Sweet 16. The age of driver's licenses and birthday bashes, an iconic moment in the life of an American teenager when you're treated as an...
At the November 2007 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Des Moines, then-Senator Barack Obama invoked ''what Dr. King called 'the fierce urgency of now''' in urging support...
Calling Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Penn.) ''a tireless champion'' for the repeal of the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network spokesman Kevin Nix...
When asked about equality advocates' concern that a moratorium on enforcement of the military's ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy would put off a vote on...
I believe it's important to acknowledge when we're wrong about our assumptions or expectations, so I should point out that when GOProud initially announced its...
The people stopping by to talk were mostly young, almost exclusively white and unabashedly conservative. Almost all, however, were just as excited to be welcoming...
SAN FRANCISCO – President Barack Obama's name keeps coming up during the trial challenging the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban. Wednesday, attorneys defending Proposition...
In mid-February thousands of conservatives will descend on D.C. for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference -- better known as CPAC -- the premiere political...
If history has a hobby, it's making those who assume to know its course look foolish. At the close of the last decade, somewhat weary...
''Our Time is Now,'' according to a call to action by several local GLBT groups seeking marriage equality. ''It is an invitation for all the...
Three statewide offices and all 100 seats of the Virginia House of Delegates are up for grabs come Nov. 3, in what political activists are...
As Capital Pride -- now marking its 34th year -- evolves, it has gone from the greenest of grassroots celebrations in a schoolyard to local...
While a load of Republicans may have left town with the political reversal of fortune, plenty are headed to D.C. this weekend, April 16 to...
There are certain clichés about ''liberals,'' ''progressives,'' ''lefties,'' what have you. As a longtime spy in that house of love, I can tell you that...
George Santayana, poet and philosopher, advised that, ''Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.'' And who better to take advice from...