White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has made gaffs before and, in my opinion, is far too glib with the press. But his latest statements on the trial of alleged 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed likely are Gibbs’ worst mistakes. On CNN’s “State of the Union” show, Gibbs said: “Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to meet [...]
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One week ago marked the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Roe means 37 years of women having autonomy over their own bodies. Thirty-seven years without living in fear of having to obtain an unsafe, illegal, back alley abortion– a fear men will never have to encounter. Many Americans found their own ways to reflect on [...]
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What hypocrisy by the CBS TV network! As you probably know, CBS is allowing a 30-second anti-choice (I always use “anti-choice” rather than the “anti-abortion” used by many) ad to appear during the Super Bowl. It is expected to show Tim Tebow (an ultra-religious very well-known former Heisman-award-winning college quarterback) and his mother, Pam, saying [...]
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Eve Tetaz is 78 years old. She is retired from her career after spending 30 years teaching in Washington, DC, public schools. But she is far from retired from her calling of protesting against war. During the Vietnam War, she and other demonstrators were arrested on the steps of the Capitol and she spent three [...]
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In December, there was a study published in the journal New Media and Society by University of Alabama at Birmingham sociologist Shelia Cotten. Cotten had asked nearly 1,000 middle school students to rate the way they used cellphones. The result was that both the girls and boys used their cellphones to talk and text, but, [...]
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Of course, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s visual response to President Obama’s criticism of the Court’s recent decision to open the floodgates to corporate domination of elections is not the same as the “You Lie” of Rep. Joe Wilson, but it certainly brings Wilson to mind. A supposed unbiased Supreme Court justice should not be [...]
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I don’t know how much more disappointed I can be in President Obama. His continued move to the center, as shown again in the State of the Union address, is more and more depressing. In fact, the move is not just to the center, but to the right of center. He has caved in to [...]
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About two weeks have passed since Haiti’s devastating earthquake. The world has continued to deal with the aftermath, in its physical, emotional, environmental and financial forms. Undoubtedly, there are numerous important factors to take into consideration when assessing the most effective ways to give and disseminate aid. There are political, historical, health, and humanitarian frameworks [...]
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Thanks, Sweden. This is good news for feminists. The Swedish International Development Agency has awarded a $1.5 million grant to the University of Nebraska’s International Association for Feminist Economics. The grant is to promote “feminist economic research and to inform policymakers, economists and others about feminist points of view on economic issues.”
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NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia issued a report about its year-long undercover investigation to learn about the 52 crisis pregnancy centers in Virginia. What its investigators learned is astounding. Here is a video giving some of the “advice” given by the centers to the investigators asking for information on pregnancy and abortion.
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