Teddy Partridge

Under relentless pressure from the Courage Campaign and NO activists, the Mormon Church has closed its Utah call centers they were using to lie to Californians about Prop 8.

Sure, the Palin family's wardrobe expenses seem excessive, but how much does it cost to slather the makeup on McCain's latest crush running mate?

It wasn't her position papers, it wasn't her policy statements, it wasn't her speechmaking, it wasn't her maverick-ness: it was her hostessing of informal luncheons before the pundits boarded their cruise ships for Alaska that got Sarah Palin noticed by the right-wing punditocracy. Didn't you always wonder about those crazy National Review or Weekly Standard cruises?

Mark Jacoby, who heads the vote-registration-fraud operation Young Political Majors (YPM), was arrested today in California by agents of the office of Secretary of State Debra Bowen.

This weekend there is a million-dollar match of ALL contributions to No On Prop 8, courtesy of philanthropist Steven Bing and Equality California.

Your doubled donation will help keep this great ad on the air in California. This ad works, by the way -- uncommitted voters break 2-1 against Prop 8 after viewing this ad alongside Yes ads. So, whether or not this ad is your ideal ad, please believe this: it's been tested. This ad works; your money won't be wasted.

After a period of discouraging non-advocacy, Ellen DeGeneres made a PSA against Prop 8.

Senator McCain, if you'd still like to keep up the fiction that yours is a respectful campaign and that you believe Senator Obama is a decent family man and citizen, you'd better stop TIME's Karen Tumulty from writing down what Virginia state GOP chairman Jeffrey M Frederick says as he briefs your volunteer canvassers.

Please watch this new No On Prop 8 ad. It's a hard-hitting attack on the lies thrown at Californians for weeks by the Yes On 8 people. Their ads say, over and over, that unless Prop 8 passes, churches will be required to marry gays and schools will have to teach "about the gay lifestyle." Yes on 8 also claims that churches will lose their tax-exemption unless Prop

Don't you find it interesting that Cook made a point of telling his young co-religionists that what they are doing is legal? Mormons claim to have donated an estimated 43% of the Yes On 8 money -- much of it from outside California. The Mormon Church wants to rollback marriage equality in California -- and they are winning among younger voters, who drove Prop 8's recent gains in public opinion polls.