GMP Endorses Stephen Colbert for President
Okay, Tom here. I didn’t ask Lisa about this. I didn’t ask our 400 evangelical zealots. I didn’t ask Paul Elam or Amanda Marcotte. I didn’t ask Ryan, Jack, Jackie or even my buddy Todd Maudlin who...
View ArticleDoes Gingrich Win Signal End of Republican Obsession with Family Values?
For a while it looked like the Republicans would nominate a man who was criticized for being to effective a capitalist–and in fact too rich. But yesterday the tide turned in the favor of Newt...
View ArticleWho’s The Real Man: Barack, Newt or Mitt?
Mitt Romney released his tax returns this week showing he made $21 million last year and paid 14% in tax. At any time in the past that would be something to be admired, even worshipped. The Kennedys...
View ArticleMarriage Advice for Newt Gingrich
For starters, writes Jeremy Adam Smith, how about some honesty? When President Clinton cheated on his wife with a White House intern and then publicly lied about the affair, Speaker of the House Newt...
View ArticleA Week in Review
A weekly summary of key events in no particular order with no attempt to be fair, politically correct, or remotely thoughtful. ♦◊♦ Newt kicked Mitt’s ass in SC and then spent the Florida debate...
View ArticleWhere’s the Historian When Freddie Needs Him?
The Treasury Department is investigating a report that Freddie Mac, the mortgage giant, bet against homeowners’ ability to refinance their loans even as it was making it more difficult for them to do...
View ArticleShould The GMP Discuss Politics?
In response to Tom Matlack, Mark Ellis wonders whether straying into politics may hurt The Good Men Project. Dear Tom, Your post yesterday about Rick Santorum was a good illustration of why I think...
View ArticleA “Good” Presidential Candidate Is Hard to Find
Andrew Cotto looks for the good in these men of Politics and God. I’m not a religious person (on paper). My parents, both Italian-Americans and both burdened by the religious dogma of their...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich’s Lesbian Sister…
Heather N. wonders if it’s better to place ideology over family, or family over ideology. When I came across an article about Newt Gingrich’s lesbian half-sister and her play, “Accidental Activist”...
View ArticleHumorless Feminists and Misogynist Republicans?
Joanna Schroeder wonders if The Onion is doing damage to both men and women when joking about female voters having silly crushes on Republican Candidates. There’s a stereotype out there about...
View ArticleCan Hipsters Be Racists, Too?
Joanna Schroeder wants us to face the truth about the type of prejudices we all carry inside of ourselves, and try to figure out how to combat them. I know racism is alive and well in America, and yet...
View ArticleMonogamy – A Social Ideal
Dr. David Ley discusses relationships — monogamous and not. According to the animal kingdom, and research with creatures from insects and fish to birds, apes, lions, tigers and bears (oh my), monogamy...
View ArticleThe Constitutional Smoking Gun on Marriage Equality
Justice Kagan shoots a hole in the central premise of DOMA… courtesy of its authors. A key moment was reached in the Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act...
View ArticleNelson Mandela: Why the Backlash is Wrong
Wilkine Brutus on how the absurd comments against Mandela are lacking the full scope of context. A typical “but he was a communist” diatribe spewed by a Facebook friend unfortunately occurred after I...
View ArticleLGBT Equality and the 2012 GOP Presidential Candidates
In preparation for 2016, a rundown of the LGBT equality platform from the 2012 GOP Presidential hopefuls. ––– I would like to provide a bit of a historical retrospective as we begin to enter the...
View ArticleWho In Their Right Mind Would Want To Be Trump’s Running Mate? These Four...
Here’s who we think might be trying to get on the ticket with Trump. ___ By John Gallagher At this stage of a presidential campaign, the question is usually, who will be the nominee’s running mate?...
View ArticleRepublicans With Trump: Bro-Fest Extraordinaire
Embed from Getty Images I just heard Eric Bolling (co-host of Fox News show The Five) say that he’d like to see Donald Trump have the following dudes lined up on stage at the RNC convention: Chris...
View ArticleWhat Are Those Trump Supporters Thinking? They’re Not. Chances Are, Neither...
Embed from Getty Images I was amused watching Newt Gingrich explain to a CNN reporter that his feelings about how Americans don’t feel safe were as equally valid as the FBI statistics showing crime...
View ArticleAnderson Cooper Lays Into Gingrich’s “Sex Fascination” Hypocrisy
By Jeff Taylor Donald Trump surrogate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently appeared on Megyn Kelly‘s show “The Kelly File” in an explosive segment where he accused her of being “fascinated...
View ArticleHow a Growing Christian Movement is Seeking to Change America
Embed from Getty Images — Brad Christerson, Biola University and Richard Flory, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Last week, from Oct. 6 to 9, the...
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