After telling Valerie Jarrett he doesn’t think the President understands the “urgency” of the situation on the streets, Bill O’Reilly says the First Lady needs to come on The Factor and tell teenage girls “You stop having sex. You stop getting pregnant. This is wrong.”
And the President needs to “get people like Jay Z, Kanye West, all these gangsta rappers to knock it off.”
The short, sad history of the “religious liberty”/”cool to hate on the gays” mini-movement.
A Florida restaurant chain called Gator’s Dockside is charging customers a 1% Obamacare “surcharge” and their employees health care coverage doesn’t even start until almost a year from now.
ICYMI: Meet the geology grad student who ran the NRA out of Rhode Island. Amazing story.
Sahil Kapur reports some amazing doublespeak the GOP is doing on Social Security and Medicare.
I think we can now say with some confidence that the effort to rebrand anti-gay bigotry as ‘religious liberty’ has turned out to be a fairly epic debacle. Not just in Arizona where it’s now dead as legislation but in other states as well and even in the larger context of the evolving national conversation about equal rights and dignity for the LGBT community.
As we noted yesterday, as Brewer flew home from Arizona there was an almost comical run for the exits by various supporters and quasi-supporters trying to get out from under legislation that a growing body of people saw as silly, mean-spirited, economically damaging and completely needless. Brewer herself was compelled to say that she had yet to see a single instance of anyone’s religious liberty being violated.
According to the GOP’s new tax plan, it’s OK to raise taxes on the rich so long as they live in blue states.
Seth D. Michaels points out that, even if they didn’t contain a smoking gun, the Scott Walker emails reveal who we all thought he was.
What explains Jan Brewer’s transformation from anti-immigration scourge to right-wing-bucking proponent of Obamacare and gay equality?
This just in from the Justice Department:
During his regular morning meeting with senior staff, the Attorney General began experiencing symptoms including faintness and shortness of breath. As a precaution, the Attorney General was taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center to undergo further evaluation. He is currently resting comfortably and in good condition. He is alert and conversing with his doctors. Additional information will be provided as it becomes available.