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What Do You Do to Mark the Importance of Memorial Day?

5/25/12 12:15pm by Jane Collins
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Zuma Press: Flags at Arlington, Pete Marovich

The last Monday of May is Memorial Day, a federal holiday created after the Civil War to commemorate fallen Union solidiers. When I was growing up, I was in the school marching band. Memorial Day often included a long, hot, two-mile slog down Main Street and over to the Memorial Park cemetery to honor the departed soldiers from our town. In the northeast, that included military heroes all the way back to the Revolutionary War.  Read more >

Suspect in Jail in Etan Patz Case 33 Years After His Disappearance

5/25/12 8:08am by JennaHatfield
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Etan Patz (© Bryan Smith/ZUMAPRESS.com)

Today is National Missing Child's Day. It's also the 33-year anniversary of the day Etan Patz went missing as he walked to school by himself for the first time. This May 25 dawns differently than in years past, because a suspect is now in custody for the disappearance and murder of Etan Patz, having confessed to the horrific crime that changed how we dealt with missing children in the United States. Pedro Hernandez is now in custody, awaiting arraignment this morning.  Read more >

Mrs. "Julia" to Romney's Rescue

5/24/12 4:32pm by @erica_holloway
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Brides

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country." -- Margaret Thatcher Ms. Thatcher knew her game well. Women gave the American political theater one heck of a thrashing over the last year. We've even managed to get the presidential candidates down on bended knees begging for our votes. You've got to hand it to the candidates -- they try hard. Lately, it's Gov. Mitt Romney who's making the inroads.  Read more >

How the Internet and Teen Bloggers Are Shaping the Women's Movement for the Better

5/22/12 12:00am by Mona Gable
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Teenage girls

[Editor’s note: Some of us older feminists--ok me--sometimes find this whole social media world foreign and even impersonal. But one of my favorite blogs is the Fbomb founded by teen Julie Zeilinger. Not only has it become a thriving space for young feminist bloggers, but it has also changed how feminists are organizing and finding each other.  Read more

Is Former CNN Anchor Campbell Brown Biased Against Obama Because of Her Husband?

5/21/12 12:00am by Mona Gable
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Campbell Brown and her husband Dan Senor

[Editor's note: Former CNN anchor Campbell Brown took to the New York Times yesterday to critique President Obama’s speech last week to the women graduates of Barnard. In Brown’s view, the president was pandering and should have focused more on the awful economy and the fact that most of them are not even going to get jobs. Instead, he was so “condescending” and “grating”!  Read more

Facebook Goes Public to the Tune of $104 Billion

5/18/12 10:30am by lauriewrites
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Facebook IPO (Credit Image: © Shen Hong/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)

The social sharing network that Mark Zuckerberg launched in a dorm room graduated big-time today, to the tune of a $104 billion public offering on Wall Street, making it the third largest IPO in history, and biggest ever for a tech company.  Read more >

Did GM Pop the Facebook Bubble?

5/17/12 12:45pm by Liz Peek - Fox News
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Facebook IPO (Credit Image: © Imago/ZUMAPRESS.com)

Did GM just pop the Facebook bubble? Though the announcement that the auto giant will pull its paid advertising from Facebook is unlikely to seriously undermine the latter’s upcoming IPO, it surely will cast a shadow over the much-hyped event.  Read more >

White Babies No Longer Majority: Why Are Schools Not More Diverse?

5/17/12 9:34am by Rita Arens
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Elementary School Kids

This week the Washington Post noted for the first time in American history, white babies are no longer the majority born in the United States.  Read more >

Is Obama Pandering to Women Voters?

5/16/12 6:15pm by Mona Gable
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President Obama on The View

In case you hadn't heard the shocking news, Obama went on ABC’s The View earlier this week and gabbed about JP Morgan, gay marriage, and Kim Kardashian -- though not necessarily in that order. He also announced that he is going to win the election in November.  Read more >

I Remember Being Held Down By a Gang. Why Can't Romney Remember?

5/15/12 9:49am by Erin Kotecki Vest
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upset boy against wall

[Editor's Note: Recent allegations that Mitt Romney and his gang of friends bullied a gay classmate by pinning him down and chopping off his hair have sparked memories of being bullied for BlogHer Erin Kotecki Vest. While Erin acknowledges that most people are not the same as they were during their high school days, she finds it troubling if Romney truly cannot remember that incident.  Read more