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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Ken Handel : Father Still Knows Best
Father knew best back then (Robert Young and Lauren Chapin from the hit television, sitcom, Father Knows Best, 1959), and apparently still does. Image from Wikimedia Commons.Father still knows best U.S. women earn less, have minimal leadership clout, and are … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 Elections, Abortion Rights, Conservative Politics, Ken Handel, Misogyny, Sexual Politics, Women's Health
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How high gas prices are hurting average drivers — and voters By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / High gasoline prices are probably hitting the average driver and voter harder than most people think. The numbers indicate that typical … Continue reading
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Alice Embree : Women are ‘Seeing Red’ in Texas
“Seeing Red” organizer Marcia Ball, center, with Emily Haas, left, and novelist Sarah Bird at the Texas State Capitol. Photo by Susan Crews Bailey / Facebook. ‘Seeing Red’: The Texas Taliban’s war on women By Alice Embree | The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Marcia Ball, Seeing Red, Texas Legislature, Women's Health, Women's Movement
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Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers : Chicago’s Growing Resistance to NATO Summit
Protest against NATO in Strasbourg on April 4, 2009. Photo by Jos van Zetten / Flickr / Wikimedia Commons.Resistance builds:NATO coming to Chicago Organizers and supporters will use humor and music, art and play, civil disobedience and imagination to voice … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War Demonstration, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Chicago, NATO Summit, Rahm Emanuel, Social Action
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Lamar W. Hankins : Satire and the Abortion-Rights Deniers
Garry Trudeau’s controversial series of Doonesbury cartoons satirized the Texas sonogram law.Taking on the abortion-rightsdeniers with satire No other right, except for perhaps the right to organize a union, has been under such assault in the U.S. By Lamar W. … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion Rights, Doonesbury, Lamar W. Hankins, Political Satire, Sonogram, Women's Health
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Ted McLaughlin : Recovery is a Myth For Most Americans
Chart from Reuters / ThinkProgress.For most Americans:The recovery is a myth By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / March 20, 2012 The Great Depression of the 1930’s has a lot in common with the current Great Recession, which poses … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Recovery, Economy, Great Recession, Ted McLaughlin
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Walking While Black: Trayvon Martin’s Fatal Short-cut By Jay D. Jurie / The Rag Blog / SANFORD, Florida — Walking from a nearby 7-11 on February 26, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin took a short cut to the gated community home where … Continue reading
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Bill Freeland : Republican Roulette
Graphic by Bill Freeland / The Rag Blog.Republican roulette:Romney vs. the rebels By Bill Freeland | The Rag Blog | March 20, 2012 As the Republican nominating process enters its whirlwind phase — with nearly a primary a week scheduled … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 Elections, Bill Freeland, Republican Party, Republican Primary
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Harry Targ : Military Spending and our National Priorities
Breakdown of projected government spending for fiscal yer 2013. To see how these figures were determined, go here.Poor are paying the price:Military spending and our natioal prioritiesBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / March 18, 2012 “From Forrestal’s day … Continue reading
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Tagged Endless War, Harry Targ, Military Spending, U.S. Foreign Policy
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VERSE / Mariann G. Wizard : Hiatus
Image from Dzinepress.Hiatus The plazas are empty, swept clean of debris,smug analyses already written.Elections are coming, everyone run to see:is it Newton? or El Ron? or Mittens? But out of the glare of the media stare,the knowledge unerringly spreads:the old … Continue reading
David Bacon : How U.S. Policies Fueled the Great Mexican Migration
So many migrants from Veracruz have settled in North Carolina and the South that they name markets for their home state. Because of ferocious anti-immigrant laws, however, many businesses have lost customers as immigrants flee the state. Photo © David … Continue reading
BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Sparks and Wildfires
Sparks and wildfires:Wisconsin and the global revolutions:By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | March 15, 2012 It Started In Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest, by Mari Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle (Verso: 2012); … Continue reading
