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Woody Allen – Let’s Get the Facts Straight
All over social media Woody Allen is being demonized and denounced as a pedophile after a letter by Dylan (now known as Malone) Farrow appeared in the New York Times. In that letter, Dylan claims that...
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Rape Culture – Cover Your Eyes
Rape culture is when I was six, and my brother punched my two front teeth out. Instead of reprimanding him, my mother said “Stefanie, what did you do to provoke him?” When my only defense was my...
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The Legend of the “Cranky Old Man”
From Zeus and Europa, to Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, every culture has its requisite legends and tall tales. The culture of caregiving is no exception. This tale is said to be authored by an...
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Conflagration Scotus
I am a woman. I gave birth. It was painful. Excruciating. Agony. No one knows. I do. My child knows no one other purview until it gulps air outside of me. Until it leaves my womb it belongs to me and...
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Why can’t you ladyfolk be nicer when explaining feminism to us? [trigger...
Every three minutes, a woman is raped. Every eighteen seconds, a woman is beaten. The number one cause of death to pregnant women is domestic partner violence (ponder that for a moment – how sick is...
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A Refugee Crisis, Not an Immigration Crisis – NYTimes.com
A Refugee Crisis, Not an Immigration Crisis – NYTimes.com By sending these children away, “you are handing them a death sentence,” says José Arnulfo Ochoa Ochoa, an expert in Honduras with World Vision...
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Take That, Bob Corker: VW Chattanooga Has UAW AND SUV
Dianne Wing:Today Volkswagen announced the Chattanooga plant will manufacture VW’s new SUV line, a move expected to bring some 1,350 jobs to Tennessee. Suck on that, Bob Corker. Originally posted on...
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Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird was Harper Lee’s one and only novel and has been acclaimed as one of the most important in American Literature. Gleaned from her own childhood memories, she reveals the prejudice...
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GARDENING FOR THE GREATER GOOD
A farmer’s market within an urban environment has the ability to transform the lives and landscapes around it and give access to fresh, nutritional produce within the local urban communities. The...
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Tired of all these Autism and ADHD brats!
We are too quick to judge, too quick to criticize others when we don’t know their life, their problems, their blessings – which come in all sorts of packages. Every child acts up at one time or...
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America You’re Sick
America, you’re sick. There is much about you which is beautiful. But a part of you is diseased. It’s the part which speaks about being “pro-life”, but then casts aside those who are already here. It’s...
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New Immigration Law May be More Harmful Than Helpful to Georgia
South Georgia depends on immigrant workers to harvest crops. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED APRIL 2011 UPDATE: On December 3, 2014, Georgia and 16 other states filed a lawsuit challenging President Barack...
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Hobby Lobby was a religious decision and not a secular judicial one.
People have argued that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, as evidenced by an obscure quote by Patrick Henry to some British parliamentary body in 1765. Read that date again. It’s...
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Brenda Lee was Just 13 Years Old When She Recorded the Christmas Staple...
Brenda Lee dancing with Elvis Brenda Mae Tarpley (a.k.a. Brenda Lee and “Little Miss Dynamite”) was born to an extremely poor family in December of 1944. Things took a turn for the worse when her...
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The Fifth Estate – Citizenship Journalism
Throughout human history news was not a spectator sport. We all participated in the gathering of the news and we all told the news – at the marketplace, around the campfires, as we met each other on...
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To the Red States
Dear Red States: We’re ticked off at your Neanderthal attitudes and politics and we’ve decided we’re leaving. We in New York intend to form our own country and we’re taking the other Blue States with...
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Matt DeHart: HACKER, CREEPER, SOLDIER, SPY
Matt DeHart is a 30-year-old U.S. Citizen and former U.S. Airman with Top Secret clearance who the U.S. government detained at the U.S. Canadian border on an alleged “espionage matter.” While detained...
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Two New Mega Stadiums for Atlanta – Whether We Want Them or Not
The City of Atlanta-Falcons negotiations which ended with agreement for a new Falcons stadium — followed by the surprise revelation of the Braves’ move to Cobb County – was a secret deal that caught...
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President Obama 2014 Year In Review
Dianne Wing:As the year winds down, let’s look back on the AMAZING accomplishments wrought by our President, even under the worst of conditions. Lame Duck indeed :) Originally posted on Pro President...
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,300 times in 2014....
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