Women Docs as Leaders: We’re Still a 16 Percent Ghetto
A “16 percent ghetto.” That’s the term that Debora Spar, president of Barnard College, recently coined for the low representation of American women in positions of power. Although she identified this … Continue reading
Mainlining Sugar and Salt: How Sucrose/Fructose Poisons World Diets
Would you buy your infant a Bud? How about your toddler? When you feed your infant formula with purified fructose, or your kid sucks down a Coke or a Gatorade … Continue reading
If you vote Republican today, what are you REALLY voting FOR? Handing Your Freedoms Away
There are thousands of candidates and hundreds of measures before the voters today. The economy is number one on most American’s minds, yet it is the farthest thing from anything … Continue reading
A Moral Approach to a Healthcare Mandate: Good Citizenship
If polls are to be believed, perhaps half or more of the people in this country do not consider “health care for all” a collective good, claiming that a “mandate” … Continue reading
An Elephant May Never Forget, but the GOP and a Greedy Media Sure Hope Like Hell That You Will
An elephant may never forget, but the elephants of the GOP are sure hoping that you will, well, overlook a few inconvenient truths in their march to bring back 19th … Continue reading
Sunday Funnies
Our weekly survey of the best political cartoons includes, as you’d guess the Trayvon Martin case, the Paul Ryan budget, and some etch-a-sketchy moments… Bob Gorrell
Romney’s Rat Poison Victories: It is not ‘Inevitability,’ It’s Vulnerability.
UPDATED – We’ve been tracking the aftermath of the GOP primaries and watching the superficial spin by the mainstream media. They want Romney to win, to fit the standard narrative. … Continue reading
Rush Limbaugh: The Truth of Consequences
Freedom of speech is one of the great founding principals of the United States. In fact, the First Amendment specifically prohibits limitations on speech by the Government, with very few … Continue reading
To Rush Limbaugh and the GOP Dittoheads: It’s “We, the People,” not “I, the Person”
Rush Limbaugh is an ass. He thinks that the more sex you have, the more birth control pills you need to take. He thinks women who need birth control are … Continue reading
The GOP Contraception Confrontation
The recent uproar about women’s rights and health care is a time machine back to the 1950’s. Birth control has been a non-controversial issue for decades. At least it was … Continue reading
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