No other actress could deliver a song or a rant like Dixie Carter

Actress and singer Dixie Carter died the morning of Saturday, April 10, at the age of 70. She is survived by her husband of 26 years, Hal Holbrook, and her daughters from her first marriage to businessman Arthur Carter (no relation), Mary Dixie and Ginna. When I checked Ms. Carter’s biography on Wikipedia, I was …

It's time for an openly gay or lesbian justice on the Supreme Court — gay rights activists, get on that, please

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced this morning that he will retire from the Supreme Court at the end of its current term in June or June. Justice Stevens began his service on the Supreme Court on Dec. 17, 1975. He will turn 90 on April 20. Gay rights activists have been passive about …

UPDATED How to grab the gay equality issue from the Left

I have a proposal for attracting to conservatism a demographic that’s up-for-grabs. There are three blog publishers who are in a position to do this. Each one could do it alone, but it will make a bigger impact if they hold hands and make the leap of faith together. My proposal is that at least …

Lady Gaga is first in the billion online video views club

Mashable reported a couple of days ago that Lady Gaga made history by becoming the first artist to have over one billion views of their online videos according to video analytics company, Visible Measures. I don’t go out or listen to the radio very much, so I had no idea who she was when she …

Why Obamacare is a threat to marriage

One of the consequences of Obamacare becoming law is that its means-tested benefits will destroy marriage for the middle class the same way that the Great Society welfare state destroyed the black family with financial incentives for staying single. This information was tucked away in a piece in the New York Times on March 24, …

Yo, J.D. Hayworth — hasn't straight marriage already led to people marrying horses's asses?

Allahpundit has the story on Arizona Sen. John McCain’s Republican primary opponent, J.D. Hayworth, speculating that homosexual marriage equality will provide a legal precedent for people marrying horses. Like that’s a bad thing. However, since there already seems to be a fair number of straight people complaining they married a horse’s ass, I’m having a …

Let's have this discussion about homosexual equality in terms of the Constitution and let people love or hate us as they see fit

I have been working for equality for homosexuals on and off for about 36 years now, a perspective that reaches back to the very beginning of the modern movement for homosexual equality, which began in June of 1969 with the riots started at the Stonewall Inn bar in Greenwich Village by drag queens who refused …

Hot guy booed from stage for anti-gay rant at … CPAC?

Smokin’ hot dude Ryan Sorba had barely launched into an anti-gay rant at CPAC around 6 pm, ET, Friday evening when the audience began to boo. And boo and boo and boo. Astonished but defiant, Sorba continued his rant and began to remove articles of clothing until he was stripped down to just a tight …

Hitler finds out Phil Jones has admitted 'climate change' science isn't settled

H/T Bookworm Room This video actually is an amazingly good summary of the melting of the anthropogenic global warming hoax now re-branded as “climate change,” which seems like a safe enough position to hold since change is what the climate does all the time. I have pretty much recovered from shoveling the record snowfalls we …