Political articles/news from local authors
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The students stomped their feet, heckled and then stood and turned their backs as the speaker at the University of Oregon defended red-baiting Sen. Joseph McCarthy and called Martin Luther King Jr. a communist dupe. With more than 30 security officers assigned to keep the peace, the 90-something patriarch of the […]
The San Francisco Chronicle details the latest "revelation" from the Prop 8 Trial in San Francisco, which is now in recess. The Judge in the case, Vaughn Walker, is gay. Walker is not closeted. He keeps his private life separate from his professional life, but it’s no secret that he’s gay. According to another
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The federal challenge to California’s same-sex marriage ban is attracting nationwide attention in the form of "friend of the court" briefs. Groups and individuals supporting and opposed to gay marriage submitted a flurry of opinions on the subject Wednesday, the deadline Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn R. Walker had set for the
John McCain certainly proved he has ZERO integrity during his recent Presidential run, when he literally flip flopped on virtually every position he’d ever held, just to attempt to gain the nomination. Look at McCain’s REAL history and you’ll see he wasn’t a very good soldier in the first place, yet was labeled a war
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii lawmakers declined to vote Friday on a bill that would have allowed same-sex civil unions, effectively doing away with the measure. State House leaders said a narrow majority of representatives would have voted for civil unions, but they decided to indefinitely postpone a decision on whether to grant gay and
Unmarried same-sex couples who wish to marry AND married same-sex and opposite sex couples AND all those who support them are invited to attend! This is an annual, National event happening in cities across the nation during Freedom to Marry Week! What will happen: We’ll go in to the County Clerk’s office at
Day 1 Chapter 1 of the Proposition 8 Trial Re-enactment presented by MarriageTrial.com. Opening statements begin at min. 15:02. Produced by John Ainsworth & John Ireland. Copyright John Ireland Productions, LLC.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department last year dismissed the fewest number of service members for violating its "don’t ask, don’t tell policy" than it had in more than a decade. The 2009 figure, a sharp decline from the previous year, comes from President Barack Obama’s first year in office. He opposes the policy but
