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Entries by Tina Dupuy from 06/2010

...While the Oil Gushes

| Posted 06.01.2010 | Green
Read More: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, BP Oil Spill, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Gulf Oil Spill, Drill Baby Drill, Charlie Melancon, Green News

The term "deep water" usually means you're in trouble and "horizon" is what lies ahead. So the ill-fated drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, is aptly named. Doom has arrived on our shores and our prospects are tacky with tar balls.

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California GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Was the Highest Bidder

| Posted 06.09.2010 | Los Angeles
Read More: Steve Poizner, Meg Whitman, California, GOP Governors, Jerry Brown, California Primary, California Election, June 8 Primary Elections 2010, Los Angeles News

The reason why we give our elected officials a salary is so they don't have to have a fortune to hold office. California's 2010 primary was a vanity project for the ridiculously wealthy.

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Feminism in the Wake of 'Ladies' Night' Is...Complicated

| Posted 06.15.2010 | Politics
Read More: Gop, Meg Whitman, Republican Primaries, Reproductive Rights, Roe vs Wade, Sharron Angle, Anti-Abortion, Carly Fiorina, Gloria Feldt, Pro-Choice, Nikki Haley, Republicans, Politics News

Being a feminist and being against reproductive freedoms means you are not a feminist. You can say you're a Mets fan, but if you only want the Yankees to win -- you're not a Mets fan.

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Exploit This Tragedy

| Posted 06.22.2010 | Politics
Read More: Obama Environment, Jan Brewer, Gop, Immigration, Arizona, Energy Policy, Bp Spill, 109th Congress, Republicans, Politics News

The "don't exploit this tragedy" knee-jerk catch-all phrase is meaningless. In American politics, we rule by crisis. There is no political will to act unless something is burning, melting or spewing.

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Look at Our Yellow Ribbons

| Posted 06.29.2010 | Politics
Read More: Rolling Stone, Yellow Ribbons, General Mcchrystal, General Petraeus, Afghanistan, War, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Edith Shain was 91 years old when she died peacefully last week in her home in Los Angeles. You knew her as the woman in the iconic black and white ph...

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