The right stuff: why Andrew Cuomo will be president

Read about him in GQ.

I love this truly patriotic TV ad, from the marriage equality proponents in New Hampshire.

The GOP establishment is beginning to go after Ron Paul. Watch and read about the latest developments...

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Dave Weigel:

Paul is in a curious place—a three-time presidential candidate who has barely been vetted by the media. He’s been the GOP’s proudest anti-war, anti-torture voice for four years. That position has earned him soft interviews with Jay Leno, and countless segments on The Daily Show.

If Paul wins Iowa, that stops. The conservative press, which has been bored but hostile to Paul all year (just see the National Review’s cover story), will remind its readers that Paul wants to legalize prostitution and narcotics, end aid to Israel (as part of a general no-aid-for-anyone policy), and end unconstitutional programs like Medicare and social security. The liberal press will discover that he’s a John Birch Society supporter who for years published lucrative newsletters studded with racist gunk. In 2008, when the media didn’t take him seriously, Paul was able to get past the newsletter story with a soft-gummed Wolf Blitzer interview. (“Certainly didn't sound like the Ron Paul that I've come to know and our viewers have come to know all this time,” said Blitzer.) This was when Paul was on track to lose every primary. It’ll be different if the man wins Iowa.

A defector talks describes the absence of human rights in North Korea. Chilling and sad that people live this way

Another image of 2011

The unwanted: gay Iraqi refugees

Iraq's unwanted people from Gay Middle East on Vimeo.

Tea party congressional antics backfire as Obama stands firmly for the payroll tax extension for the middle class. The GOP is more concerned about the welfare of the 1%

The issue right now is this, the clock is ticking. Time is running out...I saw today that one of the House Republicans referred to what they're doing as, quote, high stakes poker. He's right about the stakes -- but this is not poker. This is not a game.

--President Obama, this afternoon

Warning signs for GOP: Gallup reports that the current lot is the least popular ever recorded.

"Cardinal Sin," indeed

From the Daily Dish:

"Cardinal Sin" by Banksy - a reflection on the refusal of the hierarchy of the Catholic church to take full personal responsibility for the rape, abuse and torture of countless innocent children

The congratulatory note Obama sent to a gay couple on their wedding. He seems to be "evolving" quickly on this issue, as he should...

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Ben-wisdom

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

--Benjamin Franklin