By: Linda Milazzo PDA Blog Contributor
(Last) Wednesday evening, in an act of daring befitting a West Point graduate and veteran of Iraq, recently discharged New York National Guard Lieutenant Daniel Choi defied the orders …

by desmoinesdem | MyDD
Iowa Senate Majority leader Mike Gronstal is on a tear this week. On Monday he rejected Republican efforts to bring a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to the Senate floor. Read his …

By David Swanson | AfterDowningStreet
No, he’s NOT the president of Venezuela.
Yes, he was the man who popularized the slogan “Yes, we can!” Only he said “Si’ se puede!”
Cesar Chavez, American young people should …

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The ultra-conservative American Family Association (AFA) plans to air a “one-hour national special” with showings this week, decrying the “radical homosexual agenda.”
The program uses lies …

2008: The Year That Was
By Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com
Jan. 1, 2009
Befitting an administration that has spent eight years obliterating America’s core political values, its final year in power — 2008 — was yet …

by Anthony D. Romero | Executive Director ACLU
This Thanksgiving we are reflecting on what family means to us. For those of us at the ACLU and many people across the country, that will bring …

Subject to Debate
by Katha Pollitt | The Nation
Something else remarkable happened on election day: voters rejected all
three anti-abortion measures on the ballot. In socially conservative
South Dakota, voters said no to an abortion ban with narrow …

by Jayne Lyn Stahl
I’m as upset about the outcome of Proposition 8 as anyone else is, but I don’t think that it is the signature issue of our times.
The President-elect’s plans for what to do …