Dear Nice Deb has a beautiful round-up of video tributes to our beloved Andrew Breitbart. She has done me the honor of including mine. When I find her e-mail address, I will thank her by making sure she has photos I took of her with Andrew in the Bloggers Lounge at CPAC in 2010. I …
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At PJ Media I explain why marriage will be saved by marriage equality, not DOMA
My piece at PJ Media begins: “A meteor is threatening to destroy the institution of marriage, but it isn’t marriage equality.” For background, read the full decision from Feb. 22 by a federal judge that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.
Why Andrew Breitbart as a fiscal conservative activist was a better friend to gays than Barack Obama
I loved Andrew Breitbart and he was my friend. He died today of a heart attack at the age of 43. He leaves behind a wife, four children and generations of intellectual heirs determined to pick up the weapons that have fallen from his hands to win the fight for liberty, free markets, secure borders …
DOMA declared unconstitutional in Golinski v OPM
Golinski v OPM Opinion 2-22-12 Declaring DOMA Unconstitutional
CPAC re-locates to traffic jam hell in 2013
Dear Joy McCann over at the Conservative Commune has the story about CPAC’s new location for 2013 at The Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, which is just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., and Virginia. I’ve never been there, but I have whiled away many an hour in traffic jams on the …
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Maryland State Senate may vote today on marriage equality — UPDATED: It passed!
Updated: Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendan Ayanbadejo, who is speaking in the video above, supports same-sex marriage. The Ravens’ team color is purple, which is why he is wearing a purple shirt. (Baltimore and Maryland are crazy for purple in support of the Ravens — you can even get all-purple Christmas tree lights.) The Baltimore Sun has …
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A Conservative Lesbian creates controversy by dancing to Steven Crowder’s rap parody, ‘Mr. America’
I am so grateful to the conservative blogosphere for providing the donations that enabled me to attend CPAC this year. I’ve finally recovered from the sleep deprivation and feel perky enough to start posting again. At the BlogBash and CPAC, in addition to fulfilling my mission of un-demonizing myself, I had a wonderful time catching …
BREAKING — Ninth Circuit rules Prop 8 unconstitutional
I’ll be on a press conference shortly and will provide more info afterwards. Update: Click here for the Ninth Circuit’s opinion rejecting Prop 8 as unconstitutional. (Click here for the opinion of the judge who concurred in part and dissented in part.) Ted Olson, on the teleconference call, just quoted the following from page 77: It …
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UPDATED — Please help send me to CPAC 2012 this week
My free caregiver that I had arranged for my father so I can afford to attend CPAC told me yesterday that his job requires him to be in Richmond this week so he is no longer available. That means that I have to pay for someone to care for my father. I sold some items …
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Why the candidate I support is … brokered convention
I’m still wrapping up my personal projects so I can return to blogging, so I’d been planning this post but hadn’t written it. However, Monday evening Erick Erickson announced on his radio show that the candidate he is endorsing as the Republican nominee for president is the Sweet Meteor of Death, or a brokered convention, …
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