I am having a lot of "oy-vey" moments these days. Oy vey, we're not going to get single payer health care, the only option that would save money and expand coverage. Oy-vey, we're not going to get a revival of Glass-Steagal, the common sense firewall that Congress established in 1933...

The Washington Times is reporting that Marine Corps Commandant General James Conway is opposing President Obama's pledge to repeal "don't ask, don't tell." Citing a former senior Pentagon official, the Times says that General Conway, "has emerged in internal Pentagon deliberations as the most outspoken opponent of permitting gay...

Talk about weird mixed signals. Last week, an Air Force Colonel serving in the Office of the Secretary of Defense published a study calling for the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" in an official military journal. Col. Om Prakash is only the second actively-serving officer to be willing...

Here they go again.

As reported by Huffington Post and other media outlets, we now have two scandals in two days involving our security forces.

The first scandal involves guards at the U.S. Embassy Kabul who have engaged in extreme forms of violence. If you have the stomach...

Rahm Emanuel's fiftieth birthday is not until November 29, but the gay community has been working hard on his gift, and is in the process of delivering one hell of a present. Just at the moment when the White House was starting to sweat over its failure to follow through...

Finally, Washington is starting to wake up from its 15-year slumber concerning gays in the military. Today, 77 members of Congress sent a letter to the White House urging President Obama to take the lead on "don't ask, don't tell" by issuing an immediate moratorium on further gay discharges. Following...

Dan Choi, a West Point graduate and officer in the Army National Guard who is fluent in Arabic and who returned recently from Iraq, received notice today that the military is about to fire him. Why? Because he came out of the closet as a gay man on national television.

In January 2001, shortly after the Supreme Court's Bush v. Gore decision which stayed the Florida recount and handed the 2000 presidential election to Barbara Bush's ne'er-do-well eldest son, I was sitting in my weekly group therapy session for high-functioning gay men. Which was high-functioning in purely relative terms, since...

"Alaska is right next to Russia" -- John McCain

Liberals mock John McCain for claiming that Governor Sarah Palin understands international affairs because she lives "next to " Russia. According to the punditocracy and netroots, living next to somewhere does not translate into understanding it. For example, my next door...

Sure, hindsight is 20-20. But after watching Hillary and Bill Clinton's speeches over the past two nights, you have to believe that their rousing endorsements of Barack Obama were inevitable. There was simply no way that the Clintons -- perhaps the most strategic, committed Democrats in the country -- were...

Today is the fourteenth anniversary of the enactment of the "don't ask, don't tell" law which prohibits gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. When President Clinton tried to force the military to include openly gay service members, opponents insisted that military culture was too intolerant of homosexuality...

I was just having an internal conversation with myself, one of those endless loop kind of things that you use to substitute for entertainment when you can't listen to NPR. Which is anytime I'm driving, because my car radio doesn't work. This is totally my fault, because my partner just...

After New York Times columnist David Brooks offered a revisionist account of Ronald Reagan's appeal to states rights during the launch of his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil-rights workers were murdered in 1964, commentators debated whether or not Reagan was a racist. According to some, Reagan's tactics...

Larry Craig is out the door, and he doesn't have many fans left. I'm certainly not one of them. As has been widely reported, Craig is the proud recipient of a zero -- ZERO! -- from the Human Rights Campaign for his anti-gay voting record. As HRC concluded, it's pretty...

One has to admire Mitt Romney's ability to dance around all sides of an issue without conveying even an iota of shame about how he sounds. Take the latest example: "don't ask, don't tell."

During tonight's debate among GOP presidential candidates, Romney, who criticized the gay ban in 1994 when...

Reports about the military's ongoing dismissal of gay Arabic linguists continue to show what can, and regularly does, happen to even mission-critical servicemembers who are caught up in the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. But an Associated Press story this week was noteworthy for its reporting of what did not...

The New York Times and Associated Press reported today that the number of felons allowed to serve in the military has surged since the invasion of Iraq nearly four years ago. The data, which were obtained by the Michael D. Palm Center at UC-Santa Barbara, show that both...

If you spend a lot of time talking to opponents of gays in the military, one of the arguments you hear again and again is that U.S. troops cannot form bonds of trust with gay peers. This idea is the basis of the so-called unit cohesion rationale which was formulated...

Arizona Sen. John McCain, almost certainly a contender for the White House in 2008, wants you and me to believe that he is a straight-talker. At least that's what his carefully-crafted reputation is all about.

For a straight-talker, though, McCain seemed caught off-guard when ABC political correspondent George Stephanopoulos recently...