With the next election 18 months away, senators who bucked 90 percent of the public on the recent vote to expand background checks for gun buyers probably think time will fade the memory for voters. But if anything, it’s energized the overwhelming majority that favors more controls. The vote is coming back to bite a [...]
Despite the fact that Social Security isn’t contributing a penny to the federal budget deficit, fiscal hawks have convinced President Barack Obama that we must slash its benefits to save the country. He’s joined the sky-is-falling crew in a crazed search for targeted cuts that will shrink Social Security outlays. One idea he’s now putting [...]
It’s Black History Month, and when it comes to that history in cartoons, the news hasn’t always been good. For decades cartoons, mostly by the Disney corporation, featured lots of white characters and lots of black stereotypes. But as the song says, the times they are a-changin’. In recent years Disney has worked overtime to [...]
Been out shopping in the past couple of weeks? If the answer is yes, you know consumers are mobbing stores to snap up mountains of plastic soon-to-be-junk from toy stores and big boxes. Do kids really need more stuff? And what’s the message we’re sending? Like it or not, toys and make-believe do send messages, [...]
Congress is likely to remain in session until Christmas Eve — wrangling over the looming sequester and expiration of the Bush tax cuts. The country doesn’t have enough money, or doesn’t spend it right, or the rich have too much of it, or the middle class doesn’t have enough, or the poor get too much [...]
Last week was “women’s week” in the presidential debate, and the candidates fought over the girls in their stump speeches at every stop afterwards. Monday’s face-off moves on to foreign policy; the women in the binders and the equal pay issue will likely be left in the paper shredder along with last week’s talking points. [...]
Quick – what come to mind when you hear “mom” and “blogger” in the same sentence? If you thought “potty training, pre-school and playgrounds,” you’re probably in the majority. But you’re also wrong. In her marvelous book Mothers of Intention, Joanne Bamberger – aka PunditMom – shows us just how wrong. A must-read before the [...]
While members of Congress waste time naming post offices and devising ways to get seniors to pay for billionaire’s tax breaks through cuts in Medicare and Social Security, other important business is slipping through the cracks. Specifically, if the Violence Against Women Act – signed by President Clinton in 1994 after a four year battle [...]
As with every Mother’s Day, millions of moms will get flowers and candy this Sunday, along with sticky pancakes or burnt toast lovingly prepared by husbands and kids turned cooks-for-a-day. As individuals, we’re pretty fond of our mothers. But as a nation we don’t value motherhood all that much. We lag far behind Europe in [...]
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