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Deceptively Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies

From Spark People: Minutes to Prepare: 20 Minutes to Cook: 30 Number of Servings: 36   Ingredients nonstick cooking spray 1 c firmly packed brown sugar 3/4 c trans fat-free soft tub margarine 2 large egg whites2 tsp pure vanilla extract1 15 ounce can chickpeas, drained and rinsed2 cups semisweet chocolate chips2 cup ap flour1/2 [...]

2013-02-08T18:18:43+00:00February 8, 2013|Whats for dinner|0 Comments

A Moderate Mom-to-Be Visits St. Louis

Jenna Bush Hager is all grown up. And excited and enthusiastic about becoming a Mom herself this Spring. Regardless of your political orientation, the President's children are always part of our collective embrace, aren't they? Hager, who was famously miscast as sticking her tongue out at the media when she [...]

2013-02-08T18:30:12+00:00February 8, 2013|The Mom Vivant|0 Comments

A Quiet Revolution in Washington?

EJ Donne Washington Post  Are Republicans rebranding or rethinking? Rebranding is trendy in the Republican Party. Rep. Eric Cantor gave a major speech Tuesday to advance the effort. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wants the GOP to stop being the “stupid party.” Karl Rove is setting up a political action committee (it’s what he does these [...]

2013-02-07T17:15:19+00:00February 7, 2013|General Interest|0 Comments

A Rapper on Guns

This is an interesting twist on the discussion over gun control currently taking place. It's basically a review of an album. The line that jumped off the page for me is where the author says 1/3 of his mind, while sitting in his Baltimore classroom as an inner city teen, [...]

2013-02-07T17:08:17+00:00February 7, 2013|The Mom Vivant|0 Comments

The Kitty Kelley Treatment

If you were an image maker or public relations consultant, you'd have to be concerned if you had Congress for a client right now. Things are a little rough in the approval ratings department. As if things weren't bad enough, now comes along a celebrity autobiographer whose own peers feel [...]

2013-02-05T20:40:07+00:00February 5, 2013|The Mom Vivant|0 Comments

Susan Collins of Maine on the Violence Against Women Act: “It’s a bi-partisan issue.”

Violence Act Returns in Test of Republicans’ Appeal to Women By JONATHAN WEISMAN New York Times  WASHINGTON — For all the attention on the Republican Party’s efforts to attract Latinos, the first test for the party on 2012’s lessons learned will arrive this week for a voting bloc that has drifted out [...]

2013-02-05T18:18:39+00:00February 5, 2013|General Interest|0 Comments

Is this warped?

The price of the AR-15 assault weapons has doubled since Sandy Hook and pawn and gun shops say they're having a hard time hanging onto them because they are, and i wrote, "fashionable."  Read on. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/business/the-ar-15-the-most-wanted-gun-in-america.html?src=recg

2013-02-04T20:31:47+00:00February 4, 2013|The Daily Dose|0 Comments

Women caught in the spin cycle over guns

Both sides of gun control issue turn to women as mouthpieces and symbols Susan Walsh/AP - Gayle Trotter, senior fellow with the Independent Women's Forum, left, sits next to National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre, in Washington, on Jan. 30, as she testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun [...]

2013-02-05T03:45:11+00:00February 4, 2013|General Interest|0 Comments
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