“When women participate in politics, the effects ripple out across society.” – Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking at CGI HILLARY CLINTON spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) as “a private citizen,” offering that she’s “still jetlagged” from her secretary of state globetrotting. “After visiting 112 nations, for four years — I’m still jetlagged.” – Hillary [...]
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Feature – Newsweek Gets it Wrong on Relationships
Ms Garraway, 46, is fronting a campaign to encourage young women to think about fertility and giving birth much younger than “her generation”. As part of the campaign, Ms Garraway spent a day being transformed into a heavily pregnant 70 year-old by Adrian Rigby, a prosthetic make-up artist, to “shock and provoke debate about how [...]
Angelina Jolie’s Preventive Double Mastectomy
THIS is a sobering op-ed written by Angelina Jolie, a thoughtful actor and activist, with an incredibly supportive and loving partner, Brad Pitt. It was written to inform and share personally a choice that is difficult, radical and done in the hopes of ducking a fate of family genealogy. From the New York Times, Ms. [...]
Guns Don’t Kill Kids, Kids Kill Kids? [Video]
Reading “A Rifle Designed for Kids” at The Daily Banter made me wonder: Can the often used, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” line be reworded to reflect one subheading of such killing – “Guns don’t kill kids, kids kill kids”? That feels as if I may be going “too far,” that maybe it’s [...]
Michelle Obama Target of Offensive Misogyny, Coach Suspended
“Fat butt Michelle Obama,” said Bob Grisham, a high school football coach who was surreptitiously recorded by one of his students. “Look at her. She looks like she weighs 185 or 190. She’s overweight.” [Washington Post] THIS IS not the first time First Lady Michelle Obama has been the target of conservative misogyny. Rush Limbaugh [...]
WABC’s Hate Radio: Mark Levin Calls Obama Muslim Brotherhood “Sympathizer”
YOU CAN’T get anymore disgraceful than the vicious invectives that Mark Levin spews every day on WABC’s hate radio. Citing hard right Tea Party extremists in Congress, Reps. Bachmann and Gohmert, Levin once again quoted the outrageous charges that the U.S. government had been “infiltrated” by the Muslim Brotherhood, then claimed President Obama was a [...]
It’s Christmastime. Find Joy and Heal. [Obama's Full Remarks - Video]
“I want to talk to the White House. I know that they can’t give me an answer tonight, but I want to know what they’re going to do. I need to know what they’re going to do.” – Rep. Carolyn McCarthy GOD HAD nothing to do with the Connecticut school massacre and religion wouldn’t have [...]
News Desk: 20 Children Shot Dead in Connecticut Elementary School Carnage — So When Will Obama and Politicians Confront Gun Lobby? [Video - Updated]
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | 2012 Presidential Election | Entertainment & Celebrity News CBS News is reporting that at least 27 people are dead, including 20 students, after a mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The gunman is among the dead. CBS [...]
NoBama “Lynching” in Virginia, Obama Campaign Manager Depicted as Pedophile
THE RIGHT is getting desperate. Blue Virginia posted on the picture above, which is as virulent as it gets. In one shot over there you can clearly see a George Allen sign for Senate. Though there is no link whatsoever between the campaign and this scurrilous shot, it does draw up the memory of Allen’s [...]
News Desk: New York Becomes First to kay Ban Big Sugar
NYC’s new sugary drink policy is the single biggest step any gov’t has taken to curb #obesity. It will help save lives: bit.ly/PeN3wi — Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) September 13, 2012 Seeking to combat rising obesity rates, the New York City Board of Health approved on Thursday a ban on the sale of large sodas and [...]
Melissa Harris-Perry: ‘What Is Riskier Than Living Poor in America?’
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “What is riskier than living poor in America?” Seriously! What in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America? I live in a neighborhood where people are shot on my street corner. I live in a neighborhood where people have [...]
FT: Obama’s Planned Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security **UPDATED**
The Financial Times lays out what has been talked about for months and months, with Pres. Obama set to deliver a speech on deficit reduction on Monday. It begins with the way the U.S. government measures inflation, which would deliver “a less generous chained-consumer price index,” to quote FT. This decision alone would devastate elderly [...]
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