Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The latest right wing attack on Obama is on his abortion stance. CBN reports:
The Christian Defense Coalition, who are known to shock folks from time to time, have come up with a new campaign called: “Barack Obama: The Abortion President”. They are going to make clear that Obama wants taxpayers to foot the bill on […]
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Posted on July 6th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
For all the women, minorities and aged people in this country still facing inequality or downright sexism, racism or age discrimination it’s time for all of us because it’s time for all people to demand equality.
Barack Obama faces outright racism and admits it’s part of his fight. Hillary Clinton faced sexism, most obviously in broadcast […]
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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 Pamela Leavey
Joan Walsh weighed in on the piece in the New Yorker about Keith Olberman, that I wrote about earlier today. Walsh took offense as I did to what MSNBC head Phil Griffin told the New Yorker Hillary supporters who will “come back” because there’s “nowhere else to go”:
I have some advice for Phil Griffin, not that […]
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Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
A recent report shows that female veterans are getting inadequate healthcare in nearly 1/3 of VA clinics. Speak out:
More than 155,000 women in America’s armed services have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002. But as these distinguished women return home, they are finding a veterans health care system better equipped to deal with the needs […]
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Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I gave up on watching Keith Olbermann months ago. Watching the primary coverage early in the season, I got turned off by the coverage on MSNBC and decided I had seen enough of Olbermann’s “angry man” routine to last me quite a very longtime. The primaries are over now, but I still can not bring […]
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Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
As we begin the race to November all Democrats, disaffected Republicans, independents and very angry Clinton supporters of all descriptions need to remember that winning in November is paramount. [Our opponent is explicitly against Roe v. Wade. If you need no other reason to vote against him remember that reality.]
Taylor Marsh has guest published an […]
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Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
“Oh no they didn’t,” says Joan Walsh tonight. Oh, yes they did… With Hillary Clinton out of the way, the media has now turned their misogynistic sights on Michelle Obama. And, honestly it was bound to happen. Walsh explains:
I don’t watch Fox News, but an alert reader saw it, and Alex Koppelman found a clip: The […]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
From Le Nouvel Observateur, we get this appalling story. Here is how it goes, a man sues a hospital because his baby is born handicapped due to neurological problems during labor. Pretty straightforward, huh? Not so: the child is now disabled because when problems arose during labor, the father physically prevented male ob-gyns and other […]
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Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Elizabeth Pisani’s The Wisdom of Whores - Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS is a great book (along with a great website ). Elizabeth Pisani is an epidemiologist with years of experience working on HIV/AIDS (or sex and drugs, as she puts, which sounds a lot, well, sexier) at a variety of agencies, including […]
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Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There’s a piece in today’s WaPo about the impact Hillary Clinton’s candidacy had on many people: ‘She Touched a Lot of People.’
The story echoes what many Clinton supporters have felt about being involved in her campaign:
Five family members gathered last Thursday afternoon in their living room, shades drawn, to remember. They sat in big, cushioned […]
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Posted on June 8th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Yet a little more surfaced today on John McCain and his fine respect for women from his first wife, Carol:
‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens…it just does.’
Yep… It does happen. But, some would say that McCain is “a self-centred womaniser who […]
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