The last head of the YJS was the head of the state news agency SABA and was a total tool. The regime’s choice for this term is the vice at al Thawra, and there is a lot of contention about the regime’s strong arming the union to select and “elect” its candidate. (See Almotama...

GQ has a new interview with Michael Steele, in which the embattled RNC chairman says that he is pro-choice: GQ: Are you saying you think women have the right to choose abortion? STEELE: Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s an individual choice. […] GQ: Are you saying you don’t want to overt...

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Is there no place in this country with more than 10,000 people 2 of them black that the NAACP doesn’t want to screw up by having a chapter there?  Not only does Paducah have an NAACP chapter, it’s evidently strong enough and the city government pandering enough such that it has influenc...

Marcy Wheeler: Five years ago today, Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales rushed to John Ashcroft’s ICU room to try to trick him into signing the re-authorization for George Bush’s illegal wiretap program over Jim Comey’s objections. Jim Comey arrived at the hospital in time to prevent C...

Headlines from DemocracyNow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. Obama Lifts Stem Cell Research Ban President Barack Obama has overturned a ban on federal funding for ...

After meeting with President Obama and speaking to a joint session of the United States Congress, Prime Minister Gordon Brown returned home to host in Number 10 Downing Street a reception for the LGBT leaders of Great Britain. The event was the second function in about six months. In October, First ...

When I'm wrong, I admit it. When I wrote about the Pleasant Grove v Summun case last week, I was incensed as well as flabbergasted that the vote was unanimous and that not a single Justice seemed to question the deeper issues. I was wrong. Frederick Clarkson at Talk to Action went more deeply in...

Karen and I are one of 18,000 couples who legally married in California last year.  Only 18,000 were allowed to marry because many citizens of CA voted to take the right of marriage away from gay and lesbian couples, and ceremonies were halted.  A vote by the people did that, even though...

A number of same-sex spouses and widows who were legally married in Massachusetts have filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that a 1996 federal law discriminates against married same-sex couples by limiting certain protections and benefits that are normally provided to married...