Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

At some point he has to show that he has a vision of a better way. He can't just say 'The future is bleak, follow me.' Because no one will.

I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.

Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.