Opinion
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 | ...Washington, DC, USA. The typical US election for president and congress is a hard sprint toward the finish line. Everything is under tight control, with campaign appearances scheduled for friendly audiences at a considerable distance from the general population.
We can always expect a flashy — but largely superficial — discussion of the issues.
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02-05-12
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 | ...Lancaster, PA, USA. Among Republicans, it’s axiomatic: Protracted presidential primary battles in the spring tend to hurt the party’s chances for victory in the fall.
This year, however, that hoary maxim seems to have been turned on its head by the newer GOP conventional wisdom that prolonged nomination contests lead to stronger, battle-tested nominees who win in the fall.
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02-02-12
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 | ...Manchester, UK, USA. I used to think the world divided into male and female, but now I know that there is a far more fundamental division into those who control their destiny and those who hand it over to others.
I will use the words Dominant and Submissive in this article to describe the two distinct categories. It is a naive belief of a Submissive that their submission will always achieve a result that is in their best interest and that the person to whom they handed control will resist an op... |
02-01-12
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 | ...Washington, DC, USA. From the viewpoint of evolutionary biology, if such a thing can be said to have a viewpoint, the female body is designed to attract and retain, if possible, the male. Similarly, the male body has evolved to be sexually attractive to the female.
That is the way of the world. The way of primates and most all of the creatures on this planet, God or no. The human way.
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01-31-12
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 | ...Palenville, NY, USA. The town of Catskill, New York has waged an illegal five year battle against the Maetreum of Cybele for claiming its legal property tax exemption under the laws of the State of New York and United States.
It is a struggle for nothing less than the right of all religions in America to be treated equally under the law. You do not have to be a politically aware Pagan to understand the danger to us all when government becomes the arbiter of personal belief.
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01-26-12
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01-18-12
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 | ...Washington, DC, USA. Strip the Human Race absolutely naked and what is left? It is the eye of other people that ruin us. [N1]
Although we enter the world most certainly without clothes, each and most every one of us lives in society that require us to be dressed. The clothes often wear us, rather than we, them.
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01-15-12
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 | ...Washington, DC, USA. When in the course of human events … Sorry, that’s been used hasn’t it? What about We, The People — nope, even I have used that crutch far too many times.
The first thing you need when writing a column is a writer. All present and accounted for and seated at my laptop listening to the quintessential American composer Charles Ives.
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01-11-12
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 | ...Lancaster, PA, USA. Rick Santorum’s startling surge in Iowa to a near-first-place finish has stunned much of the political world. Governor Romney called it a “virtual tie,” and a virtual tie it was.
For months the former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and putative Republican presidential candidate looked like a sure loser. His polls reflected single-digit support. He had little money, even less organization, and no chance of winning the GOP nomination — or so it appeared.
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01-06-12
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 | ...New York, NY, USA. I transitioned in the early eighties in my early twenties. I guess that makes me an early transitioner. It was a time of gatekeepers and group meetings.
I had been seeing my family doctor to start hormone replacement until he became uncomfortable with continuing the treatments and he referred me to the local Dallas psychiatrist that ran a group of people transitioning.
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01-04-12
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 | ...Washington, DC, USA. If you took all the money and assets from the top 1%, if you took the 1% life’s savings and everything they own, you still would not have near enough money to do everything the 99% want done without cost to them and theirs.
Taxing the rich or confiscating their assets isn’t going to work.
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01-01-12
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. There are many wonderful musicks written for the winter holidays. There are a lot of sappy, sentimental words said and written in the media. Perhaps we should discard outright all of it outright. The masses, the 99%, have no taste, after all. Not like us highly educated types.
Down with Christmas! Down with Hanukkah! Down with the Winter Holidays! We should be working on our manifestos and manuscripts. Something intellectually useful.
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12-25-11
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 | ...New York, NY, USA. Before I went stealth, people would always ask me the same set of questions. I’d like to take some time to talk about one of those questions because I think it is the wrong question.
It is a good question, but for me it is framed the wrong way. Here’s the question: “When did you first know you were a girl?”
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12-19-11
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA.I am by nature a political moderate; in olden times, before the extremes emerged to compete for a chokehold on America, I could be called a liberal Republican. At times I want to throw rocks at The Man; other times I would tell demonstrators they need a permit to demonstrate.
There aren’t a lot of liberal Republicans around, it seems. We appear to be a dying breed. And no one in either party seems willing to call themselves a (gack) moderate.
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12-18-11
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 | ...Lancaster, PA, USA. The Wall Street Journal, normally no admirer of Barack Obama, nevertheless is proffering some advice for the embattled president. Drop Joe Biden from the 2012 ticket and replace him with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Bye Bye Biden? intones the alliteratively gifted Journal.
The newspaper’s not entirely implausible premise is that Clinton might help Obama in some key states and among some key groups that are critical but questionable for the president’s re-election ... |
12-13-11
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. The sea change came quickly once I made my decision. The ocean that crested above me passed, tumbling me towards the sandy beach. Life crashes all around us unfettered by our desires.
What you may intend and what may actually occur oft-times are two separate things. Agendas revise quickly. Life is much more fluid than any one of us might suspect. Certainly more fluid than what the experts would tell you. As the journey continues, even more changes will occur.
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12-11-11
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 | ...Atlanta, GA, USA. A sex discrimination decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Glenn v. Brumby et. al. (6 December 2011), is an important victory for civil rights advocates, establishing numerous and important points of law.
The decision affirms that sex-discrimination statutes and court decisions apply equally to transsexuals. Discrimination based on nonconformity to gender expectations inherently constitutes sex discrimination.
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12-09-11
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 | ...Lancaster, PA, USA. As the 2012 presidential election looms ever closer, two hard facts confront American politics.
The first is that Barack Obama — despite enormous obstacles — could still win next year’s presidential election. The second is that he probably won’t.
Both of these propositions deserve close scrutiny.
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12-05-11
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 | ...Washington, DC, USA. When I was in my late teens and early twenties — large eyes, sweet smile and dimples on olive skin — both men and women hit on me in equal numbers.
I have dealt with sexual attraction since I was eleven and two thirteen year old girls pursued me around a public swimming pool. I grew used to being a target of desire and quickly learned how to deflect unwanted advances without deflating the emotions of anyone who might want me.
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12-04-11
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 | ...Manchester, UK. As a political movement the Trans leadership has shown itself to be extremely agile in terms of selling myths to the Establishment.
Of course no-one wants to see any person discriminated against by hate however there is no real difference between a hate crime based on being for example Goth or Mixed Race or a different religion or perceived as being demonstrably born in a different sex to the one you try to assimilate into by means of dress or body modification.
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12-02-11
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