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Amy Fried is the author of "Escaping Dick Cheney's Stomach," an edited compilation of her first 61 op-eds on opednews. She received her Ph.D. in the field of Organizational Behavior, which she now applies to her political writing. She's been an advocate for church-state separation and other civil liberties issues. She writes on the neoconservative mind, women's issues, media, veganism and the Religious Right.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Glossing Over Distinctions in Catholic Birth Control Debate (9 comments)
Religious Liberty must be balanced against establishment, and hospitals and universities should be distinguished from pervasively sectarian organizations.
Friday, January 20, 2012 How Does RW Decide What's Private? (5 comments)
Is there any logic underlying Newt's righteous indignation at John King's "open marriage" question?
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Old Enough to be Raped (10 comments)
The shocking betrayal by Obama's HHS Secretary involved woefully little consideration of rape victims.
Monday, August 29, 2011 A Blinding Ignorance Behind an Ugly Hatred (3 comments)
Ridiculous attacks on Michelle Obama's healthy food efforts ignore the real restrictions on our food choices.
Monday, August 15, 2011 Wifely Submission (10 comments)
Bachmann's answer to the "wifely submission" question illustrates the mixed messages candidates like her and Palin use on gender and motherhood. Progressives need to deconstruct the confusion.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 After the Ransom (5 comments)
After the ransom has been paid & the spin on the debt debacle as deceptive as ever, what now?
Thursday, April 28, 2011 Trump's McCarthyism (2 comments)
Trump's message may be one of race-baiting, but his tactics are those of McCarthyism.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Rick Santorum's Bizarre Abortion Theory (5 comments)
Rick Santorum seems to be trying to outdo his "man-on-dog" reputation with a new theory on abortion and Social Security.
Saturday, March 12, 2011 Over the Body of a Woman (8 comments)
Right wing attacks on both government programs and women, expose the aptness of Senator Alan Simpson's quip describing social security as a woman's body part.
Friday, October 29, 2010 Women of the Tea Party (63 comments)
Tea Party women's arguments for less government, adds to the burden on other women.
Thursday, October 28, 2010 The Tea Party and the Other Temptation (7 comments)
The Tea Party Republicans' obsession with sexual "temptation," belies their willingness to give in to another, more harmful, temptation.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Right Wing Meme Infecting Professed Liberals (10 comments)
As the right wing frenzy spreads through the Tea Party and beyond, even liberals are unthinkingly parroting its falsehoods.
Friday, April 2, 2010 The Double Victimhood of Deaf Boys (2 comments)
The victimhood of the deaf boys in the Church sex abuse scandal, was increased by their disability.
Friday, February 19, 2010 Tiger Woods Makes a Fool of Brit Hume (10 comments)
Today Tiger Woods put the lie to Brit Hume's infantile attack on his religion.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Tea Party Subtext (6 comments)
Beyond their inaccuracies, Tea Party speakers Palin and Farah betray their hidden agendas.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 Resisting the Forces for War over Health
The forces for supporting war over health go deeper than even the Military Industrial Complex.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Liberals and the "W" Word (9 comments)
The implications of hurling terms "whore" and "street walker."
Saturday, October 10, 2009 Pornography: Free Speech or Stylized Abuse? (2 comments)
Radical feminist(and vegetarian) theories criticize both conservatives and liberals, for being blind to the harm that occurs -to women and animals - behind the camera.
Monday, September 28, 2009 Blaming the Victims with ACORN and Prostitution (1 comments)
As with real life prostitution, the Defund ACORN Act serves to shun the "tainted," rather than help the true victims of prostitution.
Monday, August 17, 2009 Let Rachel Maddow Talk! (On Meet the Press) (7 comments)
Rachel Maddow had a hard time getting a word in edgewise on Sunday's otherwise all-male panel on Meet the Press. This is not an isolated incident, but it has unique implications for health care reform.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 Palin's New Clothes (2 comments)
The media has discussed Palin's future, and her hypocritical false claims. My problem is that she seems divorced from reality.
Monday, July 20, 2009 Sotomayor Hearings and the Truth About Bias (5 comments)
Republicans' absurd sudden concern with bias in the case of the first Latina Supreme Court nominee, is based on a misunderstanding of the meaning of bias.
Monday, June 29, 2009 Mark Sanford: What a Prince! (4 comments)
Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker exlain the misunderstood nobility of Gov Mark Sanford.
Sunday, June 14, 2009 Sarah Palin on Rape (9 comments)
Palin should address her own record on rape before attacking David Letterman
Friday, May 8, 2009 Call Her secretary Rice (4 comments)
Dr. Rice diminishes her power to shirk responsibility.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Bridge, Bear Stearns & Breast-Feeding (3 comments)
The outrages of the current crisis provide an opportunity to question what's worth paying for.
Thursday, January 29, 2009 Beyond the "Mommy Party" (1 comments)
It's time to counter the conventional wisdom about the "Mommy Party" and national security.
Friday, January 16, 2009 Chris Matthew's Ironic Sexism (10 comments)
In making a sexist joke, Chris Matthews highlights the argument of radical feminists.
Monday, October 20, 2008 Pot, Meet Kettle
The instances of freudian projection in the McCain campaign are almost too numerous to count.
Saturday, August 9, 2008 Is Dissecting Poll Data a Waste of Time ? (2 comments)
In the age of caging and voting machine hackery, is all the agonizing over polling data, energy misplaced?
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Naomi Klein Helping Me UnLearn What I Learned in Business School (8 comments)
Naomi Klein, in "The Shock Doctrine," makes me see how - while in business school - I got carried away with elegant theories that masked the pain they caused.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Hillary's Hypocrisy (4 comments)
Hillary's Starting to Scare Me
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 MSM's Confusion on Security Gives McCain a Pass (5 comments)
The mainstream media persists in confusing matters of defense with matters of security; military experience with civilian leadership. That confusion works in McCain's favor.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 Obama's Speech on Race (8 comments)
Obama's speech on race calls us to a higher level of discourse. Can we - and the MSM - meet him there?
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Obama is no Cult Leader (3 comments)
Those who accuse Obama of leading a cult following need to consider what a cult really is.
Friday, February 1, 2008 The Real Feel-Good Party (10 comments)
Republicans would rather live in a fantasy world of saving face, than deal with the real issues.
Thursday, January 17, 2008 What Makes a Good Leader? (1 comments)
The clash between Obama and Clinton over management philosophies touches on key questions of presidential leadership.
Monday, January 14, 2008 Republican Rage (29 comments)
Republican free-floating rage is reinforced by self-defeating neo-con policies.
Monday, December 31, 2007 George Will's Helpful Explanation of Conservative Virtue
George Will helpfully explains the difference between social conservatives and everybody else. You see, it's just that we progressives don't care about virtue.
Friday, December 28, 2007 The Mindless Mainstream Media (2 comments)
Why won't the corporate media examine such tossed-about phrases as "the enemy" and "terror suspects?"
Thursday, December 13, 2007 Corporate Media Enables Right Wing Distortion of "Religious Liberty" (1 comments)
The corporate media is making it easier for the Republican Religious Right base to pass extreme views off as mainstream. The media stars display their own ignorance in the process.
Thursday, December 6, 2007 One Nation, Without Irony
Romney is happy to accept America's tolerance, without extending his own.
Thursday, November 22, 2007 Improvising Enemies (4 comments)
Attacks on Barack Obama's faith have implications far beyond Election 2008
Thursday, November 8, 2007 Hillary and Gender, One More Time (5 comments)
The gender dynamics for Hillary are different in the primary campaign, than they were with Rick Lazio as her opponent.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007 Libby and the Flirtation Deflection (2 comments)
Republicans deflect serious discussions of Republican corruption with blushing, giggling, females.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 Don't Blame Veganism for Child Neglect (1 comments)
A tragically misguided couple was found guilty of leading to the death of their six-week-old infant, by failing to feed him enough. The judge blamed their veganism. The judge is misinformed.
Saturday, April 21, 2007 Blaming the Victim (2 comments)
The Right's blaming of the Virginia Tech victims for their own deaths is, of course, despicable. But it also belies a self-protective mechanism, and a dysfunctional worldview.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 Regret for Rewards Earned (3 comments)
If stay-at-home moms come to regret their unpaid labor, perhaps they should demand change, rather than blame themselves.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 The Sexual Politics of the Plame Affair (1 comments)
The real message of the outing of Valerie Plame to discredit her husband, is not about nepotism. It is about impugning Joe Wilson's masculinity.
Thursday, March 15, 2007 Pace's Defender More Outrageous than Pace (7 comments)
Duncan Hunter's defense of Peter Pace was more outrageous than Pace's statements on homosexuality.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Cheney's Pelosi Ploy
The Escalation mindset continues with Cheney's attack on Pelosi.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 In the Shadow of Greatness
A speechwriting class, and the opportunity to hear Obama live, leave me standing in the shadow of great talent.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Condescending to Parents Over the HPV Vaccine (1 comments)
The "promiscuity" argument against the HPV Vaccine claims to promote parental control. In reality, it doesn't give parents enough credit.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007 Plea to Barack Obama Not to Pre-emptively Swift-Boat Himself
By apologizing for his "wasted" comment, Barack Obama is internalizing Bush & Co. "Reality On Its Head" rhetoric, and pre-emptively swift-boating himself in the process.
Thursday, January 18, 2007 Cheney a Master of "Framing"
Dick Cheney uses multiple levels of the "framing" that George Lakoff made famous during the last presidential election to distort the debate on Iraq.
Tuesday, November 7, 2006 A Stop to Escalating Commitment
Republicans are left, at the close of campaign 2006, with the charge that Democrats want to "give up" and "lose" in Iraq. They haven't learned from administrative scientists, or from Vietnam, that throwing good money after bad is not a rational strategy.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Bush's Scary Pre-Halloween Speech
Liar-In-Chief Bush continues to distort reality and offer juvenile oversimplifications of hard truths with outrageous statements in his 'policy of fear' campaign.
