Isn't It Ironic?

May 7th, 2014 10:23 pm

"The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.” Author Unknown

May 7, 2014

By: Linda Case Gibbons

"I can’t imagine what the parents are going through,” said Obama in a CBS interview… "This may be the event that helps to mobilize the entire international community to finally do something against this horrendous organization that’s perpetuated such a terrible crime,” he told NBC’s Al Roker.
Indeed, "the even...

Bigots Have Rights, Too

April 30th, 2014 10:22 pm

"Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.” Billy Sunday

April 30, 2014

By: Linda Case Gibbons

So what’s the difference between Donald Sterling and a bunch of neo-Nazis, you know the ones who wanted to march in Skokie, Illinois in 1977, a largely Jewish community where one in six people were Holocaust survivors?
Or the Westboro Baptist Church who pickets American soldiers’...

Another Empty Suit...Or Pants Suit?

April 30th, 2014 10:21 pm

"I really see my role as Secretary, in fact leadership in general in a democracy, as a relay race. When you run the best race you can run, you hand off the baton. Some of what hasn’t been finished may go on to be finished.” Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

April 23, 2014

By: Linda Case Gibbons

Can you list any of Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments? At any time? Or while she headed up the State Department?
No? Well, don’t...

No, We Won't Back Down!

April 23rd, 2014 10:20 pm

"You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.” Marian Wright Edelman, American activist for children’s rights

April 16, 2014

By: Linda Case Gibbons

There is no war on women, not unless you’re Sandra Fluke.
The rest of us? Well, we can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan and don’t have the time nor the inclination to...

Who's Insulted Now?

April 9th, 2014 10:19 pm

"Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.” George Will

April 9, 2014

By: Linda Case Gibbons

It’s sweeping the country, but not in a good way.
"Being insulted.” It’s become a national disease.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is always insulted about something and, of course, there’s always a lot for her to be insulted about.
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Free To Be You And Me, If You Agree...With Me

April 2nd, 2014 10:18 pm

"We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.” Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter

          April 2, 2014

          By: Linda Case Gibbons

         It’s not about getting respect, or equality, or having people recognize you for who you "really are” for some members of the gay community. Some, not all.
          Nah, it isn’t about that. It’s about payb...

Free To Be You And Me, If You Agree...With Me

April 2nd, 2014 10:18 pm

Blabberwocky

March 26th, 2014 10:17 pm

"Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” President Bill Clinton, First Inaugural Speech, Jan. 20, 1992

March 26, 2014

By: Linda Case Gibbons

In The Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Fourteen, a kingdom came into being by the name of Americaland.

Formerly called Amer...

It's Not My Fault, Ma!

March 19th, 2014 10:17 pm

"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.” Brooke Foss Westcott, British Bishop
March 19, 2014
Linda Case Gibbons
          It’s not just the president who looks foolish.
          It’s not just our country that Obama has made to look foolish.
          It’s also the media in the United States. They’ve look...

Don't Settle For Less Than You Deserve

March 12th, 2014 10:10 pm

"With all the power that a president has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the president of the United States can have.” President Richard Nixon

March 12, 2014

By: Linda Case Gibbons

We all like a bargain, but at the very least we like to get our money’s worth.

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