Human Rights Campaign Takes Action Against Saks Fifth Avenue Over LGBT Policies
The nation’s largest LGBT rights group takes on the high-end department store over a conflict between the store’s policies and a legal position it is taking against transgender employment protections....
View ArticleWhen 17-Year-Old Rachel Maddow Came Out Publicly In Her College Newspaper
As a freshman at Stanford. Stanford Daily Archives In early 1990s, a young Rachel Maddow was a student at Stanford University who had just figured out that she was gay in a Stanford freshman class...
View ArticleLeadership's Plan To Stop Executive Actions — And An Early Republican Explosion
Rep. Steve King has been included on top talks about President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Rep. Steve King Kevin Lamarque / Reuters WASHINGTON — House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy has...
View ArticlePresident Obama Proposes Free Community College For Two Years
An estimated 9 million students could benefit from the program with each full-time student saving an average of $3,800 per year, the White House said. Obama's proposal is called the America's College...
View ArticleMartin O'Malley Knocks Brown Campaign For Not Defending His Record
“I can tell you my feelings were hurt,” says the Maryland governor. A Brown campaign consultant responds: “It’s disappointing that as his career is winding down so is his loyalty to a man who stood by...
View ArticleObama's Policing Task Force Sounds As Divided As The Police And Protesters
The task force meets for the first time next week and has 90 days to make policy recommendations. Members are ready to talk — but it’s tense. A December protest after the grand jury decision not to...
View ArticleFederal Appeals Court Appears Poised To Strike Down Three Southern States'...
After oral arguments about Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas’ bans on marriages for same-sex couples, the 5th Circuit of Appeals looks likely to strike the laws down. The plaintiffs and lawyers...
View ArticleStaten Island Prosecutor Who Oversaw Eric Garner Case To Run For Congress
Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan announced today he will run for Michael Grimm’s vacated seat. Via Youtube Republican Daniel Donovan, the Staten Island district attorney who didn't win...
View ArticleThe Last Temptation Of Mitt
How Romney got from 11 no’s to maybe on the question of 2016 — and what he has to decide before he takes the plunge. “Can you imagine what Ted Cruz is going to do to Jeb Bush?” one Romney insider...
View ArticleThe Job Nobody Wanted: Kamala Harris And Gavin Newsom Decide On Senate
AP / Rich Pedroncelli On Saturday night, two days and six hours after the announcement that Barbara Boxer would retire from the U.S. Senate, Lou Paulson was still fielding phone calls.The labor chief...
View ArticleThis Tweet About Gays In Hollywood And New York Broke The Space-Time Continuum
An out gay New York Times reporter suggested a Hollywood actor is closeted on the same night an out gay Hollywood actor won a Golden Globe for portraying a closeted New York Times reporter. At the...
View ArticleJohn Kerry Makes Surprise Visit To Pakistan For Security Talks
Kerry landed in Islamabad Monday morning on an unannounced trip to meet with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Kerry will also visit the school attacked by Taliban, according to Agence...
View ArticleSupreme Court Puts Off Decision On Hearing A Same-Sex Marriage Case For Friday
The justices turned down Louisiana same-sex couples’ request to skip over the appeals court and take their case directly, but they had no word on the cases out of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals....
View ArticleWhite House: We Screwed Up By Not Sending Someone Senior To Paris Rally
White House press secretary Josh Earnest tells reporters, “I think it’s fair to say we should have sent someone with a higher profile.” Reuters / LARRY DOWNING WASHINGTON — The Obama administration...
View ArticleOklahoma Set To Execute First Inmate Since Botched Lethal Injection
Charles Warner, who raped and killed his roommate’s 11-month-old daughter, is set to be executed on Thursday. This would be the state’s first execution since inmate Clayton Lockett died of a heart...
View ArticleFederal Government Launches Social Media Audit After CENTCOM Hack
“More than 800 federal managers” ordered to check their social media security after an embarrassing break-in at the Pentagon. WASHINGTON — Within minutes of the first reports that CENTCOM's social...
View ArticleSouth Dakota Same-Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules
The ruling is on holding pending any appeal from the state. WASHINGTON — A federal judge in South Dakota added her voice to the chorus of judges ruling over the past 13 months that bans on same-sex...
View ArticleFrench Ambassador: No Senior U.S. Official At Rally Is An "Intra-American...
The White House said it should have sent someone with a “higher profile” to the event. AP J. Scott Applewhite WASHINGTON — The French ambassador on Monday dismissed any notion that the Obama...
View ArticleSherrod Brown Wrote Some Pretty Interesting Lefty Letters To His Local...
“Nixon’s and the governmental hierarchy’s imperialistic intentions i.e., extending American ideology, creating new American markets, and exploiting dark-skinned people through a repressive and selfish...
View ArticleGOP Senators Don't Have A Lot Of Love For A Romney 2016 Presidential Bid
“It’s a free country.” Jonathan Ernst / Reuters WASHINGTON — Republican Senators weren't exactly thrilled to hear the news that their last presidential candidate Mitt Romney was considering another...
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