The Democratic/LGBT Rift
There's little doubt that the continuing pattern of evasion, silence and apparent disrespect for LGBT rights on the part of President Obama has greatly raised the ire of the queer community (myself...
View ArticleLGBT Hostility and the 2010 elections: Reading List and Analysis
Many of you have heard me rant a fair bit about the broken promises of the Obama administration, but many of you may not be aware that I'm the tip of the iceberg in that regard. This post is intended...
View ArticleExplaining the Matthew Shepard Act
As of last week, the House and Senate have now passed the "Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act" as part of the Defense Authorization Bill, and that bill now sits on the...
View ArticleLGBT Anger: We're Losing Votes and Dollars: What Next?
Today, the Associated Press put out a story saying something I've been saying for over a year--insufficient progress on LGBT rights will come back to bite us.We could go over that old ground, but let's...
View ArticleVeterans Day: The President continues "half off" separation pay for...
(Well, foo. Clark67nt has already diaried this, and likely better than I have. Sorry 'bout that!)One of the most frustrating things in the past two years to me has been the intellectual gyrations...
View Article"Why do liberals like protected classes?" - in which I reply to wharrblgarrbl
Elsenet today I was talking with a fellow who asked me this. While the question was clearly a bumpersticker more than a serious question, I have a passion for answering rhetorical questions, and so...
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