For most of 2012, President Obama has been running in the Democratic primary. I know that seems odd, given that he’s essentially running unopposed. But that's not what I'm talking about.

Gagging Grenell was a bad play for the Romney team because it guaranteed the issue wouldn't go away. The only way to dispel concerns about the man's fitness for the job was to let him do his job. Muzzling him until he resigned was the worst possible way to handle it because all it did was feed crocodiles like Fischer.

One of the few issues on which opinion has moved left over the last few years is same-sex marriage. Why? One reason is probably that as people learn that friends and relatives are gay, they become more sympathetic to gay rights. But increasing support for same-sex marriage causes problems for politicians.

The discovery that the writer of the 'Gay Girl in Damascus' blog was not in fact an actual gay girl in Damascus shocked the blogging community. The reason that liberals were okay with the blog for so long though was because 'Gay Girl' trumpeted everything they believe.

Let’s play "Jeopardy." Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?”

According to Chris Mooney’s best selling new book, The Republican Brain, a follow up to his 2007 polemic The Republican War on Science, the answer is easy:...

"My rival in this race,” President Obama announced early in 2007, “is not other candidates. It’s cynicism.” It’s now clear that what he meant by this was other people’s cynicism — not his own.

President Obama's focus on Supreme Court nominees that have empathy for the little guy amounts to nothing more than state-sanctioned prejudice, violating the ideal of impartial justice.

Gay marriage arouses hot emotions on both sides. But there is a sensible solution, and it's being followed: Let each state decide on its own.