On Election Day, 70-percent of African Americans voted to take away a gay person’s right to marry primarily based on a book – the Bible – that calls on slaves to obey their masters. Mormons funded the measure – even though religious discrimination drove them from Missouri and Illinois in […]
Tag: campaign
Nicholas F. Benton: Back to the Mountaintop
The delayed fulfillment of a dream interrupted by assassins’ bullets in 1968 was realized 40 years later with the resounding and epochal victory of President-elect Barack Obama this week.
Anything But Straight: Sarah’s All Dressed Up And Plotting
To fight her culture war, Sarah Palin needed a cultured wardrobe. The Main Street hockey mom wasted no time trading up to 5th Avenue and found the attire much nicer at Saks.
Our Man in Arlington
I gave a lecture on the evolution of modern politics to the monthly meeting of the Day Alliance of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Arlington last Tuesday.
Anything But Straight: The Day After A Democratic Victory
Who can blame John McCain and Sarah Palin for saying that Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists?” The GOP ticket is bombing so badly that they must blow up the race to have a shot at winning.
Editorial: The Election Bull’s Eye
Falls Church and its environs sit square in the middle of the battleground where the ultimate outcome of the November U.S. presidential election will be fought with virtual hand-to-hand combat.
Obama Campaign Inks Lease On City of Falls Church Office
The chair of the Falls Church City Democratic Committee officially announced yesterday that the campaign of Democratic Presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama is opening an office in the downtown area of the City of Falls Church, at 350 S. Washington St.FCCDC Chair Betty Coll made the announcement through an e-mail […]
Anything But Straight: The Ugly Phase Begins
For a brief moment, it looked as if the GLBT community might escape gratuitous gay baiting in the 2008 presidential campaign. Unlike the past few election cycles where the strategy was to secure the base at all costs, McCain and Obama were vigorously vying for moderate and Independent swing voters.
Richard Barton: Our Man in Arlington
Well, it’s over! The Democratic nomination battle, that is. It was a hard fought race, and as it progressed it developed some corrosive animosities between hard core Obama and Clinton fans.
Editor Recommends
True Colors Tour With Cyndi Lauper, D.A.R. Constitution Hall, Saturday, June 7, 6:30 p.m.
