Last week First Lady Michelle Obama went to a homeless shelter in Washington D.C. to serve food to homeless people. When one of the homeless got to the front of the line he decided to capture a Kodak moment. He proceeded to pull out his cellphone and snap a shot of the First Lady. My [...]

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This is usually a bad sign, a sign of desperation.  At a meeting in Niagara Falls on Wednesday it got pretty ugly.  The crowd of people criticizing him for not getting it. From the Associated Press: BUFFALO, N.Y. – With his state facing a $14 billion budget deficit, Gov. David Paterson says he will take [...]

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(A guest essay from Bruce) It is inevitable that gay marriage will happen. I can’t  help but think that 20-25 years from now people will look back in disbelief that the fight for Gay Marriage was necessary.  It will be like women not being allowed to vote or own property.  Or African-Americans being slaves. After [...]

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As the D.C. Voting Rights Act (S 160/H.R. 157) winds its way through the congressional maze, I have been carefully monitoring its progress. Very briefly, it is my understanding that on the House side, Rep. Mike Pence’s efforts to introduce the Broadcaster Freedom Act both as an amendment to the the Omnibus Bill and as [...]

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Evan Bayh Democratic Senator from Indiana and Russ Feingold Democratic Senator from Wisconsin say they will vote against the $410 billion spending bill and they’re urging President Barack Obama to veto it. Bayh says there’s a big divide between the belt-tightening that Americans are doing every day during the current recession and what they see [...]

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