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Memo to GOP: Demography is destiny
Mary SanchezHaving watched the two national party conventions, I will venture to make a controversial prediction: The future of America looks like the people seated at the Democratic National Convention. America's past -- or at least the gauzy idealization of it...Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Politics, Marco Rubio, Barack Obama
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Will Republicans succeed with Jim Crow lite?
Mary SanchezOld Southern political bosses of the Jim Crow era would have winked with delight at the ingenious ploys of their latter-day successors in the art of voter suppression. Republican legislators in dozens of states have devised any number of schemes to...Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Politics, Personal Data Collection, Crime, Law and Justice
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Akin's gaffe offers unflattering glimpse of widely shared Republican attitudes
Mary SanchezLadies, remember what your mothers told you about men who regard women as sex objects? They're no good. Keep that in mind when pondering the Republican Party platform this year and all those heated conversations about the "war on women." Why is so...Tags: Paul Ryan, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Planned Parenthood, Rape
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Rise up, middle class, rise up!
Mary SanchezIf ever there were a time to pitch a national read-in, this is it. The 2012 election campaign is upon us, and from what we've seen so far, the tenor of the "messaging" is not what anybody would term enlightening. What the American public needs right now...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Voting, Politics, Television Industry, Interior Policy
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The subject straight-shootin' Mitt doesn't dare address
Mary SanchezThe unvarnished speech Mitt Romney proudly delivered to the NAACP is the talk of political circles, including comments from the candidate himself. "I don't give different speeches to difference audiences," Romney was widely quoted saying of the NAACP...Tags: Voting, Politics, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, U.S. Department of Justice
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What is 'having it all,' anyway?
Mary SanchezThe gossip began swirling immediately after Yahoo announced it had lured away a longtime, highly valued Google executive. The 20th employee ever hired by Google will leave her position as vice president to become CEO of rival Yahoo. But the chitchat...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Career and Workplace, Marissa Mayer
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Time to listen to the other America
Mary Sanchez"He's still alive man, call the cops!" But it was the cops who had just shot the man, seen in the YouTube video lying face down in an Anaheim neighborhood. The video, and the outrage it sparked, is central to four nights of rioting that rocked the...Tags: YouTube, American Civil Liberties Union, Riots, Shootings, Minority Groups
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What should come first, partisan advantage or national security?
Mary SanchezAnd down it crashed. Not the nation's electrical grid -- not yet anyway -- but rather legislation intended to protect it and other vital U.S. infrastructure from cyber attacks by hackers or terrorists. Republican senators, along with a handful of...Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Christian conservatives work the victim hustle in Missouri
Mary SanchezLast week was an active one for religious bigots. Six Sikhs were slaughtered on Sunday by a gunman while peacefully going to their house of worship in the outskirts of Milwaukee. The gunman killed himself, so we may never learn the full story of his...Tags: Voting, Discrimination, Public Officials, Politics, Islam
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Issa's pointless inquisition
Mary SanchezRep. Darrell Issa's joke of an investigation into Operation Fast and Furious needs a name. Operation Plodding and Pointless might do. The probe into the failed federal effort to track U.S.-purchased guns trafficked to Mexican drug cartels has reached...Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Eric Holder, Politics, U.S. Department of Justice
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Redefining what it means to be 'able'
Mary SanchezLearn the name. You'll know his unique stride soon. Oscar Pistorius will be a man to watch at the London's Summer 2012 Olympics. He's a South African runner who will challenge your view of what is means to be "disabled." A double-amputee, Pistorius...Tags: Legs, Adolf Hitler, Oscar Pistorius, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012 Summer Olympics
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How we fail to understand the transnational narcotics industry
Mary Sanchez"Follow the money" is a time-tested method of tracing malfeasance back to its origins. Corporate scams, insider trading or, as former presidential candidate John Edwards is learning, even sex scandals fall to such tracking. How can the U.S. government do...Tags: Immigration, New Products, Organized Crime, Insider Trading, Crime, Law and Justice
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