Of all the firestorms that could be reignited on a Friday morning, this is definitely one of the popular ones lately.

Some groups were horrified that the pope wasted 10 minutes on a low-level county clerk who refused to issue gay wedding licenses. Others saw it as just another victory for the LGBT movement.

Where we need to clear our heads in America is in this crazy association that politics and religion are equivalent actions.

The first installment garnered many comments responding to the headline and not the article:  blanket support for Bernie or accusing him of being a socialist, communist and/or Marxist. The goal here is to evaluate parts of the platform on their individual merit. People differ on what the role of government should be. Hopefully we can agree that we need to prioritize.

CALIFORNIA -- It is hard to believe that the first state in the country's history to have two women serving as U.S. senators at the same time might have a problem attracting women to run for public office, but that's the situation in California.

Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer were the first women ever to be U.S. senators from the same state at the same time. New Hampshire and Washington now can also make that claim.

“We need an insurgency of the rational: a generation of Americans who are fed up with the current political system, who believe we can do better, and most important, who are ready to do something about it.”. — Charles Wheelan - Founder of The Centrist Project and author of “The Centrist Manifesto”

Millions of people intuitively understand the four simple words Mr.

Whether you support political parties or not, one thing we should all agree on is that the public election process should serve voters.

Over the course of our history, voter discrimination has taken many forms. Today, both parties have engaged in a "voting rights" debate related to "voter access" and "voter fraud." But rarely do we ask fundamental questions about the process itself, like why do our representatives seem to serve their party more than the voters in the first place?