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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
As was demonstrated in Richard White's seminal book, "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own" , (University if Oklahoma Press, 1991) the reason behind voting rights for women was the fear that the votes of the Chinese laborers; who had been imported to work in the mines, and on railway construction, might undermine the controlling interests of the landholding, white men. Their clever solution was to allow their wives and daughters to vote, thus maintaining their control.
The suggestion that a candidate who is anti-choice, anti-gay rights, anti-racial equality could possibly deserve anything except derision from feminists is bizarre.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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