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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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Rachael, I could not agree more. Hillary Clinton is far too smart a cookie (oops, is that sexist?) for me to believe her comments were but a sad, sad slip of the tongue. She knew exactly which signal flag she was waving toward the hills of West Virginia. Read More...
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Remember how Hillary said last week that Obama's support was weakening among "working, hardworking Americans, white Americans?" Not smart, some of us at Slate thought . Clinton may not have intended to , but her remark tiptoed up to the line of suggesting Read More...
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Over on "Convictions," Richard Ford elaborates on our objections to McCain's opposition to the Equal Pay Bill. Here's the full post . He concludes: I have to say it’s hard for me to believe that anyone who is really committed to equal pay would oppose Read More...
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I've got more to complain about: Last night, Senate Republicans killed the Equal Pay Bill, which would have undone the Supreme Court's bad deed in a case last term called Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co . Lily Ledbetter sued Goodyear for sex Read More...
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Ann, your smart post tees me up to protest one particular pander: the candidates' unwillingess to speak the scientific truth that there is no evidence of a link between mercury in vaccines and autism. McCain is the worst on this. From the Washington Post Read More...
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Speaking of Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary, at our family seder in Philadelphia over the weekend, my mother pointed out that just as 40 years elapsed before the Israelites made it to the Promised Land, so 40 years have passed since the assassination of Read More...
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A guest post from Barbara Ehrenreich : I spent an hour yesterday trying to persuade Tom Frank, author of What's the Mater with Kansas? and the apparent intellectual source of Obama's remark on white working class "bitterness," to weigh in with an op-ed Read More...
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I realize this isn't up there with Tuzla and utter delusion , but am I picking on Hillary to bring up this self-pitying joke she made, at a town hall meeting in Missoula, Mont., about her looks and her hair? From CNN's political blog , "And that is another Read More...
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As we look to November, surely we can agree that the last thing we need in the Oval Office is another escapee from the reality-based community . The various misstatements each of the presidential candidates has made lately are instructive and ought not Read More...
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