Being In Politics Means Having To Say You're Sorry

Biden, along with Democratic Sen. Harry Reid and Democratic Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, used the U. S. Capitol ceremony to call for equal voting rights for citizens of the District of Columbia — an issue dear to Douglass' heart.

The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Tuesday released the nation’s first-ever national report on housing discrimination against gay couples in the private rental market. The study measured how rental agents treat same-sex couples responding to apartment listings on the Internet compared to the treatment of heterosexual couples doing the same, and found that gay couples continue to experience unequal treatment when looking for housing, particularly gay male couples.

Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA)Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) wants American youths to be taught gender stereotypes in grade school classes, so they understand the roles of mothers and fathers — and the importance of allowing only opposite-sex couples to marry. In a speech Monday on the House floor, Gingrey stressed his continued support for the Defense of Marriage Act — which defines marriage as only union between a man and a woman — and suggested that children need to be carefully taught about the traditional roles of their genders: GINGREY: You know, maybe part of the problem is we need to go back into the schools at a very early age, maybe at the grade school level, and have a class for the young girls and have a class for the young boys and say, you know, this is what’s important.

Today, no fewer than five transit agencies operate in the Kansas City area: the recently created Kansas City streetcar authority and four bus systems run by Independence, Johnson County and both Kansas Citys. On Wednesday, Area Transportation Authority chairman Robbie Makinen and Johnson County Commissioner Steve Klika will present a plan to make the ATA "the regional transit authority it was meant to be."

Sunday marks 10th anniversary of former Vt. governor's start as presidential candidate.