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  • Top Santorum Aide Outed As Gay

    07/16/2005 12:12:46 PM PDT · by gopgen · 717 replies · 10,913+ views
    San Luis Obispo Tribune ^ | 7/15/2005 | Steve Goldstein
    Gay-rights opponent Santorum stands by outed aide BY STEVE GOLDSTEIN Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - (KRT) - The senior spokesman for Sen. Rick Santorum, R- Pa., Friday confirmed to a web log that he is gay. According to PageOneQ, an online gay and lesbian publication, director of communications Robert L. Traynham, said that he was an "out gay man who completely supports the senator." Santorum, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate leadership has been an outspoken opponent of homosexual rights and a leading proponent of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Santorum, who was traveling in Pittsburgh, released the following...
  • Twilight of Conservatism. We are living in false hope.

    05/10/2005 5:34:13 AM PDT · by .cnI redruM · 37 replies · 1,088+ views
    NRO ^ | May 10, 2005, 8:02 a.m. | John Derbyshire
    The people of Britain have spoken, and the Labor party is back in power with a comfortable, if much diminished, majority of seats in parliament. The leader of the Conservative party has said he will step down, forcing the Tories to their fourth leadership election in eight years.* The victorious Labor party got 36 percent of the vote, the Conservatives 33 percent, the Liberal Democrats (a Naderite Green-Left party) 22.5 percent, and "other" (Scottish, Welsh, and Irish parties) 9.5 percent. The real victory here is Margaret Thatcher's. By annihilating the old statist ideological Left in the 1980s, she forced the...