Hack is a strange word. my dictionary uses examples like, “hack off the dead branches,” or “lots of people leave because they can’t hack it.” But...
My better half, Caleb Eigsti, and I just finished a week in Las Vegas, where we attended our first Netroots Nation. The conference claims it “amplifies...
The GOP, which spent the George W. Bush years, and the American people’s hard-earned money, turning a Clinton budget surplus into a monstrous deficit, has spent...
In a bizarre twist of religious logic, Pope Benedict XVI says in a new book that condom usage might be OK by, for example, a male...
Earlier today I posted the questions Judge Vaughn Walker had sent to the plaintiffs and defendants in the federal Proposition 8 trial, Perry v. Schwarzenegger. Both...
“Assimilation and the Founding Fathers,” Michelle Malkin’s Independence Day diatribe over at Human Events, focused on the president’s immigration speech, and ends with, “Many of us...
The compromise that created “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in 1993 has led, seventeen years later, to a compromise promising its repeal. But the LGBT community right...
I don’t like Caleb Howe. But I love Twitter. And I use it all the time. To meet people, to form communities, to understand how people...
Now that we “know” that Elena Kagan is not gay, the Internet has decided to move forward and embrace Laura Bush for supporting gay marriage and...
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is here, through Spring, at least. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has just over-ruled a lower court’s decision that the government...
“Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama†is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership...
Sunday morning, after trying to hail a cab for far too long, I finally got to Grand Central and boarded the Metro North train to Connecticut...
“Ex-gay.” It means someone who believes they were once gay, lesbian, or bisexual, but no longer affirms that identity, usually after intervention of “conversion therapy.” It...
Dan Choi, the poster child for repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” who recently, albeit unsuccessfully, tried to be re-instated in the Army, is a hero...
It’s called suffrage, the right to vote. As an American citizen, our right to vote is perhaps the most valuable of all our assets. So essential...