Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The sleeze is flying from the McCain camp:
It’s going to be a long ugly 2 months as we settle into general election season and the lies and insults are flying from the right wing and Republican presidential candidate John McCain. McClatchy News, one of the few fair and balanced factions of the media has the [...]
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Posted on June 23rd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Four years ago, Hillary Clinton made a promise to Aleatha Williams, that she would speak at her high graduation. Yesterday, she fulfilled that promise. Aleatha Williams, is the daughter of a Clinton supporter and she volunteered for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. She introduced Senator Hillary Clinton to “fellow graduates from Pelham Preparatory Academy in the Bronx as “my [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
(Via Le Monde)
Today, the Council of Europe launched a campaign against most forms of corporal punishment, including slapping, spanking, hitting, mistreating, humiliating and any other practice that damage the dignity of a child. The campaign will consist in TV ads, the publication of a manual for parents on violence-free parenting [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
I watched The Devil’s Miner (website) last night for the first time (it was originally from 2005) and what a film this is. The central question of the film is
How do we live in dignity?
Especially when you are 14 years old, living in Potosi, Bolivia, and you work at a mine inCerro Rico, “the [...]
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Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Alegre
Hillary’s going to be in DC speaking to her supporters on Saturday, and we’ll know more about what she plans to do going forward then. I thought a quick letter to her was in order, on the off chance she’s up late and reading the blogs tonight…
I’ve written about my son a few times [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
I’m ba-aaack! I have been quite busy over the last several days, but I am back and posting the Ten Post Round-Up:
1: 3 million home-school kids can’t be wrong….
Why are Homeschoolers so Touchy about Subway’s Snub?–American Thinker Blog
2: Oh, snap!…
Swiss to return drug lord’s money–BBC NEWS
3: “Dude! Look what they gave me at the [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
Via Le Monde , this is a common topic for sociologists and for right-wing hacks. For the latter, poor boys, they whine, are doing worse in schools because their masculine nature (biologically encoded) are repressed by the feminized liberal teachers. Schools (especially public schools, of course) have been perverted by [...]
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Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
There’s no news like good news. Sadly, there is no good news in today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: A serious drug ring was busted up at San Diego State University….
75 Students Arrested In Drug Bust–BlackListedNews.com
2: Whites and Blacks use drugs at the same rate, yet Blacks are far more likely to be arrested for drug [...]
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Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
Put on your thinking caps. You will definitely find today’s Ten Post Round-Up educational:
1: Why does it seem that people who have a problem with women having abortions seem to have no problem with war?….
Abortion vs. War . . .–Ain’t That Sherific
2: Gas is almost up to $4.00…
Oil does it again, closes at new record [...]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Blake Fleetwood
April 30, 1968
With billy clubs swinging, bloodying heads, a phalanx of riot police stomped their way through the crowd of faculty supporters standing outside Fayerweather Hall. No one was given a chance to walk away.
The police then proceeded to smash in the main doors of the Hall where students had been camped out for a [...]
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