Gay Marriage Defeated In Maine
Last night, 53% of Maine voters won the right to dictate whom their fellow citizens can marry, voting to repeal a state law that would have allowed same-sex marriage.
"Miss Minnie Goes To Washington"
Minnie Kennedy, a 92-year-old retired teacher and civil rights activist from South Carolina, witnessed Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech in 1963 and was in Washington again yesterday. Moving film after jump! [WSJ]
Gay Harmony
eHarmony will begin providing same-sex matches for gays and lesbians. The site had been heavily criticized for not catering to people seeking same-sex relationships and the decision to change policy came after a New Jersey man filed a complaint in 2005. Under the terms of the settlement, eHarmony can create a new or…
The Weekly Standard is not exactly the place we'd normally expect to find a lesson on the historical and ideological unity of the movements to end institutionalized racism and sexism, but times are weird and last week's issue of the conservative journal looked at the lives of both abolitionist Frederick Douglass and…
Pat Buchanan Thinks You Should Be More Thankful For Slavery, Barry Obama
Pat Buchanan is entreating the black people of America to be more grateful to America bringing them here in "slave ships." I mean, they got welfare and methadone maintenance and forced Christianity and eventually the right to consider themselves fully human! Where is the gratitude, black people? And no, that is not my…
Uncanny Observations
January 3, 1964: Time magazine honors Martin Luther King, Jr. with a "Man Of The Year" cover story: "The Invisible Man has now become plainly visible — in bars, restaurants, boards of education, city commissions, civic committees, theaters and mixed social activities, as well as in jobs." January 3, 2008: Illinois…
