After four years, legalized gay marriage in Massachusetts appears to have no effect on the Massachusetts divorce rate, posing a big problem for highbrow critics of gay marriage.

Palin has ties to a prominent pastor who advocates the establishment of a government regime that, in his own words, "may seem like totalitarianism" and would re-educate citizens in 'correct' decision making.

Blunt's anecdote at the Value Voters summit Friday seemed like a direct window into the psyche of the revanchist wing of the GOP: politics is a golf game and unruly Democrat "monkeys" seek to disrupt the play.

Those in the powerful, secretive, Washington Christian fundamentalist association known as The Family have led some of the most virulent opposition to health care reform and especially a "public option".

Republican victories in the 2008 election suggest the rise of a new, non-aligned but decidedly right-leaning faction in American politics, the Rainbow Right.