by Carol Baker | *The Opinionated Bitch ~ Carol Baker, Columnist, Government & Politics
Jesus is Not On Trial Aside from pointing and laughing on social media, I’ve remained largely silent on the subject of Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk who has turned herself into a media whore celebrity by discriminating against same-sex marriage and going...
by Carol Baker | *The Opinionated Bitch ~ Carol Baker, Columnist, Government & Politics, Religion
Bigotry At Half-Staff It’s been 4 days since 9 Americans were murdered in a South Carolina AME church, but not just any church. Those Americans were murdered in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston and that church carries strong historical...
by Carol Baker | *The Opinionated Bitch ~ Carol Baker, Columnist
I Would Rather Die on My Feet Than Live on My Knees “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” Those were the words of Gorges Wolinski, famed cartoonist of the Paris publication, Charlie Hebdo. Wolinski was among the 12 dead at the Paris publication on...
by Carol Baker | *The Opinionated Bitch ~ Carol Baker, Columnist
Separating The Wheat From the Chaff The origins of the phrase, ‘separating the wheat from the chaff’ are Biblical, but the practice lies deep in my Midwestern farming roots. As farmers would thresh the wheat across the rolling farmland, they had to separate the actual...
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...