Equality | Equality
Mar.09.2012
Women’s abilities are always being called into question. Take Rick Santorum's poke at women being too emotion for duty at the front lines of combat situations. A select corps of women is fighting back. Read the story of one American and two Afghani teenagers who are trying to make history and...
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Mar.07.2012
We're in March already and this is a month to celebrate women. March is the time of the year declared officially as Women's History Month. I'm sure we all know a woman or women who deserve to be honored or recognized in some way, so why not use this month to give them kudos. Or if it's a historical...
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Feb.03.2012
I’m not that old, even if my nineteen-year-old daughter Laura thinks I am. I say this because whenever I start talking about the time before Laura was born (1993), she rolls her eyes and make jokes about me walking five miles to school in bare feet through snowstorms, which, for the record, I...
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Jan.03.2012
This January 16, we will be celebrating the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a man who literally gave his life in the struggle for the rights of all people. It’s been nearly 44 years since he was gunned down at the Loraine Motel in Memphis; and 49 since he stood on the steps of the...
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Dec.23.2011
We've all heard you shouldn't get involved with someone who has more problems than you do, but what about getting involved with someone who has fewer problems? Is that a bad idea?
Leading experts think so. Or at least, I do. If you're involved with someone who has fewer problems than you do, they'...
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Nov.14.2011
America is in a mortal crisis. The country is flat broke; everybody knows it, yet nobody wants to face facts and do something about it.
If we want to salvage what little is left of what we nostalgically call “The American Dream,” we’re going to have to find a lot of money. ...
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Nov.13.2011
Some rich people have a false sense of superiority because of their financial edge. This, I know very well because I see some struggling people developing a false sense of inferiority on account of their diminished financial status. Between these two groups of people stands a towering giant...
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Sep.09.2011
Perry Barber was a singer/songwriter growing up in the 1970s. She did office work for Gladys Knight, and performed as an opener for Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and Hall and Oates. But music was not to be her calling. Instead, her career path lay on the baseball infield. Perry is one of a handful...
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Aug.16.2011
There are two things on my mind at this writing. One is the question of equality in human relationships, and the other is the question of parity. I am questioning the idea of equality when it applies to equality of opportunity for women, and to the idea of equality in human relationships in...
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Aug.11.2011
Civil disobedience is on the rise. This can be a good thing, as is the case in Israel this summer. Israeli women are risking criminal prosecution by going to the beach. They are taking Palestinian women along to protest decades of dehumanization. Read the full story on my Living in the Heartland...
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