Thursday's Daily Brief

2010-08-05       The Daily Brief     Emma Ruby-Sachs: Bold Pursuit of Gay Rights Wins in Court AP Emma Ruby-Sachs: As a movement, the LGBT community has always seen legal strategies as a central part of the march towards equality. But their strategy has been one of incremental change. So imagine the uproar when two star lawyers, both straight, white men, marched into the Proposition 8 controversy with little prior experience with LGBT struggles and announces a federal challenge to marriage discrimination. What resulted was an internal struggle between incremental change and bold gestures for equality. Today, bold gestures certainly seems to be winning the struggle. Click here to read more. Bob Cesca: The BP Disaster Continues Despite the Cheerful Happy Talk The press, government officials and BP pitchmen are insulting our intelligence by suggesting that the oil has vanished and there's nothing to worry about. They can whistle away the crisis as much as they want, but we'd all do well to stay on top of this. Janine R. Wedel and Linda Keenan: Shadow Elite: Selling Out Uncle Sam - War in the Contracting Age There's taxpayer money going into the hands of the very people attacking U.S. troops and the contractors who risk their lives for a paycheck. 260 of those workers took that risk and lost over the last year, and their names will likely never be known. Robert Creamer: Nine Keys to Democratic Success in the Midterms 2010 does not have to be an electoral disaster for Democrats. Much depends on how candidates frame their efforts -- and how Progressives in general frame the political debate over the next three months. Judy Shepard: Judge Walker's Prop 8 Verdict Moves America Closer to its Ideals My son once asked me if I thought gay couples would ever be allowed to get married. I told him it would probably happen in his lifetime, but not in mine. It's so sad, and ironic, but warms my heart that his dream is still coming true. John Robbins: The Dark Side of Vitaminwater In a staggering feat of twisted logic, lawyers for Coca-Cola are defending the lawsuit by asserting that "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."     HuffPost News Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It Prop 8 Ban Reactions Tier 5: Sen. Stabenow Introduces Bill To Help The 99ers Michaele Salahi vs. 'The View': Whoopi Goldberg Abused Me, Unleashed F-Bomb Rant (VIDEO) Google Wave DEAD: Google Kills Its 'Email Killer'   Get HuffPost on your iPhone!   ©2010 HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. All rights reserved. 560 Broadway, Suite 308, NY, NY 10012 Add dailybrief@huffingtonpost.com to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. User Agreement Privacy Policy