Creating new, separate, and different levels of rights and recognition among committed couples only creates further inequity, confusion, and discord even internally among states that seek to expand rights.
It's no surprise a pay equity bill got voted down yesterday. Women wanting equal pay is now seen as just an obsession, like needing a new pair of sti...
Israel and the United States are not one country. Being pro-Israel should not wield so much power that it becomes a principal issue in American elections.
This past weekend, I attended Barack Obama's "Get Out The Vote" rally in Chicago for Alexi Giannoulias. As tens of thousands of people filed in, I pu...
"You would have done very well so far this cycle shorting the hype that a candidate has 'momentum'. Yes, I'm looking at you, Connecticut." --Nate Si...
If anyone had any questions about Mark Kirk's commitment to multi-national corporations in China, they can safely put them aside. After holding his i...
Some of you may remember back in 2007 I ran as a write-in candidate for mayor of Chicago. This fall, you have another opportunity to vote for me.
Chicago television anchor Walter Jacobson called out the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times for attempting to create controversy and mixing editorial positions as news in the Illinois Senate Race.
Unless it turns out that Alexi Giannoulias did anything illegal -- and no one is alleging that he did -- Broadway Bank is among the least important issues in this campaign.
On February 19, Mark Kirk, a Republican Congressman from Illinois running for a promotion to the US Senate, delivered a speech at the Chicago Council ...
I started to doze off around 10:00 p.m. while Alexi Giannoulias was giving his acceptance speech. I'll have to double-check the transcript, but this is what I thought I heard.
Blago was in the midst of asking me about my children. I mentioned that my eldest had graduated from college. "Find her daughter a job," he said. Blago seemed delighted with himself.
We are no more insulated from a financial crisis today than we were one year ago. Congress has not changed a single rule, habit or practice to stop this economic calamity from happening again.
No one in the race has the resume, experience or heft required of a U.S. Senator. In fact, the bench in Illinois is pretty weak right now, among both Democrats and Republicans.