Monthly Archives: March 2008

The McGreevey’s like’em young

The Newark Star-Ledger reports that a 29-year-old former aide to Gov. James McGreevey has come forward with details of threeways between himself, McGreevey and his wife, Dina Matos McGreevey:
A former aide to James E. McGreevey said today that he had three-way sexual trysts with the former governor and his wife before he took office, challenging [...]

The menacing homo agenda

In response to words from Mark Creech, director of North Carolina’s Christian Action League, on the recent passage of the Charloote-Mecklenburg Schools anti-bullying policy, a local blogger reveals the true homo agenda:
There’s that term again, Homosexual Agenda. It looks like the cat’s out of the bag now, folks, the Christians and the conservatives and the [...]

“McCain Leaves Social Conservatives Cold”

I didn’t say it – Rick Santorum did. (Well, actually, the folks at RealClearPolitics chose that headline for his article, but if the shoe fits, I’ll take it.) Reporting back from a meeting of, in his words, “the who’s who of Hilary Clinton’s vast right wing conspiracy,” Santorum described McCain’s efforts to ignite [...]

We Are Listening

Disclaimer: I went to film school. I also work in television. That should help explain why many of my posts revolve around videos: I can’t get enough. The following is a video that I wish was never made, that we lived in a world devoid of such source material. But that [...]

Neal reaches out during N.C. precinct meetings

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — On Tuesday, March 11, tens of thousands of North Carolinians will head to their local precinct meetings to elect delegates to county conventions. The meetings are the beginning of the long trek to the state convention, the national convention and for choosing delegates to represent Democrats at both.
For Senate candidate Jim [...]

Neal challenger Kay Hagan refuses to answer on gay issues?

We see this little golden nugget from the March 8 issue of Q-Notes:
When asked about the polling data that shows Hagan and Neal statistically even, Hagan spokesperson Colleen Flanagan countered with a Feb. 6 poll conducted by Public Policy Polling. In that particular poll, Hagan had 21 percent while Neal clocked in at only seven.
The [...]

Editorial: Perry, Huckabee and the piss-me-off meter

My March 8 editorial from Q-Notes, the premier LGBT news source of the Carolinas:
Perry, Huckabee and the piss-me-off meter
by Matt Comer . Q-Notes staff
Even though anti-gay conservatives say a lot of stupid things on an almost daily basis, there have been a couple of recent situations that really sent the levels on my piss-me-off meter [...]

LGBT Carolinas headlines: March 8

Headlines from the March 8 issue of Q-Notes, the premier LGBT news source of the Carolinas.
S.C. gender-variant teen killed
News receives little regional, national attention
compiled by Q-Notes staff
N. CHARLESTON, S.C. — News that a gender non-conforming teenager was shot down here more than a month ago has been slow to reach regional and national LGBT media [...]

A turning tide: The youth vote

After decades of political scientists telling us young people don’t vote, we hear this from the Greensboro News & Record (h/t Ed Cone)
Of the 4,988 new registrations in the first two months of this year in Guilford County, 1,863 are from people younger than 25.
The difference over the last presidential cycle is huge. In 2004, [...]

Death in the Family…

My aunt passed away Saturday morning.
I’ll be going to work to put the paper together Saturday (you know, the news doesn’t stop) and then heading back to Winston-Salem. I was working on a piece to throw up here sometime this weekend or on Monday. It will likely be put off, unless I need to escape [...]