Mojo Mom's blog

Sarah Palin sure knows how to deliver a speech, but are we willing to look at the content embedded in her rousing delivery?

Palin may be no Dick Cheney in that she's less likely to be a behind-the-scenes puppetmaster than he has been for the past eight years, but Palin does pull McCain toward the dark side in several ways.

Now that John Edwards has confessed his affair, the blogosphere has stopped talking about why the mainstream media wasn't covering the allegations, and started talking about whether and how it matters.

It matters to me, and here's why. [Cross-posted at my Mojo Mom blog]

Frontpaged by James.

On the day that Barack Obama gave his speech about racial challenges and reconciliation, 10,000 people gathered for Eve Carson's memorial service in the Dean Dome. Outside, a handful of picketers traveled from Kansas to spew messages of hate. Can we as a nation overcome division and hatred?

[Cross-posted from my Mojo Mom blog]

I am a Democrat, a big John Edwards fan, but I see good things in Obama and Clinton as well. I have been very frustrated by the mainstream media forcing storylines on an election that is just starting to unfold. The best analysis I have seen of the insistence on "horse race" coverage is "Why Campaign Coverage Sucks" by Jay Rosen, originally reported on TomDispatch.com, and reposted to Salon.com.

Immigration is one of those topics that conjures such complicated thoughts that the blog post never gets written. I am going to try to avoid that fate by writing a quick post, accepting the fact that I am just scratching the surface.

I recently wrote about the Brazilian mother who was jailed in Charlotte, separated from her nursing baby and denied the opportunity to pump milk, on MomsRising.org.

This incident woke me up and I hope I stay alert to what is going on in our very own state.

On CNN.com this morning, the story "Germany: Massive Terror Attacks Foiled" briefly held the main headline spot. Much to my dismay, this attention-getting spot was quickly taken over by "'She-Male' leads prisoners in dance."