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Tag Archives: Trump

Insurrection in America

January 13, 2021by Sherie Labedis 3 Comments

I write with tears in my eyes as I watched with horror the actions at the capital last night.  If an insurrection is “a violent uprising against an authority or […]

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Life in these United States, Personal Commentary, U.S. History

I Knew But I Had Forgotten – VOTE

June 7, 2020by Sherie Labedis 1 Comment

Sometimes you have to do something regardless of reasons not to.  Or at least I do.  When this happens, I say that I have been called, meaning I am compelled […]

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African American History, Civil Rights, Life in these United States, Personal Commentary, The Civil Rights Movement, U.S. History, Voting Rights

One of America’s most prominent conservative columnists wants Republicans to lose in 2020

June 3, 2020by Sherie Labedis 1 Comment

For the better part of the last four decades, George F. Will has been at the intellectual center of American conservatism. Now he is calling for a full-blown rout of […]

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Life in these United States, Personal Commentary, U.S. History, Voting Rights

The Roots of the American Crisis

November 20, 2019by Sherie Labedis 1 Comment

Losing the Democratic Habit YoniAppelbaum It is easy to think that Trump is the cause of all of our problems regardless of whether you agree with him or not.  In […]

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Life in these United States, Personal Commentary, U.S. History, Voting Rights, Women's Issues

Trump didn’t create the Trump boom

June 4, 2019by Sherie Labedis Leave a comment

Hello, I know I have been away a long time.  My husband was quite ill and then he passed and I haven’t gotten back to writing.  That does not mean, […]

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Life in these United States, Personal Commentary, U.S. History

OMG: TEACHERS WITH GUNS

June 10, 2018by Sherie Labedis Leave a comment

    (I wrote this blog in February after the Parkland shooting and after President Trump suggested that teachers in the classroom be armed.  But the backup drive didn’t – […]

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Life in these United States, Personal Commentary, U.S. History

On April 19, 1989

April 19, 2018by Sherie Labedis Leave a comment

Five black and Latino teens are arrested for raping a jogger in New Your City’s Central Park and spend more than a decade in prison before being exonerated. More here.

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African American History, Life in these United States, U.S. History

Meryl Streep Said it Best

January 22, 2017by Sherie Labedis Leave a comment

  Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said. You and all of us in this room, really, belong to the most vilified segments […]

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Civil Rights, Life in these United States, Personal Commentary, U.S. History, Women's Issues

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