On Thursday evening, BuzzFeed News reported that a Ted Cruz campaign ad, “Conservatives Anonymous,” featured an actress who has appeared in softcore porn films. After learning of Amy Lindsay’s prior roles, the Cruz campaign pulled the entire ad.
I am here at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC, an annual celebration of anti-gay, anti-sex, pro-life, and suuuuper pro-Christian values, all held by generally very friendly small-town midwesterners.
Congressman Scott DesJarlais, the pro-life, all-family values Tennessee Republican who cheated on his wife and then pressured his mistress to have an abortion, voted this week in favor of a federal 2o-week abortion ban. DesJarlais’ spokesperson said the congressman has “always supported pro-life values”—except, of…
Last month, Missouri Southern State University abruptly shut down its internship program at the Missouri State Capitol. The reason behind that move became clear yesterday, when the Kansas City Star revealed that (Republican, married, anti-gay) House Speaker John Diehl was sexting a college freshman intern. A story as…
We already know what the centerpiece of President Obama's State of the Union address will be tonight: tax hikes on wealthy couples making over $500,000 a year. That's great. Tax 'dem couples. Tax 'em until they have to shave off a week from their kid's summer-long stay at an equestrian camp in the Adirondacks so…
During the second Presidential debate last month, Mitt Romney suggested that one way to reduce Aurora, Colorado-style mass assault weapon shootings would be to encourage everyone to just get married before they have babies. Blaming single parents for violence has long been a dog whistle talking point of the family…
Scott DesJarlais, the pro family values anti-abortion rights Tennessee Tea Party Congressman who it turns out was actually only pro-family values and anti-abortion rights for people who aren't Scott DesJarlais, now claims that the tape transcript released last week wherein he pressured his mistress/ex patient to have…
Are you watching America's Got Talent? That question was rhetorical — we know you are watching America's Got Talent because you love Howie Mandel so much. Like, you never shut up about it. Seriously, please shut up about loving Howie Mandel. We get it. Everyone gets it.
Conservative Americans demand their politicians spout sepia pleasantries about how America needs to experience a resurrection of "traditional family values." But when it comes down to setting policy, the US's most conservative states are actually the most hostile to the families to whom they so adamantly pay lip…
If you're part of a same-sex family in a state where gay marriage isn't legal, your life is hard. If, for whatever reason, the parents in that family decide to separate, your life gets even harder.
The longest-running study of lesbian families has found an extremely low rate of abuse among kids of lesbians: zero percent, to be exact.
TLC began its life as The Learning Channel, and that's where the acronym comes from. Nowadays it's anything but a learning channel, mostly dealing in reality shows, the weirder the better. And what do those shows teach us about women?
The recent jump in conservative support for batshit anti-masturbation candidate Christine O'Donnell is good news for Democrats: if she and a Tea Party candidate in New Hampshire win tomorrow's primaries, predicted general election losses would prevent a Republican Senate takeover.
Who would you bet is more likely to graduate from college? The yet-to-be born children of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky or Tripp Palin, the child already born to Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin, who became pregnant at 17?
Jen recently acknowledged the concept of single motherhood, and that dangerous insight isn't slipping by O'Reilly unnoticed! After all, "Aniston can hire a battery of people to help her, but she cannot hire a dad." SO TRUE.
Derrick Martin, whose school (unlike Constance McMillen's) will allow him to take his boyfriend to prom, has been kicked out of the house by his parents "because of the media attention." They could learn something from Constance's awesome granny. [Macon.com]
Michael Duvall, a married Republican lawmaker and defender of "family values," confuses a legislative hearing for a locker room and brags about sleeping with two younger women — completely forgetting there's a mic in his face. It's schadenfreudelicious! [TPM Muckraker]
So you're a swinging single and you've had a one-night stand. What's the etiquette for establishing boundaries, calling the day after and getting out without hurting feelings? So began an email dispatched to me and all eHarmony members touting a story called "Navigating the One-Night Stand," about the rules of fucking…
Someone at In Touch had the terrifyingly-brilliant idea to create a photograph called "Thanksgiving With The Kardashians." Norman Rockwell is surely weeping in a puffy-cloud-filled heaven. The photograph is such a mockery of self-mockery, it's practically meta. Replete with a crushed velvet tablecloth in…
