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About 40 million people in Russia will soon lose their access to free healthcare.

Who wants to bet that these very people will support Putin more passionately than ever?

Today, Russia’s main TV channel showed an interview with a woman who claimed to be from the recently liberated Ukrainian city of Slovyansk (the woman later turned out to be severely mentally ill) and who shared a blood-curdling story of Ukrainian soldiers crucifying a small boy in the main square of the city in front of a huge crowd. No explanation as to why Ukrainian soldiers would engage in such an activity was offered. Journalists from Ukraine and Russia have been interviewing every inhabitant of Slovyansk they could encounter since the story aired but haven’t found anybody who saw anything of the kind.

The story is very useful, though. Who will worry about something as trivial as healthcare benefits when kindly Uncle Putin is protecting little kids from being eaten by mean Ukrainian soldiers?

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I mean really smart! All the models for Betabrand's spring collection are either working on their PhD or have one. I do wonder if their XL would actually fit me, but otherwise, the clothes look great. Check out these two super smart women wearing some super cute outfits:



And no, this isn't a sponsored post. I just fell for the best press release I've seen in awhile. And believe me I get a lot of stinkers.

Do you make New Year’s resolutions? I haven’t made any in years; I prefer to set goals every January 1. But I learned a few things this year and I want to apply those lessons in 2014.

This past year, I realized a dream and I witnessed a nightmare. These experiences underscored for me just how powerful it can be to pursue what truly matters to you in life. It’s simple in theory: You define what is important to you. You ignore what anyone else tells you that you should do. You spend your time and energy on what you want. Period.

But it’s so much more difficult in practice. For starters, we have so many choices to make.  We have so many voices in our head (friends, neighbors, media, family) telling us what we should do, how we should look, and what we should want. And we have so many obstacles to overcome and priorities competing for our time and attention. We’re tired, distracted, stressed and overstimulated.

While writing and sharing Mogul, Mom & Maid, I’ve had a front row seat to not only my own roller coast ride, but to hundreds of other women’s struggles and successes. Inspired by these women I created some resolutions for 2014. On The Huffington Post I shared 10 resolutions to consider in order to focus on the best of working motherhood. At SheKnows, I shared a few more resolutions for women trying to have it all – their own version of all, of course. The lists have a few resolutions in common: define your own version of success, avoid comparing yourself to others, embrace good enough, and put down that mop.

My resolution for 2014: to share these messages with as many women as possible. (And, to stop wasting time on Facebook!)

Happy New Year!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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As we approach the New Year, we naturally think of ends, and of beginnings; what has changed, and what we have lost. So hey, libertarians, let’s all get together and feel sorry about the golden age of Limited Government and Individual Liberty we have lost. Remember the ancient liberties that we all enjoyed only 60 years ago, back in the 1950s? Back when all military-age men were subject to the draft, people were being interrogated before a permanent committee of Congress over their political beliefs, the FBI was conducting massive illegal wiretapping, surveillance and disruption against nonviolent civil rights activists, the National Security Agency was established as a completely secret surveillance arm of the federal government, it was illegal for married or unmarried women to buy basic birth control, it was made illegal for anyone to buy any scheduled drug without a doctor’s prescription, government was conducting medical experiments on unwilling human subjects^[1], Urban Renewal was demolishing the core of every major U.S. city to build government highways and housing projects, and massive community-wide immigration raids were terrorizing undocumented migrants throughout the Southwest.

Or like back in the 1940s when government spending was over 50% of GDP, nearly the entire consumer economy was subject to government rationing, Japanese-Americans were forced into internment camps, and a secret government conspiracy was building an entire network of secret cities in order to build atomic bombs to drop on civilian centers.

Or like back in the 1930s when the entire institutional groundwork of the New Deal was being implemented, Roosevelt was making himself president-for-life, government attempted to seize all gold or silver bullion in private hands, the federal government first instituted the Drug War, Jim Crow was the law of the land, Congress created the INS, Jews fleeing the incipient Holocaust in Europe were being turned away by immigration authorities, and psychiatrists were using massive electric shocks or literally mutilating the brains of women and men confined to asylums.

Or like the 1920s when it was illegal to buy alcoholic drinks anywhere in the United States, tariff rates were nearly 40% on dutiable imports, Sacco and Vanzetti were murdered by the state of Massachusetts, the Invisible Empire Second Era Klan effectively took over the state governments of Colorado, Indiana, and Alabama, hundreds of black victims were massacred in race riots in Tulsa and Rosewood, when Congress created the Federal Radio Commission^[2], the US Border Patrol, passed the Emergency [sic] Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924, and the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the authority of the state to forcibly sterilize women deemed “feeble-minded” or “promiscuous” for eugenic purposes.

Or the 1910s, when the federal government seized control of foreign-owned companies to facilitate production of chemical weapons, imposed the first-ever use of federal conscription to fight an overseas war, invaded Haiti, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico^[3], Russia, and Europe, passed criminal anarchy and criminal syndicalism statutes, tried and convicted hundreds of people for belonging to radical unions, imprisoned hundreds of people for protesting the draft during World War I (ordered by the President of the United States and upheld by the Supreme Court in one of its most radical anti-free-speech decisions), deported hundreds of people solely for holding anti-state political beliefs, the Mann Act made it illegal to “transport women across statelines for immoral purposes” [sic], the Colorado National Guard machine-gunned and burned alive striking miners and their families in order to break a UMWA organizing campaign, and Congress created the Federal Reserve, the Income Tax, the Espionage Act, and the Sedition Act.

Or maybe like the 1900s. … .

1. ^[1] See also the biological and radiological experiments documented here, and the Guatemala syphilis experiment conducted from 1946-1948. ↩
2. ^[2] Created in 1926; later converted into the Federal Communications Commission in 1934. ↩
3. ^[3] In 1914, and then again in 1916-1917 ↩

I lost a friend to ovarian cancer. So when Healthforher.org asked me to post this infographic for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month I said yes. Ovarian cancer is known as The Silent Killer because it can be hard to detect. Women need to remember they know their own bodies best and visit the doctor if they have concerns. Even when women do visit the doctor with symptoms, many cases of Ovarian cancer are misdiagnosed. Be your own advocate and get the medical attention you deserve.

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I get a lot of infographics to share with all of you. Mostly women's rights one that link back to some totally unrelated business. But this infographic is neither! As someone who is obsessed with finding the perfect pen, it's a lot of fun.

No other topic feels important right now, only the people of Oklahoma who have been affected by the tornadoes. Our hearts especially go out to the children, their families, their teachers and all of the rescue workers. Here are different ways to help, no matter where you are. Red Cross: The Red Cross has shelters open and is also providing food, shelter and emotional support to those affected by the tornadoes. Donate here. You can also text “REDCROSS” to 90999 to give $10 to American Red Cross Disaster Relief. United Way: The United Way states the best way to help is through a monetary donation. Funds will be distributed to United Way Partner Agencies working on the tornado relief efforts.  Donate here. Salvation Army: The Salvation Armyis providing food and drinks to people in affected areas.  Click here to donate. or by calling 1-800-SAL-ARMY (1-800-725-2769). You can also text the word “STORM” to 80888 to make a $10 donation.    

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What would you do with $11,000? Women today earn, on average, just .77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That adds up to approximately $11,000 per year. The wage gap isn’t shrinking. Women’s pay for equal work has been holding at .77 cents since at least 2005. In 1963, when President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, women earned just .60 cents for every dollar a man earned. When he signed the legislation, Kennedy remarked, “Our economy today depends upon women in the labor force…It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children which they must leave at home or in school, and for protection of the family unit.” And yet in fifty years we’ve only gained .17 cents. In 2009, when President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act he stated, “In this economy, when so many folks are already working harder for less and struggling to get by, the last thing they can afford is losing part of each month’s paycheck to simple discrimination.” And yet the gap remains the same four years later. And that gap is even greater for [...]