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Carrie commented on the blog post Maine Senator Olympia Snowe won’t seek reelection 1 year, 2 months ago · View
It’s even more mind-boggling to think about the percentage of women in the US government from an international perspective. This table of data gathered by the Inter-Parliamentary Union in 2011 ranks the US 78th in the world for women’s representation in national government. In other words, the “developed” United States has greater gender disparity in its [...]
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Carrie commented on the blog post What we missed 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Another news story that seems to have (re)surfaced recently concerns a speech Rick Santorum made in 2008 about Satan’s war on American culture. You can listen to an excerpt from the speech at MSNBC (http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/22/10478701-devil-in-the-details-santorum-hardly-alone-in-belief-in-satan), and read an analysis at Mother Jones (http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/does-santorum-believe-obama-part-satanic-plot) — though I’m sure there are many other analyses available.
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