Kevin Jennings is an Assistant Deputy Secretary in the Department of Education and he runs the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. His credentials and his commitment to student safety are impeccable.

Anyone who tells you that Kevin Jennings is not qualified for his job:

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Here's the deal. Tomorrow (10/10), the President will address the national dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay political advocacy group. Several thousand people hanging on his every word. A couple of reporters thrown in for good measure. And more than a few bloggers.

The...

I was thinking that a personal trainer might make a nice gift. Or a guarantee that my memory wouldn't fail me. Or maybe some kind of assurance that our twins would graduate from high school in one piece. Actually I guess I mean two pieces. But I got a highly...

My partner Eileen says she is sick of reading Facebook profiles about what people are eating. "Delicious soft shell crabs with Bobby" or "Try the bison burger at Ted's." She thinks it is stupid. She doesn't really care that much about what other people eat. She cares a lot about...

"Now that savings is POPULAR?" My partner and I opened the paper to find this ad. The catering company should be very pleased (and relieved) that I blocked out the company name. I am simply trying to make a point.

One quick thing before...

I know what he meant. He meant that together we would fight for full equality and that he would advocate for us to get there. But the line is also true if you look at it the other way. Over the rest of his first term (this is how I...

I know it seems odd. Ironic even. I was listening to the president's speech to the veterans on Omaha Beach, commemorating the anniversary of D-Day and it hit me. Funny I know. I was listening to him address military veterans and I realized what is missing in the president's approach...

The next chapter in our inexorable march to equality involves the most unlikely of characters. Ted Olson. No, that is not a typo. I don't mean Jimmy Olson (cub reporter for Daily Planet), Mary Kate and Ashley Olson (not sure what to even write here to describe them...)

Allow me...

Unlike his predecessor, Barack Obama does not see himself as the "Decider." He is at heart a community organizer. And in these first one hundred days, Americans have seen the tenets of community organizing in action. The President has reminded us time and again that we are all in this...

This week marks the Days of Remembrance, an annual program of the US Holocaust Museum. It is of course in the service of ensuring that we never forget. President Obama, the first president to ever host a White House seder, is not forgetting. He was at the Capitol...

My daughter Scout returned to Boston yesterday after a week long spring break. She is not a Daytona Beach, drink beer until it comes out of your eyeballs kind of spring break person. This of course makes me love her even more (if that were possible) (and it's not).

Last...

President Obama runs a big shop. He has thousands of employees under his charge. We often think about him in the 'leader of the free world' category but for the purpose of this exercise, I'd like you to think of him as an employer.

What kind of employer should the...

I believe I have mentioned that I am a recent Facebook convert. In the last week, "25 Random Things" has taken off virally. It's a very simple premise.

Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals...

So says Mrs. Haggard in an interview yesterday on Good Morning America. It is why, she tells Robin Roberts, she now trusts him.

Ol' Mrs. Haggard has set the bar mighty low, huh? She clearly can't say that he is now an honest man, especially in light of new allegations...

For the gazillion people who would drop everything to head to DC to work for the Obama administration, the Plum Book is the Bible. It lists the more than 7,000 government jobs that open up with a new administration.

I spent considerable time reviewing the contents of this...

I forget sometimes. I need to be reminded. Many, many people don't think that gay people should be allowed to parent. I certainly was reminded of this on Election Day when the state of Arkansas passed a ballot initiative prohibiting gay and lesbian couples from adopting.

I think there...

I'll admit it. The Rick Warren selection stung. I really tried not to take it personally. I raised many gay dollars (insert funny visual here) for the President-elect. I received more than a handful of emails with the subject line; "I want my money back."

My 81-year-old mother said it...

In my family, I am the leader of the "Half Full Glass" club. I don't have to try hard -- it comes kind of naturally. I am a silver-lining kind of gal.

But not today. I think I've just had it.

The New York Times reports this morning that...

Hi. I am Joan Garry and I am a news addict. In the months and weeks leading up to Election Day, I couldn't help myself.

CNN, realclearpolitics.com, five-thirty-eight.com. I didn't just check in at these sites. It got to the point where I would become furious at the...

I've been working on algebraic equations with my daughter Kit. She kind of hates them. I kind of like them. They are so tidy. To solve for "x", you have to keep each side of the equation in balance. Maybe it's because I'm a Libra -- I like the whole...