Republicans meet in a major GOP confab in DC today hosted by Ralph Reed and focusing on getting the party to double down on opposition to gay marriage, abortion and gender equality.
Rubio: “If this bill has something in it that gives gay couples immigration rights and so forth, it kills the bill. I’m done.”
Turkey Prime Minister Erdogan to protestors: “We have arrived at the end of our patience. I am giving you my final warning.”
11 year old Sebastien De La Cruz sings Star-Spangled Banner at NBA finals game, gets deluged by racist tweets telling him to go back to Mexico.
Let’s not mince words. It’s hard being a white person in America. I hadn’t noticed this but that’s what everyone seems to say. So I was struck when a group of stories came together today in what seemed like a serendipitous way. Read More
Not terribly surprising since she’s been heading in this direction for a while. But in discussing why she wasn’t interested in being New Jersey’s interim senate appointment, former New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman basically said no one likes this current GOP.
On why no other viable Republicans seem to want to run, Whitman said, “A lot of them…are saying, ‘this Republican party isn’t really the one that I really believe in, and how well would I do in Washington with a leadership [that’s] looking for, again and again, more party loyalty than necessarily policy changes?’ And so people have said, ‘I’ve got other ways that I can contribute.'”
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So what do you do if you’re saddled with a billion-dollars-a-year gun manufacturer and can’t find any willing buyers?
Popular Communist party-backed paper on the mainland says Snowden could be useful to China.