Category: political
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Civility in politics: Let’s keep Archie Bunker out.
Before Archie Bunker came along we Americans kept most of our bigoted thoughts to ourselves. Today telling it like it is has become a virtue, infecting our politics with an incivility unknown in recent memory.
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My advice to graduates
No one’s asked me to speak at graduation, but I’ve prepared a message for seniors anyway. The theme? The values you’ve been taught—get real. Nobody practices that stuff anyway.
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An older woman looks at sex and a changing world
Sex. The subject excites us; it scares us. Sex is everywhere. Turn on the TV, and you see people casually sleeping with a colleague, a neighbor, a stranger even. Ads for Viagra promise meaningful relationships, not necessarily with a spouse. Crime shows deal with rape and sexual abuse. Sex sells cars, shampoo—you name it. Homosexuality…
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God and the right to marry
“The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men,” the court opinion stated in 1967.
Nancy Werking Poling 