Three Men Charged In Plot To Firebomb Obama Chicago Headquarters

Connecticut Republicans Pick McMahon Again

Linda McMahon has been chosen again by Connecticut Republicans to run for Senate, but she faces Republican Chris Shays in an August primary.

McMahon, the former CEO of WWE, received 60.4 percent of the vote. Shays netted 32.2 percent, easily meeting the threshold — 15 percent of the total — to force a primary.

Three other candidates — Brian K. Hill of Hartford, Kie Westby of Southbury and Peter Lumaj of Fairfield — did not receive enough support to qualify.…

Conservative Billionaire Looking To Slam Obama Wants Big Government Subsidies

Ameritrade founder and Chicago Cubs owner Joe Ricketts, who considered and then rejected a proposal to hire “extremely literate conservative African-American” to paint President Obama as a “metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln” is demanding a huge taxpayer subsidy to renovate Wrigley Field. The redo price tax is $300 million.

…half would come from $150 million or so in bonds to be retired with increased revenue from the existing city and Cook County amusement taxes on ticket sales. Specifically, debt service would get the first 6 percent in growth above a base level of around $15 million a year now.

But it’s a …

Psychiatry Giant: “I Owe The Gay Community An Apology”

Dr. Robert L. Spitzer favored gay reparative therapy, but now realizes he was wrong.

…he was at his computer, ready to recant a study he had done himself, a poorly conceived 2003 investigation that supported the use of so-called reparative therapy to “cure” homosexuality for people strongly motivated to change.

What to say? The issue of gay marriage was rocking national politics yet again. The California State Legislature was debating a bill to ban the therapy outright as being dangerous. A magazine writer who had been through the therapy as a teenager recently visited his house, to explain how miserably …

Grover Norquist Compares Senator Schumer’s Anti-Tax Dodger Bill To Nazi Germany

Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist invoked Nazi Germany in response to Senator Charles Schumer’s ex-PATRIOT Act.

[Norquist] said the targeting people that turn in their passports reminded him of regimes that had driven people out of the country, only to confiscate their wealth at the door.

“I think Schumer can probably find the legislation to do this. It existed in Germany in the 1930s and Rhodesia in the ’70s and in South Africa as well,” said Norquist. “He probably just plagiarized it and translated it from the original German.”

The Nazis infamously implemented a departure tax on Jews …

Republican Mississippi State Rep Uses Bible Quote To Call For Death For Gays

Mississippi State Representative Andy Gipson posted a Bible verse on his Facebook page that says gays should be put to death and, when called on it, is defending it.

Gipson posts a comment about how homosexuality is “unnatural” and causes “disease.”

According to Leviticus 20:13, “If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”

After being asked to apologize by UnityMS, Gipson doubled down.

“To be clear, I want the world …

Are Republicans Purposely Sabotaging The Economy?

Their positions on the debt limit, for example, cause economic anxiety which is bad for markets (via Political Wire).

The latest Democratic complaint came after House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that when Congress raises the nation’s borrowing cap in early 2013, he will again insist on big spending cuts to offset the increase. Boehner, R-Ohio, continues to reject higher tax rates, which Democrats demand from the wealthy.

That led Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to say Boehner is virtually assuring another debt-ceiling crisis as bad or worse than the one that shook financial markets nine months ago.…

Hawaii To Arizona: Prove You Need The Birth Certificate

Hawaii’s Office of the Attorney general is telling Arizona’s Secretary of State (pictured) it has to prove it needs President Obama’s birth certificate for Hawaii to comply.

Special Assistant Joshua Wisch said late Friday that Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett hasn’t done that despite numerous email and phone exchanges between their offices.

Wisch says Hawaii state laws require Bennett to show legal authority that this office needs the records to update its official lists as part of its ordinary work.

Wisch says as soon as Bennett gives Hawaii adequate authority, the Aloha State will verify Obama’s birth.…

Woman Who Was Bullied Brings Tears To Her Tormentors’ Eyes–Years Later

A woman’s poem about being bullied 25 years ago brought emotional reactions from those who bullied her when she posted it on Facebook.

“I got an outpour of calls and messages, people stepping forward that I don’t even remember that said ‘I know I was one of those that picked on you and I’m so sorry,’” Lynda Frederick said Friday. “It was overwhelming.”

Frederick, 42, attended Orange Glen High School in Escondido, a town near San Diego. Her poem, posted several weeks ago on a class Facebook page, talked about a girl who “had love in her heart to share …

Maryland Court: Gay Divorce Okay, Gay Marriage Not Okay

Submitted by Cheston Catalano

Maryland’s highest court says gay couples can get divorced there, even though they can’t get married.

The Court of Appeals ruled 7-0 that couples who have a valid marriage from another state can divorce in Maryland. The case involved two women who were married in California and denied a divorce in 2010 by a Maryland judge.

“A valid out-of-state same-sex marriage should be treated by Maryland courts as worthy of divorce, according to the applicable statues, reported cases, and court rules of this state,” the court concluded in a 21-page ruling.…

Former Co-Worker Says He Was Bullied By George Zimmerman And Subject To Racial Taunts

Material being gathered for discovery in the Trayvon Martin case includes an interview with a former co-worker of George Zimmerman.

The man, who is not identified by name, says that Zimmerman relentlessly bullied him at work.

Zimmerman, according to the witness, targeted him because he was Middle Eastern. He repeatedly called the man a “fucking moron” and mocked him using the voice of “Achmed the terrorist.” Zimmerman’s stories about the man would involve “bombing,” “I’ll kill your family” and other “jokes” about “Middle Eastern stuff.” According to the man, this went on “for days and days.”

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