Senate Republicans, the week before Christmas, are trying to slash 60 percent of aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy, funding only projects and needs that they...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true}; In what appears to be an act of heavy-handed political retribution, longtime activist, muckraker and citizen journalist Michael Petrelis yesterday surrendered to the San Francisco Sheriff’s...
President Barack Obama has done so much more than most Americans know. Call it humility. Call it the GOP stealing the spotlight. Call it Obama not...
Conservatives are furious a local Hudson Valley, New York newspaper has published the names and addresses of thousands of gun permit holders — “all pistol permit...
To tell you why I’m voting for Barack Obama, I first have to explain to you why I’m a Democrat. I was very, very young when...
This post is the sixth in a series of Spilled Milk columns by Emmy Award-winning writer and producer William Lucas Walker that chronicle his journey through parenthood. Spilled Milk, which originates in The...
Michelle Obama said voting rights are “the movement of our era,” and that “casting our ballots… must be all of us,” in a speech at yesterday’s Congressional Black Caucus...
This past week I attended my first public meeting in my small town of Wimberley, Texas, where members of a local playhouse had petitioned to be...
 “Take it from me, someday we’ll all be free.” – Donny Hathaway 1 After watching Paul Ryan give his speech at the Republican National Convention,...
Tony Perkins is warning his followers that “Google’s approach to traditional values is to search—and destroy.” Perkins, head of the certified anti-gay hate group Family Research...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke yesterday at the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. and announced the United States is donating $80 million...
Back in June 1990, thousands of people from around the world convened in San Francisco for the Sixth International AIDS Conference. Based at the city’s Marriott...
NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, is attacking retailing giant Target, falsely claiming, “Marriage isn’t terribly pertinent to their business.†NOM, who has said that marriage is...
Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker on Good Friday night signed several evil anti-women, anti-worker, and even anti-children bills into law. The bills include a repeal of...
Virginia House Republican lawmaker, Del. Robert G. Marshall, told a Tea Party audience on Thursday that being gay “cuts your life by about 20 years,” which absolutely is a...