From Arizona’s very conservative junior senator on Arizona’s rebrand anti-gay bigotry as religious freedom law …
I hope Governor Brewer vetoes SB 1062
— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) February 22, 2014
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Tymoshenko speaking live now. Video after the jump …
From the AP …
“KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s border guard service says that a leading governor and a mayor from the president’s eastern base have fled to Russia.
A spokesman for the border guard service, Oleh Slobodyan, told The Associated Press that Kharkiv regional governor Mikhaylo Dobkin and Kharkiv Mayor Hennady Kernes left Ukraine across the nearby Russian border Saturday.
Two young men, Arron Keahey and Brice Johnson met on the mobile app Meetme and decided to get together for sex. Or that’s what Keahey thought. Now Johnson, 19, faces federal hate crimes charges for beating Keahey within an inch of his life. “I invited this guy over, right, at first it was basically like a joke that went too far and too wrong,” Johnson told a relative in a jail house phone call. “I invited him over because he was a fag or whatever.” Here’s the story.
From one of Ted’s biggest hits “Stranglehold“
You ran the night that you left me
You put me in my place
I got you in a stranglehold, baby
You better trust your fate
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You ran the night that you left me
You put me in my place
I got you in a stranglehold, baby
That night I crushed your face
Daniel Strauss reports, is Scott Walker’s secret email club his Troopergate?
After several horrific days and hanging on the brink of a true international crisis, Ukraine’s contending factions took a first step back from the brink last night. This is a big deal.
Can liberals admit that John Roberts was right about the Voting Rights Act and actually move forward with fixing it? University of Massachusetts-Amherst professor Amel Ahmed explains how.
The first thing you need to know about the battle in the Arkansas legislature to fund Medicaid expansion is that getting it done requires a whopping 75-percent supermajority. The second thing you need to know is that Democrats were willing to give Republicans just about anything to get those votes — and Republicans obliged.