02/01/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire There is an old truth about setting up a study in the government- you do it in order to delay actually taking action while making it look like you are taking action. The military in the... (Continue reading)
1/29/10-by Paula Brooks Harold Ford Jr. may or may not be running for the Senate against Kirsten Gillibrand, but he certainly seems to be more than willing to sound like it. Of late he has been telling the LGBT community what a... (Continue reading)
01/28/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Those Republicans who are, like Mark McKinnon, dismayed that President Obama did not abandon his liberalism after the election of Scott Brown of Massachusetts are misreading the Tea Bags…er tea leaves. As the Tea Party... (Continue reading)
01/20/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire The blame game has begun. Well, technically, the blame game over Massachusetts began before last night. Certainly the lack of a campaign from Martha Coakley hurt, but so did the national ground game which did... (Continue reading)
01/19/10- by Bridgette P. LaVictoire As the chaos of the Coakley Senate run comes to the final stretch, the finger pointing has already begun. Problems plagued this campaign, including the arrogance of the candidate who ran a more passive campaign... (Continue reading)
Image via Wikipedia 1/19/2010-by Natasia Langfelder The FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecasting Model, which correctly predicted the outcome of all 35 Senate races in 2008, is predicting that Republican Scott Brown is a 74 percent favorite to win the Senate seat in Massachusetts. New... (Continue reading)
1/16/10-by Paula Brooks As Republican Scott Brown’s surge continues in the days leading up to the Massachusetts Senatorial Special Election, President Obama has finally weighed in on the race to succeed Sen. Edward M. Kennedy… “Our Fierce Advocate” has put out an... (Continue reading)
01/15/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire President Barack Obama is now facing a very real problem in Massachusetts. He rushed there to try and shore up the flagging likelihood that Martha Coakley would, in fact, succeed Senator Ted Kennedy in the seat... (Continue reading)
01/11/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Should Senator Harry Reid resign over comments he made regarding President Barak Obama’s dialect? Peter Beinart over at the Daily Beast made an interesting article on this. “Barack Obama because he’s ‘light-skinned’ and has ‘no... (Continue reading)
Posted and written by Melanie Nathan: This week a Plane is leaving for Taiwan and one more American is forced to leave the Country he loves so dearly, simply because the love of his life is of the same sex. ... (Continue reading)
12/18/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Yesterday, I went a little ballistic over the Health Care Reform and joined the ranks of those who have called for the end of this bill. I did not explain the totality of why. The... (Continue reading)
12/17/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire This is what happens when you cave in to one person who is having a snit. Another one comes along and demands that you cave in to him. In this case it is Democrat Ben... (Continue reading)
Blogged by Melanie Nathan. The statement below my comment was released today by the undersigned LGBT organizations; an expression of the frustration felt by the leadership on behalf of the organizations which they represent. I agree with what they express... (Continue reading)
12/4/09-by Paula Brooks After months of focusing on health care, Afghanistan and just about everything else, (except maybe his promises on gay rights issues), President Obama finally turned that focused like a laser attention of his on the fact this country... (Continue reading)
From the Mediation desk of Melanie Nathan: Recently in my mediation practice I have had a spate of divorce cases where the spouses (partners) have been at odds about how to deal with underwater real estate. When dividing community property... (Continue reading)