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  • What Tea Party Republican Fundagelicals Really Want

    What Tea Party Republican Fundagelicals Really Want

    Tom Hall: The Tea Party Republican Fundagelical program wants to return America to pre-Gutenburg days – when few, even among the nobility could read, or had anything to read. To a time when people were told, by their religious leaders, what the “truth” was, and how to behave.

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  • Michigan Pushes Plan to Welcome Immigrants and their Revitalizing Power

    Michigan Pushes Plan to Welcome Immigrants and their Revitalizing Power

    Seth Hoy: Welcoming Michigan brings together community, city and business leaders, clergy, and charitable organizations to raise the level of discourse around immigration.

     Michigan Pushes Plan to Welcome Immigrants and their Revitalizing Power
  • A New Conversation about Public Spending Needed

    A New Conversation about Public Spending Needed

    Tanya Acker: People who can't read, however, are very easy to divide and even easier to command. No demagoguery can save us from that.

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  • What the Walmart Whistleblower Said

    What the Walmart Whistleblower Said

    Bobbi Murray: Walmart de Mexico (called “Walmex”—no kidding) was alleged to have spread around $24 million or so in bribes to make sure Walmart’s presence there expanded at a rate that eclipsed the competition.

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  • Mario Solis-Marich on KTLK Monday 9 a.m. to Noon

    Mario Solis-Marich on KTLK Monday 9 a.m. to Noon

    Mario Solis-Marich guest hosting on KTLK 1150 Monday morning, 9 a.m. to noon. He'll have Dick & Sharon on during the10:00 hour

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  • A Changing Culture at the LAPD

    A Changing Culture at the LAPD

    Dick Price & Sharon Kyle: Officer Sandra Moura credits the Department's leadership -- from Chief Beck on down -- with instilling and enforcing a more community-oriented policing approach.

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  • Help Working Mothers: Motherhood on a Wire

    Help Working Mothers: Motherhood on a Wire

    Vivan Rothstein: As a result of the intense conservative politicking around motherhood and its related issues, our country is far behind others in actually supporting moms.

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  • Executed Man Innocent: It Could Have Been Me

    Executed Man Innocent: It Could Have Been Me

    Franky Carrillo: I was wrongfully convicted when I was 16 years old and served 20 years in prison before proving my innocence. That mistake took two decades from me; but it took Carlos De Luna’s life.

    carlos de luna 150x150 Executed Man Innocent: It Could Have Been Me
  • Romney: Gay Bashing 101

    Romney: Gay Bashing 101

    Tom Degan: Is Mitt Romney a gay-bashing homophobe? Probably not. The conclusion I've drawn is that the man is a sociopath.

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Climate-Change Denier Group Feels the Heat

Steven Mikulan: As much as Heartland may wish to deny certain fundamentals of science, there are signs that its gonzo billboard ads have created a classic cause and effect backlash among some supporters.

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How Did TV Remember the ’92 L.A. Riots?

Jill Edy: In the immediate aftermath of the 1992 riots, a struggle broke out over naming them. Some called them the “Rodney King riots,” but others objected that this term suggested King was responsible for what had happened.

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Right-Wing Propaganda: False Equivalents

Steve Hochstadt: These two conservative propagandists know that the average reader, especially those who want to believe conservative ideas, won’t or can’t follow the trail backwards from their misleading writings to the real facts. They don’t seek truth, they obscure it.

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Immigration

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Michigan Pushes Plan to Welcome Immigrants and their Revitalizing Power

Seth Hoy: Welcoming Michigan brings together community, city and business leaders, clergy, and charitable organizations to raise the level of discourse around immigration.

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Resisting Alabama’s Anti-Immigrant Legislation

Jim Rhodes: As opposition to these insane laws began to grow, thanks to students and the Occupy movement, attacks on the laws begin to intensify.

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Mario Solis-Marich on KTLK Monday 9 a.m. to Noon

Mario Solis-Marich guest hosting on KTLK 1150 Monday morning, 9 a.m. to noon. He’ll have Dick & Sharon at 10 a.m.

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Urban Issues Breakfast Forum: 20 Years after the ’92 LA Riots – Friday May 25th

What Has Changed, What Needs to Change — with Rodney King, Connie Rice, Rev. Chip Murray and others. Friday, 25 May, 7:30 a.m., California African American Museum.

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Forum: Getting Money Out of Politics – Tuesday, July 10th

ACLU-SC Pasadena/Foothiils Chapter forum on Getting Money Out of Politics, with Mary Beth Fiedler of Move to Amend LA and Stephen Rohde, ACLU Southern California board member — Tuesday, July 10, 7 p.m., Pasadena

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Education

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Preparing All Los Angeles High School Students for California’s Public Universities

Maria Brenes: Before the A-G Resolution, only one out of 12 students who graduated from Eastside high school had completed the A-G courses, preparing them for California’s public universities.

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Save Our Schools and Vietnam War Protests

Mark Naison: Within three or four years, revolt against testing and privatization may well cripple many school systems.

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The New Jim Crow

LGBTQIA

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Black Ministers Follow Obama on Same-Sex Marriage Stance

Rev. Irene Monroe: For African-American ministers, the liability of Obama losing his 2012 re-election bid is far greater than being publicly outed for not being in lockstep with their homophobic brethren.

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Opposition to Gay Marriage: The Republican Love Affair with the Past

Tina Dupuy: The current crop of Republicans are less into Jesus (who didn’t like rich people or capital punishment) than they are into 1st Century values like stoning misfits in the public square.

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Same-Sex Marriage Ban: Bigotry Isn’t Only a Southern Brew

Sheria Reid: Thirty-one states have amended their constitutions to declare that marriage is between a man and a woman. Unless the South has cloned itself, this problem extends way beyond the South.

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Women

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Help Working Mothers: Motherhood on a Wire

Vivan Rothstein: As a result of the intense conservative politicking around motherhood and its related issues, our country is far behind others in actually supporting moms.

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Dems’ War FOR Women

Brent Budowsky: Word on the street is Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Democrats will launch a major battle supporting pay equity for the women of America that could be a defining moment in the 2012 campaign.

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Fantasies of Male Chivalry Ignore the History of Women in Wartime

Heather Marie Stur: The debate over women in combat is about gender roles — what is appropriate for men and women to do in wartime. It is also about symbolism — what the American soldier symbolizes about U.S. power and military strength.

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Veterans

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Elderly Veteran Shot: Is This How We Support Our Troops?

Bruce Reilly: After 68-year-old Marine Kenneth Chamberlain told police he was alright, over the course of 15 minutes, they finally broke in his door and killed him immediately.

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Naturally, “Motor City Madman” Ted Nugent Dodged the Draft

Berry Craig: Nugent is more proof, as if proof were needed, that talk is about the cheapest commodity around. And tough talk from a foul-mouthed old draft dodger is not just cheap, it’s worthless.

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Veterans: The War After The War

Dick Price: Veterans who gathered last week in San Diego were eager to find out what California’s political leaders might do about the alarming rates of homelessness, unemployment, suicide, and disability among the state’s veterans.

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