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John Oliver Slams America’s “Disgraceful” Maternity Leave Policy on Mother’s Day (VIDEO)
By Elaine Magliaro Last night, John Oliver did a killer segment on the lack of paid family leave after the birth of a child in the United States. We hear a lot of politicians spouting off about family values these … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Humor, Hypocrisy, Politics, Short Video, United States
Tagged John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, Motherhood, Paid Family Leave, Paid Maternity Leave
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Center for Media and Democracy’s Report Shows Federal Government Has Spent Over $3 Billion Fueling Charter Schools but No One Knows Where the Money Went
By Elaine Magliaro The Center for Media and Democracy’s (CMD) PR Watch reported last week on the $3.3 billion that the federal government has spent fueling the charter school industry in this country over the past two decades. According to a new … Continue reading
Tim Wise on What White Americans Do Not Know…and Do Not Want to Know
By Elaine Magliaro In January of 2014, I posted a video of Tim White talking about the “concept of whiteness.” (The title on his YouTube video clip reads “Tim White: On White Privilege.”) Yesterday, I came across an article that … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Civil Liberties, Democracy, Equal Rights, Government, Justice, Law Enforcement, Police, Political Science, Racism, Society, Sociology, United States
Tagged 1998 Riot at Washington State University, 2004 Riot at Iowa State University, Ghettoization, Highway Program, Housing Discrimination, Keene NH Pumpkin Festival Riot, Lead Poisoning, Riots, Tim Wise
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Comedian Amy Schumer Responds to Birth Control Debate with Hilarious Prescription Ad Parody
By Elaine Magliaro Comedian Amy Schumer has a killer parody of a contraceptive prescription ad. In it, Schumer “satirizes just how hard it is for a woman to get her hands on birth control, following the commercial’s instructions to ask … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Drug Policy, Equal Rights, Fundamentalism, Government, Health Care, Health Care Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Physicians, Politics, Propaganda, Religion, Reproductive Rights, Society, Tea Party, United States
Tagged Amy Schumer, Birth Control, Contraception, Contraceptives, Hobby Lobby, SCOTUS
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Regarding Money in Politics: Why the Koch Brothers and Americans for Prosperity Are Not So Popular with Some Republicans These Days
By Elaine Magliaro Who’d a thunk it? The Koch brothers, two of the world’s wealthiest men who have spent millions of dollars to help fund “both political campaigns and a network of right-wing propaganda” in this country aren’t so popular … Continue reading
Posted in Campaign Finance, Capitalism, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Democracy, Government, Oligarchy, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Society, States, Tea Party, United States
Tagged Americans for Prosperity, Charles Koch, Citizens United, Dark Money, David Koch, Florida, Koch Brothers, Money in Politics, Montana, Oligarchs, Republicans, Tennessee
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Picture of the Day for May 7, 2015: On Jesus and Feeding the Hungry
Posted by Elaine Magliaro
Posted in Christianity, Conservatives, Government, Government Propaganda, Politics, Propaganda, Religion, Socialism
Tagged Feeding the Hungry, Jesus, Social Safety Net
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John Oliver on the Negative Effects of Too Much Standardized Testing on Our Children and Our Public Schools (VIDEO)
By Elaine Magliaro School reformers have claimed for years that our public schools and our public school teachers are failing our children. In Washington, policies put in place to help reform our schools have brought us the disastrous No Child … Continue reading
Posted in Dept. of Education, Education, Government, Humor, Short Video, United States
Tagged Educational Publishers, High-Stakes Testing, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, No Child Left Behind, Pearson, Public Education, Public Schools, Race to the Top, School Reform, School Reformers, Standardized Tests
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The Vagina Vigilantes Strike Again!: Republican Members of the House of Representatives Vote to Strike Down D.C. Law That Bans Reproductive Discrimination
By Elaine Magliaro Aaron C. Davis of The Washington Post reported last Thursday that the House of Representatives had “voted along party lines late Thursday to strike down a D.C. law on ideological grounds for the first time in almost … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Democracy, Equal Rights, Fundamentalism, Government, Health Care, Health Care Insurance, Jurisprudence, Local Government, Pharmaceuticals, Political Science, Politics, Religion, Reproductive Rights, United States, Women's Rights
Tagged Abortion, Birth Control, Contraception, Contraceptives, District of Columbia, Eleanor Holmes Norton, House of Representatives, John Boehner, Republicans, Ted Cruz, Vagina Vigilantes
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Senator Bernie Sanders to Announce Presidential Run This Week
By Elaine Magliaro Vermont Public Radio (VPR) reported on Tuesday that it had learned from several sources that Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), 73, is planning to announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday. VPR said that “Sanders will release a … Continue reading
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