The groups working to pass an anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment in North Carolina include the Christian Action League, Return American and the North Carolina Family Policy Council all citing religion as the reason for fomenting anti-gay bigotry in my state.

Democrats are planning to attach a veteran’s hiring preference, one of the original remaining pieces of the Obama Jobs Bill, to a House-passed bill that repeals a law requiring 3 percent withholding from federal contractors. These people aren’t serious.

I was at the White House once again yesterday protesting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline along with many of the folks I was arrested with on September 9 including Dan Choi, Jessica, Ari, Scarecrow and Bill McKibben. It was really gratifying to see that our relatively small crew of 65 who were handcuffed, [...]

This is what Liz Cheney’s “victory” looks like: since Obama took office in 2009, 262 Americans have been killed in Iraq. And with regards to the other war her father screwed up, we’ve lost another 1,201 men and women.

Last week, I brought FDL’s Occupy Supply efforts to Occupy St. Louis, where i was met by several FDL members. Together we talked to St. Louis occupiers, then together we purchased and distributed supplies for the camp.

With Greece knuckling under to the European financial “troika,” the pressure is now on Italy to impose austerity on itself, just as Greece did. Italy’s borrowing costs are now much higher than Germany’s and may be unsustainable. There are calls for Italy’s Berlusconi to resign, and a confidence vote focused on the austerity package may occur soon.

A new poll of Republican and GOPd-leaning voters shows Mitt Romney now has a plurality of them seeing Mitt as the candidate most likely to beat Obama. A previous poll showed Rich Perry ahead. But Mitt’s plurality is still not strong.

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The latest poll from Ohio is that SB5, the anti-labor law that stripped worker rights passed by Ohio Republican Governor Kasich and the GOP legislature, will be repealed by voter initiative tomorrow. The poll shows a solid 59 percent opposed to the law and only 36 percent in favor of keeping it, despite tons of corporate and conservative money and ads.

Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson can’t find the actual data on what’s driving the deficits and how to address them, so he concocts a “centrist” position that, surprise, calls for cuts to “entitlements” and programs that matter to the folks hit hardest by the recession.