As Congress begins to trickle back into Washington, the healthcare debate will once again reignite. This time, hopefully, things get serious. As I have written passionately before, this issue has been torn at the seams for all the wrong reasons…
In the hemorrhaging black and white debate that has arisen over the inclusion of that scary “public option”, the nuance has been lost on defining the difference between “universal healthcare” and the “public option”. For some odd reason, the two terms seem almost…
The Kennedy Dynasty has intrigued Americans and the world for years. Today, there is one less light of intrigue and good will in the world with the sad passing of Eunice Kennedy Shriver. She founded the Special Olympics in…
Physorg.com published an intriguing chart that tracks the opinions of Americans by state and age group for the past 15 years on their explicit support of gay marriage. The chart indicates a growing acceptance across state lines for gay marriage. …
The confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor are stirring up battle lines that formed earlier this year when announced, battle lines that injected racism into a debate over who would be the next Supreme Court justice. A lot of ink…
Senator Arlen Specter, one of the Senate’s quintessential ‘mavericks’, says that the events in Iran and other repressive regimes throughout the world are a result of technology and weapons such as Twitter and YouTube. In an editorial published yesterday…
The march for gay rights continues today on the state level as Delaware’s Democratic Governor Jack Markell signed a bill extending protection from discrimination to gays and lesbians in laws in laws covering housing, employment, public contracting, insurance and…
The Obama Administration, already under fire by gay rights groups and their allies for marriage equality, notched another major setback for the movement today in arguing against a federal case challening the Defense of Marriage Act passed in 1996. The…
Imagery and symbols are often the hallmarks of change, even more so, than actual change. Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank, is an image and symbol of just that kind of change. He’s a liberal Democrat from Massachusetts who earlier this week…
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) has outlined an ambitious cap-and-trade bill to address the issue of global warming. As expected, Boxer is framing the issue as an engine of economic growth in this time of a great recession.
Her principles she…
