by Carol Baker | *The Opinionated Bitch ~ Carol Baker, Columnist
The Opinionated Bitch – One Vote Like most citizens, I’ve suffered through the endless political attack ads assaulting the airwaves and my senses. The money spent on those ads has done nothing to sway my opinion on a single race or a single issue but then, those ads...
by Carol Baker | *The Opinionated Bitch ~ Carol Baker, Columnist, Government & Politics, Health, Op-Ed
Doctor, I Think I Have Tennis Ebola Okay, I’ve resorted to dark humor to get your attention. It’s time for me to sit you down and have the ‘Ebola Talk’. Now that a man lied on travel papers to get into the United States after having been exposed to the virus, the...
by Carol Baker | *The Opinionated Bitch ~ Carol Baker, Columnist
Especially When it Rains Today a mother buried her teenage son in suburban St. Louis – after three autopsies, a city rocked with anger and protests and a country faced with its own deeply divided past and present. She has waited for 16 long and agonizing days to...
by Carol Baker | *The Opinionated Bitch ~ Carol Baker, Columnist, Government & Politics, Justice & Help
From Mississippi Burning to Missouri Burning Author’s note: This story is breaking from minute to minute. What I started out to write is turning into something completely different. I apologize if this seems somewhat rambling. It was just four short months ago that...
by Carol Baker | *The Opinionated Bitch ~ Carol Baker, Columnist, Government & Politics, Op-Ed
The Swiftboating of An American Prisoner of War In 2004, Secretary of State John Kerry was a candidate for President of the United States. A group calling themselves Swift Vets and POWs for Truth waged a now discredited vicious campaign against then candidate Kerry to...