President Obama's gay and lesbian hospital visitation order, announced last Thursday felt to many like a relatively uncontroversial concession to increasingly active LGBT activists pushing for further legislative victories. The order, significant in allowing same-sex partners to have visitation rights and make medical decisions for their loved ones, has not gone unnoticed by the far right. more ›

We've taken our shots at the Andy Martin campaign for their spots, but believe it or not, there's other outlandish and just plain awful political advertising out there. In an age where you've got programs like Garageband and Audacity and any number of other DIY audio and video (not to mention underemployed sound guys), it's hard to imagine that you could come up with spots that are just plain bad. more ›

We've kept you abreast of the ads that Andy Martin has been broadcasting in his attempt to pluck the Republican primary slot out of the hands of Mark Kirk. We introduced him to you when he called Mark Kirk gay. You wondered how low the race would go when Martin called Kirk a "de facto pedophile." more ›

Andy Martin, the U.S. Senate candidate who made waves by claiming his opponent - U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk - was gay, is at it again, this time attacking Kirk for covering up pedophilia in the United States Congress. The minute-long ad began airing on local radio today. So how did Kirk - and Dennis Hastert - cover up pedophilia? By not stopping Mark Foley's infamous affairs with underaged staffers. Martin hits a new nadir when, in the ad, he makes clear that, "Kirk is not a pedophile," but then feels compelled to add that since Kirk helped to "cover up" Foley's trysts, that makes Kirk "a de facto pedophile." No. Really. He says that. Listen to the ad below: more ›

The 2010 primaries are five weeks from tomorrow and things are getting nasty in the race for the Republican nominate for U.S. Senate. Candidate Andy Martin has put into a rotation an ad that questions the sexuality of opponent (and U.S. Congessman) Mark Kirk. Martin has scheduled an afternoon press conference in which he'll hit on the theme of "Disclose the facts, Disseminate the truth and Defeat—Mark Kirk." According to WBBM 780: more ›

Years after anyone to the left of Pat Buchanan dismissed it as nonsense, the New York Times takes a look at the one person primarily responsible for the rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim -- Andy Martin. more ›