If Russia is eventually freed from Vladimir Putin’s tyranny, it will partially be a result of LGBT people fighting this rogue nation’s state-sponsored terror apparatus. Worldwide efforts are now underway to pressure this petro police state into abolishing its recently passed anti-gay laws.

By Albert Eisele My friend and neighbor Herb Kaplow died Sunday morning. The veteran journalist was 86 and the victim of the cruelest of fates, the inability to speak coherently because of dementia. He suffered a massive stroke a week ago and died in a suburban Virginia hospital with his […]

On the heels of my column last week where I discussed my deep-rooted love of the Russian motherland and hatred of her government and its newly passed anti-gay laws, I want to discuss my opinion, as an Olympian and an athlete, concerning the Olympic Games to be held next February […]

It has been an interesting summer. In the midst of a deluge of “peak oil is dead” stories, crude prices surged upwards taking gasoline with them. Most “end of peak oil” stories talk mainly about the rapid growth in U.S. oil production in the last few years that has come […]

Regardless of where we call home, the famous conservationist John Muir observed more than a century ago, “everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” This week I saw both the epitome of […]

Fundamentalist “media” outlets have proven, once again, that they are a shameful propaganda tool for social conservative organizations. Such media companies have shredded their credibility and have become the laughingstock of news journalists across the nation. The latest outrage is their unprofessional handling of the cancellation of “Ex-Gay Pride Month,” […]

George? They should have named the new royal baby Trayvon. The seemingly absurd nature of that suggestion underscores the absurd theater of the outrageously contrasting images that have dominated the major news media in the last two weeks. It comes after the weeks of non-stop, emotionally wrenching coverage of the […]

Kind words came today from the President of the United States and the President of the White House Correspondents Association on the passing this morning, at age 92, of legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas.

 This column is in response to the overwhelming amount of questions and tweets I received about my personal feelings concerning Russia’s anti-gay laws, officially written into law on my 29th birthday. It is no secret that I am a very public cheerleader of Russia, U.S.-Russia relations, and Russia’s continued growth […]

The murder of young Trayvon Martin was as clear and unambiguous a case of deadly racial profiling as there could be. All of the obfuscating blither-blather notwithstanding, all the endless nitpicking over the evidence and the way the jury that found his murderer innocent last weekend, does not disguise this […]