Thousands of people marched on Washington Sunday calling for greater civil rights for gays and lesbians. Participants took to the streets, demanding that President Barack Obama keep his campaign promises and pass federal protections for members of the LGBT community. The National Equality March snaked past the White House and streamed down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. Many waved rainbow flags or carried signs supporting a wide variety of causes.

Representative Joe Wilson shouts in the House Chamber to President Obama during a speech on Health Care Reform, “You lie,” and is forced to apologize to the President directly and compelled to apologize in the House where the incident occurred.  He chooses only to apologize to the President.  This did not make him many friends in the Democratic Caucus.  They could not bully him into a formal apology in the Chamber.  What happens next, the Democrat House votes to rebuke him in a meaningless resolution.  Of course, the vote is along party lines.

Candidate Barack Obama correctly argued that strategically Afghanistan cannot be severed from Pakistan. At first President Barack Obama acted as if he meant it. He put General Stanley McCrystal in charge, asked to devise a strategy for victory and in the meantime increased the number of troops available to the new man. His envoy went [...]