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Explaining Obama's second inaugural to a first-grader
A letter to my daughter, Natalia: When Barack Obama was sworn in as president four years ago, I watched on the frigid National Mall with 1.8 million others after taking a long bus ride from South Florida. I stood next to an elderly woman from Fort...Tags: Slavery, Fort Lauderdale, Politics, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Day
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'Bones' thrown to conservatives will affect U.S. for years
Last week's final presidential debate focused on foreign affairs, but it wasn't a surprise to see both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama use every opportunity possible to pivot any answer about foreign relations toward our nation's fragile economy. Polls...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, U.S. Senate, Gays and Lesbians, Elections, Republican Party
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What America will we pick?
WASHINGTON -- This election is only tangentially a fight over policy. It is also a fight about meaning and identity -- and that's one reason why voters are so polarized. It's about who we are and who we aspire to be. President Obama enters the final days...
Tags: Politics, Media Industry, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Social Issues, Minority Groups
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Raising Rates (Men) And Lowering Rims (Women)
The Hartford CourantDon't lower the rim of expectations. We're not only talking about Geno Auriemma's ideas for improving women's basketball. We're talking about the academic disaster that was the UConn men's basketball program in the first decade of the 21st century....Tags: Connecticut Huskies, Jim Calhoun, Wilt Chamberlain, Golf, College Football
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Have no fear, my guide to amendments is here
Usually the question I hear most is, "Do you miss sports?" Around election time it becomes, "What the heck are all these amendments on the ballot?" This year, Florida voters face 11 proposed amendments to the state constitution. Our Republican-...
Tags: Politics, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Social Issues, Abortion Issue, Medical Procedures and Tests
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INKED! Uncle Mitt's big ol' binder
Will the presidential election be won or lost on the basis of who can claim the female vote? Not likely. It is far more complicated than that. But Mitt’s “binder of women,” and legitimate concerns about the gender gap that still exists,...
Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Minority Groups, Elections, Labor Markets
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Obama inaugural: Marking a new progressive era?
In what might have been President Barack Obama's most progressive speech, his second inaugural address Monday marked a distinct change from the so-called New Democrat ideology of pragmatism and compromise to a full embrace of the principles that once...Tags: Democratic Party, Economy, Business and Finance, Conservation, National Government, Religion and Belief
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Women need to speak up about birth control
Where are the women?
In the extreme and ill-tempered debate over the availability of contraceptives for women, we have heard from the president, the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church, the Republican presidential candidates, members if Congress and...Tags: Pregnancy and Childbirth, Christianity, Small Businesses, Kathleen Sebelius, Birth Control
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The recycling bin and the voting booth
This is a story about recycling, and how everything is politically charged this election season. My husband carried our newspapers — which, by the way, he believes are hopelessly in the bag for President Barack Obama — to the curb the night...Tags: Polls, Elections, Gallup, Inc., Politics, Marriage
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New ideas? GOP would rather just say 'no'
After declining to give details of the Romney-Ryan tax plan during a testy back-and-forth with host Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday," GOP Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate, offered a novel excuse. He didn't want to put viewers...
Tags: Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley, Gays and Lesbians, Ronald Reagan, Elections
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Costco coming to Lehigh Valley means hardships for husbands
The last thing the region west of Allentown needs is another warehouse, so it was distressing to hear there was one proposed in Lower Macungie Township near the intersection of Krocks Road and the Route 222 Bypass. Happily, it turns out this will not...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., Japan, Lifestyle and Leisure, Charlie Sheen
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Daum: Naomi Wolf's vaginal sideshow
It's a strange time to be a woman. I say this not because state legislatures enacted no less than 95 restrictions on reproductive rights this year. I say it not because at the same time, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker repealed his state's equal pay law and...
Tags: Al Gore, Scott Walker, Feet, Authors
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