This weekend is the 12th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR,) and many of us across the nation will be memorializing transgender Americans murdered because of their gender identities or gender expressions.

The purpose of TDOR is to raise public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people and to honor their lives that might otherwise be forgotten.

"The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart devoted a special clip to John and Cindy McCain's continuously evolving views on the discriminatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

In the hilarious video below Stewart uses several clips to highlight John McCain's wishy-washy views on DADT including his insistence that before the policy a military study be conducted - even though one already has been.

"It's the 'maverick' way," Stewart said. "Spend a year studying whether or not soldiers deserve full civil rights, and a half-an-hour deciding who will be your presidential running mate."

In September, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with Senate Republicans killed the vote on Senate Bill 3816, a bill which would have ended tax breaks for companies that ship American jobs to foreign countries only to import foreign-made products back to the United States.

Since the early '80s, our nation's good-paying jobs have been outsourced to foreign nations in a steady stream. Around 1983, manufacturing was the first industry to go. Nationally, the Council on Foreign Relation estimates that since 1983, two million manufacturing jobs have been moved offshore.

Election Day 2010 will go down in history as a sad day for judicial independence.

On Nov. 2, Iowa voters removed three justices from the state’s Supreme Court because they supported the court’s landmark 2009 decision recognizing the right to same-sex marriage in the Hawkeye state.

Chief Justice Marsha Temus and fellow justices David Baker and Michael Streit were up for a routine retention vote, but became victims of a vicious campaign launched by opponents of marriage equality.