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Jill Miller Zimon at 5:08pm Sun, 17 Jan 2010 under
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Martha Coakley,
scott brown; 402 views
Yes, I would vote for her if I was eligible to vote in Massachusetts. And yes, I do expect she will win. I could be wrong - wouldn't be the first time (I wanted Joe Biden in the 2008 primary), but that's my prediction. Regular readers can guess why: I'm a reliable left of center voter except on a few issues (I vote against casinos and am very independent when Israel is involved, rarely going into the move all Israelis to Siberia territory but also reliably against settlement expansion).
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Jill Miller Zimon at 8:33pm Fri, 8 Jan 2010 under
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girls,
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International Conference on Population and Development,
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women and girls,
global issues; 1102 views
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech today to commemorate the 15th Anniversary of the first International Conference on Population and Development. That gathering included a total of thousands of delegates from 179 countries.
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Jill Miller Zimon at 9:20am Thu, 24 Dec 2009 under
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health care,
health care reform,
women,
gender,
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Stupak amendment,
Ben Nelson; 1084 views
Vice President Joe Biden led the Senate this morning while his colleagues voted from their seats in favor of Senate Bill 3590 (aka "Senate Health Care Bill" aka "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"). The vote was 60-39 along party lines, as expected.
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If there was a high school yearbook category Person Most Likely to Stand in Front of a Tank To Stop It, I'd be the winner hands down.And yet, there's no way I would support a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan post-haste. This blog entry, A Commitment Strategy to Afghanistan, by Lorelei Kelly offers a great explanation but here's the crux for me (I recommend reading the whole column though):
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Jill Miller Zimon at 12:23pm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 under
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health care,
health care reform,
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abortion,
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Stupak amendment; 730 views
So long as Democrats and health care reform proponents allow themselves to be pushed into exhorting about the false choice between health care reform and access to this legal medical procedure aka abortion, real reform is in peril.
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