Listen up, working moms and dads: Rep. Eric Cantor has a deal for you — more time to spend with your family! What’s not to like? Except for one hitch: You get to spend more time with your family only after you’ve been forced to spend more time at work away from your family. And [...]
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Knock, Knock, Who’s There? Not Your Values, Senator.
The truth of it is this: making someone laugh at someone else’s expense fosters connection. It’s true at the playground and the water cooler and, so, it’s tragically true in the ethereal space of public discourse. A well played “zinger” has four important characteristics: it must be clever, it must be funny, it must be [...]
Sore Losers, Election Style: Who Are You Calling a “Poopy Head?”
There are always hurt feelings after big elections. People on both sides are invested in their views and candidates, especially in our world of 24/7 media that whips us all into a frenzy so that we can hardly see straight when it’s all over. But no one likes a sore loser. And some high profile [...]
Romney’s Birther Jokes Are Personal and 50 Shades of Bad for America
Have you ever played the childhood game “One of These Things is Not Like the Other?” Have you ever been that Thing? When I had my first real job in the corporate world I remember a time I was waiting in the elevator bank to go to up my new office. I was living in [...]
Mitt Romney: Paul Ryan’s Newest Liability
Twitter may be all atwitter with talk of the newly announced “GOP Dream Team”, but what everyone’s really thinking is, “Hey Mittens, don’t screw this up!” Paul Ryan is this year’s conservative golden boy. He’s a blue-collar raised, young gun, budgetary pen wielding, economic whiz kid who’s not afraid of a little hard work, has [...]
Nikki Haley Could Have Been Vice President
Who could be better as a Republican vice presidential pick than a young, attractive, up-and-coming rising star who happens to be a woman of color, a mom of young children and the governor of an important Southern state? The GOP is sorely in need of repairing the damage it’s done to itself with the “woman’s [...]
The Staggered Primary System: It’s Just Not Fair To Voters
The GOP primaries are underway, one grueling battle after another. After close to a year of constant coverage of the candidates as they entered the race and began to sprinkle money around key states, it’s almost surprising that there’s more to the process than web ads, cable news debates, and people tweeting the good, the [...]
Education Reform and the GOP: Is It for Real?
Did you know the American public rates the importance of education right up there with taxes and Social Security? You wouldn’t know that from listening to the news, but it’s true. That made me happy. Now if only people wanted to spend more of their taxes on children and make sure kids could bank on [...]
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I Want My Mother Back
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Charles Ramsey and the Racial Language Barrier
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Brave’s Merida is Herself Again. But for How Long?
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Can “Maybe” Empower Our Children in Times of Fear?
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Voting ‘Yes’ for Schools, But ‘No’ to Giving My Time
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6 Things You Need To Know Right Now: Money Makes The World Go ‘Round
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Broad of the Week: The Latina Rebel of the Civil War
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Wolf Blitzer’s Faith-Based Journalism in Oklahoma
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Pope Francis on Religious Tolerance: Do Good. We Will Meet One Another There
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Voting ‘Yes’ for Schools, But ‘No’ to Giving My Time
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