- Mike Huckabee will be kicking off the Values Voter Summit.
- The GOP does not have a lot of celebrity supporters, so I really, really hope that it makes good use of Victoria Jackson.
- I'm pretty sure that most of the Young Cons' "success" - as measured by YouTube views - has come from people who are mocking them.
- The Birther movement in Congress is picking up more supporters.
- Apparently, today was National "Stop S. 909" Day whereby the Religious Right mobilized to oppose hate crimes legislation. Strangely, outside of this one article, I could find no evidence that these groups were actually doing any mobilizing.
- Bishop Jackson says he'll soon be filing paperwork to launch a voter initiative, similar to California's Proposition 8, that would affirm marriage between a man and a woman in DC.
- Pat Mahoney and Rob Schenck delivered their official prayer ahead of Sonia Sotomayor's hearing.
- Charlie Crist has massively out-raised his primary rival, and darling of the social conservatives, Marco Rubio.
- Gary Bauer continues to insist that Sarah Palin's decision to suddenly resign was a brilliant move.
- The House of Representatives voted 399-1 for the Capitol Visitors Center to have a plaque acknowledging the role of slave labor in the construction of the Capitol. The one "no" vote came from Rep. Steve King (R-IA) who insists he did so in order to protect America's Judeo-Christian heritage.
- Finally, who ever could have ever predicted that putting David Barton and other religious-right ideologues on the panel of experts responsible for setting Texas schools' social studies curriculum would lead to them asserting that civil rights leaders like César Chávez and Thurgood Marshall are given too much attention?
