One small conviction reversed on a technicality for a polygamist, one giant leap for polygamy

On Tuesday the Utah Supreme Court reversed the  convictions of polygamist Warren Jeffs of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of felony rape as an accomplice based on a technicality having to do with how the jury was instructed at his trial in 2007. Following the ruling a hearing to decide …

Tarnation! This h’yar algorithm says …

I write like Mark Twain I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! Dear Matthew Vadum, who writes like Mario Puzo, put me up to this thanks to a post of his I spotted in my Facebook newsfeed last night. Then dear Dan Collins of POWIP inspired me to mosey over to …

RED HOT ALERT!!! Jim Rutledge can beat Barbara Mikulski for Senate in Maryland

Maryland has a fiscal conservative Republican candidate who can win the race in November for U.S. Senate against Democrat incumbent Barbara Mikulski and his name is Jim Rutledge. I’d have told you on July 3 when I heard Jim speak at the Tea Party in Bel Air, Maryland, and then got a chance to interview …

Gov. Lingle’s rationale for vetoing civil unions for gays validates the point that there’s no such thing as ‘separate but equal’

Hawaii’s Republican Gov. Linda Lingle vetoed Hawaii’s civil union law on July 6 with a rationale that marks the tipping point toward acknowledging that same-sex couples are entitled to use the word “marriage”: “There has not been a bill I have contemplated more or an issue I have thought more deeply about during my eight …

A Conservative Lesbian is back!

I’ve only posted twice since June 18, 2010, because I lost the ability to function as the admin of A Conservative Lesbian — that is, publish posts, approve comments, upgrade my theme, etc. — when I upgraded to WordPress 3.0 using the “Upgrade” button in my Dashboard, which is the back end of WordPress where …

Kathy, the REAL story is how much that liberal hates cripples

Kathy Shaidle tonight links a story of a Toronto couple, Geoff and Melissa Teehan, who are being blocked from razing an old house so they can build one that will be wheelchair-accessible because Melissa became quadriplegic due to a rare illness in 2007. Regular gentle readers know that my late life partner was quadriplegic the …

Elina Garanca sings 'Chanson Boheme,' 'The Gypsy Song,' from 'Carmen'

Slow version: Fast version: As I noted in an earlier post, mezzo soprano Elina Garanca sang Carmen in the Metropolitan Opera’s January 2010 production of Georges Bizet’s Carmen, which I saw in May on PBS. I love the intelligence, humor and playfulness that Ms. Garanca brings to Carmen, that her Carmen is a woman of …

A Conservative Lesbian will be a guest on The Rick Moran Show on BlogTalk Radio tonight, 8 pm Central

I’m sorry for the late notice — WordPress is acting up. The show is on for an hour — call in at 1-718-664-9764. Update, 5/11/2010, Tues.: Rick Moran invited me this afternoon to join him on The Rick Moran Show on Blogtalk radio at 8 pm Central Time with fellow guests Clarice Feldman (see her …

Jeff Katz of Boston's Rush Radio 1200 will interview A Conservative Lesbian at 7 am, ET, on May 11

I hear tell that Monday morning, May 10, Boston conservative radio talk show host Jeff Katz at Rush Radio 1200 talked about my piece published on May 9 at Pajamas Media, “Why is it a slur to suggest Elena Kagan is a lesbian?” for his entire show. This evening his intrepid producer, Jason Pothier, tracked …