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New Supreme Court term opens with new justice

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:00:08 +0000

(Washington) The Supreme Court is starting its new term with a new justice, Elena Kagan, and bad news for hundreds of parties trying to get their cases heard at the nation’s highest court.

The(...)

Neff: Pennies and protests

logointern1 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:00:51 +0000

Only a fool will vote for Jeremy Walters.

Walters is a Republican candidate for the state legislature in Iowa’s 67th District who, earlier this month, preached a Gospel of Hate from the Book(...)

Lambert makes-out to protest Westboro Baptist Church

logointern1 — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:40:57 +0000

Adam Lambert’s concert on Saturday was unexpectedly NOT met with protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church.

Lambert fans in Missouri were ready to counter-protest, bringing over 200 people(...)

48 states: Funeral protests shouldn’t be protected

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:47:09 +0000

(Washington) Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have submitted a brief to the Supreme Court in support of a father who sued anti-gay protesters over their demonstration at the 2006(...)

Fred Phelps was once a CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER(?!?!!)

Jennifer Vanasco — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:42:59 +0000

I don’t know what to say about this CNN story. Fred Phelps was once a civil rights attorney, fighting for African-Americans in cases other lawyers wouldn’t touch? Says CNN: By the time Phelps moved to Topeka in 1954, it had become the launching ground for the modern civil rights movement. That was the year the [...]

Father wages court battle against Westboro funeral protests

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:30:13 +0000

(York, Pa.) Some nights Albert Snyder wakes up at 3 a.m. Other nights he doesn’t sleep at all, tormented by thoughts of the hateful signs carried by a fundamentalist church outside his Marine(...)

Donations pour in to father of fallen Marine

Jennifer Vanasco — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:00:58 +0000

(Baltimore) Donations are pouring in for a fallen Marine’s father who was ordered to pay the court costs of an anti-gay church he’s been battling.

Albert Snyder of York, Pa., appeared Thursday(...)

Tuesday Watercooler: The RNC’s kinky little habit

logointern1 — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:11:25 +0000

Republican National Committee funds pay for the darnedest things. On Monday, The Daily Caller reported the RNC shelled out almost $2,000 to pay a tab at “Voyeur West Hollywood, a(...)

Tuesday watercooler: Is Phelps freakier than furries?

logointern1 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:17:59 +0000

What does the Supreme Court think of the “God hates fags” spewing Westboro Baptist Church? We will find out this fall.

The high court will decide whether protesting military funerals with(...)

Court to rule in military funeral protest case

Jennifer Vanasco — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:00:17 +0000

(Washington) The Supreme Court is getting involved in the legal fight over the anti-gay protesters who show up at military funerals with inflammatory messages like “Thank God for dead(...)