In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court ruled that a doctor is not permitted to discriminate against gay patients on religious grounds. Moreover, the court noted that the doctor was selectively refusing to perform the same procedure on a gay patient that the doctor had performed without incident on heterosexuals.

The court sided with the plaintiff on the grounds that California state law strictly prohibits discrimination on the basis of one's sexual orientation. In doing so, the court rejected a claim by the physician that treating a gay woman would be against her "Christian" beliefs.

Either the McCain campaign is grasping for straws or they are mired in a jealous obsession about what Barack Obama looks like shirtless on the beach in Hawaii. Regardless of which interpretation you take, you have a veritable Hobson's choice between infantile whining or trying to point out that Obama, 25 years younger, is both virile and attractive.

Pasty faced McCain will never win a beauty contest — unless he is competing against Mark Penn — but the criticism of both the media for printing the photo and the McCain campaign for complaining about it reeks of petty jealousy.

In one of the more laughable comments from a treasure trove of ridiculous statements from supporters of Hillary Clinton, former spokesman Howard Wolfson's suggested that the affair of John Edwards somehow cost her the Presidency.  This meme is patently false and it insinuates that Barack Obama failed to earn the Democratic nomination.

The Clinton campaign which hasn't moved past the denial stage of grief has yet to take responsibility for running one of the worst presidential campaigns in recent history. Not only is Wolfson blaming others for Hillary's demise, but he is also playing revisionist historian as he tries to make us drink the sour grape chardonnay that men conspired to prevent her from winning the nomination.

It seems that Joementum is probably one of the most detested people on DK and I welcome the opportunity to bash the wisdom of picking the anti-semetic Orthodox Lieberman who cmpared Hagee to Moses last month.

Will the traditional media uncover the truth and realize that Lieberman and McDole are pathological liars, giving clear meaning to the Orwellian Straight Talk Express:

One day after John McCain offered up his wife for a biker nudie contest in South Dakota, his campaign has released a second "celebrity ad" mocking Barack Obama.

Naturally, this begs the question as to whether the senior Senator from Arizona (He will turn 72 soon) either "forgot" that he hosted Saturday Night Live twice (May, 17 of this year and 2002) or is so delusional that it falls under the ubiqituous category of IOKIYAR .

John McCain doesn't know what the price of gasoline is. His wife admits that the only way traveling around her home state of Arizona is by private plane.

So when Barack Obama suggested that regular car maintenance and properly inflated tires could save more gasoline than offshore drilling could generate, the response of the McBush campaign was to mock Obama and in turn, try to sell tire gauges at about 25 times their cost to Republican fellow travelers.

A 527 should immediately air a commercial mocking John McCain's jealousy and narcissistic behavior. Might I suggest using John Lennon's 1974 song "jealous guy" as the musical selection.

McCain, the original "celebrity" politician is peeved that a young, upstart like Barack Obama has stolen his thunder. While McCain speaks before hundreds, Obama is filling arenas and stadiums. The sight of Obama appearing in Berlin before 200,000 people while Johnny Fair Play was at the sausage haus.

So let me get this straight. The FBI believed that scientist Bruce Ivins was a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks but the federal agency moved with such indifference and sloth it made Manny Ramirez look like the a Pete Rose clone running out a ground ball.

The anthrax attacks began exactly one week after 9/11. The incompetence and indifference of the FBI to actually investigate the murder of five Americans and the attempted murder of 17 others is tantamount to law enforcement malpractice and malfeasance.

Until recently, Jonah Goldberg is not my most reviled conservative columnist as David Brooks, Jeff Jacoby and Kristol Lite all succeeded in annoying me on a regular basis until Goldberg decided to tell us all he knows about sports, which even for him, is not much at all.

Golberg. famous for writing a book that compared liberalism to fascism that was heavy on rhetoric but dubiously absent of facts, basically wrote a book that would have been laughed at by any political science professor. But I digress as Goldberg railed against Olympians Tommy Smith and John Carlos, famous for their black-gloved protest on the medal stand at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.

Apparently civil unions are not leading to the decay and destruction that conservatives had predicted as less than 500 ceremonies have been performed to date in New Hampshire so far this year.

The story, which appeared in the conservative Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, was published to rebut claims in bordering Massachusetts that gay marriage would boost that state's economy by roughly $40 million a year. The problem is the article compares apples to oranges as Massachusetts permits gay marriage while the Granite State only permits civil unions.

The mendacious Bush Administration ha surpassed itself in terms of statements so absurd that they would lead ordinary people to believe they were listening to a comedy act. Today's monologue comes to us courtesy  of the "Justice" Department, when memos obtained by the ACLU via the Freedom of Information Act, revealed that DoJ policy allowed the torture of prisoners so long as it was done in "good faith."

Naturally, this begs the question as to what constitutes "bad faith" torture? My guess, since the all mighty government of the Great and Benevolent Bush can NEVER be wrong, is there is no such thing as bad faith torture because torture always works.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news for the McCain campaign, but there already is genocide in Iraq. At minimum, around 90,000 civilians have already been killed in the past five years, and those figures are very conservative.

According to Iraqbodycount.org,Iraqbodycount.orgthe number of dead Iraqi citizens is as of this morning between 86,171 and 94,031. Other organizations have much higher numbers of dead Iraqis,including ta study by Johns Hopkins University which estimated as many as 600,000 Iraqis have been killed in the conflict. Regardless of which body count figure is used, the point is that genocide in Iraq has happened, is happening and will happen in the future UNLESS the United States brings its troops home.

SEABROOK —  John McCain vowed to open a second reactor at Seabrook Station Nuclear Plant, despite no plan from the plant's operator or from officials in the Granite State.

McCain based his support on a report in the state's largest newspaper, that he hadn't bothered to consult, so he was speaking in his usually-uniformed custom and pandering to audiences telling them exactly what they want to hear.

A senior McCain advisor, in another" let them eat cake" moment,  blamed Americans for the rising cost of health care, saying that consumers want "caviar" health care, but only if someone else — either the government or their employer — footing the bill.

Al Hubbard, described as the architect of the McCain health plan, delivered those remarks last Thursday, when he said He suggested that American consumers would run similarly amok in a world where employers provided "food insurance" instead of health insurance, reported Lester Feder on Huffington Post.

Advocates for gay marriage in Massachusetts are urging lawmakers to repeal a 1913 law that prevents out of state gays and lesbians from receiving marriage licenses in the Bay State. Supporters of the repeal note that the original intent of the law was to prevent interracial couples from marrying.

The 1913 law was rescued from the proverbial dustbin of history by then-governor Mitt Romney and his conservative Democratic attorney general Tom Reilly in 2004 after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 2003 that gays had a right to marry in the Commonwealth.

BOSTON — Lawmakers on Beacon Hill will debate a bill that would force the state to award its electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. The Commonwealth would join four other states that have pledged their electoral votes to the candidate that receives the most votes nationally, regardless of how that candidate performs in those states.

The pledge would become law when support for the measure reaches or surpasses 270 electoral votes, the bare majority needed to elect a president.

The correction the New York Times issued today for another Maureen Dowd fabrication was neither a correction nor an acknowledgment that it was even wrong in the first place. Moreover, the lack of an actual correction undermined the newspaper's credibility when another reporter  shed light on the subject without acknowledging Dowd's glaring error.

Today's episode marks a sad chapter in the demise of the once great newspaper that reported the Pentagon Papers despite the threat of jail for its publishers.  Instead of intrepid reporting, the current leadership at The Grey Lady sat on the blockbuster eavesdropping story for more than a year, claiming it didn't want to influence the 2004 presidential election. Guess what? By sitting on the story, cravenly kow-towing to the Bush Administration, the Times guaranteed that it DID influence the election...of George W. Bush.

The small town of Gerard Missouri had a drug problem — specifically, a meth problem — until a man claiming to be a federal agent showed up and began racking up drug collars in the rural community of just 1,100 residents.

That is until a reporter from the local weekly newspaper discovered that the "agent," Bill Jakob, was just a wannabe cop playing a DEA agent. The fiasco has led to multi-million dollar lawsuits by those "arrested," the dismissal of three of Gerard's five police officers, and a potential impeachment of the mayor