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Michelle Obama Rejects Demonizing Twinkies In Her Anti-Obesity Crusade
Massachusetts Study: Health Care Reform Reduced Abortions
Women's Vote Will Likely Decide British Elections
Can the 'Bush Lied' Deniers Handle the Truth?
Democrats' Dilemma: Health Care Vote and the 'Enthusiasm Gap'
Pro-life Rep. Perriello Says Abortion Concerns Eased, May Back Health Bill
Chaos Theory - New Textbooks, Y'all!
Iraq War Debate: Surge Success, Intelligence Mistakes, Civilian Casualties- Huge Student Loan Overhaul Set to Be Tacked Onto Health Care Reform
Michelle Obama Takes Anti-Obesity Drive to Food Makers
Another Mass Shooting, Another National Shrug in the NRA Era
By Bonnie Erbe'
Yes, this was just another week in the gun culture wars. An Alabama professor with a long history of public outbursts and involvement with guns, a bomb -- even killing her brother with a shotgun many years ago -- is charged in a mass shooting on campus. Three fellow academics died and three others were wounded. Half a nation away, the Virginia House of Delegates (my home state's legislature, regrettably) weakens a lengthy list of gun control laws, including the state's unconscionable, 17-year-long prohibition on the freedom to purchase more than one handgun per month. ...
Candy Crowley: Incoming Queen of Sunday Morning Talk
By Bonnie Erbe'
This weekend, veteran CNN reporter Candy Crowley takes on a high-profile role in the often rough-and-tumble world of Sunday morning talk shows. As the new host of CNN's "State of the Union," Crowley will be the only female anchor in that time slot, and the first since Cokie Roberts stepped down as co-anchor of ABC's "This Week" in 2002. Crowley has spent her adult life as a destroyer of heels and soles: a beat reporter and a political reporter, out on the streets, pounding pavements, getting on and off airplanes and spending nights in (some dingy, some palace-like) hotel rooms. From Bill ...
Scott Brown's Election Holds The Key to GOP's Comeback in the Northeast
By Bonnie Erbe'
Is Scott Brown's Senate election an omen of the possible resurgence of the moderate Northeastern Republican?Legions of disaffected moderates are hoping so. On Sunday, the incoming senator told ABC's Barbara Walters he's pro-choice, a philosophy driven out of what famed and beloved Republican consultant Lee Atwater described as the party's big tent. [See a transcript of the interview here.] But for now, that big tent is more of a revival tent dominated by the Christian right and conservative activists whose control has served to reduce the party to pup tent size in the Northeast.After the ...
France's Proposed Burqa Ban: Why Americans Might Want to Consider It Too
By Bonnie Erbe'
Ban the burqa? The French Parliament just completed six months of hearings promoted by a member of Parliament on the so-called burqa controversy. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made no secret of his dislike for the Afghan-style garb and full-face veils, calling them "a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement." At first, Sarkozy wanted burqas banned in all instances, but he has now stepped back to a more moderate position, seeking to have Parliament pass a law banning the full-body veil in public places and on public transportation. France, we should all remember, passed a law in ...
Why Coakley Really Lost: Massachusetts' Health Care 'Reform'
By Bonnie Erbe'
Martha Coakley's devastating loss in Tuesday's senatorial race should be a lesson to members of her party on several important points. She was trying to fill the vacancy left by the death of perhaps the most powerful and certainly most well-known Democrat in the U.S. Senate and she should have coasted to victory. But several key warning signs to Democrats nationwide were ignored. An Arkansas friend of mine sent around a blast e-mail posing the question, "Can you imagine a Republican winning in that bluest of states?" I answered, "Of course, Mitt Romney won statewide election there not too ...
Bearing Children You Can't Support: Subsidies vs. Eugenics
By Bonnie Erbe'
Bad cases make bad law, or so the saying goes in legal circles. But if ever there was a bad case that cries out for a public reexamination of long-standing legal principle, it is this one. A recently filed lawsuit reveals that a Massachusetts mother of nine is suing a hospital in Springfield for allegedly sterilizing her against her will. As ABC News reported, Tessa Savicki "claimed that doctors at Baystate Medical Center had agreed to insert an intrauterine device, or IUD, that she brought to the operating room, but instead performed a tubal ligation that effectively ended her chances of ...
Photoshop 'Til You Drop
By Bonnie Erbe'
The world of haute couture has always been one of make-believe, fantasy, outrageousness and the fantabulous. If high fashion were ordinary, who would buy it? But even give those wide parameters, in its never-ending struggle to be more, better and different, haute couture has exploited high tech graphic design to a level many find troubling. Photoshop and other digital programs, while trying to scale new heights of outrageousness are pushing the reputation of fashion photography to new depths of depravity. And these digital remakes seem positively unnecessary, coming as they do at a time of ...
Norwegians Must Be Asking: Why Obama for Peace Prize?
By Bonnie Erbe'
Norway, it seems, has gotten as good as it gave. After the six Norwegians on the Nobel Peace Prize Committee awarded the coveted honor to a man who clearly and self-admittedly did not deserve it, Norwegians themselves have become upset with the man and, by inference, their decision to honor him in this singular fashion. Two public opinion polls revealed dissatisfaction with Obama's decision to skip the traditional Nobel events, including a "Save the Children" concert in which the only presence of the U.S. president was a cardboard cutout brought in a kind of good-natured rebuke. ...
To Curb Climate Change, We Must Curb Immigration
By Bonnie Erbe'
I wish President Obama the power of Jupiter and the wisdom of Minerva as he travels to Copenhagen for the U.N. Summit on Climate Change. He will be leading the first serious U.S. participation in productive global climate change talks in more than a decade. But do I believe he will accomplish anything meaningful at those talks, meaningful enough, that is, to begin to roll back climate change? No, sorrowfully, I do not believe he can. Why? We Americans have been redeemed from the horrific nadir of anti-environmentalism by electing a pro-environment president. But our populace will not unite ...
The Downside for Female Breadwinners: Losing Your Kids
By Bonnie Erbe'
A fascinating article in Working Mother magazine spans the quickly shifting landscape of primary custody battles in divorce cases. Working women, the piece points out, are in the midst of a watershed tradeoff -- as they advance in numbers as family breadwinners, they are losing primary custody of children in divorce cases. More women are losing primary custody because one in four married women now out-earns her husband -- a tidbit not all women will view as advancement. These working women are spending more time at work than at home, and judges are noticing. The sad part is that much of the ...
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