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Iman Crosson for Prez...
on SNL: Bloggers

Should he be Fred Armisen's replacement?

ABC News ABC News Nov 27, 08 12:09 PM CST
(Newser) - The race to find a new comedian to impersonate president-elect Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live continues, reports ABC News, and bloggers such as Andrew Sullivan and Anovelista have the man for the job. Meet Iman Crosson, whose Obama imitations can be found on his YouTube AlphaCat channel. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • politics • Saturday Night Live • humor • comedian • parody • Andrew Sullivan • Fred Armisen • impersonator

OPINION

Despite Prop. 8, Gay Rights Will Prevail: Sullivan

All civil-rights struggles have setbacks, gay Atlantic scribe reminds

Daily Dish (The Atlantic) Daily Dish (The Atlantic) Nov 5, 08 3:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Though news of California banning gay marriage is “heart-breaking,” Andrew Sullivan takes solace in the progress that has been achieved for gay rights, he writes for the Atlantic . Marriages, like Sullivan’s own, performed in Massachusetts or Connecticut are still valid. The California initiative can be rolled back, and with younger Americans heavily favoring gay rights, it’s only a matter of time. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • gay rights • Massachusetts • civil rights • Proposition 8 • Connecticut • Andrew Sullivan

ANALYSIS

Blogger's Pursuit of Paternity Issue Verges on Vendetta

Atlantic's Sullivan engaging in 'Rove-style politics,' critics charge

Washington Post Washington Post Sep 24, 08 3:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Andrew Sullivan, blogger for the Atlantic , has come under fire for hammering John McCain’s campaign on an issue everyone else seems to have gotten over: whether or not Sarah Palin or her teen daughter Bristol is the mother of 4-month-old Trig Palin, Howard Kurtz writes in the Washington Post . Sullivan asked the campaign in two emails last week to “confirm, on the record” Trig’s paternity. More »

More about:  Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Karl Rove • blog • conservatives • Andrew Sullivan • Trig Palin

OPINION

Courts Finally Catching Up
to Society's Views on Gays


Atlantic Monthly Atlantic Monthly Aug 21, 08 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - The California Supreme Court’s landmark decision in May to grant gays the right to marry is based on a simple but inevitable idea, Andrew Sullivan writes in the Atlantic : Gay marriage is just marriage, and gay people are no different than straight people. As homosexuality moved from being considered a disorder to just an involuntary difference, the law had no choice but to follow. California simply acknowledged “an emergent cultural consensus,” Sullivan writes. More »

More about:  gay marriage • marriage • court • Andrew Sullivan • The Atlantic

OPINION

Journo 'Ecstatic' Over Demise of HIV Travel Ban

'Massive burden lifted' for gay, HIV-positive
Brit Sullivan

Daily Dish (The Atlantic) Daily Dish (The Atlantic) Jul 17, 08 3:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - HIV-positive journalist Andrew Sullivan is “ecstatic” over yesterday's passage by the Senate of a bill that would lift a US ban on visitors and immigrants with the virus that causes AIDS, he writes in his Atlantic blog. "I'm not exaggerating when I say that it's one of the happiest days of my whole life," writes the openly gay, British Sullivan, who plans to pursue citizenship. More »

More about:  Senate • immigration • gay rights • citizenship • Andrew Sullivan

OPINION

US Must
End Ban on HIV-Positive Immigrants

Andrew Sullivan uses own case as example

Washington Post Washington Post May 14, 08 6:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US is one of only 12 countries (including Sudan, Moldova and Libya) that flouts UN law by barring HIV-positive visitors or immigrants—and the restriction must end, writes Andrew Sullivan in the Washington Post . The HIV-positive Sullivan, a senior editor at Atlantic magazine, remains in the US only with the help of “great lawyers, a rare O visa…a government-granted HIV waiver” and endless legal fees—and he’s one of the lucky ones. More »

More about:  George W. Bush • immigration • discrimination • HIV/AIDS • Andrew Sullivan

Why Small Government
Has Collapsed

Prospect writer says Dems can drown movement in bathtub

American Prospect Aug 8, 07 6:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats have never been so well positioned to sell big-government liberalism—as the other side looks pathetically out of step with Americans’ desires to expand health care and bolster infrastructure, says the American Prospect ’s Paul Waldman. After the Minnesota bridge collapse, the public is ready for the party that says “we’re all in it together” rather than “we’re all on our own.” More »

More about:  Hillary Clinton • George W. Bush • Democrats • health care • health insurance • Americans • infrastructure • SCHIP • Andrew Sullivan

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