Much has been written about the Susan G Komen for the Cure Foundation vs. Planned Parenthood vs. breast cancer screening PR disaster. Was Komen's initial decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood a political one in the fight against abortion? Was Komen just trying to protect...

Compromise is not a word that a lot of people on Capitol Hill understand these days. That's particularly true when those who are entrenched in their own view of things can't climb out of those trenches without a 12-foot ladder.

The so-called "Super Committee" -- aka...

Networked: What Women Want and Why You Should Care" was the title of the panel I moderated at this year's Activism+Media+Policy Summit to talk about how and why media, policymakers and politicos should be paying attention to the largest and most active group online to advance their goals....

I owe an apology to MSNBC's Willie Geist.

When I make a mistake, I will admit it. It's not always easy or comfortable for anyone to admit when they are wrong (as all of us are from time to time) or when they have offended another person. As a parent...

We don't want to admit it, but we've become complacent in the decade since the September 11 terrorists attacked us. We all did a great job of maintaining a sense of hyper-vigilance for a few months, with extra airport precautions, family evacuation plans and those basements full of...

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the little boys in Washington, D.C. who pretend to be the men who run our country have walked away from the single most important thing they need to do -- keeping our economy from defaulting. But at the rate that things...

If you thought Michele Bachmann was a conservative mom political superstar before the last GOP debate, then you're probably standing in line to get her autograph this week as she officially announces her 2012 presidential bid, as well as her special beauty secrets of how she still looks so young...

The Supreme Court has told one and a half million women who work at Wal-mart, in essence, be grateful you have jobs even if you make less money and get promoted less than men. Now shut up and go home.

That was the practical upshot of the ruling in...

OK, so I fell for Anthony Weiner's lies about the whole "woe is me, my Twitter account was hacked" thing. But, honestly, were there many of us who thought that in this day and age of political sex scandals -- or scandals involving semi-nude self-portraits -- that...

The majority of Sarah Palin watchers seem certain that there is no way, no how the half-term governor from Alaska is going to run for President in 2012. Nu-uh, isn't gonna happen, totally sure of it. She's just going on the road with her motorcycle helmet and personally branded tour...

Congressman Anthony Weiner is having the worst week of his political life.

It seems that his enemies got a hold of some "naughty" close-up photos of a crotch they claim is his and then tried to get people to believe that Weiner was tweeting the pic to...

Just as in the world of dating and matrimony, some political character traits or policy positions are deal breakers. Smoking, chewing tobacco and an addiction to the current version of guy buddy movies? If I were still in the land of dating, any one of those would make me...

Newt Gingrich will never be the President of the United States.

I sound pretty sure of that, don't I? Do I know something the other pundits don't? Do I have some nugget of inside information that's tipped me off to a secret Gingrich ruse?

Sort of. The secret is this...

Barack Obama has a few "good months" left before he hits the big 5-0. But according to Politico, the looming milestone that most of us dread has our president in a funk.

I totally understand that -- as I navigated my way through The Year of Turning 50,...

The Supreme Court of the United States just told a sexually assaulted high school girl to shut up and go home.

They didn't say it in those words exactly, but that was the effect of the high court's decision not to hear an appeal by a Texas...

Osama bin Laden is dead. Do you know where your duct tape and canned foods are?

The man we've been tracking for a decade, and the reason so many American lives have been lost in Afghanistan and Iraq, has finally been taken out by Navy SEALS in a...

Guys have been running the Democratic National Committee for the past two and a half decades. The last time a woman was in charge of the nationwide Democratic show, we hadn't yet heard Bill Clinton deny that he'd had a relationship with "that woman."

Takes you back, doesn't it?

If you're an adult of a certain age, you probably have a memory or two of a teacher taking you or a classmate "out to the woodshed" for some classroom offense. For example, I remember a sixth grade classmate who wasn't particularly good at keeping his listening ears on. One...

If Georgia lawmakers get their way, corporations doing business in that state will get a nice tax cut and the Girl Scouts will be chipping in to make up the difference in the state budget.

Yup. As crazy as that sounds, that's what's going on in Georgia as Republican...

What's happened to the whole Republican "the economy and jobs are our first priority" mantra from the 2010 elections? Eric Cantor can say it all he wants, but that isn't making it true. Instead of jobs, conservatives are once again focused on our lady parts. While I am sort of...