President Obama stood in front of masses of media and announced his proposals for gun control in the wake of a number of school shootings in the past month, including a horrible tragedy here in my home state of Connecticut just two towns up the road at Sandy Hook Elementary. President Obama has proposed several [...]
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Is It About the Flag or Is It About Obama?
The sheer horror flying through my somewhat politically filled timeline on Facebook started to center around this campaign piece late last week. A campaign piece, which was designed for t-shirt sales on the Obama campaign came under fire. I have seen it called UnAmerican, disrespectful, and downright disgraceful. While I don’t really think the American [...]
Presidential Food Politics
As November quickly approaches, there is no sign that the big three issues — the economy, gay rights, and women’s reproductive freedoms — are going to give up their firm hold on the national political stage. With both candidates keeping their eye on those issues with which they’re strongest — President Obama focusing heavily on [...]
Election 2012: A Referendum on the Middle Class
In his boldest move since firing Billy Bulger,the former president of the Massachusetts State Senate, Mitt Romney has hired Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate. Romney, who has been struggling in the polls, unable to define himself to voters and desperate to distinguish his moderate Massachusetts record from the President’s, finally put a [...]
There’s More Than One Way to Medicate a Vagina
Whatever happened to good old American ingenuity? What happened to having a back-up plan? All of this bickering about vaginas and amendments, about who’s getting calls from the President and who’s not, about who started cursing at women first and who just followed suit, is missing the point. There’s more than one way to skin [...]
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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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Silver Bullets? I’d Rather Have Chocolate Ones
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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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