Red Hot & Blue Politics

Do you remember way back (in the 90’s) when Hawaii was a gay marriage proving ground? Ok, yeah I know, we had disappointing set backs. How much things change in a decade. The Aloha State is back on the battlefield with a bill establishing civil unions. A Senate committee met on Tuesday, February 24 to [...]

Debt, deficits, spending and the cha-cha-change, teh Kennedys wane in the wind(farming), Hillary takes charge at the State Department, and more odds and ends archived from our “Red Hot News” section. There’s no new news here unless you are a new visitor.
NY Gov. Paterson appoints Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to fill the Senate seat vacated by [...]

Oh, and in case you missed this on the blogs over the weekend, sit down and take a look at this vid. Gross sexism is alive and well in this series of product marketing images depicting violence against women. Are you buying it?

(Burn It Down was produced by GABNet NYNJ commemorating International Human Rights Day)
Puts [...]

Change and corrupt Chicago politics, anti-women’s rights and anti-gay pastor, Rick Warren, to pray with Obama, Shariah, violence against women, Obama’s groping speechwriter and more odds and ends archived from our “Red Hot News” section. No new news here unless you are a new visitor.
Why Obama cozying up to Rick Warren matters or lesbian brutally [...]

I take a 10-day break and come back to fratboys initiated into the next administration and the Illinois Governor arrested on corruption charges. Change must be code word for same ol’ same ol’. Seriously, I’ve got some swamp land here in Florida to sell to anyone that bought into AxelRove’s marketing propaganda Change We Can [...]

Gay rights victory in Florida, Dems fall short on 60-seat supermajority, panhandlers, prostitution, and more bailout odds and ends to archive from our “Red Hot News” section. No new news here unless you are a new visitor.
Sen. Norm Coleman R-MN withdraws 650 ballot challenges in Minnesota recount … Senator Saxby Chambliss R-GA wins run-off, thwarting [...]

I moved to Florida about 15 months ago and only recently started reading our local newspaper, Florida Today. I’m proud of our paper. The editorial staff weighed in on the recent gay adoption ruling and fully supports ending the Florida ban on gay adoptions in a strongly worded editorial. Here are a few snips:
Discrimination against [...]

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman ruled on Tuesday that a 31-year-old Florida law that bans gays and lesbians from adopting children is unconstitutional, allowing Martin Gill and his partner to adopt their two foster children that they have raised since 2004. The Orlando Sentinel reports that:
“…these children are thriving. These words we don’t often hear [...]

The Associated Press headline reads, Astronaut outside space station loses tool bag. However, a better title for the article would have been, Helpless women losses tote in space. I first saw this story reported in Florida Today, my local paper. Florida Today provided a non-biased tag line and article title, and left out all the [...]

The fight over marriage equality in California continues as an online blacklist posts personal information on people who donated to support California’s Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage. Check out the video from CBS 5 in the Bay Area. I have no problem with boycotting businesses that supported Prop 8 and boycotting Utah and the Sundance [...]