While Michele Bachmann crisscrossed South Carolina this week breathing fire against government spending, she did so with the support of a political director whose right-wing nonprofit benefited from federal funds for years. Handling Bachmann’s Palmetto State effort is Sheri Few, who runs an anti-gay, abstinence-only organization that hauled in millions in federal tax dollars since 2005. The organization she started a decade ago, SC Parents Involved in Education, also promotes school choice and the teachings of intelligent design. That would jibe well with Bachmann’s worldview, which has been shaped by likeminded institutions. From 2005 to 2007, the nonprofit run by Bachmann’s South Carolina director snared more than $2.2 million in federal tax dollars, according to records.
Handling Bachmann’s Palmetto State effort is Sheri Few, who runs an anti-gay, abstinence-only organization that hauled in millions in federal tax dollars since 2005.
The organization she started a decade ago, SC Parents Involved in Education, also promotes school choice and the teachings of intelligent design.
That would jibe well with Bachmann’s worldview, which has been shaped by likeminded institutions.
From 2005 to 2007, the nonprofit run by Bachmann’s South Carolina director snared more than $2.2 million in federal tax dollars, according to records.
The Delaware Republican said Friday on NBC's "Today" show that she wanted to stop the "borderline sexual harassment that was going on."
The 2012 ballot isn’t the only place where a raging debate on same-sex marriage is taking place in Minnesota. Three same-sex couples filed an appeal in July in their bid to overturn Minnesota’s Defense of Marriage Act, and groups on both sides of the issue have filed paperwork with the court offering strongly worded arguments on the issue of marriage equality. A Hennepin County district court judge dismissed a suit by the couples — Duane Gajewski and Doug Benson, Lindzi Campbell and Jesse Dykhuis, John Rittman and Tom Trisko– in March. The judge said that until the Minnesota Supreme Court overturns Baker v. Nelson, a 1971 case that said same-sex couples cannot marry in Minnesota, “same-sex marriage will not exist in this state.” So the couples are taking their case to the Minnesota Court of Appeals with hopes that they can get it heard before the Minnesota Supreme Court.
A Hennepin County district court judge dismissed a suit by the couples — Duane Gajewski and Doug Benson, Lindzi Campbell and Jesse Dykhuis, John Rittman and Tom Trisko– in March. The judge said that until the Minnesota Supreme Court overturns Baker v. Nelson, a 1971 case that said same-sex couples cannot marry in Minnesota, “same-sex marriage will not exist in this state.”
So the couples are taking their case to the Minnesota Court of Appeals with hopes that they can get it heard before the Minnesota Supreme Court.
America’s renewed love for Betty White goes far beyond cult fascination to total faith, apparently, as a recent Reuters poll finds that White is both the nation’s most popular and its “most trusted” celebrity. Should America need a celebrity to be a friend, a pal and a confidant, it would definitely choose White. And if Betty White threw a party and invited everyone she knew, she would see that the biggest gift would be from America, and the card attached would say, “We are far more likely to buy any product you choose to endorse.”
If "tar sands are thrown into the mix, it is essentially game over," says Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.