After wave of denunciations, Don Young apologizes for “poor choice of words.”

What has this country come to when you can’t compare gay relationships to pedophilia and bestiality? GOP star Ben Carson now says he’s ready to step down as John Hopkins commencement speaker after after comparing the push for marriage equality to pedophilia and bestiality. Watch.

Several conservative Republicans — Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio and others — are now on the record threatening to snuff out gun control legislation before it ever reaches the Senate floor.

In procedural terms, they’ll object to an up or down vote on the motion to proceed to the Democrats’ background-check based gun bill. It would thus take 60 votes just to debate the legislation, and it’s a fair bet Dems don’t have 60.

Normally it’d be fair to tag these Republicans with killing gun control. But not this time. Follow me under the fold to learn why. Read More