by Ed. Klein, Peoria, IL We keep hearing people say that ever since prayer was taken out of the public schools the country has gone to hell in a hand-basket … and that most of our contemporary ills are a…
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A New Pope and the Status of Women
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by Dolores M. Klein, Peoria, IL Feminist activism is bent on eroding cultural and legal obstacles to women’s equality, but we have always been aware that religious barriers are too often behind them. Will the new Pope continue the concentration…
Rape is Rape – Whether in Steubenville or Peoria
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By Martha Herm, Executive Director of the Center for Prevention of Abuse Peoria, IL “The pictures from Steubenville don’t just show a girl being raped. They show rape being condoned, encouraged, and celebrated.” This quote from Laurie Penny, noted British…
Yeah, right
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Give it another few months, and we might be able to walk outside without a jacket.
Guest editorials for March
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Will Women Be Drafted? Dolores M. Klein, Peoria, IL When women testified before 1920 on behalf of Suffrage, they were asked if they realized that men could vote because they were required to give their lives for their country. Invariably,…
Some guest editorials
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0213Bring This to the Forefront Dolores M. Klein, Peoria, IL Having followed all the widespread and intense discussions of the national Second Amendment/gun control follow-up to the Newtown tragedy, I keep hoping that Mayor Bloomberg’s argument would come to the…
Guest editorials
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Out of the Mouths of Babes By Dolores M. Klein Peoria, IL A young actor created a furor recently by telling his young church-going friends not to watch “Two and a Half Men,” his TV show, calling it trash! By…
Guest editorials
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Why We Keep on “Keeping On!” Dolores M. Klein Peoria, IL A Texas southerner, Lyndon Johnson, was the President who said “We shall overcome!” on national television – most surely influenced by the Civil Rights Movement. It was President Ronald…
Editorials
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One Plantation at a Time! Dolores M. Klein, Peoria, IL Those of us who participated in, and lived through the struggles to enact the Civil Rights Act of the ‘60s, remember well the unwillingness of many who did not support…