Ronald Reagan was sweeping the country and bringing in the first Republican Senate in nearly thirty years … With more than 120 cases (of Kaposi’s sarcoma or “gay plague”) now reported nationally and still no explanation for the patients’ strange immune deficiencies, it was increasingly clear to the clinicians gathered in Bethesda that an investigation [...]
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It’s All the Woman’s Fault (Still)
You’ve got to be quick, bright and funny, a mass murderer. I can find them in a crowd. I could walk into a crowd of 5,000 men and pick out a guy that would break my heart. Because my father was so passionate and smart and so brilliant and so emotionally not available, that, I [...]
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LIGHTNING STRIKES: Marriage and The Feminist
“The most legendary tally sheet appeared in Newsweek. ‘If You’re a Single Woman, Here Are Your Chances of Getting Married,’ the headline on Newsweek’s June 2, 1986 cover helpfully announced… The Newsweek story declared that single women ‘are more likely to be killed by a terrorist’ than marry. Maybe Newsweek was only trying to be [...]
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It’s All the Woman’s Fault
The last few weeks on my radio show I’ve been covering a topic that is one of my regular themes, which is how some women manage to screw up their lives through the choices they’ve made. And before you get crazy, I’m not talking about physical and emotional abuse that bad men dole out. I [...]
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What Monica Cost
They’re doing it again. Blaming Bill. It’s become the great American political past time and this week marks an anniversary, of sorts. Of course, if William Jefferson Clinton hadn’t had consensual sex…er been intimate with a 21 year-old intern named Monica Lewinski we’d never have gone down this road. But he did, so here we [...]
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Dear Dr. Laura
Ding, dong, the witch is dead. Which old witch? The wicked witch. Ding dong the wicked witch is dead. Well, not dead, exactly, but at least she’s been banished from television, which is something we can all be thankful about. And speaking of thanks… The credit truly goes to the people at “StopDrLaura.com” who waged [...]
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So Close To Greatness
On his second day in office, President Clinton reversed President Reagan’s 1984 “Mexico City” policy, which banned international U.S. funding of clinics that provide reproductive counseling for family-planning that also includes abortion counseling. One of the next things William Jefferson Clinton did was to rescind an order former President Bush had signed banning RU486 from [...]
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Taylor Takes on Dr. Laura: Rounds One, Two and Three
NOTE: This compilation essay has been edited from its original version and reposted on TM.com, and originally appeared in the 1990s on another site. The campaign that was waged around the time of these writings against Dr. Laura to stop her TV show, because of the toxic nature and anti-America value message, succeeded. John Aravosis [...]
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