America Just Grew Up A Little More
Region: United StatesMy Facebook friend worried: "how will it affect my family when I'm working part time and just getting by? Am I on my own? I don't want to hear the usual empty blathering. What will in mean in plain English?" Who wouldn't w... more
Views: 1402Just Another Joe Wilson to Love
Region: United StatesI love Joe Wilson. Again! Which sets me up here and now to make sure a critical distinction is made. Joe Wilson is not Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador whom I really do love for the devotion and fiery outrage h... more
Views: 2013What Still Ails America
Region: United States9/09/09 What Still Ails America By Mary Lyon Okay, full disclosure, up top. Liberal here. Progressive. Especially about the mushrooming health care crisis in this country. I like the idea of a public option. I disl... more
Views: 1903To This Partisan Irish Catholic, More Change We Can Believe In
Region: United StatesTo This Partisan Irish Catholic, More Change We Can Believe In By Mary Lyon Watching the pageantry accompanying the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy was striking, touching something way deeper in my heart than I ex... more
Views: 1083Freedom Isn't Free - We Still Aren't Free of Sarah Palin
Region: United States7 4 09 Freedom Isn’t Free – We Still Aren’t Free of Sarah Palin By Mary Lyon Happy Independence Day, on the eve of which we’ve been reminded that we are FAR from declaring our national indepe... more
Views: 1246The Meaning of the Spector Switch
Region: United States4 28 09 The Meaning of the Spector Switch By Mary Lyon Arlen Spector?!?!?! The first time I blurted that out was during an industry screening of Oliver Stone’s “JFK”, in which his name came up i... more
Views: 1250Op-Ed: Reason Returns to the White House
Region: United StatesLike it or not, knuckle-draggers: Science is back IN. As a life-long Catholic, I couldn’t be more delighted. I’m sure the airwaves and the cable channels will soon be wall-to-wall with conservatives and Rep... more
Views: 1163A Tale of Two Speeches: Obama and Jindal
Region: United States
Feels like it’s still the best of times and the worst of times. If the night of President Obama’s first major speech to a joint session of Congress proved anything, it confirmed that America chose the better of... more
Views: 1290Three Little Words: I Screwed Up
Region: United States“I screwed up.” Sounds like a simple, ordinary, and harmless little thing to admit, unless of course you’re the President of the United States. We haven’t heard the likes of this in at least eig... more
Views: 1314So What Do I Do Now?
Region: United StatesThis is a heckuva hangover. More than just the sun dawned on me on the morning after Obama Day. I realized as I woke up following the Inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States that I’m n... more
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