Same-sex couples have celebrated their ability to marry in the District of Columbia for two weeks, and now some gay couples are asking: How do I get a divorce?

Cathy Brennan says she “hopefully” wants to “get a divorce.”

Brennan and her soon-to-be-ex wife tied the knot in Vermont several years ago. They now live in Maryland. When their relationship soured, they could not divorce because their home state did not recognize same sex marriage.

This I had not thought of.

The legalization of same-sex marriage in D.C., and the Maryland attorney general’s decision to recognize in Maryland gay marriages performed elsewhere gives wed gay couples a legal way out.

Attorney General Eric Holder brushed off the notion yesterday that Osama bin Laden might be read his Miranda rights:

“Let’s deal with reality,” Holder said. “You’re talking about a hypothetical that will never occur. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That’s the reality. … He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he’s not captured by us. We know that.”

And somehow the conversation turned to Charles Manson:

“These defendants charged with murder would be treated just like any other murder defendants,” Holder said with evident exasperation. “The question is: Are they being treated as murderers would be treated? The answer to that question is, yes, they have the same rights that a Charles Manson would have.”

While Holder thought the Manson comparison would make Americans feel more comfortable with the idea of civilian trials for terrorism suspects, Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) disagreed and sensed an opening.“Osama bin Laden, in your opinion, has the same rights as Charles Manson?” Culberson asked.

“In some ways, I think they’re comparable people,” Holder said.

This past weekend saw about 350 gatherings in coffee shops around the country of people joining the liberal response to the Tea Party movement: the Coffee Party. The group’s mission statement assumes that “government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will.”

The Daily Caller went to the DC meeting, which consisted of five people. Still, the Facebook group has about 160,000 members. The whole thing started when founder Annabel Park wrote a status update on her Facebook page:

let’s start a coffee party . . . smoothie party. red bull party. anything but tea. geez. ooh how about cappuccino party? that would really piss ‘em off bec it sounds elitist . . . let’s get together and drink cappuccino and have real political dialogue with substance and compassion.

Seems to have the same fiery tone of the Tea Party! Park explained to The New York Times:

“We’re not the opposite of the Tea Party,” Ms. Park, 41, said. “We’re a different model of civic participation, but in the end we may want some of the same things….[O]ur government is diseased, but you don’t abandon it because it’s ill. It’s the only body we have to address collective problems. You can’t bound government according to state borders when companies don’t do that, air doesn’t. It just doesn’t fit with the world.”

The retired pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Jeremiah Wright, spoke with The Washington Post yesterday, echoing what he’s said previously about his relationship with one of his former parishioners, President Obama.

“I have not stopped loving him because of what the press did, and to see him beat up on because of things he is not responsible for is painful.”

Wright said he didn’t expect to speak directly with Obama again until “he is out of the White House.”

Last summer Wright spoke more jarringly about his lack of contact with the president:

“Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me,” Wright said. “I told my baby daughter that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office

Wright has been in Washington for a few days delivering nightly sermons – though he hasn’t been to the White House. Many speculate that Wright may be one reason why President Obama hasn’t publicly chosen a church to attend in Washington.

It’s hard to argue with the results from this poll from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling that show Marco Rubio up 32 points (among likely voters) over Florida Gov. Charlie Crist in the Republican primary for Senate. Even worse for Crist: Among conservatives he trails Rubio by 54 points.

Rubio has turned this race around. Last fall, Crist held a very comfortable lead.

The primary is still about six months off.

For all the talk about Crist’s support of the stimulus sinking his ship, independents in Florida still give the highest approval ratings for President Obama among the 20 states PPP has polled on the matter. Interesting! Still, independents aren’t a majority in the state.

Chief Justice John Roberts doesn’t seem too keen on attending another State of the Union after President Obama upbraided the court in his speech this year. Roberts spoke publicly about that speech for the first time when he took questions from law students at the University of Alabama yesterday.

“To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally, I’m not sure why we’re there,” said Roberts, a Republican nominee who joined the court in 2005.

Roberts said anyone is free to criticize the court and that some have an obligation to do so because of their positions.

“So I have no problems with that,” he said. “On the other hand, there is the issue of the setting, the circumstances and the decorum. The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering while the court – according the requirements of protocol – has to sit there expressionless, I think is very troubling.”

Former senator Rick Santorum spoke at the Iowa Christian Alliance last night, along with former head of the Christian Coalition Ralph Reed (now head of the Faith and Freedom Coalition), who may run for Congress this fall if the rumors prove true.

Santorum’s arrival in the presidential primary state created some buzz: An anonymous robocall went out to Iowans accusing Santorum of being wishy-washy on the pro-life cause.

Ask him to apologize for his longtime support of radical, pro-abortion politicians.

Santorum can take the attack as a compliment – it shows that he is a figure worth attacking (though he certainly isn’t among the top contenders for the GOP presidential nomination right now). While he did back two pro-abortion candidates in the past, the Catholic politician has a pretty solid voting record when it comes to pro-life issues and led the charge to override President Clinton’s veto on the partial-birth abortion ban. He addressed the concerns about his record last night, admitting he was “wrong” to support Sen. Arlen Specter in his reelection:

[H]e did it because Specter had promised to support Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito. “I actually did it for the pro-life cause,” he said.

He talked, movingly, about his wife’s experience of having a child after being told the baby would have a fatal birth defect and deciding against an abortion. “We didn’t give him a death sentence. We gave him a name. Gabriel.” The baby lived for only two hours after birth, he said, but knew nothing but love in that brief lifetime.

UPDATE 12:50 pm: Reed has announced that he will not run for Congress.

The notorious head of Westboro Baptist Church (which isn’t affiliated with any mainline Baptist denominations), Fred Phelps Sr., will have his day in court – the Supreme Court. The justices agreed to review a case where the father of fallen soldier Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder sued Phelps and his church for protesting outside his son’s funeral.

Phelps and some of his family members held up signs that said, “Thank God for dead soldiers” and “Matt in hell,” stemming from Phelps’ belief that soldiers are reaping punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality. The soldier’s father initially won the case against Phelps, but an appeals court overturned the decision and argued that Phelps’ speech was protected under the First Amendment. The high court will hear the case in its next term, which begins in October.

Justice John Paul Stevens, the only Protestant on the Supreme Court, turns 90 next month. The Washington Post raises a question that others have raised before: Should President Obama appoint a Protestant to replace Stevens when he retires? Six of the justices are Catholic, two are Jewish. Some of the justices themselves argue their personal religions don’t matter:

[Justice Antonin] Scalia has said he would be “hard-pressed to tell you of a single opinion of mine that would have come out differently if I were not Catholic.” [Justice Ruth Bader] Ginsburg has said that whereas her predecessors on the court have been known collectively as the “Jewish justices,” she and Breyer are “justices who happen to be Jews.”

Values shape every part of our lives, but perhaps we could agree that the moniker of one religion or another doesn’t tell us who would be a good justice. Thoughts?

It appears that the White House is dialing back Attorney General Eric Holder’s previous plans to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian courts, after plans to try the 9/11 mastermind in New York City recently fell apart. The Washington Post reported today that top White House advisers are planning to recommend that KSM and four others face a military tribunal.

If Obama accepts the likely recommendation of his advisers, the White House may be able to secure from Congress the funding and legal authority it needs to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and replace it with a facility within the United States.

This is a serious shift in the administration’s position and is certain to anger liberals and civil liberties groups.