Adele M. Stan

Okay, so I’m no neophyte, thinking everybody should play nice with each other until we get this primary thing done with. But yesterday’s comments by Billy Shaheen, a national co-chair of Hillary Clinton‘s New Hampshire campaign (and husband of former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen), on the past drug use of Clinton rival Barack Obama […]

Last week, TAP columnist Sarah Posner explained why GOP honchos have so far refused to get behind the surging candidacy of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: he’s soft on immigration and believes in taxes. When applied to the leaders of the religious right — such as Phyllis Schlafly — Sarah’s exegesis casts a harsh light […]

Former Baptist minister and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has been on the defensive since it was revealed last week that he had, while governor of Arkansas, called for the “isolation” of AIDS patients from the general population. This weekend, on Fox News Sunday, Huckabee defended those remarks, here via Mark Silva writing for The […]

Once considered something of a friend to the gay community, Rudy Giuliani has managed to raise the ire of LGBT voters who may have considered him their best bet among the Republican presidential contenders. In his ongoing effort to distance himself from his actual beliefs by means of contortionist reasoning, Rudy this Sunday made comments […]

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee emerged strong from this debate, coming across as reasonable, compassionate, humble and humorous. If G.O.P. leaders knew what they were doing, they’d throw in with this guy and get him some dough. (See my colleagues at TAPPED writing on this phenomenon earlier in the day.) Thankfully, their own elitism will […]

In a breathtaking moment for us queer folk, a question submitted by an openly gay retired brigadier general was aired by Anderson Cooper, who is rumored to be gay. The general not only challenged the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” military policy; he did so by turning the tables. Why, he wanted to know, did the […]

As Dana blogged, an African-American father and son asked the candidates how they would end the “war at home,” which they named as “black-on-black” crime. This gave Mitt Romney the opportunity to display a breathtaking combination of stupidity and condescension, when he spoke of how lucky the son was to have a dad standing with […]

A half-hour into the Republican YouTube debate, every question has dealt with paranoia over the delusion of a disintegration of American sovereignty, whether by a perceived invasion of people “with funny accents,” to paraphrase Mitt Romney, or by an alleged conspiracy to create a North American Union on the order of the European Union, as […]

Hmmm…a sanctuary mansion sounds to me like a good thing…like, maybe, what Jesus was talking about when he said, “In my Father’s house are many mansions: If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” Sounds like a sanctuary mansion to me. –Adele M. Stan