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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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Apparently being smart and having conservative values do not go hand in hand. At least, that’s what former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said during a weekend speech at the Values Voter Summit in which he also criticized the media and libertarians.
Posted on Sep 16, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including more speculation on Romney’s running mate and sh*t that Rep. Allen West says.
Posted on Aug 7, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including July fundraising totals for the presidential candidates and the Republican National Convention speaker lineup.
Posted on Aug 6, 2012
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Last time on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The editor in chief of The Advocate talks chicken and bigotry, the tea party wins big in Texas, cybersecurity from the inbox to the nuclear power plant, race and politics, and we remember Gore Vidal.
Posted on Aug 5, 2012
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The editor in chief of The Advocate talks chicken and bigotry, the tea party wins big in Texas, cybersecurity from the inbox to the nuclear power plant, race and politics, and we remember Gore Vidal.
Posted on Aug 5, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Aug 2, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Democratic National Convention speaker announcement and Newsweek calling Mitt a wimp.
Posted on Jul 30, 2012
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Jeff Bezos and his wife, responding to an email from an Amazon employee, have made what is the largest single donation to the cause of same-sex marriage in the United States to support passage of a referendum in Washington state.
Posted on Jul 27, 2012
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Tom Menino is choosing civil rights over fast food. Boston’s mayor is aiming to block Chick-fil-A’s attempt to expand to his city because the restaurant chain’s CEO opposes same-sex marriage.
Posted on Jul 25, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why strip clubs (yes, strip clubs!) in Tampa, Fla., are preparing for the RNC next month, plus Stephen Colbert’s campaign advice to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
Posted on Jul 24, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the Republicans’ 33rd(!) attempt to repeal Obamacare and gay marriage getting put to a vote in Maryland.
Posted on Jul 11, 2012
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AP/Mike Groll
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By Scott Tucker — Obama has not changed his long held position that each state still has the right to be an experimental station for or against marital equality, though most states now have some form of legal ban against gay marriage.
Posted on Jun 7, 2012
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A 14-year-old West Virginia radio show host is in the news after he denounced homosexuality as perverted and unnatural on his program, and blasted the likes of President Obama and Lady Gaga for “making kids gay.”
Posted on Jun 7, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the Wisconsin recall election, the next step in the battle to legalize same-sex marriage in California and Bill O’Reilly’s election prediction.
Posted on Jun 5, 2012
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AP/Nam Y. Huh
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By Scott Tucker — The wider political pathology here is authoritarianism, and not simply a garden variety of British royalism.
Posted on Jun 5, 2012
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In an August 1996 letter, President Bill Clinton wrote that raising the issue of gay marriage was “divisive and unnecessary.” He was right about the first part, but according to a decision by a federal appeals court in Boston this week, he was mistaken about the second.
Posted on Jun 1, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — In most of America, life for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people is getting worse—much worse.
Posted on May 28, 2012
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By David Sirota — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is using his power to undermine a popular proposal to increase the minimum wage.
Posted on May 25, 2012
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A new Public Policy Polling survey shows that a referendum to keep Maryland’s law allowing same-sex marriage, which is scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, is likely to pass.
Posted on May 24, 2012
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — Since the president’s affirmation of marriage equality, a series of African-American organizations, politicians, sports and entertainment figures have also announced their support.
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In a disturbing rant posted to YouTube, a North Carolina pastor is seen calling for gays and lesbians to be killed by fencing them off in an electrified pen. The pastor, identified as Charles L. Worley, is reported to have made the homophobic remarks May 13 after President Obama came out in support of legalizing same-sex marriage.
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By Eugene Robinson — With its support for gay marriage, the NAACP has done more than strike a blow for fairness and equality.
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Freedom of the press is threatened every day in Mexico as journalists are tortured and killed; Obama’s support of gay marriage distracts the public from the impunities in Afghanistan; press freedom is also under attack in the U.S. as journalists are arrested for protesting. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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By Joe Conason — Across America—and particularly in the red states that have rejected gay marriage—divorce rates are continually rising, along with teen pregnancies, out-of-wedlock births and single motherhood (which somehow afflict gay-friendly blue states far less).
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When Newsweek published a cover this week that declared Obama America’s “first gay president” after he came out in favor of same-sex marriage, it raised some eyebrows. On Tuesday, comedian Bill Maher addressed the controversial cover during an interview with Conan O’Brien.
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Last time on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Scott Tucker disrupts the celebration of Obama’s gay marriage announcement; the Green Party candidate; Robert Scheer and Sergei Plekhanov; austerity check; and the class politics of parking tickets.
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last time on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Scott Tucker disrupts the celebration of Obama’s gay marriage announcement; the Green Party candidate; Robert Scheer and Sergei Plekhanov; austerity check; and the class politics of parking tickets.
Posted on May 15, 2012
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AP/Jae C. Hong
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Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romey confirmed Saturday that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction when he told an audience at Liberty University that marriage is between a man and a woman. President Obama had voiced his support for marriage equality just a few days earlier.
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama’s evolutionary leap on same-sex marriage is a historic advance in the nation’s long march toward equality and justice.
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Award-winning playwright and gay rights activist Tony Kushner speaks with “Democracy Now!” about Obama’s decision to support same-sex marriage, the life of children’s author Maurice Sendak, and his regard for Abraham Lincoln, about whom he wrote a screenplay for an upcoming film directed by Steven Spielberg.
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AP/Ben Margot
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By Robert Scheer — Once again President Barack Obama has come tantalizingly close to being terrific.
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White House/Pete Souza
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Anyone who attributes courage to Obama in making this announcement is in a bemused state of mind.
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At last, Barack Obama is supporting same-sex marriage. The president disclosed in a television interview that he had changed his long-standing position, a move that should satisfy (at least for now) a Democratic base that was growing frustrated with him over the controversial social issue.
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Llima (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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Campaign politics have always been about evading difficult questions and buying time. But President Obama’s refusal to take a firm position on gay marriage is particularly troublesome to many. (Update: Obama came out in favor of same-sex marriage Wednesday.)
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A measure that would ban same-sex marriage and civil unions is expected to pass Tuesday in North Carolina, according to the latest poll of likely voters there.
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