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The Parental is Political
Why Can't Obama Win Over Working-Class White Voters?
By Julie Marsh
Although it's been amplified recently by the coverage of Barack Obama's remarks in San Francisco (the so-called "Bitter-gate") and the statements of his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the issue of appealing to white working-class voters...read more |
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Having Their Cake and Eating It, Too
By Julie Marsh
An article in the May 2008 issue of Reason Magazine presents some surprising information about the financing of the Iraq War. In short, funding for operations in Iraq does not come from the annual defense budget. Instead, "a series of emergency supplemental...read more |
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Who's Who Among Presidential Candidates: John McCain
By Julie Marsh
Who's Who Among Presidential Candidates is a series of distillations of individual candidates' views on 24 topics loosely grouped into four categories, as presented on non-partisan website On The Issues.
John McCain
John McCain is the senior Senator...read more |
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A look at Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers, edited by Susan Morrison
By Julie Marsh
Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers
Edited by Susan Morrison
Harper; $23.95
272 pp.; ISBN-13: 978-0061455933
I had high hopes for this book.
I looked forward to an analysis of the substantive aspects of Hillary Clinton's...read more |
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Who's Who Among Presidential Candidates: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
By Julie Marsh
Who's Who Among Presidential Candidates is a series of distillations of individual candidates' views on 24 topics loosely grouped into four categories, as presented on non-partisan website On The Issues.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is the junior...read more |
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Who's Who Among Presidential Candidates: John Edwards
By Julie Marsh
Who's Who Among Presidential Candidates is a series of distillations of individual candidates' views on 24 topics loosely grouped into four categories, as presented on non-partisan website On The Issues.
John Edwards
John Edwards is a former Senator...read more |
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Who's Who Among Presidential Candidates: Fred Thompson
By Julie Marsh
Who's Who Among Presidential Candidates is a series of distillations of individual candidates' views on 24 topics loosely grouped into four categories, as presented on non-partisan website On The Issues.
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson is a former Senator...read more |
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Who's Who Among Presidential Candidates: Bill Richardson
By Julie Marsh
Who's Who Among Presidential Candidates is a series of distillations of individual candidates' views on 24 topics loosely grouped into four categories, as presented on non-partisan website On The Issues.
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson is the current...read more |
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Who's Who Among Presidential Candidates: Ron Paul
By Julie Marsh
Who's Who Among Presidential Candidates is a series of distillations of individual candidates' views on 24 topics loosely grouped into four categories, as presented on non-partisan website On The Issues.
Ron Paul
US Congressman Ron Paul represents...read more |
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Can conservatives trust Mitt Romney?
By Julie Marsh
In a rare opportunity to watch Sunday morning news programs in their entirety -- I've got kids; even if Tim Russert's on, I'm usually interrupted a dozen times during his intro alone -- this past weekend, I listened to The Chris Matthews Show uninterrupted...read more |
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A look at Bill O'Reilly's new book, Kids Are Americans Too
By Julie Marsh
"You, kid, are an American. You have an obligation to be a good citizen. That means that you should be honest and pay attention to what happens in the United States and in the rest of the world too."
- Bill O'Reilly, Kids Are Americans Too
Bill...read more |
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Children and online safety.
By Julie Marsh
With all the focus on the social networking site Facebook lately -- in terms of their deletion of breastfeeding photos, tacit approval of pro-ana groups (and other truly objectionable content), and their inaction regarding multiple instances of sexual...read more |
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Breastfeeding: Public Nourishment or Public Indecency?
By Julie Marsh
Breastfeeding promotion has increased significantly over the past decade. Starting with a CDC-administered Lactation Support Program initiated in 1996 to facilitate pumping and storage, the US Department of Health and Human Services then teamed up with...read more |
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What's happening to the housing market?
By Julie Marsh
What's happening to the housing market?
An August 16 article in Forbes sums up the situation quite succinctly: The market's troubles began with rising defaults on subprime U.S. mortgages, home loans made to borrowers with questionable finances. Most...read more |
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Facing new political responsibilities as a parent.
By Julie Marsh
What do I know about politics? Certainly not as much as I used to, back in the days when I was free to watch “Meet The Press” on Sunday mornings. Now my girls clamor for cartoons instead. Perhaps if NBC were to animate Tim Russert...read more |
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Do you really know what the No Child Left Behind Act is all about?
By Julie Marsh
“I believe that children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way”
- “Greatest Love of All”, Whitney Houston, 1985
It’s easy for Whitney to sing about it. It’s even relatively easy for politicians...read more |
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Will Hillary Clinton inspire Republican voters?
By Julie Marsh
As the 2008 presidential race heats up, I'll start including columns that touch upon recent political developments and the resulting editorial commentaries found in the mainstream press.
This past weekend, an AP article was published concerning Democratic...read more |
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Tax information and strategies to help ease your family's financial burden.
By Julie Marsh
Taxation has long been a hot topic of debate in the United States. In fact, one of the most well-known demonstrations was held in opposition to taxes levied on our colonists – the Boston Tea Party.
People generally view taxation as a fait accompli...read more |
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Stem cell research -- what do you know about it?
By Julie Marsh
Stem cell research is perhaps second only to abortion as the most widely-discussed political topic pertaining to the sanctity of human life. While neither of these issues will likely be at the forefront of the 2008 presidential campaign, stem cell research...read more |
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Jerry Falwell may have died, but his fundamentalist political agenda will live on.
By Julie Marsh
Jerry Falwell may have died, but his fundamentalist political agenda will live on. Unfortunately.
I’m using the term fundamentalist as it was used in this recent USA Today article, in which Falwell was described as “a buoyant fundamentalist...read more |
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Flag burning: merely incendiary, or downright illegal?
By Julie Marsh
With Memorial Day a week ago Monday, Flag Day coming up a week from Thursday, and Independence Day next month, it's an appropriate time to talk about demonstrations involving the United States flag - most notably, flag burning in protest of US policies....read more |
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What do vaccinations have to do with politics?
By Julie Marsh
Recently, several bloggers at The Parent Bloggers Network reviewed the new book by Paul Offit, MD, Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases. Not only did the book chronicle the vaccine development efforts of Maurice Hilleman...read more |
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Politics along the racial divide.
By Julie Marsh
In college, I remember seeing African-American students wearing t-shirts and carrying tote bags emblazoned with the words "It's a Black Thang. You wouldn't understand." And I remember wondering, "Why are you so sure?"
Slavery was...read more |
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Thoughts on Elizabeth Edwards at BlogHer 2007
By Julie Marsh
Last year after the closing keynote address at the BlogHer conference -- at which Arianna Huffington was one of the speakers -- a close friend of mine asked if it bothered me to be politically distant from so many of my fellow conference attendees. I...read more |
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