Disclosure: I have smoked a cigarette in my life. Guilty as charged. Surely, as I write this, the liberal death squads (Yale Law Degrees-In-Hand) are marching for the nearest courthouse to accuse me of genocide, infanticide, and fungicide.

Marred by a week-long cycle of bad press and Cabinet defections, President Obama’s $787 Billion stimulus package passed both houses of Congress last night, despite the rigid partisan-divide.
Clearly emboldened by their unanimous “No” votes on the first version, House Republicans, masterfully corralled by Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA), held the line yet again. Three [...]

On the heels of President Obama’s lackluster amateur night performance at the Apollo, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) unveiled a massive advertising blitz attacking Congressional Republicans’ solidarity in the face of increasing pressure to cave on the President’s pork-laden ‘stimulus’ package.
We’re enduring “an economic crisis,” says the ad’s female voice [...]

Hillary and Julie Goodridge, the pioneering lesbian activists whose legal campaign prompted the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to recognize gay marriage in 2004, have found themselves in all too familiar territory: The couple has filed for divorce in county probate court after amicably living apart for two years.
Four years ago, Hillary, Julie and Annie, the [...]

Wasting no time, President Obama began quickly overturning standing Bush executive orders in an effort to end nearly a decade of, what President Obama called on the campaign trail, “Bush cronyism.” Among his first moves were orders to freeze senior White House staffer’s pay and to toughen ethics and lobbying rules. As White House Press [...]