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M. Burton Brown
“It is imperative that citizens who chose not to exercise their First Amendment rights understand that these every day people who have come from near and far are placing their lives in danger to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Dissent is what this country was founded upon and what the world [...]
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I was visiting my mother in North View Heights, a public housing community on the North side of Pittsburgh, where she lived at the time. My then husband and our two children were with me that day. When my youngest brother explained that he was running late and asked me if I would drive him [...]
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Americans have always loved freedom fighters. After all, it’s in our DNA — our story of the land of the free bought with the spilled blood of our forefathers who rebelled against oppression to create the most powerful nation in the world is a heady and exhilarating ideal. It’s hardly a surprise that so many [...]
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In 2008 I was asked what I saw in Obama that made me want him as our president. I was honest then and I have been ever since- he seemed to be a positive force and eloquent. I knew he didn’t have all those years of political experience, wasn’t the political war dog like the [...]
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Today Holocaust survivor, Nobel Prize winner and author Elie Weisel spoke at the Buchenwald concentration camp site with President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. I watched it live. His story was moving but what moved me most were words I’ve had in my head for almost 5 months now.
Mr. [...]
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For purposes of this column let me equate the GOP with “conservatives”. It seems the GOP can’t decide if they really want to split from the moderate Republicans as Limbaugh and others would like and totally embrace conservatism. I’m not talking Reagan conservatism- what is happening now is way beyond what Reagan stood for. Reagan [...]
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Abortion is a tough issue, but the solution is easier than you think.
We Americans have developed a way to deal with ongoing social conflict; it’s called tolerance. “To each, his own,” we say and our multiethnic, multi-faith society lives on in peaceful coexistence and voluntary segregation. Then we receive a collective shock in the form [...]
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Frank Schaeffer made a remarkable admission and apology for his contribution to the hate machine responsible for the murder of abortion doctors on Rachel Maddow’s show yesterday. It was notable not only for what he said, but how he said it. He was filled with fire, the same fire he once had for those he [...]
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The common thinking by those opposed to late-term abortion is that women suddenly wake up in the late stages of pregnancy and decide, “Oh my God, I’ve made a mistake. Off to the abortionist with me!” Perpetuated by extremists with the Randall Terry/Bill O’Reilly/Sean Hannity virus, this has somehow made its way into the abortion [...]
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There is really only one way to answer the violence that happened Sunday.
So let me make this as simple as possible.
I believe a woman has a right to choose what happens with her body. Whether she is single or married.
I believe that she has that right to choose the moment that SHE believes that she [...]
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Dan on Conservatives, please don’t fill out your census forms!
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Rosann Rommelfaenger on Cigna executive proves case for public healthcare option
Rosann Rommelfaenger on Cigna executive proves case for public healthcare option
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