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Paramus Post (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Connie Schultz A special kind of anguish claws at us when someone we love is also someone who is racist. It's one thing for a stranger to post a racial slur on a blog or forward a hateful e-mail. The vigilantes who used to hide under white hoods and sheets now cower behind the anonymity of the Internet. They are vile and they are vocal, but they are also easy to dismiss because all we...
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Liberal Common Sense (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Which brings me to those Clinton supporters who now insist they cannot, and will not, support Obama. They claim they will either vote for John McCain or stay home on Election Day. That sounds like disappointment devolving into hypocrisy. We either stand for change, or we don't. We believe in participating in democracy, or we don't. It's one thing to vote for McCain because you trust his road map for...
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Paramus Post (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Connie Schultz Like it or not -- and most of us lean toward (SET ITAL) not (END ITAL) -- the majority of American restaurants rely on their customers to subsidize servers' wages. We call this subsidy a tip. By federal law, restaurants are allowed to pay servers as little as $2.13 an hour. Our tips are supposed to bring them up to at least minimum wage. Last year, Congress raised the...
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Paramus Post (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Connie Schultz Oh, if only. If only I'd known The New Yorker would run a cover depicting Barack Obama as a winking, tunic-garbed Muslim and his wife, Michelle, as an Afro-wearing, AK-47-toting terrorist. If only I'd known that Barry Blitt's cartoon would show the Obamas fist bumping in an Oval Office where a portrait of Osama bin Laden hangs over the mantel. If only I'd known that Editor...
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The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Connie Schultz What does Barack Obama have to say to working-class women? Plenty. But he's got to prove he's willing to listen to their concerns.
