Two days after announcing a hold on same sex couple deportations, the USCIS says   "whoops! Not really!"  (hat tip to The Ad...

Yesterday, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services revealed that  deportations of people who have overstayed their visas, but  are in ...

(hat tip to   JoeMyGod for this latest bit of American Taliban ass-hattery) Speaking to his faithful minions at the Shereton in West Des M...

hat tip to John A over  at  Americablog -------------------------------------------------------------- Bi-National Lesbian Couple Can Press ...

Today on the House Floor,   Rep Anthony Weiner (D NY)  thanks the GOP for  their  clear laser-like focus on the issues that  TRULY matter to...

On FOX no less... Fear, bigotry, hatred  and homophobia lost. All those who ranted that such a thing,  as what happened last night on...

In the Spring of  2004,  I moved to  San Francisco.   I had lived in Chicago for nearly  6 years.   When  I  was part of the  large scale la...

Hey there Funny Odd Thing'ers... I don't usually post "action item" kinda stuff on here. But this is a special ca...

It is always interesting  to watch American politics from  the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.   As I type this blog entry I am sitting in...

In the wake of  the Obama Administration's announcement that  it would no longer defend  in court section three of  the  Defense of Ma...

From the Huffington Post: ------------------------------------------------ WASHINGTON -- In a major policy reversal, the Obama administrat...

It was back in the last week of October, 2008.   I was in the UK visting Eric.  It was yet another of the many many trips I was taking ba...

Wow..  

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An update of my previous posting about  the Same Sex Marriage debate currently going on in Iowa.   With  folks like Grandma Jean standing u...

Ok...   When I sat down to write this blog post,  I was  all set  to give example after example of how the modern day GOP/TeaParty/Social/Fi...

Ah..  CPAC !   The annual  " Conservative Political Action Conference" .   The   Cirque du Silly   of  American politics,   kicked...

MSNBC;s  Ed Shultz, has had enough of  the Republican Party's criminal neglect of  the long term unemployed in the United States. Vis...