Even Arizonans support gay marriage: 49 yes, 41 no.
Lindsey Graham: Path to Ukraine invasion began at Benghazi.
I’ll come out and say it: We need more Congressmen like Mel Reynolds. Or at least more ex-Congressmen like Mel Reynolds. Last month we heard that after serving time in the slammer in the 90s for sex with an underage girl and bank fraud Reynolds had landing on his feet and was working as an expat mogul in Zimbabwe with an alleged sideline as a producer/director of gonzo porn. Now he’s hiding out in South Africa to avoid a secret Zimbabwean death squad which he says is out to kill him.
Do you remember when President Bush’s political adversaries starting ragging on him during the first days after 9/11? Or during the first days of the invasion of Iraq? Me neither. Whatever you think of the holder of the presidential office, if you are actually concerned about the nation’s welfare you don’t go on TV mocking him and saying he’s weak.
Zachary Karabell author of The Leading Indicators, points out some failures of a favorite economic indicator: “GDP goes up after natural disasters because of the rebuilding, but hurricanes, tornados, droughts and earthquakes are hardly a healthy recipe for economic growth.”
Rob Ford reportedly upset and surprised that Jimmy Kimmel had him on his show to make fun of him. Watch.
Man accidentally shoots 12 year old driving by his house; then gets nervous, bobbles the gun and accidentally shoots himself.
Today is primary day in Texas, and Daniel Strauss has your primer of six things to watch for as the state goes to the polls.
While it seems pretty unlikely that Congress will actually go through the work of passing a real budget this year, Sahil Kapur highlights how Paul Ryan is in a bit of a bind in his role as the GOP’s budget whiz kid — even slamming anti-poverty programs and claiming they’ve increased the poverty rate.
If you follow the anti-gay, anti-marriage equality movement in its now rearguard fight against changing laws and norms across the country you’ll know they’ve been making a lot of hay about a study by University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus purporting to show that the children of same sex relationships experience more key social and life challenges. But on the stand in a trial in Detroit yesterday he was forced to concede some pretty major defects in his study. Actually unbelievably major, like no apparent effort to control for stable heterosexual couples versus broken homes where the mother or father ended up in a same sex relationship.