And now, landofthefreehomeofthebrave.org officially endorses Barack Obama for president. We do not do this because we are liberals — well, some of us lean a little further left on certain issues than others — or because we have bought into Mr. Obama’s rhetoric any more than we did John McCain’s. Rather, it was our esteemed [...]

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Idaho Senator Larry Craig, 62, who has voted against same-sex marriage, and other gay rights legislation, has plead guilty to misdemeanor charges stemming from complaints of lewd conduct in a men’s room. The three-term senator, who is married, was arrested June 11, 2007 at the Minneapolis airport.
According to a Hennepin County, Minnesota court docket, [...]

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This article was originaly published at Blogcritics on April 23, 2007.
April is Autism Awareness Month and I have chosen to make folks aware of the complexities and conundrums surrounding its politics, which are replete with divisions, debates, and diatribes fueled by self-advocates, special interests, activists, militants, and conspiracy theorists. The two main camps — though [...]

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I hate hypothetical questions. While contemplating their answers can be an interesting exercise in creative speculation, there is no way to definitively state what really coulda, shoulda, woulda, mighta been via process of imagination. Can any of us actually know what we would do or how we would react if any of our cocktail party [...]

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From the May 20, 2007 edition of the Los Angeles Times, a eulogy for Jerry Falwell, written by Larry Flynt.

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