Since Election Day, I've been hearing a lot of outrage about the passing of California's Proposition 8, from the gay community both here and across the country ( Read more... )

Progress is happening for the LGBT community ( Read more... )

In less than an hour, polling places open in my home state of South Dakota and in Montana ( Read more... )

According to a recent Gallup poll, 28 percent of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) backers would vote for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) if Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) won the Democratic nomination for president ( Read more... )

Dear CBS News on LOGO ( Read more... )

Dear Y'all Know Who Y'are:

While I'm not the most stringent on attending Mass every Sunday, weekday morning Mass or other Holy Days of Obligation, when I do go ... a few things get on my nerves.

Cell Phones.Facetiously speaking, as a close-to-lapsed Catholic, it's hard enough to believe what the Church feeds me without additional distractions. ( Read more... )

I congratulate Sen. Hillary Clinton's supporters that I know in person and supporters I have yet to meet, your organizing and Get Out The Vote efforts were well-rewarded in her victory in California this evening. It represents not just an investment of your time and energy, but of the message Clinton projects to the public who rallied around her ( Read more... )

Teachers Sue to Block Hotel Workers' Union Vote in Nevada Caucus
By Steve Friess
The New York Times

"LAS VEGAS - Nevada’s state teachers union and six Las Vegas area residents filed a lawsuit late Friday that could make it harder for many members of the state’s huge hotel workers union to vote in the hotly contested Jan. 19 Democratic caucus in ( Read more... )

While it's not exactly huge news that I spent six unpaid, volunteer hours at the Obama campaign office yesterday; the truth is that I'd much rather be doing something I love for free than something I loathe for an ungodly amount of money. Well, maybe that's not entirely true, but there is truth to it ( Read more... )

Maybe this speaks to my viewing habits, but have you ever turned on Cartoon Network and thought that it was all run by the same five, unimaginative, thirtysomething college buddies who lost a bet to each other?