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Sep.07.2012
Books are a forest and it’s hard to see the trees, except the tall ones or the old ones. But when you enter the forest, it’s the new growth that emits the sunlight....
Friday, September 7, 2012
At first I dismissed Representative Todd Akin‘s weak statement about rape and conception as more...
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Aug.28.2012
Tom Smith, the GOP candidate for the US Senate in Pennsylvania, has just stepped in to clean up the pregnancy/”legitimate rape” kerfuffle created by his fellow Senate candidate, Todd Akin of Missouri.
Smith condemned Akin’s infamous comment, yet agrees with Akin and the GOP platform that...
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Aug.26.2012
FNN's political reporter, Stacy Conundrum, reports from Tampa that a Taliban mullah from Pakistan will speak in a secret session to Party leaders at the convention. The mullah, unidentified since he will be in the country illegally for the two days, will explain...
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May.25.2012
If I were on trial, I’d want someone like me – having worked hard to be open-minded throughout my entire good-citizenship career – for one of my jurors. But not for the jury to which I was just summoned. The prosecution may have wanted me; the defense would’ve had me outa there in a heartbeat....
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Apr.17.2012
"I raise this question because today I experienced the disorienting juxtaposition of Equal Pay Day with the retro notion that women's growing economic power makes us want to be dominated during sex.
Equal Pay Day marks the day in April when women wear red to signify we're in the red, earning but 77...
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Apr.10.2012
Are you baffled? I'm baffled. The Blunt amendment and the recent attacks on a woman's right to contraception seem so out-of-place, so outrageous, completely surreal. Since when have Republicans become so sex-fearing, women-fearing, freedom-fearing? Wait—they always have been...
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Mar.30.2012
When I feel the sort of longing that sneaks up on me unawares, the sort held for the wrong kind of person that can make a woman clutch her heart in the night and sullies her blood with unwanted dreams in a thinking person’s landscape, I hear, too, the deep throaty voice of Billie Holiday, and her...
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Mar.24.2012
FNN's religious reporter Matthew Mark Lukejohn is at the Church Of The Blessed Elbow in Hoboken, NJ where Cardinal Giuseppe Rizzo from the Holy Office in the Vatican will speak about the newly discovered ancient writings uncovered in Rome. "I am inside the church and I can see Cardinal Rizzo...
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Mar.14.2012
I am writing this from two perspectives: a woman, and a recovering Catholic.
I should also get this out of the way: I don't think I could have an abortion. Partly because of my age (I'm getting at the age where getting pregnant can be pretty darned difficult) Plus since I was raised Catholic, I...
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Mar.02.2012
Mr. Limbaugh has long called any woman who disagrees with him a feminazi. This logic impaired spokesman for the ridiculous right recently said: “So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here’s the deal, if we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay...
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