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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young
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Sunday, 23 September 2012
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Lancaster, PA, USA. It is our flawed presidential electoral system and not us that inhibits solution of our most vexing political, economic, foreign and social challenges.
In this most contentious election year, one proposition looms not at all contentious: few disagree that America faces a host of imposing challenges — both foreign and domestic.
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 G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Wednesday, 12 September 2012 Lancaster, PA, USA. Let’s say it clearly. The Democrats had a good convention, one clearly reflected in a respectable post-convention bounce — the Republicans, not so much.
Not that the GOP had a really bad or a dreadful convention. In truth, it had its moments. As conventions go, however, mediocre would describe it best. It wasn’t the worst and certainly wasn’t the best.
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 G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Sunday, 26 August 2012 Lancaster, PA, USA. The endless campaign, also known as the 2012 American presidential election, isn’t quite ending yet. But as Churchill might have put it, we have at least reached the beginning of the end.
With less than 90 days until Election Day, the party conventions are almost upon us and the fall debates not far behind.
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 Rev. Cathryn Platine Tuesday, 21 August 2012 Palenville, NY, USA. In his decision that went against the Maetreum of Cybele, Judge Platkin of the Albany Supreme Court of New York used some absolutely astounding logic.
Apparently, and actually against established caselaw, providing “affordable housing” for women who otherwise would probably be homeless or escaping abusive living situations is not charitable.
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Sunday, 29 July 2012 Lancaster, PA, USA. It’s known as Ockham’s razor. Attributed to 14th-century philosopher William of Ockham (c. 1288–1348), it advocates seeking the simplest explanation necessary to make sense of things. The popular acronym KISS captures its spirit — keep it simple stupid.
Alas, Ockham’s adage finds few takers today among contemporary electoral analysts. Amid the pundit literati predicting presidential elections, the slogan might be, seek complexity, lots of it.
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 G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Wednesday, 18 July 2012 Lancaster, PA, USA. What should we think about Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law set to take effect for the 2012 presidential election?
The law requires all voters to provide stringently prescribed photo ID every time they vote. Enacted this spring, it unleashed a cascade of contention since Governor Tom Corbett signed it in March.
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Tuesday, 12 June 2012 |
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Thursday, 24 May 2012 |
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 Francesca Tronetti Wednesday, 18 April 2012 A necessary action to improve the dialogue between Medical and Social Science ScholarsErie, PA, USA. In the fall of 2010 I began work on my Masters Thesis (which examined the life experiences of transsexual teenagers and young adults compared to the life experiences of other queer youth).
My research found disconnects between the use of the terms transsexual and transgender in the scholarly and academic literature vs my own understanding of the terms (based on a decade of living with a group th
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 G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Sunday, 15 April 2012 Lancaster, PA, USA. It’s an ill wind that blows no good and a rare political season that brings no lessons.
Here are six salient teaching moments inspired by the finally concluded Republican presidential contest. Some are familiar; a few are surprising and all together reveal much about American politics entering the second decade of a still young century.
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 G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Thursday, 05 April 2012 Lancaster, PA, USA. It wasn’t supposed to happen this way.
The Pennsylvania primary scheduled for April 24th was to be Rick Santorum’s triumphal return — celebrating his resurgence in national politics after his crushing defeat just six years earlier for re-election to the senate.
It’s not turning out that way.
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 G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Thursday, 22 March 2012 Lancaster, PA, USA. Irony abounds for Pennsylvania’s upcoming April 24 Republican presidential primary. The greatest perhaps is that Rick Santorum, a former state politician brutally dumped by voters just six years ago, returns to the state as the first Pennsylvanian in half a century to contest seriously the presidency.
Moreover, notwithstanding his defeat of historic proportions in 2006, he seems likely to win the Pennsylvania contest.
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 Maggie Fox Tuesday, 20 March 2012 Manchester, United Kingdom. I write this as a Quaker who is dedicated to the acceptance, medical treatment, and legal protection of individuals correcting the misalignment of their brains and their anatomical sex, and supporting their transition into society as hormonally reconstituted and surgically corrected citizens.
In Great Britain this is described as gender reassignment or sex change.
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Sunday, 11 March 2012 |
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Sunday, 19 February 2012 |
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Thursday, 02 February 2012 |
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Maggie Fox Wednesday, 01 February 2012 |
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Rev. Cathryn Platine Thursday, 26 January 2012 |
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Friday, 06 January 2012 |
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Marilyn Pierce Wednesday, 04 January 2012 |
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Marilyn Pierce Monday, 19 December 2011 |
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Tuesday, 13 December 2011 |
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Monday, 05 December 2011 |
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