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Cool News!

I meant to share this sooner, but forgot! Last week, I received the following email: May 2, 2008 Author The Lady Speaks blog theladyspeaksblog@yahoo.com Dear Author, I am writing to request permission...

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Time Once Again

Today will be yet another installment of “I Just Can’t Wait to be King.” Today’s episode will no doubt feature bunches of misogynistic television anchors, dozens of panting, genuflecting, and possibly...

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Sexism and The Media

You have got to be fucking kidding me. At Shakesville today, I learn that irony isn’t just dead, but has been staked, shot, knifed, and garroted. In case you needed any motivation for Assignment:...

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On this Memorial Day

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland, via quotegarden Two years ago, I wrote a post for Memorial Day that I’ve never been able...

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The Rules

This one’s for all those Obama supporters out there screaming and ranting that the DNC has to “follow the rules!” and wailing and moaning that Hillary is breaking said rules. Here’s a snippet of...

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The End of the Primary Season

Today’s the day. Montanans and South Dakotans will flock to the polls, vote their choices – with much expectation and extrapolation by the news media – and the primary season will end. Only the primary...

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Saturday Poem

I Am the People, the Mob By Carl Sandburg I am the people–the mob–the crowd–the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker...

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Eddie

Edward D. Owen, Jr. June 11, 1979 – October 12, 2004 We miss you still, and for always.

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For My Son, the Graduate

You did it, PK! After 14 years (counting K-4) of hard work and the every-single-year pre-emptive announcement that you didn’t think you were going to pass, you are a high school graduate. Tonight was...

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Language Policing

I’m petty enough to be driven nuts by this stuff and – I admit it – my estimation of a person‘s intelligence drops in direct proportion to their ability to spell and punctuate correctly. I also admit...

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Wandering Words

The past couple of months, my posting has been infrequent at best. The simple fact is that blog fatigue, political fatigue, and plain ol’ “life” fatigue have left me with little time and/or little...

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Bottomless Pit of Capitulation

*All items in red edited at 3:10p* Okay, so maybe I lied about taking a break from writing about politics… Well, no. It’s more a case of “when VastLeft Un-endorses Obama, the cause is so over the top...

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Au Revoir

From the post that started me on this blogging thing: A Question of Doing What’s Right — Christy Hardin Smith Jan 6, 2006 But it isn’t enough that I want more for myself and my family. Every person in...

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Let Freedom Ring

In Congress, July 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When, in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands...

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Fight the Power!

This is the full-page ad run by Blue America, Firedoglake, and Color of Change in today’s Washington Post. Click the photo to see it full-size. [pdf] The debate on the FISA bill begins today, with the...

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Fight Tyranny

Those Senators who vote to allow the government to continue spying on the communications of Americans without warrants and to immunize those telecoms which complied with illegal directives by the...

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Amerika

Article IV, U.S. Constitution, as amended on July 9, 2008: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be...

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The Longest Walk Ends

They started at Alcatraz on February 11th. Five months. Two routes. Over 4,000 miles. From sea to shining sea. On foot. 175 days (4200hrs.) ago walkers from all over Indian country as well as...

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McCain Says: Family=Male/Female Parents

Via Shakesville, Reason # 3582668 for Why I Won’t Vote For John McCain. From a man who cheated on and later divorced the wife who waited through the many years he was a prisoner of war. The mother of...

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“Promise You’ll Protect Me From the Americans”

Omar Khadr. Fifteen years old when he was captured by US forces in Afghanistan. Six years spent at Guantanamo without trial. Facing five war crimes charges, including the murder of a US soldier during...

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