Yesterday I posted a video of testimony from the Minnesota state House by an anti-gay marriage advocate making some comically ridiculous statements about ‘sodomy’. Here’s something very different though. It’s testimony before the same panel from a former Republican state Rep., Lynne Osterman, expressing teared up regret over voting against equality back in 2002.
It’s really pretty powerful. Watch after the jump … Read More
Paul Ryan not so sure about all this presidential outreach: “The question is, is he going to go out on the campaign trail and start campaigning against us again like he has been since the election?”
It seems we’re going to find out the identity of the person who took the 47% video tonight.
Bodies exhumed in 24 year old murders tied to Winnie Mandela.
South African police say they have opened a new murder investigation.
Dylan becomes first rock act to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
It doesn’t change my take on the legalization question. But TPM Reader RG has what I think is the best counter-argument …
I teach a graduate-level class in drug use epidemiology, and we spend a lot of time talking about alcohol and tobacco as well as illicit drug use. We have one lecture that covers marijuana policy, and I close with a slide picturing “Joe Camel” and the question “Do we really want to hand control over to these guys”?
Elizabeth Warren slams Republicans for filibustering Consumer Protection Agency Chief.