State Sen. Roy Ashburn (R-Calif.), the fierce opponent of gay rights who was arrested last week for drunk driving after leaving a gay nightclub, confirmed in a radio interview Monday that he is gay. "I’m gay," Ashburn told local radio host Inga Barks before returning to the Senate for the first time since his […]

  The Obama administration believes it gained a valuable boost last week in getting health care passed when a 50th Democratic senator informally announced he would back reconciliation fixes to the bill. Not that there remains any doubt that the Senate has the will to get legislative changes passed by an up-or-down vote — rather […]

  Robert P. Watson, Ph.D. Coordinator of American Studies Lynn University Email: rwatson@lynn.edu I am always being asked to grade Obama’s presidency. In place of offering him a grade, I put together a list of his accomplishments thus far. I think you would agree that it is very impressive. His first six months have been […]

While Sarah Palin is busy telling Americans that the current healthcare bill is government takeover of healthcare, it seems in the past she found the Canadian system better than what she had in Alaska. The GOP has elevated the definition of hypocrisy. Their evilness with regards to what is best for America is without precedent […]

There isn’t reverse racism, it is simply racism. Don Lemmon got this one right. The white sorority came ready to complete and was on point. The AKA’s simply looked like they thought it was theirs. That said, the organizers coming back with a scoring error is despicable. As a black man who worked for Corporate […]

  Senator Mark Begich is open to using reconciliation for health reform.  From a letter to a constituent: Thank you for contacting me regarding health care reform. The reconciliation process is a budgetary tool used to address spending and deficit issues with a simple majority vote.  The budget reconciliation process has been used 22 times […]

  It’s a truism that when the parties battle, some independents and non-political people turn off to both parties. But that hides the fact that there are winners and losers in the battle for public opinion. One big loser is health insurance companies, but they are only marginally less trusted than Republican Congressional leaders. This […]

  March 5, 2010 Just before he became a father, Colbert Williams left home because his family was too poor to take care of him. As he remembers it, "My mother didn’t have a place for me to go." Williams and his son discussed their strong bond at StoryCorps in Michigan. But in a "prequel" […]

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  The backlash is growing against Liz Cheney after she demonized Department of Justice attorneys as terrorist sympathizers for their past legal work defending Gitmo detainees — and now it’s coming from within deeply conservative legal circles. On Friday, the conservative blog Power Line put up a post titled, "An Attack That Goes Too Far." […]