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Open Letter to My High School Class. Especially Paula.
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyIn my four decades since graduating, I have avoided high school reunions. But this year we're coming up on the 40th anniversary, and you know how everyone likes round numbers. And, unlike ten years ago, we now have facebook. Just a month ago, my maiden name was nowhere to be found on the Internet. I didn't want to be found by people who knew me during that painful time in my life. My father was an engineer, and he made an excellent living. Despite that, we lived in a run-down Dallas neighborhood. But the district lines of Bryan Adams High School were so expansive -- graduating class of 1,116 ...
Study: Millennial Leaders Are Isolationist; Like Obama, Not Palin
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- They favor isolationism but revere wartime leaders who used America's power abroad. They worry about China almost as much as Iran as a likely future foe. And they think Barack Obama is the ideal 21st century leader and Sarah Palin is not. Those are just a few of the fascinating gleanings from a new Brookings Institution survey of millennial movers and shakers of the future called "D.C.'s New Guard: What Does the Next Generation of American Leaders Think?" AP / Getty Images A Brookings Institution survey of 1,000 young leaders found that nearly half considered ...
Anne Francis: TV's First Female Detective Could Match the Boys
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyAnne Francis made men purr like kittens. As the smart and sexy private detective Honey West, Francis broke a major barrier. She was television's first female detective to be featured in a weekly TV series. Francis, 80, died from pancreatic cancer Sunday in Santa Barbara, California. She had a bout with lung cancer in 2007, when she underwent surgery and chemotherapy. Long before hard-hitting characters like Hit Girl in "Kick-Ass" and Uma Thurman's Beatrix Kiddo in "Kill Bill" came along, Francis taught a lot of baby boomer teenagers that a spy girl could hold her own with James Bond and ...
Baby Boomers and Sacrifice: What Will They Do to Save Medicare?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON -- Baby boomers have long been derided as a bunch of spoiled brats -- a "selfish generation" that pales beside their parents. Yet as the first qualify for Medicare this year, there are signs they may be ready to sacrifice. A recent Associated Press poll of boomers revealed that many worry they won't be able to rely on the financially troubled government health care program when they retire and would be willing to wait longer or pay more to ensure that Medicare will be there when they and future generations need it. The survey found Americans of all ages willing to accept ...
Our Year of Zombie Politics
By James Grady - Politics DailyWait: Even in politics, 2010 was the year of zombies? Sure, the hot new wonky tome "Zombie Economics" tells how "dead" economic theories walk among us to shape our paychecks, and sure, zombies lumber out of our TVs almost no matter what channel we click to, and sure, my fellow fantasy prose-slingers are flinging new novels about the undead at the dust of Stephen King and George Romero, but zombies as a metaphor for 2010's politics? Come on! What happened to vampires? Vampires are a great political metaphor! Bloodsuckers. Say no more. But zombies? Who are they in America's 2010 ...
A Thanksgiving Reflection: Deprived, Neglected, Untutored, I Had a Blast.
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThis Thanksgiving I feel thankful for a lot of things, but particularly my unstructured childhood. I was a free-range kid, back before that lifestyle had a name. For years I was ashamed. These days I'm grateful. Thanksgiving in my family meant my mom, sister and I piled into my dad's 1956 charcoal, pink and cream Dodge Lancer and we drove the 180 miles from our home in Dallas to my grandmother's house in Huntsville. There were no seat belts in those days, so my sister and I were free to lounge and make trouble in the back seat. If we got too rambunctious, my dad would say, "Do you want me ...
Pros and Cons of Raising Retirement Age
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WASHINGTON (Nov. 23) -- Thanksgiving is often a time for family fights, but this year, as politicians and policy wonks debate how to trim the federal debt, one idea may give all the generations at the table indigestion: raising the age to retire. Of all the ideas suggested by the chairmen of the bipartisan federal debt commission, raising the retirement age for Social Security may rank among the least popular. Polls show a majority oppose working longer to help shore up the program. Yet the 75-year-old entitlement program is expected to go broke by 2037 after the last of the baby boomers ...
Poll: Baby Boomers Are Confident About Sex
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WASHINGTON (Nov. 22) -- Think you know it all when it comes to sex? Well, a majority of the baby boomers think they've learned just about all there is to know on the subject - and more women than men are confident of their knowledge - according to a new Associated Press-LifeGoesStrong.com poll. Among people aged 45 to 65, 59 percent of women think they know all about sex, while just 48 percent of men share that confidence level. "I don't think a single person in the whole world knows all there is about sex," commented Debby Herbenick of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana ...
Are Older Voters Blocking Social Policy Changes?
By Andrea Stone - AOL News
ANALYSIS WASHINGTON (Nov. 18) -- As the baby boomers who gave us the term "generation gap" turn 65, a new divide is opening between young and old over everything from health care to gay rights to the right to get high. Republicans and Democrats alike insist it's time to stop piling debt onto future generations, yet political observers say the electoral clout of seniors may prove the biggest obstacle to reining in government spending. And just as in the 1960s, when many older Americans stood on the sidelines of the civil rights and women's movements, polls show seniors are the least enthused ...
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