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Illinois gay marriage advocates intensify pressure on unlikely targets 27 Aug 2013 | 09:25 am
Civil rights advocates were disappointed at the end of this year’s Illinois legislative session after the gay marriage bill failed to come up for a vote. The movement responded by quietly going home b...
Stormy Monday, 8/26/13 27 Aug 2013 | 04:19 am
With Syria roiling and the situation increasingly unpredictable, the White House has announced that it “will be consulting appropriately with the Congress” about next steps. Once he’s received their a...
Sunday Talks, 8/25/13 25 Aug 2013 | 04:24 am
On ABC’s This Week, ABC News chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz will be reporting live from Cairo on the situation in Egypt. ABC News’ George Will and Cokie Roberts, Democratic strategi...
Friday Talking Points [270] — The Dog That Didn’t Bark, And Herding Stupid Insane Cats 24 Aug 2013 | 08:32 am
Dog-lovers will have to wait for their portion of that headline until the awards part of the column; but as for the cats, I was struck this week by a funny comment on an article I was reading on the c...
Take Five (Summertime Blues and Reds edition) 23 Aug 2013 | 06:41 am
ONE: The Original Kings of Comedy With Stewart and Colbert in reruns, Congress in recess until September, and the phony hysterics over this summer’s White House pseudo-scandals losing their already d...
Answering The Call (The Butler) 23 Aug 2013 | 05:37 am
A friend called from California to ask had I seen the news of Skip Gates’ screening of Lee Daniels’ new movie, The Butler (starting Forest Whitaker), which led at the box office over the weekend in ti...
Stormy Monday, 8/19/13 20 Aug 2013 | 01:04 am
After a Martha’s Vineyard vacation that included dinner with Deval Patrick, a cocktail party at the home of Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, and a round of golf with Larry David, President Obama returned to...
Sunday Talks, 8/18/13 18 Aug 2013 | 09:44 am
On ABC’s This Week, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) will discuss the latest on the s...
Presidential Petitions 14 Aug 2013 | 11:01 pm
Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) wants to impeach the president for unhappiness. “A question I get a lot, ‘If everybody is so unhappy with the president, why don’t you impeach him?’” Farenthold said at a ...
ODS – Obama Derangement Syndrome 12 Aug 2013 | 09:46 am
If you believe the following, you are probably suffering from Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS): If Obama said it, it’s a lie. When it’s proven to be the truth, he got lucky – because it’s just a craz...
