, the Florida senator got personal on same-sex couples’ immigration rights and “special protections” in the workplace.
The “brazen,” “illegal alien” variety, he tweeted.
Rep. Joe Heck’s son Joey has made several racist, homophobic, and sexist remarks on Twitter. “I apologize to everyone he may have offended,” the Congressman tells BuzzFeed.
The details of the proposed legal action are still a little nebulous.
Companies were patenting certain gene mutations. They lost in the Supreme Court Thursday. Here’s everything you need to know.
The metric of the future will be web traffic, and the sooner the cable news networks realize it, the better.
During a hearing on Capitol Hill, FBI Director Robert Mueller used the events of September 11, 2001 as an example of why the National Security Agency’s monitoring of all Americans communications are critical.
Calling on the House speaker to hold a vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would ban LGBT discrimination in employment, eight activists with GetEqual were arrested Thursday.
As long as you don’t call yourself “tea party”…
John Liu, city comptroller and another mayoral candidate, is doing the SNAP challenge too. “I’m gonna get probably a loaf of bread, some peanut butter, rice, lentils,” says Weiner.
The Chinese dissident is leaving NYU amid reports that the university bowed to pressure from the Chinese government. “These are unrelated matters.”
“Take it from my man, the love guv…”
The Dirty Wars director, who spent the past week promoting his new film on cable news, called MSNBC “one long episode of the E! True Hollywood Story of Barack Obama.”
Is he magical?!
