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I have been busy starting an independent publishing house for kid’s books and trying not to go crazy over what’s happening in the Gulf and what’s not happening in Washington. Then this morning I get an email in which a friend asks:
Did you see the cover of Newsweek this week? “St. Sarah” (Palin). Scary as all [...]
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has,appropriately, if belatedly, become the lead story in all news media. The scenes from the Gulf are heart-breaking, the stories increasingly disturbing and tragic.
It’s understandable, then, that the issues of government accountability and the transparency promised and lauded by Candidate Obama, but ignored and dismissed by President [...]
One thing I dislike about the blogosphere–left, center and right–is that people tend to write about things they know nothing about. An opinion is not a fact. Never was, never will be. The case of Joe Sestak v. Barack Obama is a clear case in point.
The so-called left blogosphere has been a big supporter of [...]
Writing about Pride Month often seems a variation on those elementary school essays “How I Spent My Summer Vacation.”
“What Does Pride Mean to Me?”
I think of Pride as a time not just of celebration but of reflection–serious reflection. As an historian, activist and journalist, Pride makes me think not so much about how far we’ve [...]
The scenes from the Gulf are heart-breaking for anyone with a heart.
Alas, that seems not to include anyone from British Petroleum, Transoean or even the Obama Administration.
There are myriad questions to ask about who was and is to blame for the explosion that killed eleven and injured 17 and the subsequent oil spill that has sent [...]
As is true for millions of Pennsylvanians, I grew up with Arlen Specter. Other politicians have come and gone, but the one constant has been Arlen Specter, who has been in politics throughout my entire voting life and that of so many others. From his days on the Warren Commission where he helped craft the [...]
Queers have issues with family. Many of us have been discarded, disowned or at the very least marginalized by our families of origin for being queer. Those P-FLAG families where everyone is all cozy with their kids’ queerness are still the exception, not the rule. That’s why there’s a special group just for them–because they [...]
The stand-off between Asian students at South Philadelphia High School and the school’s administration ended after eight days. But the issues raised by an attack on 26 Asian students at South Philly High in early December have not–and will not–go away.
The violent attacks on Chinese, Vietnamese and Cambodian students at the school drew widespread attention [...]
One of the most important national elections is less than a month away, the Pennsylvania gubernatorial primary. Yet the most recent polls show that 35 percent of Republican voters and 47 percent of Democratic voters remain undecided.
In the Republican race there are two candidates: State Attorney General Tom Corbett, who is polling at 58 percent [...]
