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What Same-Sex marriage decisions tell us about America, Constitution

American University students Sharon Burk, left, and Molly Wagner participate in a rally for rights for gay couples in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP2013) The preservation of explicit inequality in the law is hard to defend and…

What men want

Father’s Day 2013 arrives on Sunday. Here’s what we have to show for it: According to a survey conducted by Today Moms, more than half of the 7,000 mothers polled feel more stressed out by their husbands than they do…

Progressives must hold Obama accountable for NSA phone spying

FILE- In this Dec. 8, 2005, file photo, a man walks out the Verizon’s new corporate headquarters(AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, File) (AP2005) Friday, the New York Times published an editorial about the recent revelation that our federal government is collecting broad…

Sticking with what works when it comes to Medicare — lessons for Republicans and Democrats

The Democratic and Republican Congressional budget plans proffered by House and Senate budget committee chairs must be viewed more as acts of political theater than serious fiscal roadmaps. ; Even though symbolic votes have taken place, neither plan has a…

America’s willful blindness — Obama is a divider not a unifier

The much discussed Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, which was released Thursday morning, shows a sharply divided America. Not much new there. Half of those surveyed think that the across-the-board spending cuts that went into effect on Friday with the…

We are still living in deeply divided times

“We know what the best thing would be. It would be an agreement that sends the signal to our economy, and to the world, that after years of punting on the major fiscal challenges we face, 2013 is going to…

A Second Debate Draw

The President’s performance was a far cry from his anemic showing in Denver. He was energized, focused and well prepared. The Governor had less to make up for after his strong showing in the first debate. He performed well again…

Dear debate commission, if you won’t kill off this silly town hall format…

Editor’s note: The second presidential debate took place at Hofstra University in New York on October 16. Here are some of the top tweets of the evening. Dana Perino ‏@DanaPerino:I am hereby begging the Romney campaign to ignore questions about…

Weak Jobs Numbers, Weak Reelection Prospects

Move upMove down U.S. Adds Fewest Jobs In A Year, Unemployment Rate Rises to 8.2% Abram Brown Forbes Staff Sparkle Returns To Gold After Dismal Jobs Data, Promise Of QE3 Abram Brown Forbes Staff President Obama’s only claim to reelection…