One of our favorite moments on the One Minivan, One America Tour was the realization that we were staying in a friend’s condo that had been purchased from the gay prostitute who was in the midst of bringing down evangelical-hypocrite-homo Ted Haggard. It was our own little November surprise.

Check out our Montana episode with Sen. Jon Tester for the full rundown. Today Reverend Haggard announced he is “completely heterosexual” and that he’s going to get an online degree to celebrate.

The Rev. Ted Haggard emerged from three weeks of intensive counseling convinced he is “completely heterosexual” and told an oversight board that his sexual contact with men was limited to his accuser.

That is according to one of the disgraced pastor’s overseers, who on Monday revealed new details about where Haggard has been and where he is headed.

The Rev. Tim Ralph of Larkspur also said the four-man oversight board strongly urged Haggard to go into secular work instead of Christian ministry if Haggard and his wife follow through on plans to earn master’s degrees in psychology.

Via TP.

“We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. Every single day every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. We need people in the streets banging pots and pans and demanding, ‘Stop it now!’ ”

-Molly Ivins, weeks before she passed away.

Dick Cheney is bitter and has truly lost his mind. Here’s what he has to say about a fellow Republican, Senator Chuck Hagel:

“Let’s say I believe firmly in Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment: thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican. But it’s very hard sometimes to adhere to that where Chuck Hagel is involved.”

The anti-war protests here in Washington, D.C. this weekend reinforced what people throughout this country (including brave Republican leaders like Chuck Hagel) are saying loud and clear: no more war in Iraq and it’s time to come home.

Here’s a clip of DoubleSpeak commentator Ari Melber on MSNBC speaking truth to power about this misguided and criminal war. Please note that Ari is not at an arboretum but rather at a low-budget TV studio in NY where fake plants are all the rage.

“As I look at Iraq, I recall the words of former general and soon-to-be President Dwight Eisenhower during the dark days of the Korean War, which had fallen into a bloody stalemate. “When comes the end?” asked the general who had commanded our forces in Europe during World War II. And as soon as he became president, he brought the Korean War to an end.

These presidents took the right kind of action, for the benefit of the American people and for the health of our relations around the world. Tonight we are calling on this president to take similar action, in both areas. If he does, we will join him. If he does not, we will be showing him the way.”

-Virginia Senator Jim Webb delivering the response to Bush’s State of The Union Speech.