This public debate on whether or not the Obama administration's sensible policy on covering birth control has turned into a boys against the girls fight. And the boys are out of touch and out of line.

Are Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle, EJ Dionne and George Will etc. going...

Some of my favorites:

"Gay people have a different role than other minority groups... Very few black kids have ever had to worry about telling their parents that they were black"

"They're (congressional opponents) saying that my ability to marry another man somehow jeopardizes heterosexual marriage. Then they go out...

In all the media buzz about the AOL deal with The Huffington Post, one issue keeps coming up that makes no sense to me. Will Huffington Post bloggers still submit their work for free when HuffPost founders just made a lot of money on their investment?

As a fairly...

Americans have known our health care system was broken for years. During the 2008 Presidential campaign, tragic stories about health care were the number one subject that people talked to then candidate Obama about. So what is the Republican's top agenda now in Congress? To repeal the progress that has...

Help me I think I'm falling in love with you again... Whoa, not so fast, big guy. This week's start of the George Bush reputation resurrection tour has all the requisite trappings of a superstar artist tour. Oprah, The Today Show, etc. And we have early release teasers already. Former...

The "enthusiasm gap" is for sissies. We don't need pollsters to tell us how we feel. We are angry and frustrated. And I don't mean the average voter. I mean Democrats in Washington.

The stakes are high. And we know they are the highest for those people...

I am reading with interest the back and forth about which New York Senate candidate is "better on LGBT issues," the current Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, or the would-be candidate, former Rep. Harold Ford.

LGBT people suffered a frustrating defeat in the New York legislature at the hands of Democrats...

The gay community was hit harshly with realities over the last few weeks as a cabinet and senior White House staff was chosen in a Democratic administration that did not include a gay or lesbian appointee* and Pastor Rick Warren was chosen to give the Invocation on Inauguration Day.

Yes, it is a year for change. Yes Barack Obama knew that before most other politicians and capitalized on that with a unique and brilliant campaign that offered inspiration and principle to us in a consistent and explosive manner. We will elect him as our President tomorrow because he offers...

John McCain lost his final opportunity to convince 30 million people to change their mind about their support for Barack. Since most polls are showing support for Obama has crossed over 50%, McCain has to actually change minds now for him to win. There simply are not enough undecided voters...

A short while ago I wrote a blog post for those of us who weren't financial analysts or bankers about the simple things I would look for in an acceptable legislative bailout proposal.

I said we needed some equity for the taxpayers in any investment the government was...

Lots of smart people with extensive financial and economic expertise will weigh in on the bailout legislation now winding it's way through Congress.

I am going to look for four simple things:

1. Taxpayers need equity in the companies we are saving.

If the government is guaranteeing rather than buying...

I blogged yesterday about going easier on Gov Palin on the experience quotient. Though I outline lots of other reasons I think she would be a disaster as Veep.

This morning I have some pause on my or ANY argument to totally eliminate the experience quotient. I heard Richard...

Warning! This pundit isn't feeling the same way as most of my colleagues about Sarah Palin. She is being attacked for her lack of experience for the job and for whether she should be putting her family first instead of her career. This just isn't that unusual in my book....

DENVER, Colorado -- Is there a score higher than an A+? I have heard about a hundred speeches by Sen. Hillary Clinton. Tuesday night's speech in Denver was a clarion call filled with power and grace.

Hillary's job at the Democratic National Convention was a big one. She had...

Stephanie Tubbs Jones was a BIG woman. She was big in her smile, in her motherly warmth, in her blackness, in her womanhood, her passion for Cleveland and in her political smarts. I am grieving her loss today.

We first met when I was working in the music industry and...

As we approach the Democratic and Republican Conventions, the Presidential race of 2008 enters a new phase. We need "New Rules"*.

For Republicans:

New Rule: Marty Matalin, it is no longer acceptable for a respected operative like yourself to hide behind the trash you published in Jerome Corsi's book and...

Thinking about heading to the beach for the holiday weekend and expecting to pay almost $200 for gas over the course of a few days made me recall a conversation I had two weeks ago with McCain Campaign Manager, Rick Davis. It was at a party in his honor, so...

Hillary Clinton gave the speech of her life today and as she endorsed her primary opponent, she cemented her place in history. As importantly, she also shone a path for herself as a national leader for years to come.

She said: "The way to continue our fight now, to accomplish...

Senator Clinton's speech last night was a justifiably proud recitation of her accomplishments over the course of this campaign, but it did not end right. She didn't do what she should have done. As hard and as painful as it might have been, she should have conceded, congratulated, endorsed and...