The full text of Pope Francis’ Easter Homily has been translated into English. And it seems he’s continuing to upset apple carts. The theme is the role of women and change. Full text after the jump … Read More
Egyptian state prosecutors issue arrest warrant for Bassem Youssef, the TV satirist known as the Egyptian Jon Stewart.
Over the last few days, as the emerging national marriage equality consensus has become more clear, a number of social conservatives have begun suggesting they are now in a new and oppressive climate in which they’re no longer able to speak their minds about the immorality of homosexuality or why laws should discriminate against gays.
Or, to put it more bluntly, they say they’re losing their right to calls gays gross and weird. Read More
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (R) closes Latino outreach office.
Meet the white woman and black man who the NRA thinks will make you turn against gun control and buy more guns.
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
The strange case of former Nevada lawmaker Steven Brooks keeps getting stranger. On Thursday, hours after he was expelled from the state Assembly over his bizarre and allegedly violent behavior, Brooks was arrested on the side of a California freeway on suspicion of resisting arrest.
Now, the situation gets even more complicated. A video has surfaced apparently showing the latest arrest and the force police used to make it happen. We’ve posted the video in this AP story on the arrest.