Michele Bachmann, speaking in Iowa earlier this month, said, “We serve a mighty God,” as she “testified” about her Evangelical Christian faith to a small crowd on...
Republicans, dissatisfied with having passed one unconstitutional law on marriage, are now trying to pass another to defend it. The Republicans have been lying about DOMA,...
Last week, Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner announced he would in fact spend your tax dollars to hire private lawyers to defend DOMA, the...
United We Win: Memorial Day Weekend At The New Civil Rights Movement  “Recent oil price hikes increasingly look like the result of speculation,” wrote The...
The first time I ever heard the word “lesbian” spoken aloud in public was at Indiana State University in 1973 by the famous feminist Flo Kennedy, who...
Last week, the Log Cabin Republicans went to the U.S. Supreme Court to request that the stay the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals invoked against federal...
JFK, President John F. Kennedy, the first American President born in the 20th century, the youngest elected to the office, and our only Catholic President, was...
The Hill has released its “50 Wealthiest List,” which ranks the top fifty wealthiest members of Congress. I took some time to review the data, and...
After fending off a recently-reported bombshell rumor, New York’s Governor David Paterson, the man who succeeded Eliot Spitzer after a sex-scandal resignation, has decided to not...
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. — Mao Zedong, 1938 The Democratic Party leadership’s performance over the past 365 days is...
JFK, President John F. Kennedy, the first American President born in the 20th century, the youngest elected to the office, and our only Catholic President, was...
John F. Kennedy, the first American President born in the 20th century, the youngest elected to the office, and our only Catholic President, was shot and...
The U.S. Supreme Court has just ruled that it will leave in place the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, while a lower court reviews a...
***UPDATED*** #2: New York Magazine weighs in, asking this morning, “Is Sesame Street Gay Friendly, or Just Friendly?,” and offers an historical perspective. And this: “But...
Leading up to Congressional debate on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” earlier this year, SLDN organized “Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama,†a new...