Leonardo's Notebook

From America Magazine: T he clouds roll with thunder, the House of the Lord shall be built throughout the earth, and these frogs sit in their marsh and croak—'We are the only Christians!'" So wrote St. ...

It was said of Cicero that when people heard him, they turned to one another and said, "Great speech"; but when Demosthenes spoke, people turned to one another and said, "Let's march." All around the world people are marching with Barack Obama...

As I was walking towards work the other morning the Anti-Abortion folks (theones with the very graphic signs) were out by Gervais Street on the State House Grounds...

h/t to harkinsaThe Oakridge Boys perform a cover of "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes:Umm... methinks they should stick with Elvira.

Twitter has beenall a... twitter...since the SC Supreme Court issued it's ruling not to rule on a lawsuit brought by Chapin High Senior Casey Edwards against the State...

Miss California is making Maggie Gallagher all moist. Maggie sees in Miss California the new face of the bigot brigade. She posted this little tidbit on NRO this morning: Perez "You dumb b—tch" Hilton istypical of the new face of the gay-marriage movement in America. ...

via the daily dish,"After gay marriage, the most religiously committed Americans will be effectively marginalized as a public force—because they cannot act or support the idea that gay unions are marriages. ...

Is South Carolina ready for a black Governor? How about a woman Governor - or better yet a black woman Governor...

Yet another younger member of the conservative movement gets it. Marriage equality should be embraced to get back to the real core principals of the conservative movement:"It cannot be argued that marriage between people of the same sex is un American or threatens the rights of others...

We wish to fulfill the dreams of those Americans, both the living and the dead, who struggled unremittingly and courageously over the past two centuries to expand those freedoms to more Americans...

Well, perhaps there is something gayer than a tea party and a picnic - weddings.News today from Washington State where the Seattle PI (online) is reporting that the legislature has approved an expansion of Domestic Partnership Benefits to be equal with marriage in everything but name.Meanwhile, on...

I'm sure Spartanburg County is soooo proud of Representative Joey Millwood for this one,and the entire litany of interesting things he's tweeted all day today...

This will probably dampen the ranting lunacy of those folks who have usurped the libertarian Tea Party movement, the gays are coming to the party as well...

It's not just Meghan McCain who see's no distinction between being Pro-Life, and Pro-Gay Marriage, E.D. Kain get's it too and see's the necessary future track of the movement within our pluralistic society.