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.

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.

The time is coming for Romney to get angry, very angry, with what is increasingly, quaintly called "the mainstream media."

The UK prime minister's call to cut aid over gay rights is a play to a domestic audience.

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.

Why can't our opponents be reasonable? In his new book, “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of morality in our rapid and automatic moral intuitions.

With 'don't ask, don't tell' repealed and gays seeking marriage equality, the homosexual bourgeoisie is emerging--a concept subversive to both liberals and conservatives.