Name: Margaret Romao Toigo
Dateline: Tampa Bay, Florida USA
Weblog: www.landofthefreehomeofthebrave.org/wp [RSS]
Articles: 53
First Published: Monday, December 20, 2004
Last Published: Monday, April 23, 2007
Margaret Romao Toigo is a retired stripper, beauty school dropout, and wannabe intellectual who dabbles in a wide variety of fleeting endeavors and life-long obsessions. Although Ms. Toigo is not a real writer, she nonetheless has her very own web site: Land of the Free, Home of the Brave Currently listing articles 53-1:
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The Politics of Autism— The main reason why the politics of autism are so polarized is that nobody knows very much about autism.
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Religious Conservatives Righteously Indignant Over Apparently Gay-Friendly Old Party— GOP has been revealed to be far more "gay-friendly" than religious conservatives have previously been lead to believe.
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300 Million American Souls— Contrary to popular pessimism, America's growth is a Good Thing.
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The Force of The Foley Factor: Polls Show Democratic Candidates Gaining on Republicans— Just four weeks before Election Day, polls show Democratic candidates with huge leads over Republicans.
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Dizzy From The Foleygate Spin: As The World Of Pundits, Partisans, And Paranoids Turns— Die-hard GOP loyalists in spin cycle attempt to fan the stench of "Foleygate" away from the Republican Party.
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The Great Marijuana Debate: Heads vs. Feds— A popular, thought-provoking spectacle that keeps the ever-expanding "pro-legalization" movement at bay.
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Burning The Flag That Symbolizes The Freedom To Burn The Flag— The choice between trampling on the flag or the First Amendment should not be much of a dilemma.
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Senatorial Same-Sex Marriage Dog Act Disappoints Religious Conservatives— What group other than Christian fundamentalists can get the executive and legislative branches of our government to sit up and beg?
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Senate Debate on Same-sex Marriage Poses Risks to GOP— Apparently Mr. Bush and several Congressional Republicans are beginning to take heed of recent threats from the religious right.
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Deconstructing a Defense of Drug Prohibition— The failure of the war on drugs is not a matter of its methodology, but the policy itself.
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Gullible America— Are we Americans really so gullible and stupid that we'll swallow and believe anything we read, hear, and see?
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Immigration, Globalization, and Oxymorons— Borders are becoming obsolete, the world grows smaller, and too many people use immigration fears to deny inevitable change.
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Finding Your Inner Libertarian— Are you in touch with your inner libertarian?
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Recognizing Fetal Personhood and Overturning Roe vs. Wade— The right to life is self-evident and modern science has effectively proven that a fetus is a living thing...
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Balancing Liberty and Security with The Patriot Act— Can there ever really be a practical balancing of national security and civil liberties?
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Winter Solstice Evergreens and The History of the Christmas Tree— Long before the advent of Christianity, peoples of many ancient civilizations decorated their homes with pine, spruce, and fir trees.
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Merry Christmas (Please Don't Be Mad at Me)— I'm a card-carrying member of the ACLU and I have no desire whatsoever to stop anyone from celebrating Christmas
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No Misgivings About Thanksgiving— I love Thanksgiving. It is one of the few holidays that hasn't been over-commercialized and over-politicized.
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Why I Love the ACLU in Spite of its Warts — With Hugs and Kisses to the NRA— Cheers to the champions of freedom for all.
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Legalizing Polygamy and Polyandry— ...
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California Legislature Approves Historic Civil Rights Bill Recognizing Same-sex Marriage— ...
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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist Dies of Cancer at Age 80— ...
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Stop The ACLU vs. Instapundit: Justifiable De-linking or Pettiness Writ Large?— ...
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Harshing on the Prohibitionists
— Now that drug policy reform has become a crusade against the black market and the gangsterism it fosters...
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Tempest in Teapot Pat Robertson Apologizes, Becomes Yesterday's News— Reverend Pat Robertson has apologized for the threatening and offensive remarks he made regarding Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...
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Religious Extremist Pat Robertson Incites International Firestorm— "You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought
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Marc Emery: Drug Kingpin or Political Prisoner?
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Blogcritics.org Reaches 10 Million Unique Visitors Mark— ...
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The Pledge of Allegiance— Our Pledge of Allegiance was created in 1892 as a promotional gimmick for the Chicago World's Fair celebration...
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New Media Reporting From London— These citizen journalists and bloggers enabled the world to view breaking news told from the first person perspective of victims and eyewitnesses...
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The Christian Alliance for Progress— There are millions of Christian Americans who hold moderate to progressive views — or who are, at the very least, offended by the
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It Might be a War, But it's Not About Our Culture— Freedom is a frightening prospect for people who lack the fortitude to resist temptations of the flesh...
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Is your Spelling Check in the Mail?— ...
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Fate From the Rear— ...
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Authority and Morality— American government was not intended to be an authority over the actions and behaviors of the people, but rather the keeper, protector and defender of
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Diluting Evolution— ...
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The Difference Between Crime and Sin— ...
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Let's Go Surfin' Now: Fear and Loathing in the Blogosphere— ...
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Suspect Motives: Single Mothers' Paradox— People who truly respect life do not pass judgment when single women choose to keep their babies rather than having abortions
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Traditional Judeo-Christian Morality— ...
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Moral Relativism— ...
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Female Breasts— ...
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Orientation, Attraction, Kinks and Fetishes— ...
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Protecting and Defending Marriage in the 21st Century— Defining families according to a conventional model of demographic composition is especially cynical in these days when families are perceived by so many as being
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The "L" Word and the "D" Word
— The words, "legalization" and "decrminalization" should be struck from the vocabularies of all people who support the basic ideas which they represent.
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Tales of the Coming Media Powershift— ...
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The Ceaseless Wonders of the Evolution Debate— After much reading and careful consideration, I find myself on the side of the religious right on one issue, even though I firmly believe
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Are We Journalists or Gadflies?
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Are you a Liberal Authoritarian, a Conservative Authoritarian, a Liberal Libertarian or a Conservative Libertarian?— ...
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Culture Warriors Taken in by Empty Promises — Again— ...
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I'm Concerned— Now, I could have simply sat down to my computer keyboard and unleashed my verbal rage at CWFA. But instead of doing that, I turned
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The Product of a Deprived Childhood in a Fatherless Home— ...
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The Many Sides of the Abortion Issue— ...
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