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by Christine Flowers on December 30, 2024 To say that it was an interesting year is to say that the Earth rotates around the sun, something that...
There have been some interesting discussions about birthright citizenship, intensified by Donald Trump’s election a few weeks ago. A number of...
You know the old song lyrics “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am?” I’ve been hearing that on a loop in my inner ear over the...
by Christine Flowers on November 4, 2024 Opinions are like an appendix: everyone has one, it serves no particular purpose, most of the time it's...
by Christine Flowers on October 29, 2024 About a month ago, I had lunch at a great diner in South Philly. My omelet was fantastic, oozing with...
Kamala Harris is making the rounds to friendly media, which is what insecure politicians tend to do. She hasn’t ventured often into the areas where...
by Christine Flowers on October 21, 2024 After complaining that Kamala Harris had not gone into the lion's den of interviews, namely the Newsmaxes...
by Christine Flowers on October 14, 2024 Kamala Harris is making the rounds to friendly media, which is what insecure politicians tend to do. She...
I am a white woman, who spent 80% of her life in the suburbs. I taught high school in the suburbs to young white girls who are now young white...
I had so many ideas for this column. But every time I started to write, the sentences would fall flat. Fortunately, as I sat at the keyboard,...
by Christine Flowers on September 9, 2024 When the media started mispronouncing Kamala Harris' name, I have to admit I rolled my eyes more than...
As I watched the Kennedy siblings close ranks against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. because of his support for Donald Trump, it reminded me of the...
by Christine Flowers on August 26, 2024 Kamala Harris has been trying to connect with the little people, the ones in semi-flyover country who might...
I am what JD Vance would have called a single cat lady. Actually, I don’t have, nor do I particularly like, cats. I am more along the lines of a...
One of the most famous phrases in history is one that my high school Latin teacher Sister Mary David intoned with deep solemnity as we were...