Female Role Models in Politics?
Politics has been a male dominated field where women seem to be left in the shadows. How many of us can use a female politician as a guide to become successful? It seems just yesterday we were presented with women like Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin,...
INJUSTICE!!! MJ’s Dr. Murray Unjustly found Guilty
Are we a people who have become a lynch mob?. I am disturbed by the verdict of Dr. Murray. I feel that Dr. Murray made nothing more than a bad judgment call, which we have all done. I am 100% percent certain that Dr. Murray was doing what he thought was best in his...
After 3 Decades, My Secret Told: Surviving a Different Kind of Abuse and Rescue
After 3 Decades, My Secret Told: Surviving a Different Kind of Abuse and Rescue I’m a woman in my late 40s with a secret. I've never before told this secret. Lately, and because of a rescue I heard about on HereWomenTalk.com last year, I've felt the need to purge...
This Week on BROADSIDED – Current Events and Why ‘Homophobic Church’ is an Oxymoron
In today's contentious political climate, we hear so little about jobs and so much about the 'problems' homosexuals are wreaking on American society. Of course, most of that rhetoric is coming from the Evangelical Christian Right who use the scriptures, designed to...
A Place in History for the Gay Community
(Should Gay History be included in the California School Curriculum and Textbooks?) Preface: G- Genovese, Catherine Susan (Kitty) (July 7, 1935-March 13, 1964), was a New York City woman who was stabbed to death near her home in the Kew Gardens section of Queens, New...
My open letter to Occupy Wall Street
In gentle way, you can shake the world. Fortune cookie The night I got this fortune, my cookie came without one. Since the husband does not put much stock in these messages, I grabbed the above fortune and made it my own. So now I want to share it because I think...
This week on BROADSIDED – “Gunfight”
Several high-profile cases have revived and reshaped the debate over Americans’ right to bear arms. Most recently, the Supreme Court in 2008’s District of Columbia v. Heller struck down a law banning handguns in the nation’s capitol. But the battle has been going on...
Lost Children of Greed
*Personal Note and Warning* What you're about to read may infuriate you as all of the information I have received concerning this has made my blood boil! Sometimes it's a little hard to write about things such as this without placing my own feelings in it and...
Are You This Brave? Saudi Women Defy Driving Ban
For those of us in the west, it's hard to imagine a country where women can be flogged simply for driving. Yet last month Shaima Jastaina, a Saudi woman, was sentenced to ten lashes with a whip for defying the kingdom's ban on women driving. Fortunately, King Abdullah...
