Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
Sorry for the light posting during my vacation. Been having way too much fun to pay a lot of attention to politics. Good thing that people sometimes send me links like this one!
New Poll: 12 Year Olds Know Congress Could Cut War Money, Adults Believe Congress Powerless to End Iraq Occupation
from AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush […]
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Filed under: Congress, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Iraq War, Politics, War on Iraq, children, equality, kids, news, teens
Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
YouTube - Link to: Hillary Ad using Ann Richards
Dan Solis from ThinkYouth (who is formerly one of our editors and founders) sent me this video along with this note:
If this doesn’t get you motivated to endorse Hillary on your blog, I don’t know what will.
I gotta admit, this video made me tear up a bit. Have […]
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Filed under: Election 2008, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Hillary Clinton, Opinion, Politics, Texas, Women's Rights, equality
Posted on January 1st, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
Well THIS is hardly fair!
ER docs give whites narcotics more often
from Yahoo! News
AP - Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds. Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed […]
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Posted on December 8th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
I am not sure when the Texas primary is, but it’s really clear that we have NO CHOICES AT ALL. Why do Iowa and New Hampshire get to pick the candidates? Texas doesn’t even matter Look at this!
So far in Texas, it’s John Edwards or nobody
from Star-Telegram
By AMAN BATHEJASo far, Texas primary […]
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Filed under: Election 2008, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Opinion, Politics, election reform, equality, news
Posted on October 1st, 2007 by Brittany Leach
The Democratic Leadership in Congress has recently decided to split the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) bill, which originally protected Americans from discrimination workplace discrimination due to sexuality or gender identity. Essentially, this bill would have meant that people can’t be denied employment, fired, or denied career advancement because they’re gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered.
However, the […]
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Filed under: Brittany Leach, Congress, Democrats, Featured Stories, LGBT Rights, Sexism/Racism, equality
Posted on September 28th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
photo from ABC News
General Peter Pace is the chairman of the joint chiefs, making him the most elevated military office in the United States. He is not our priest-in-chief or our parent-in-chief, but he seems to think he is, and that his “upbringing” and his beliefs make him qualified to tell the rest […]
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Posted on September 1st, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Note from FrecklesCassie: I am sure that he meant to include women, right?
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Filed under: Secondary Featured Stories, Voltaire, equality, quotation