Leave Lindsey Alone!

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The Morning Edit

It’s terrible when you have to defend people whom you neither like or care for; people that you might not give one iota for or against until they come under scrutiny for something that just can’t stand. Enter Lindsey Lohan and Michael Steele, the strangest of bedfellows.

First, there’s Lohan. Not since Brittney went [...]

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Joe Biden Wants You To Be An Editorialist

Karel –

Two weeks after it was signed into law, health insurance reform is still the talk of the town.

It’s for a good reason: This was a historic accomplishment. But it wasn’t easy. I remember what it’s like to be a senator and take a tough stand on an issue — confident that it’s the best thing [...]

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Dear President Obama

Dear Mr. President:

Greetings. I would like to speak to you today about your permeating theme of bipartisanship, particularly in regards to healthcare, but also on a  broader scale and also the populist anger that many keep referring to in the country today; you see, they both are related.

Like you, I talk to many people for a [...]

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Mr. Cooper, Bigotry Lives On

The lead defense attorney in the Prop8 case, Charles Cooper, the lawyer that actually knows that this violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution but still defends inequality, has asked the judge in the case to destroy the video tapes of the proceedings so far. The U.S. Supreme, signaling how they will vote when [...]

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It’s Only Terrorism If We Are Terrorized

It’s Only Terror if it Terrorizes
by Charles Karel Bouley

By Charles Karel Bouley
for the HuffingtonPost

On Christmas Day, 2009, a man boarded a plane with the intent of bringing it down or causing serious damage. His plot didn’t go to plan, foiled by the brave men and women who sent the message to him, and to every other [...]

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In Afghanistan, the Way Forward is the Way Home

The Only Way Forward is the Way Home
by Charles Karel Bouley

December 1, 2009, World AIDS Day, President Barack Obama came forward in front of shiny new cadets at Westpoint to make his case for not only the continued war in Afghanistan but for an escalation, a surge. The speech was to be decisive, it was to [...]

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A City, A Nation, A Government of Bystanders

How could any American, any human, stand by as another is brutally raped? How could other Americans join in, jeer, take photos and videos with their cell phones as a 15 year old girl has man after man crawl on top of her drunken body, as she’s held down to a bench in an alley, just [...]

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L.A. District Attorney to Snub Obama Pot Policy?

L.A. District Attorney Disobeying Obama?

By Charles Karel Bouley

In an effort to clear the haze around the murky medical marijuana situation in the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, October 19, 2009 issued what many are hailing as a huge loosening of the ropes on the 14 states with medical marijuana clinics.

Deputy Attorney General David [...]

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Spare Me the Marches and Speeches, Please

Tired of Campaigning

Time for Action

By Charles Karel Bouley

Monday, October 12, 2009, and not one thing on this wintery morning has changed for one gay person in America in terms of equality. In fact, in some states in the country, it continues, without impediment, to get worse. Maine legalized same sex marriage, and now a fierce ballot [...]

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Lack of Outrage Outrageous

An animal kills 270 people on a plane and he gets released on compassionate grounds, when it is clear he showed none to his victims or their families and is undeserving of any himself. [...]

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