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The Great Hip-Hop Debate: 10 Policy Tackling Rap Videos

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 11.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Eminem, Jay-Z, Presidential Debates, Family Values, Hip-Hop, Music, 2008 Election, Rap Music, Entertainment News

In celebration of the third and final Presidential Debate, URB.com put together the 10 best rap songs where candidates truly debate the issues. Most of these nominees just happen to rap.

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A Contrast Of Small-Town Mayors: Sarah & Mary

Mary Kinnunen | Posted 11.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Alaska, John McCain, Small-Town Mayors, Presidential Politics, Wisconsin, Family Values, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Home News

MI offer this essay from the perspective of someone who's walked in Mayor Sarah's snowshoes. Also, I wanted to see how I might stack-up as a VP candidate. I was Hillary's Oneida County Chairperson after all.

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"Mommy Trap" Author: Supporting Families Not A Priority For McCain

Paula B. Mays | Posted 11.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Women, John McCain, Family Values, Working Fathers, Working Mothers, Working Women, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Home News

This issue of working families with children is always a contentious one in this country. As the number of working and highly educated women has dra...

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Values? Yours, Mine, and Theirs

Jessica Catto | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Obama, Mccain, Economy, Palin, Family Values, Politics News

Senator McCain put on his Superman suit and flew to Washington in his red cloak to save the country from devastation. Trouble was, the legislation had already been mostly hammered out.

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The Divided States of America: One Nation Under Two Gods

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

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These diametrically opposed, partisan visions of America can never be reconciled because both parties feel that they are fundamentally saving the other party from itself.

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Is Sarah Palin Working Mother of the Year?

Joan Williams | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Working Women, Joe Biden, Working Mothers, Family Values, Sarah Palin, Working Moms, Bristol Palin Pregnancy, Sarah Palin Reaction, Bristol Palin, Politics News

Consider the other choice. If you turned down the Big Chance to get family matters on track, and then had to find another political opening later -- same question.

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Sarah Palin: Not My Role Model

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Michelle Obama, John McCain, Jacqueline Kennedy, Joe Biden, Parenting, Feminism, Sarah Palin, Family Values, Politics News

Her decision to accept John McCain's offer of the Vice-Presidency, competing with and potentially precluding her commitments to her children, are at odds with my sensibilities.

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Unwed Mothers For McCain/Palin

Art Brodsky | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Family Values, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Family Values, Politics News

Just out of curiosity, is there anyone out there who thinks that it's irresponsible for a 17-year-old kid to knock up his girlfriend, and that there shouldn't be a public spectacle of approval when it happens?

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Levi Johnston Is a F---in' Redneck Genius

Disgrasian | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

McCAIN: So, is this the Impregnator? LEVI: Impregnawhat? I'm just a fuckin' redneck. Dude, how old are you again? Like, 126 years old? You...

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Abortion: Surrogate for Unspoken Issues

Michele Swenson | Posted 10.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Abortion, Family Values, Pro-Life, John McCain, Pro-Choice, Barack Obama, Conscience Clause, Home News

Issues encompassing welfare, contraception, abortion and sex education remain at the nexus of an ideological agenda that marginalizes and imputes inferiority and sexual sin to women and minorities, while protecting male power and prerogatives of behavior.

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Round Up: Sarah Palin

Off The Bus | Posted 10.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Pregnancy, John McCain, Experience, Family Values, McCain Palin, Sarah Palin Reaction, Sarah Palin, Home News

The choice of Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate has got everyone talking. Check out what OffTheBus readers and commentators have to say.

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Palin Family Values

Richard Silverstein | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Christian Evangelicals, Bristol Palin Pregnancy, Family Values, Sarah Palin, Christianity, Palin Family Values, John McCain, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News

The real issue here is the betrayal of Palin's own religious values that such a pregnancy represents.

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"Mom" For Vice President!

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 09.29.2008 | Home

Read More: Family Values, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Palin Mccain, Palin Family Values, Home News

Watching Sarah Palin accept the Republican nomination for vice president, all I could think was that I am so grateful my mother did not run for president or VP while I was a baby.

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Family Values

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Michelle Obama, Election 2008, Family Values, John Mccain's Policies, Politics News

Hypocrisy, the tribute that vice pays to virtue, is a bipartisan Washington ritual. So politicians like McCain often espouse the family values that they flout in practice.

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The Parenting Card

Carrie Tuhy | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Glass Ceiling, Barack Obama, Racism and Ageism, Family Values, Sexism, Home News

All I could think of when I watched this picture postcard-perfect moment from Hawaii was: Who packed the suitcases for the trip? Who did the laundry before they left? Who made sure they had sunscreen?

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The Passengers Gossip as the Ship Sinks: An Open Letter

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: White House, High Crimes, GOP Talking Points, Karl Rove, Anthrax, Family Values, John Edwards, Iraq War, Iran War Propaganda, Ethics, Corruption, Gutter Journalism, Dick Cheney, Politics News

A nation sinking cannot afford to play gotcha with something as unimportant as a vanilla sexual affair of a man not in any office of power and whose reputation is otherwise entirely solid.

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Women's Equality ... Why Not Now?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, National Organization for Women, Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Motherhood, Family and Medical Leave Act, Pat Schroeder, Women and Work, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Ron Dellums, Gloucester High School Pregnancy, Family Values, Lisa Witter, Women's Health, Women and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Women of Color Policy Network, Politics News

Firecrackers and picnics aside, Abigail Adams didn't get to sign the Declaration of Independence, Betsy Ross sewed the flag, and how many people even know who Deborah Samson Gannett was?

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Peaceful Revolution: McCain a Clear and Present Danger to Families

Robert Drago and Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, John McCain 2008, Family Values, Mccain, Children's Health Insurance, Health Insurance, John McCain Health Care Plan, Mccain Healthcare, Health Care, Politics News

McCain's voting record on family issues speaks clearly and in a single voice: he does not value family in any meaningful sense of the word.

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Better Fathers: Courtesy of the Sexual Revolution

Cristina Page | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Family Man, Sex, Fathers, Contraception, Religious Right, Pro-Choice, Father's Day, Women's Liberation, Family Values, Politics News

Little attention has been paid to the impact that women's liberation has had on men -- Gen X dads spend significantly more time with their children than baby-boomer fathers.

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McCain The Cad: A Study in Republican Hypocrisy and Why Obama Will (or Should) Win the Family Values Vote

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: A New Level of Hypocrisy, Family Values, Cindy McCain, McCain's Divorce, Carol Mccain, Evangelicals, Francis Schaeffer, Rove, Bush, Politics News

Evangelicals will have to reach a new level of hypocrisy to support McCain. The military code states you never leave a comrade behind -- but that's exactly what he did to his wounded and disfigured wife.

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John McCain and Barack Obama -- America's First Campaign Where Divorce May Be a Good Experience for Leadership Skills

Jill Brooke | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Stepchildren, John McCain Family, Rudy Giuliani Wife, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Stepfamily, Divorce, Family Values, Giuliani Family Values, 2008 Election, Barack Obama Family, Barack Obama, Family, Politics News

Being in a divorced household is like living in two countries, with two different sets of traditions, rules and expectations. Brokering peace becomes a necessity. And some do it better than others.

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Sex Workers Say They Get More Business From GOP Conventions

Rocky Mountain News | Daniel Chacon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Convention, Prostitution, Republican Primary, Democratic Primary, Republians Prostitutes, Family Values, Republican National Convention, Politics News

Political tricks may not be the only ones turned during the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August. The sex and adult entertainment ind...

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