Articles by: Wendy Gittleson
As a child of an artist and a Vietnam war activist, I was born a liberal. Raised half in rural, upstate New York and half in Boulder, Colorado, I have a unique perspective on politics and on life. I now call the San Francisco Bay area home.

FOX News And CNN Take Nosedives In March Ratings

FOX News And CNN Take Nosedives In March Ratings

Fox News has lost a dramatic 17% of its viewers as compared to the same period last year. They’ve lost a whopping 27% of their younger viewers. CNN fared even worse; losing half its audience. MSNBC went up 3% in total viewers but was down 3% in younger viewers, which is pretty much a statistical wash.

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Romney Inadvertently Defends Healthcare Mandate By Saying Sick People Shouldn’t Be Able To Buy Insurance (VIDEO)

Romney Inadvertently Defends Healthcare Mandate By Saying Sick People Shouldn’t Be Able To Buy Insurance (VIDEO)

On NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Mitt Romney said something shockingly cruel and that was that if someone has never had insurance, they don’t deserve coverage for a preexisting condition.

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One Federal Agency Is Recognizing Same Sex Families

One Federal Agency Is Recognizing Same Sex Families

The US Customs and Border Protection agency is proposing some changes. Among them is recognizing domestic partnerships, both same and opposite sex.

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An Unlikely Ally In The Fight For Marriage Equality – Bank Of America (VIDEO)

An Unlikely Ally In The Fight For Marriage Equality – Bank Of America (VIDEO)

North Carolina is attempting to pass a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between a man and a woman. At least one major employer in North Carolina, Bank of America, recognizes that the move may prove to hurt the state.

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Republicans Still Pining For The One That Got Away; Sarah Palin

Republicans Still Pining For The One That Got Away; Sarah Palin

A recent Public Polling Policy poll said that Palin would beat anyone in the GOP field, at least in favorability, if not actual votes.

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George Zimmerman’s Friend Wants You To Feel Pity For The Killer Of Trayvon Martin (VIDEO)

George Zimmerman’s Friend Wants You To Feel Pity For The Killer Of Trayvon Martin (VIDEO)

On ABC’s Good Morning America, George Zimmerman’s PR junket began. Zimmerman is a victim, his friend Joe Oliver said to host George Stephanopoulos. He has ‘lost his life too.’

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Woman Beaten To Death For Being Iraqi And Bill Maher Is Very Wrong On Hate Crimes (VIDEO)

Woman Beaten To Death For Being Iraqi And Bill Maher Is Very Wrong On Hate Crimes (VIDEO)

Despite the emotional name, hate crimes are not about an emotion, they are about terrorism.

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Oklahoma Christian Radio Station General Manager Calls Obama ‘Dumb Ni**er’ (IMAGE)

Oklahoma Christian Radio Station General Manager Calls Obama ‘Dumb Ni**er’ (IMAGE)

A Facebook user named ‘Floyd’ was caught in an unwitting firestorm when he suggested that the President visit a steakhouse. One of his Facebook friends, local Christian radio station General Manager, Teddy Oyler, responded with these words, ‘Obama isn’t that smart he is a dumb ni**er.’

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Geraldo Rivera: The Hoodie Is To Blame For Trayvon’s Death

Geraldo Rivera: The Hoodie Is To Blame For Trayvon’s Death

The propaganda channel has been suspiciously silent in the case of the Trayvon Martin shooting, until, that is, Geraldo Rivera spoke up. In Rivera’s opinion, the hoodie is to blame.

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Fox News Literally Scares Woman To Death (Exclusive Interview With Son)

Fox News Literally Scares Woman To Death (Exclusive Interview With Son)

Fox News taught the woman of courage a new emotion – fear. She feared the President. She feared the Government. She feared healthcare. She feared Muslims. She feared death panels. On February 16, 2012, Hallie Jean Mayes Knauss Culpepper died at 85 years old because Fox News made her fear her doctor.

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Don’t Like Romney’s Positions Now? Don’t Worry, Says Advisor, Cause He’s ‘Almost Like An Etch A Sketch’ (VIDEO)

Don’t Like Romney’s Positions Now? Don’t Worry, Says Advisor, Cause He’s ‘Almost Like An Etch A Sketch’ (VIDEO)

Romney is so acrobatic with his convictions that he’s been known to change them in the very same day.

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The Catholic Church Says Obama Is Encouraging Sterilization Of Women After Church Sterilized Men To Cover Sex Abuses And To ‘Cure The Gay’

The Catholic Church Says Obama Is Encouraging Sterilization Of Women After Church Sterilized Men To Cover Sex Abuses And To ‘Cure The Gay’

First, the Church released a statement that the Obama administration was trying to force them to sterilized women. In the exact same morning as the church made that statement, it was revealed that the Catholic Church systematically castrated young men during the 50s to keep them from revealing sexual abuses and to cure them from being gay.

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New GOP Attack Ad Accuses Dems Of Being Villains In War On Women (VIDEO)

New GOP Attack Ad Accuses Dems Of Being Villains In War On Women (VIDEO)

After being accused of engaging in a war on women, Republicans are doing what they do best, going on the offensive. They released this ad, condemning the Obama for allegedly being disrespectful to women and for accepting a $1 million to the Obama SuperPac from comedian Bill Maher.

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Group Tries To Force Libraries To Pay Royalties For Children’s Reading Hour

Group Tries To Force Libraries To Pay Royalties For Children’s Reading Hour

A group which represents artists of all genre and media was attempting to force libraries to pay for one of the great treasures of literary education, children’s reading hour.

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Santorum’s Porn Obsession – Another Fetish, Or Smart Politics? (VIDEO)

Santorum’s Porn Obsession – Another Fetish, Or Smart Politics? (VIDEO)

Santorum, though, has taken another turn on his bumpy dirt road with nothing but sharp rights. His latest rant is against porn. Indulge me here in saying that in a party that’s shedding women like a snake sheds its skin, this could be the smartest thing he’s done all along.

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Democrat Sherrod Brown Calls Congress Members ‘Niggardly’ (VIDEO)

Democrat Sherrod Brown Calls Congress Members ‘Niggardly’ (VIDEO)

In an appearance on MSNBC’s ‘The Dylan Ratigan Show,’ Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown described some of his congressional colleagues as ‘niggardly.’

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Soldier Allegedly Murdered For Being An Atheist

Soldier Allegedly Murdered For Being An Atheist

The remains of a US Army Specialist Jose Ramirez, missing since 2007, were found early last month near Petrolia, TX. Authorities believe he was killed shortly after he went missing.

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Women Take To Facebook To Fight Back On Transvaginal Probes (IMAGES)

Women Take To Facebook To Fight Back On Transvaginal Probes (IMAGES)

Women are taking over Facebook pages of the lawmakers who support transvaginal probe bills.

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Fox News: There Is Definitely A ‘War On Women Voters’

Fox News: There Is Definitely A ‘War On Women Voters’

When the propaganda arm of the Republican party admits that there is a war on women voters, it’s time to accept that the recent attacks on women’s rights are not coincidental, that they are, in fact, an orchestrated political strategy.

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Home Depot Founder Virulently Anti-Obama – Could Race Be To Blame?

Home Depot Founder Virulently Anti-Obama – Could Race Be To Blame?

If billionaire Home Depot mogul, Ken Langone has his way, there will be a new face in the White House come January. That face, he hopes, will belong to fellow mogul, Mitt Romney.

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