Category: history & politics
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I want a symbol for ALL of the South
I’m from Kentucky. I lived there for the first 22 1/2 years of my life. Kentucky was a…
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Evolve or become irrelevant
A followup to my blog the day after the election, will the GOP wake up now?, where I…
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Will the GOP Wake Up Now?
It’s hard to believe that, back in the 1990s, when I was volunteering with the California Abortion Rights…
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Donate cash NOT “stuff” following Sandy
I hear that a certain GOP candidate that touts himself as a management expert is holding a rally…
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It’s a basic right, not a “special” one
I have a friend I’m going to call Carl. He has made me laugh a million times. He…
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Your imaginary world is a scary place
He shuffled into the tiny Fields, Oregon cafe and, after a few minutes at the counter, announced that…
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Civil Rights & Why I’m Annoying
When I was in junior high and high school, I was learning about various historical events for the…
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American “exceptionalism” – not always laudable
American exceptionalism refers to the theory that the United States of America is qualitatively different from other countries…
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“I welcome their hatred.”
“..Business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering… had begun to consider the Government…
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University Sports Teams Deceive & Undermine Gender Equity
Title IX, passed in 1972, banned sex discrimination in any federally financed education program. Over the next 40…
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