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Obama's America of Low Expectations
Tweet Share on Facebook November 29, 2011 Comment (14)They say the best thing about Thanksgiving is the leftovers. This American adage may be especially true in the hard times the nation faces, beyond cranberry sauce and stuffing. The phrase that surfaces often in "all the news that's fit to print" is living in an age of lowered expectations—as opposed to the optimistic spirit of great expectations which we once embraced. Curbed expectations rule, for example, when the powers that be sigh with relief that the joblessness rate has not yet hit 10 percent. President Obama's America is not a happy place.
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Today's Wall Street Wealthy Make the Robber Barons Look Good
Tweet Share on Facebook November 21, 2011 Comment (9)Aren't the robber barons looking better all the time? At least they shared their wealth with the rest of us, in civic gifts for the greater common good. We the people appreciate that more in these hard times.
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Praying for More Women Leaders
Tweet Share on Facebook November 15, 2011 Comment (7)Marin Alsop or Mariann Edgar Budde: quick, have you heard of them? They are women who will be heard across our changing cultural currents.
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Joe Paterno, Herman Cain Are Not The Victims in Their Scandals
Tweet Share on Facebook November 9, 2011 Comment (19)If you can't trust Joe Paterno, whom can you trust?
The mighty false god of football fell with a clang on the American psyche, as disturbing news broke of alleged pedophilia—rape charges pressed against a trusted assistant coach—and a cover-up right under his nose. The sickening story unfolding at Penn State has left us, we of little faith, searching for a rock solid character in the public eye. Perhaps we can turn to Mississippi, which did something right—thank you—in voting against giving legal personhood to a zygote.
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Millennial Generation Needs a Civic Coming of Age
Tweet Share on Facebook November 7, 2011 Comment (9)It was the Apple that didn't bite—not the dog that didn't bark—in a woman-on-woman slaying in downtown Bethesda.
