And so, in honor of Yosemite Valley National Park's 123rd anniversary, we're shutting the park down ( Read more... )

... That scream you head is just me, venting frustration.

I was not likely to vote for a Republican, though I have made exceptions for my state Senators who actually have common sense, but a choice would have been nice. But after this? This is unconscionable.

Clip description: Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, ( Read more... )

I happened across this rundown of the distribution of wealth in the US, contrasting it to the perceived distribution and what people think would be an ideal distribution. I found it unsettling.

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Now. What do we do about it?

Six times, the New York State Assembly has passed the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), basic civil rights protections for transgender New Yorkers. It is once again before the Senate. Openly gay Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnel spoke in support of the bill.

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Almost makes me want to move to New York so I can vote for this man!

Of course if I did, my beta would (rightly) have a hemorrhage.

Lifted from a rant by Jim Robinson, founder of Free Republic, "the most widely-read conservative internet forum."

When your godless Marxist president and his thuggish fascist cabinet officers and his entire godless liberty-hating socialist democrat party and sicko sycophant complicit ( Read more... )

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YES of Obama!
YES for Marriage Equality in Maine ( Read more... )

I'm sorry, I really am, but I have to post this ( Read more... )

The Salt Lake Tribune editorial staff has announced its endorsement.

Nowhere has Mitt Romney’s pursuit of the presidency been more warmly welcomed or closely followed than here in Utah. The Republican nominee’s political and religious pedigrees, his adeptly bipartisan governorship of a Democratic state, and his head for business and the bottom ( Read more... )

Bill Clinton on Romney at the recent Presidential debate:

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