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What I've come to understand, having observed the forum from afar for awhile, is that S_J's posting gimmick is to play Moderate Hero, but always in favor of the conservative position (I guess he thinks the forum needs to be artificially "balanced").

Looking at IAM Gold Corp as an example, it looks like the share price has returned to its pre-crash level. In other words, someone who bought these shares at the peak of the panic after the 2008 crisis would have lost a lot of money, but for anyone who bought before then, it's back to business as u...

Ouch. I really do feel bad for him. I don't react from the gut with Ron Paul the way I do a lot of Republicans (including his kid). I genuinely feel bad for him, and I think he did have some pretty decent ideas, even if he framed them the wrong way. He believed in his idea to the end. That said, th...

Ah, Pat. I remember that my grandmother admired him when I was a boy. She also voted for George Wallace in 1968. In Illinois. Pat Buchanan Calls For 'A New Era Of Civil Disobedience' Against LGBT Equality | ThinkProgress This is Pat speaking. Priests and pastors marched for civil rights. Others prea...

Phil Russo is one of the original Tea Party founders who sat in on the conference call that gave rise to the movement as an organized force: I always defended the Tea Party against charges of racism. And then last week, someone with whom I am Facebook “friends” posted something extremely racist and ...

There are some oh-so-heartwarming tributes from American politicians to Margaret Thatcher on Twitter. My favorite comes from Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas: "The best way to honor Baroness Thatcher is to crush liberalism and sweep it into the dustbin of history. What are you doing this morning?&q...

Orrin Hatch has embraced gay civil unions. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/56112240-90/civil-com-gay-hatch.html.csp This is probably bigger than any Democrat coming out for gay marriage, considering that Hatch is a devout Mormon and was stridently against any kind of legal recognition for deca...

They talked about this on the Colbert Report tonight (http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/425047/april-03-2013/rnc-young-voters-survey). News Article about the survey: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/31/1198282/-Republicans-want-to-know-what-people-under-the-age-of-30-think-...

Hm, that might explain why Op Blessing aircraft flights were suddenly cancelled back in the late 90's/early 00's if someone caught wind of that little smuggling operation. My uncle was a mechanic on the L-1011 when suddenly he and a lot of others who worked on that plane were suddenly laid off. Ses...

"Freedom" is only the freedom to be oppressed by people closer to home. http://www.wral.com/proposal-would-allow-state-religion-in-north-carolina/12296876/ A bill filed by Republican lawmakers would allow North Carolina to declare an official religion, in violation of the Establishment Cla...

I'm sure Pat Robertson just loves his "simple, humble" Africans, even if God doesn't: In the mid-1990s, Pat struck up a friendship with Mobutu Sese Seko, the brutal tyrant of Zaire. He took a trip to the African nation with a large entourage on one of Mobutu's personal planes. Then the gro...

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The second sitting Republican Senator - mine - endorses gay marriage. And his actual endorsement is pretty well-written. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/02/republican-sen-kirk-endorses-same-sex-marriage/?hpt=hp_t2 Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, a socially moderate Republican, announced on ...

Catholic, pro-life Senator Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania) has "evolved": http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/01/bob-casey-gay-marriage_n_2994199.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003 Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) announced his support for gay marriage Monday, at last joining the growing number of Democrat...

Hey, maybe this guy can help his Party move forward. An up-and-coming Republican Senator said Sunday it was “inevitable” that the GOP would field a presidential candidate who supports same-sex marriage. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” was asked by guest host Chuck Tod...

http://schoolcraftrepublican.info/end-of-the-gop/ How then can we as Christians stay in a party that adopts Homosexuality into the fabric of the tent. I say we cannot. Homosexuals make up less than one percent of the total population. They must prey on our children to increase their numbers. Why the...

I forgot to mention the eliminationist rhetoric of the host in that video clip: Eliason: You know Mat, as we look back to a term that isn’t new but they call them Log Cabin Republicans and that of course was the group that favored homosexual involvement and moral decadence, as I define it, but this ...

Two unrelated news items that, taken together, seem to form a narrative: An RNC Committeman from Michigan named Dave Agema posted a link on his Facebook wall to a missive suggesting, among other things, that the homosexual lifestyle is "filthy". Other Republicans called for him to resign h...

They're reaching out - to choke minority groups down. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/03/29/3946743/mccrory-eliminates-latino-outreach.html WASHINGTON North Carolina’s Latino advocates are voicing alarm following the governor’s decision to eliminate the state’s office for Latino affairs. The c...

It's incredible how quickly it is becoming politically damaging for any politician with even a remotely moderate constituency to oppose gay marriage, especially given how recently the opposite was true. Did majority views on civil rights flip this quickly in the 60's, or is this unprecedented? I do...

Senator Lisa Murkowski's views may be evolving, but her politics are still purely creationist. WASHINGTON -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said Wednesday that her views on gay marriage are "evolving," but stopped short of endorsing it. "The term 'evolving view' has been perhaps overu...

Kay Hagan of North Carolina just came out in support of same-sex marriage this morning. First it was Claire McCaskill two days ago, then Marks Begich and Warner and Jay Rockefeller yesterday, and now Hagan today. This really feels like a conscious attempt to create a political narrative. https://www...

Welp. Jon Tester, on Facebook: “Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families. How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I’m proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love...

The existence of the domino effect confirmed. Mark Warner : Mark Warner · 20,143 like this 9 hours ago · I support marriage equality because it is the fair and right thing to do. Like many Virginians and Americans, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and this is the inevitable extension of my eff...

Two bits of otherwise-unrelated news on the gay marriage front, except that they both involve United States Senators and so could probably be grouped together in a single thread. First: Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) has openly endorsed same-sex marriage. She posted this on her Tumblr yesterd...