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Letter To State Rep. Rick Brattin: Women Don’t Need Men’s Permission To Get Abortions

Letter To State Rep. Rick Brattin: Women Don’t Need Men’s Permission To Get Abortions

Dear Missouri State Representative Rick Brattin, I must start out by saying WOW!!! Your arrogance and bravado are quite impressive. The bill you introduced requiring women to get written permission from men when they want abortions in Missouri lit up the Internet! The rape exceptions you included were just as disturbing as the main bill […]

3 Words That Destroy Conservative Opposition To Cuba

3 Words That Destroy Conservative Opposition To Cuba

  It’s as if the Red Scare has been resurrected from the  1940s and ’50s with conservative heads exploding about the new situation with Cuba. Listening to conservatives such as Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who were melting down on Hannity last night, the brunt of their objection to normalizing relations with Cuba is that […]

Video Blasts The Idea That Sounding Educated Is ‘Talking White’

Video Blasts The Idea That Sounding Educated Is ‘Talking White’

A viral video by a young and well-spoken African-American woman about “speaking white”  has sparked a lot of online debate, in some instances transcending politics. For instance, I first noticed this video on the Facebook page of a friend’s mother, a Tea Partier, who wrote of: I heard a commercial last night I couldn’t believe […]

Open Letter To Mitch McConnell: ‘Time for a Reality Check!’

Open Letter To Mitch McConnell: ‘Time for a Reality Check!’

Dear Mitch McConnell, I checked out your comments about President Obama and Senate Democrats on Tuesday at the at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council Annual Meeting in Georgetown and wanted to clear up some confusion on your end. Call it a little reality check of sorts if you will. To begin, you stated you […]

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