Republicans seem only able to accept one part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision: The broad outline of racial equality. That’s only one part of what Dr. King was working for. Dr. King also had a vision of economic justice for all people, a world in which a hard day’s work would be rewarded with fair pay, in which war would come to an end, in which health care would be a universally recognized human right.

A list of the top ten recipients in Congress of money from Bank of America, which just announced that it will eliminate thousands of jobs.

Yesterday, 8 out of 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against 8.5 billion dollars in federal budget cuts. Perhaps the Republicans aren’t really opposed to big government spending after all.

Congressman Barney Frank was among those Democrats on Capitol Hill speaking out, loudly, in protest of Barack Obama’s shameless disregard for the law and his reckless and expensive entry into yet more war.

For Tea Party protesters to call Barney Frank a Communist suggests that they simply use the term “Communist” to attack anybody or anything they don’t like.

Heath Shuler was was charging admission to that BBQ, and a very high price of admission at that: $1,000 for a plate of BBQ.

At the end of October through the beginning of November, three new cosponsors have added their support for H.R. 3567, the bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and restore equal protection under law for married couples of the same-sex. This measure is supported by the vast majority of the LGBT Equality Caucus but [...]

On October 11, tens of thousands of Americans marched through the streets of Washington, DC demanding equal protection under law for gay and lesbian people and for same-sex couples. The National Equality March clearly succeeded in attracting media attention, as wire services and newspapers and television cameras recorded and reported on the event. But the [...]

There are some in Congress, like Representative Barney Frank, who want to keep the movement for equality hidden in the Congressional closet, taking place in whispered tones with paid lobbyists behind closed doors. The extreme antipathy of some members of Congress, such as Louie Gohmert, demonstrates that a soft, meek, deferential approach has not been enough.

U.S. Representative Barney Frank may have advised that equal rights activists need to keep their message quiet, with behind-closed-doors lobbying, but the new generation of activism is unashamed and out in the open on the National Mall.