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I support marriage equality.   What’s not to support.   Two people fall in love and they want to get married, so let them.  Just 50 years ago, people objected to

The Pentagon's groundbreaking decision to lift  the U.S. military’s official ban on women in combat actually acknowledges the reality that American woman in the military have already been in

In April 1999, two teenagers at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorad0, went on a killing spree at their suburban high school, leaving 12 students and a teacher dead

My boss at a major civil rights coalition once accused me of being willing to work for Republicans. “You’re right,” I said, “I admire the party’s organization, messaging skills and

Since I don’t watch political debates, what I get out of them is the verbal flotsam and jetsam that make the next day news. My new favorite phrase, courtesy of

I didn't watch the first one, I didn't watch the second, and I won’t be watching the third of the “Dancing with the Pols” debates. Why?  Because it’s too much

In the wake of India’s recent 50 percent electrical outage with more than 600 million residents losing power, more Americans should start thinking about our electrical grid. Fifty percent of

As mayor, Adrian Fenty was young, sometimes petty as when he wouldn’t share Washington Nationals tickets with council members and, occasionally, downright arrogant, shuttling millions in construction contracts to

My niece is married to a Norwegian and lives in Oslo. When they had their first baby, she got six weeks off, her husband got six weeks off and