In the wake of  the Obama Administration's announcement that  it would no longer defend  in court section three of  the  Defense of Ma...

From the Huffington Post: ------------------------------------------------ WASHINGTON -- In a major policy reversal, the Obama administrat...

It was back in the last week of October, 2008.   I was in the UK visting Eric.  It was yet another of the many many trips I was taking ba...

Wow..  

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An update of my previous posting about  the Same Sex Marriage debate currently going on in Iowa.   With  folks like Grandma Jean standing u...

Ok...   When I sat down to write this blog post,  I was  all set  to give example after example of how the modern day GOP/TeaParty/Social/Fi...

Ah..  CPAC !   The annual  " Conservative Political Action Conference" .   The   Cirque du Silly   of  American politics,   kicked...

MSNBC;s  Ed Shultz, has had enough of  the Republican Party's criminal neglect of  the long term unemployed in the United States. Vis...

Like most Democratic and Progressive voters, I was deeply disappointed by the results of the 2010 midterm elections. It was like the Ameri...

I will confess my relationship with Ronald Reagan is (as facebook might say...)  "complicated." Like so many of my  friends who ...

Happy Year of the Rabbit Everyone!

The current civil unrest in Egypt has finally pushed  the  American Conservative  WingNuttocracy  over the edge. The current situation in Eg...

Being from Wisconsin,   I often have made my share of  ""Iowa Jokes".   But  have always felt a quiet grudging affection for ...

25 Years ago today,  I was home from school with cold and  turned on CNN to watch the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger.   Along wit...

" LGBT rights are not special rights; they are human rights."                                     -  President Barack Obama The W...

(hat tip to Wonkette for finding this amazing video.) I have often blogged about how the Conservative Religious Right in the United Sta...