Today the California Supreme Court issued its ruling to uphold the hateful Proposition 8 banning same sex marriage. The Court also held that the 18,000 marriages that occurred between the time of Court’s ruling that gay marriage was protected under the California Constitution and when the electorate voted to amend the Constitution to ban same [...]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused the CIA of misleading her in 2002 about its use of waterboarding during the Bush administration.  It seems absurd for me to write a piece defending Speaker Pelosi- who am I to defend her?  I am a constituent, I am a supporter and I have worked with her office [...]

I realize that Justice Souter is still on the bench so I feel like this article is a little like saying “The King is dead, long live the King” while the aforementioned King is still on the throne, but a Supreme Court appointment is always important so it isn’t completely irreverent to weigh in on [...]

PRIORITY FOR OBAMA”S HIV POLICY AGENDA: NEEDLE EXCHANGE

President Obama has vowed a renewed focus on the domestic HIV epidemic. The only thing that I can give President Bush is establishing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to address HIV/AIDS globally but he failed miserably at addressing the epidemic in this country. President Obama’s [...]

This article is inspired by the horrific multiple shooting that have occurred in the past few weeks. In the past few weeks there have been horrible multiple murders- two incidents in the past two days- (including the fatal shooting of a total of 7 law enforcement officers). Oakland CA, Binghamton NY and Pittsburg PA in [...]