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		<title>Hitting Like a Grrrl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was caught off guard a few weeks ago when my four year old son came home from preschool saying things like, &#8220;Mommy, I don&#8217;t want to hear that story.  It&#8217;s a girl story,&#8221; and &#8220;I don&#8217;t play with girls,&#8221; and &#8220;That&#8217;s a girl toy!&#8221;  He emphasized the words &#8220;girl&#8221; and &#8220;girls&#8221; in a way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com&blog=2486620&post=43&subd=bleedingheartmama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gloria Steinem, My Hero, on Sarah Palin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love Gloria.  She just rules.  I just don&#8217;t think I could have said it anywhere close to better than she did in this LA Times Op-ed piece:

Palin: wrong woman, wrong message


Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
By Gloria Steinem
September 4, 2008

Here&#8217;s the good news: Women [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com&blog=2486620&post=41&subd=bleedingheartmama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/gloria-steinem-my-hero-on-sarah-palin/</link>
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		<title>Come to Long Beach, Sarah Palin!  Check Out Our Ports!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I last posted about my annoyance with Sarah Palin&#8217;s insinuation that small towns are the only towns that matter, and today I&#8217;ve had my worst concerns confirmed.  It seems further that Sarah Palin would have the urban residents of Los Angeles and Long Beach suffer health problems so that her rural Alaskan residents can have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com&blog=2486620&post=36&subd=bleedingheartmama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/come-to-long-beach-sarah-palin-check-out-our-ports/</link>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s Myth of Urban Immorality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin did a good job last night.  She came out swinging and, as a liberal, that makes me nervous.  She&#8217;s a surprisingly good speaker, considering that her usual audience is much smaller.  I&#8217;m liberal, but I try to stay open-minded.  A lot of what Palin addresses, I&#8217;m just not decided [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com&blog=2486620&post=31&subd=bleedingheartmama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/palins-myth-of-urban-immorality/</link>
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		<title>Why Preschool Should Be a Part of Public Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found this terrific and comprehensive article about why we should make preschool a part of public education!  I&#8217;m so happy!!!  As educators, my husband and I have had many long discussions about why it is so important that we include preschool education in our current public education system.  This article from Edutopia.org will help explain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com&blog=2486620&post=29&subd=bleedingheartmama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/why-preschool-should-be-a-part-of-public-education/</link>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s Daughter is Pregnant?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What kind of an example are we setting for teenagers across the world when we endorse a candidate who couldn&#8217;t seem to model the very morals and socially conservative platform that she hopes to sign into law for everyone else in the nation?  What conclusion can kids come to except, &#8220;What&#8217;s good for Bristol Palin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com&blog=2486620&post=25&subd=bleedingheartmama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/palins-daughter-is-pregnant/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong with this Palin Picture?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She's being marketed as a perfect mother, qualified statesman and the dressed up version of those bikini-wearing, machine-gun toting babes who smile at us from websites like Gungirls.com. I'm wondering today, how that represents middle American exactly. Yes, it may be that Americans living in the Heartland  want the right to tote guns and consider themselves pro-family, but how many middle American women would leave their three-month child with Downs syndrome home with Daddy (or nanny?) to campaign on the road...even for the vice presidency? Where are the family values there? I know we need women to represent in politics, but this seems to fly in the face of all the "family values" rhetoric that has been slung at working mothers for the past few decades...basically as a backlash against the women's movement, and the idea that women can work and have a family.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com&blog=2486620&post=14&subd=bleedingheartmama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/whats-wrong-with-this-palin-picture/</link>
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		<title>Motherhood Under the Gun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today it occurred to me that my usual posture as a mother is a defensive crouch. That realization sent shivers down my spine. When I am in public with my children, or around people who don&#8217;t know me all that well, I assume a position of defense.  I instantly thought about what effect this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com&blog=2486620&post=9&subd=bleedingheartmama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/motherhood-under-the-gun/</link>
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		<title>In Praise of Liberal Guilt by Ron Rosenbaum for Slate.com</title>
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I couldn&#8217;t agree with this article more.  Thank you Ron for illuminating the many reasons why a progressive worldview is a moral one.

In Praise of Liberal GuiltIt&#8217;s not wrong to favor Obama because of race.
By Ron Rosenbaum
Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008, at 5:34 PM ET 

When did &#8220;liberal guilt&#8221; get such a bad reputation? You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com&blog=2486620&post=10&subd=bleedingheartmama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/in-praise-of-liberal-guilt-by-ron-rosenbaum-for-slatecom/</link>
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		<title>Breastfeeding Leads to Higher IQs!  Big DUH!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MSN posted an article today about how breastfeeding your child could lead to higher IQ test scores.  I&#8217;m glad that MSN posted the article because it means that breastfeeding is becoming more mainstream, but I&#8217;m very disappointed in the focus of the article.  There are many other benefits of breastfeeding&#8230;all just as important, perhaps more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com&blog=2486620&post=8&subd=bleedingheartmama&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bleedingheartmama.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/breastfeeding-leads-to-higher-iqs-big-duh/</link>
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