KarenM

EMILY’s list suggests that a House chamber led by Boehner would turn back the clock for millions of women, as well as many others.

Some bullet points from the Times’s story on how to celebrate Banned Books Week…

U.S. Income Inequality Has SURPASSED Guyana And Nicaragua

I cannot remember a more unsettling Labor Day weekend, given how many attacks are being made, as I write these words, against American workers’ rights.

Canadian Ali A. Rizvi makes the case that Obama is really a closeted non-believer.

The BP oil spill may mean that Florida’s Gulf Coast may never be the same again. I want to recount some of my memories from childhood.

I’m being evaluated as a kidney donor in order to benefit my son-in-law… and have, at last, completed everything on my list of tasks and tests.

My daughter works all day; they have dinner; then she hooks her husband up for 3-4 hours of dialysis, about a 5-hour process. They need more sleep… not to mention a life that once again resembles normal.

Real, actual health care reform is a personal issue… beginning with each one of us. Sharing health information amongst ourselves is just one way to exclude the insurance companies.

Iceland’s legislature has recently passed a law banning strip clubs, topless waitress and such. Yet, in the U.S., Michael Steel, the head of the RNC, which likes to call itself the party of family values, spends the party’s money in clubs specializing in bondage. Kinda makes you wanna say, “Huh?!”