Year: 2012

Justice Scalia Said WHAT?

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Justice Antonin Scalia

Count Justice Antonin Scalia among those who consider homosexuality to be a lifestyle choice, like whether to drive an SUV or a hybrid; whether to vote Democratic or Republican; whether to have lunch at Taco Bell or McDonald’s.

But for those of us who know we couldn’t just wake up one day and “choose” to be attracted to one gender or the other (i.e., anyone who’s honest with him or herself and who is not bisexual) think Scalia’s recent comments, even though he’s trying to sell a book, are outrageous.

Scalia: If we legalize homosexuality, we’ll have to legalize masturbation and sex between consenting, unmarried adults too

“Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children’s schools, or as boarders in their home,” Scalia wrote. “They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.”

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2048 Presidential Candidate Parents Need to Get Jiggy Now

Buck Banks

35

The age the U.S. Constitution says American presidents must be to take office. According to The Atlantic: “An important deadline for Election 2048 is fast approaching… parents who want their children to be eligible for that election cycle should start trying to conceive now or in the immediate future, generations of accumulated data about fertility and the length of gestation suggest.”

Haley Denies Colbert’s Bid to Be Appointed S.C. Senator

Buck Banks

You forget one thing, my friend. You didn’t know our state drink. Big, big mistake.

— South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), denying comedian Stephen Colbert’s efforts to be appointed to the soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat in a Facebook post. Haley was referring to an interview earlier this year when Colbert didn’t remember that milk is the official drink of South Carolina, his home state.

Carville Agrees with Gingrich, End of World Nigh

Buck Banks

I don’t know what she’s going to do, but I do know this: The Democrats want her to run. And I don’t just mean a lot of Democrats. I mean a whole lot of Democrats, like 90 percent across the country. We just want to win. We think she’s the best person and shut it down. And that’s across the board.

— James Carville, on This Week, on Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects in 2016.

Gingrich: Hillary Clinton Unbeatable in 2016

Buck Banks

The Republican party is incapable of competing at that level.

— Newt Gingrich, telling “Meet the Press” yesterday that if Hillary Clinton runs for president, the Republican party has little chance of regaining the White House in 2016. He added that she’s “married to the most popular Democrat in the country” and she would also have the backing of President Obama, who will still be a “relatively popular president.”

Most Support Path to Citizenship for Undocumented Immigrants

Buck Banks

62%

Of those surveyed support an immigration reform proposal that would allow illegal or undocumented immigrants to earn citizenship over a period of several years; 35% oppose it, according to a new Politico/George Washington University Battleground poll. “The poll reveals significantly greater overall support, 77%, for an immigration law that allows the children of illegal or undocumented immigrants to earn the right to stay here permanently if they complete a college degree or serve in the military. Just 19% oppose this key element of the so-called DREAM Act.”

Caught on Tape: Murdoch, Ailes Acted as Recruiters for GOP, Sent Fox News Operative to Invite Petraeus to Run for President

Jon Ponder

The release of a secretly recorded conversation between Gen. David Petraeus and a Fox News operative has erased all plausible deniability about the fact that Fox News is nothing other than a media and communications vehicle for the Republican Party. In the recording, which was apparently made by Petraeus, Kathleen T. McFarland, a Fox News “security analyst,” is heard asking Petraeus to run for president, an invitation she says she is delivering on behalf Roger Ailes, head of Fox News, and Rupert Murdoch, owner of the Newscorp, the parent company of Fox. The recording was made in Afghanistan in the spring of 2011 a few weeks before Pres. Obama appointed Petreaus as head of the CIA — and more than a year before Petreaus resigned from the CIA in disgrace after revealing he was engaged in an ongoing affair with one of his fans.

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