For those not following Stephen Colbert’s involvement in the SC GOP primary, his editorial in The State recaps it quite well. In brief: the SC GOP insisted that taxpayers cover much of the costs of the primary, so Colbert’s “Super PAC” agreed to cover the bill if they got naming rights (“The Colbert Super PAC South Carolina Republican Primary”), and if SC put a non-binding referendum on the ballot about corporate personhood.

The GOP agreed… at first.

Then the unthinkable happened — the activist judges of the S.C. Supreme Court ruled that the counties, not the GOP, would be responsible for funding the primary. And, in what I can only see as a personal attack on corporate persons, they ruled that all non-binding referenda be struck from the ballot.

The S.C. Republican Party no longer needed my $400,000, but being Southern gentlemen, they gracious[ly] offered to still want it.

Colbert’s editorial has the whole (hilarious) story.

As Raw Story reports:

As Rep. Stenny Hoyer (D-MD) attempted to call for a vote to extend a payroll tax cut to middle class and working Americans, his Republican colleagues adjourned the House and walked out of the chamber. And if that weren’t odd enough, it got even stranger: As Hoyer railed against them for failing to help working Americans, footage from C-SPAN went silent, then cut away.

Moments later, C-SPAN took to the Internet to explain that it wasn’t their doing, but someone working for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).

The incident occurred mere moments after the House went into session. Hoyer made a motion for a vote on the Senate’s payroll tax cut extension, which would extend the lower rates for another two months, but the Republican presiding over the House did not acknowledge the motion. He instead adjourned the House, then got up and walked out.

Newt Gingrich, who is campaigning that he wants to “reassert the Constitution”, said in an interview on Face the Nation that, as President, he would have U.S. Marshals arrest Supreme Court justices whose decisions were “out of touch with American culture” and that their rulings should be ignored.

“Reassert”, apparently, means, “to ignore”. At least, as long as the Constitution still has those pesky “separation of powers” and “checks and balances” clauses.

Public criticism coupled with personal profit? Why, that kind of hypocrisy sounds nothing like the Newt Gingrich that I know!

Newt Gingrich seized the TV airwaves in 2009 to bash newly elected President Obama’s stimulus package, calling it “entirely a pork-barrel bill” that would do little to solve the recession.

Later, in a separate web video, the former House speaker stepped back from his blanket criticism. He explained that he strongly supported spending $27 billion of stimulus funds to encourage doctors and hospitals to create electronic medical records for their patients. Left unsaid was that his private consulting business in Washington has received large payments from medical technology companies that stand to profit from the federal money.

It is now legal in Virginia to deny someone an adoption because the would-be parent is gay.

This sort of homophobia is, sadly, almost expected in many parts of the country. But guess what: this decision also makes it perfectly legal to deny someone an adoption solely because they’re a registered Democrat. Or because they go to a synagogue. Or because they’re a woman. Likely? Maybe not. Wholly legal? Yep!

The Virginia State Board of Social Services voted 5 to 1 on Wednesday to allow licensed adoption agencies to refuse to approve adoptions or foster parents based solely on a would-be parent’s sexual orientation as well as six other characteristics.

The board took that action by rejecting for the second time this year an adoption related rule change first drafted in 2009 by state social services officials under former Governor Tim Kaine.

The proposed change called for banning discrimination in the state’s adoption and foster care system solely because of someone’s sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, disability, political beliefs, or family status.

(emphasis added)

Remember, it’s more important to keep a kid in foster care or an orphanage than to let them end up in a gay person’s house. Thanks, Virginia.

My friend Greg has started this terrific new project: Liberal Bias.

Life just isn’t fair to conservatives. Everywhere you look, there is liberal bias. When companies pollute, they are punished by the liberal environment with unsightly smog and all kinds of health problems. When taxes on the wealthy were raised in the 1950′s and the 1990′s, the liberal economy boomed in spite of good old conservative common-sense. And when we bully and attack foreign countries, they act like liberals and get all mad at us instead of greeting us as liberators. Clearly, reality has a liberal bias. Our job here is to expose it.