Blog Profile / Taylor Marsh
| URL : | http://www.taylormarsh.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | US Politics / Liberal | |
| Posts on Regator: | 5096 | |
| Posts / Week: | 32.1 | |
| Archived Since: | May 12, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Joe Biden Says He Opposes KXL, But is in Administration “Minority” [Video]
According to a Buzzfeed report, VP Joe Biden told an environmental activist in South Carolina that he opposes KXL, TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline, but in the Obama administration, he’s in the minority. Biden made the remark at Rep. Jim Clyburn’s annual ‘World Famous Fish Fry’ Friday evening, where he met Elaine Cooper, a Columbia resident [...]Show More Summary
Charles Ramsey on Hearing About Amanda Berry’s Child
“That’s all what it’s about. It’s about cajones on this planet.” – Charles Ramsey THE MAN who helped Amanda Berry get free, Charles Ramsey, was interviewed by Anderson Cooper last night. McDonald’s should give him free Big Macs for life for the free commercial he gave them. One thing Charles Ramsey said is that the [...]Show More Summary
Anti-Union Colbert Busch Loses to Louse
THERE’S no reason Elizabeth Colbert Busch had to lose to Mark Sanford. The cheating louse skipped into Congress in a walk. Once considered a possible presidential candidate, Sanford left office at the end of his term having admitted to an extramarital affair and under a cloud of ethics violations. He represented the district for three [...]Show More Summary
Benghazi Hearings, The 2016 Preemptive Strike
The express purpose now is to protect Hillary Clinton, to make sure none of this touches her. – Rush Limbaugh [Liberals Will Protect Hillary at All Costs] THE BENGHAZI hearings today are trained on Hillary Clinton, which became clear if you’ve been listening to Republicans or Rush on right wing radio. The hyper partisan House [...]Show More Summary
Bill Clinton on Hillary: Stop Obsessing
PERHAPS Bill Clinton should call Rush Limbaugh and Darrel Issa, as well as all the Republicans turning their sights on her over Benghazi. From Politico: The former president hasn’t shied away from encouraging his wife to seek the White House but in an appearance at a fiscal policy summit today, he derided the obsession over [...]Show More Summary
Queer Talk: Breaking – Delaware Joins Marriage Equality List
Via @EQED, Equality Delaware tweets: BREAKING: Marriage equality passes in the Senate. Delaware is officially the 11th state to secure the freedom to marry! #DE4M At Think Progress: Just now, the Delaware Senate voted 12-9, to approve marriage equality legislation (HB 75), guaranteeing that Delaware will become the 11th state that recognizes same-sex couples’ marriages. [...]Show More Summary
Operation Yewtree Bingo; A Craze Waiting to Happen
Operation Yewtree Bingo. It was inevitable really, with the internet the way it is. Pick a few celebrity names, write them on a card/type them into Twitter, and cross them off when they are arrested for alleged sex abuse. The game might not be widespread yet, but as the number of arrests continue to rise in the [...]Show More Summary
Illinois GOP Chair Resigns Over Gay Marriage
The Chicago Tribune reports that the chairman of the Illinois GOP, Pat Brady, has resigned over controversy of his support for marriage equality. With same-sex marriage legislation pending in the Illinois legislature, Brady this year voiced his support for the proposal despite a plank in the state GOP platform that said marriage should be reserved [...]Show More Summary
Air Force to Female Sexual Assault Victims: “Submit”
Rape-crisis counselors sometimes advise, like the Air Force brochure does, that there are circumstances whereby fighting back against an assailant is a bad idea. Purchia doesn’t dispute that. “You can always identify some circumstances,” he said, “but as a general rule research indicates and it’s generally understood that fighting back often can fend off the [...]Show More Summary
More Steps Toward Marriage Equality in Minnesota
In Minnesota, two more steps toward marriage equality have been taken. Today, the Minnesota Senate Finance Committee voted to advance the legislation. That followed last night’s affirmative vote by the Minnesota House Ways & Means Committee. The votes, both by voice, mean that the Senate and House are ready for a floor vote. From Zack [...]Show More Summary
Queer Talk: “Out” Brittney Griner in NY Times, Baylor Remains Silent
Brittney Griner – women’s college basketball superstar – came “out” several weeks ago in a Sports Illustrated interview, and Sunday had an op-ed piece in the NY Times, and Southern Baptist affiliated Baylor University still remains silent. Giner was drafted by the Phoenix Mercury, and was the first “openly gay” athlete to sign with Nike. [...]Show More Summary
Chris Christie Resorts to Surgery to Fight Obesity
IT’S no secret anymore, because the news that Chris Christie decided to go under the knife to get lap-band stomach surgery in order to deal with his obesity challenge is now front page new media news. From the New York Post: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent lap-band stomach surgery to aggressively slim down [...]Show More Summary
Media Storm: Gosnell, Harpootlian, Mike Huckabee and Benghazi
IT’S happening everywhere in the media, anywhere you choose to read lately. Gosnell, Harpootlian, and Mike Huckabee, all leading to the second term curse that’s lapping at the White House lawn. The media digging down to find an alternative narrative to balance just how whacky those right wing Republicans have gotten since Sarah Palin led [...]Show More Summary
Suspect Ariel Castro and the 3 Missing Women in Cleveland
Three longtime missing women, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, have been found alive, apparently kidnapped and held for years as prisoners inside a house on Cleveland’s near West Side. Berry called police Monday afternoon and frantically told a dispatcher that she was alive and free after being kidnapped 10 years ago and held [...]Show More Summary
Air Force Sex-Abuse Chief Arrested for Sexual Assault
The Air Force official in charge of its sexual-assault prevention program was arrested for groping, authorities said Monday. Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, 41, was removed from his position as head of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office pending an investigation, the Air Force said. [NBC News] REPRESENTING the Air Force’s continued war on women, [...]Show More Summary
Nancy Grace Lands in Arizona for Jodi Arias Conclusion
“We knew the characters involved like Jodi and Travis were interesting young people, in love theoretically, and it went dramatically bad,” said Scot Safon, executive vice president and general manager of HLN. “A crime story like this that goes to trial, it’s never just about the story itself,” he added. “You get to know the [...]Show More Summary
Mark Zuckerberg Backs Keystone XL, Facebook Bans Anti-KXL Campaign
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook and FWD.us (political action group) founder, supports the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. And when a CREDO petition calling on Zuckerberg to pull support for ads promoting KXL appeared on Facebook, that CREDO effort was removed, apparently for use of Zuckerberg’s photo. From CREDO: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg started a new [...]Show More Summary
Benghazi “Whistler-blowers” and the Partisan Hacks
Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, told congressional investigators that the State Department internal review of the catastrophe at the mission in Benghazi “let people off the hook,” CNN has learned. [CNN] THERE ARE no two people more associated with partisan brawls than Joseph diGenova and Victoria [...]Show More Summary
Howard Kurtz Apologizes on CNN
WHEN you’re a professional journalist or commentator like Howard Kurtz, when you screw up massively the only way out is by saying so and admitting it fully. Howard Kurtz did that Sunday on his “Reliable Sources” show on CNN, fully admitting his errors and apologizing. This is how it should be done. From Huffington Post: [...]Show More Summary
Syrian Rebels Accused of Using Sarin Gas
“This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities,” she added, speaking in Italian. [Reuters] WHATEVER “bind” President Obama was wrongly judged to be in over his “red line” comments on chemical weapons has quickly subsided with the news about the Syrian rebels. U.N. inspectors revealing that anti-Assad [...]Show More Summary