- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: From GOP ‘con man’ to newly elected governor.
- Patrick Caldwell @ Mother Jones: Senate Republicans Are Blocking Obama's Judges at a Nearly Unprecedented Rate.
- Juan Lozano @ TPM: Houston Voters Reject LGBT Anti-Discrimination Rule After Heated Battle.
- Rachel Percelay @ Media Matters: How Lazy Reporting Helped Kill The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance.
- Candace Chellew-Hodge @ Religion Dispatches: (Ex-)Ex-Gay Activist Alan Chambers On His Prop 8 Epiphany and the Downfall of Christianity and Evangelicalism.
- Andrew Husband @ Mediaite: MI State Reps Involved In Totally Not Gay Sex Scandal Lose Seats, Again.