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309Being the White Mother of a Bi-Racial Son
I am the white mother of a bi-racial (my husband is Chinese-American) son. While watching, what feels like a reckoning on my...
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402George Floyd, Systemic Racism, and being a White Woman
George Floyd was an unarmed black man who was murdered by four officers of the Minneapolis Police Department on May 25th. His...
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352Aaron Wildavsky’s Recipe For Violence
” A recipe for violence: Promise a lot; deliver a little. Lead people to believe they will be much better off, but...
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352The Second Stimulus Check
My family received our first stimulus check last month. Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced “The Heroes Act” last Tuesday, which includes another $1200...
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1.4K1Wrecking Ball
William F. Buckley, jr described the conservative movement as “stand(ing) athwart history, yelling Stop”. The conservative movement refuses to cede more power...
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4101Will Fear Tamper with the Election?
2020 is an election year. 2020 is also an unprecedented year in our government with the Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19. Less than...
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4052Personal Liberty vs. COVID-19
Yesterday, groups of protesters blocked traffic through the downtown area of Lansing, Michigan protested the stay at home order given by Michigan...
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375Following the News is Difficult Right Now
For a website called The Sexy Politico, there hasn’t been much news about Washington DC politics, and that is because following the...
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399Paradigm Shift
In 1962 Professor Thomas Kuhn coined the term ‘paradigm shift’ in his book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. A ‘paradigm’ is a...
