U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan declares her support for gay marriage By Rob Christensen rchristensen@newsobserver.com Posted: Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2013 Kay Hagan MORE INFORMATION WHAT NORTH CAROLINA VOTERS SAY Last year, voters approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, 61 percent to 39 percent. A state-wide survey conducted by Public Policy Polling in February found that 38 percent of registered North Carolina voters supported same-sex marriages, while 54 percent opposed them. The survey of 600 voters also found that 63 percent supported civil unions. The survey was conducted Feb 7-10 and had a margin of error plus or minus 4 percentage points Rob Christensen North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan said Wednesday that she supports the right of gay people to marry, saying "we should not tell people who they can love or who they can marry." Hagan, one of the few Democratic senators who had not voiced support of gay marriage, made her announcem...

PAT DOLLARD YOUNG AMERICANS 1 Hour Ago Obama To Use Mothers Of Gun Violence Victims As Political Pawns, To Push Gun-Control Propaganda by Jake Hammer Mar 27, 2013Jake Hammer Excerpted from THE HILL: President Obama will hold an event Wednesday with law enforcement officials and mothers of gun violence victims, marking the 100th day since the Newtown, Conn., mass shooting. The president is looking to build momentum for a package of new gun control measures to be considered by the Senate early next month. The legislation would expand background checks on firearm purchases, create new penalties on straw purchases and include new funding for school security. But the bill will not include other aspects of the plan introduced by the president in the aftermath of the shooting, which left 20 children and six educators dead, including the renewal of an assault weapons ban or limits on magazine capacity. On Tuesday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest refused to speculate on whethe...

 DAILYCALLER.COM 4 Hours Ago Alabama state representative launches into race-fueled rant over Second Amendment rights by  Jeff Poor Tweet In Alabama, no state legislator, Republican or Democrat, would ever question gun rights, given the state's conservative leanings and rural setting. But Democratic Alabama State Rep. Joseph Mitchell of Mobile, Ala. has a curious take on why his constituents in his majority African-American district should appreciate their Second Amendment rights. In emails sent from Mitchell's official state legislature account  obtained by the blog Yellow Hammer Politics  and published Wednesday morning, Mitchell had a heated exchange with a constituent  identified as Eddie Maxwell  and provided his own defense of the Second Amendment. Mitchell contended that the self-defense argument behind the Second Amendment was never used to protect his "folk" from "slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, incestuous, sn...