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Doctors Without Borders in Haiti: Why Couldn’t They Land?

January 18th, 2010 · No Comments

Why was an MSF cargo plane carrying, among other badly needed supplies, an inflatable surgical hospital, not allowed to land in Port-au-Prince on Saturday and re-routed to the Dominican Republic?

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Why A Mom Should Be Allowed to Be Buried with her Dead Soldier Son

December 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Maybe there won’t be enough burial plots if they grant the wish of every soldier’s mom who wants to be buried with her dead child. If that’s true then we’re in worse trouble than we think.

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The Assault on Abortion AKA Health Reform

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments

I’m still trying to get my mind around the idea that a little-known congressman named Bart Stupak hijacked…

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A Lesson From Barack (and Malia) Obama

November 6th, 2009 · No Comments

I was secretly pleased when the President outed Malia for getting a C on her science test. No matter what your ambitions are as a parent, you can’t control how motivated your children are or what they achieve.

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Nicholas Kristof Talks About Sex Trafficking, Rape and Raising Kids

October 17th, 2009 · No Comments

“People always ask, how do you do all this and stay married?” he said to the audience. Let’s just say the books are easier to put to bed than the kids. “Books don’t play you against each other.”

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Obama Going to Talk to Kids: Yikes!

September 5th, 2009 · No Comments

You’d think Obama was showing kids on live TV how to slip a condom on a banana.

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Health Care Reform: White Like Me, Oh, Dear!

August 14th, 2009 · No Comments

All this brutish behavior. It’s enough to make me renounce my European roots and claim my tiny Chickasaw heritage.

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On Nancy Pelosi and Michael Jackson

July 10th, 2009 · No Comments

I’d like to thank Nancy Pelosi for nixing the resolution to honor Michael Jackson. It’s not like Congress doesn’t have anything to do. Health care, anyone?

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A Word from Anderson Cooper

May 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

As for Cooper’s chatty colleagues and the rise in cable news of liberal and conservative anchors to attract viewers, don’t get Cooper started. He believes in the quaint notion we used to call facts.

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Question: What Do Christiane Amanpour and Afghanistan Have to Do with the Prom?

May 7th, 2009 · No Comments

In Afghanistan, life for women is horrific under the Taliban. Forget about the prom. For the simple act of going to school, girls have had acid thrown in their faces.

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