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….and other truth’s that make us 
uncomfortable. 
This has been a very strange time in America. It’s as 
though someone above is trying to get our attention, but 
it seems that very few are listening.
We’ve made great progress and yet we keep trying to 
get on a skateboard backwards and go downhill. We’ve 
become so overwhelmed with fear that the future may 
have a personal vendetta against us that we are too 
paralyzed to participate rationally in shaping that future. 
Technology has given us the perfect excuse to no longer 
think about it at all. And yet, we keep getting signals that 
could help deliver us from our created conundrum.
Case in point – the treatment of women in America in 
2016! 
This column is called Women’s Lives Matter, Too and I am certain that the 
initial reaction from some readers will be, ‘oh no, here we go again’ or ‘hell yeah 
we matter’. Very few, if you are really honest with yourself, will look at those 
words and contemplate them. Why? Because we live in a country where too 
many of us are afraid to acknowledge our shortcomings and face our ugly truths. 
We are not a perfect nation and today, too many lives just don’t matter.
When some African American’s organized and used the term Black Lives Matter 
it was so unnerving to many non-blacks for no reason. It was and is an expression 
and in some cases a movement that caught social and mainstream media’s 
attention to the escalating amount of injustices that are still going on in this 
country unnoticed. The expression doesn’t exclude any lives from ‘mattering’ 
but the message was/is intended to remind people that African American lives 
are just as important as anyone else’s. No need to argue with me about this, as 
I have lived every day of my life as an African American in this country and I 
get it. So don’t get offended by the term or the activities. If the shoe doesn’t fit 
then the message isn’t for you. 
Now, that having been said, please know that Women’s Lives Matter Too 
and to have to remind folks of this really makes my blood boil. One of the 
most outrageous examples of women’s lives being of little importance is the 
reprehensible 6 month sentence given by Judge Aaron Persky to Brock Turner for 
the brutal raping on an unconscious woman. Six months. Clearly the Judge put 
more value on Turner being able to return to his ‘life’ and ignored the irreparable 
damage done to the young female victim. It is also a crystal clear reminder that 
women are still not valued as they should be in this society. There was no justice 
served, just more proliferation of the unwritten rules that the plight of women 
still isn’t that important, that is, until women start raising hell about it. 
Earlier this week, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first woman in America 
to become the Presidential Nominee of a major political party. Whether she 
is your choice for the office or not, you should, as an American, be proud 
that we finally reached that milestone and it should be celebrated by all 
Americans that a woman is now seeking the highest office in the land. But, 
instead of honoring that achievement, she has to be subjected to the personal 
insults of the most openly sexist, foul mouth, disrespectful, insecure public figure 
in America. That behavior should not be tolerated in a race for public office. But 
the disrespect for women in politics isn’t just limited to Hillary. Remember him 
calling Rosie O’Donnell a pig? And what about his comments about Carly Fiorina’s 
appearance? Then there’s his description of Elizabeth Warren and it goes on and on 
and on. And, it appears that it’s okay because they are ‘just women’. 
I don’t necessarily consider myself a feminist in the sexist definition of the word, 
but just like I am an African American and have little patience for those who would 
deprive me of my God given rights, I feel the same way about the way women are 
treated. Little patience, actually, none. Needless to say, to listen to the juvenile name 
calling and disrespectful manner in which Secretary Clinton has been treated is an 
insult to every woman, much less to a woman who has given so much. And unlike 
racial slurs which you can shrug off if you don’t happen to be a member of the race, 
everyone has a Mother, Sister, Aunt, Daughter, Niece or other female relative. What 
are we saying to them by allowing such public disrespect? Is there any wonder that 
violence and disrespect by teen aged boys against girls is on the rise? They learn that 
being disrespectful is ok. After all, that guy running for office who is so famous does 
it and no one says a thing. This isn’t about opponents running for the same office. 
This is pure misogyny on display for the whole world to see how we tolerate it. 
My question is, when are people, especially men, going to stand up in protest against 
this? Have you ever seen these kind of non stop, personal insults directed toward 
male political rivals? Why is it that every single man in America, who by the way was 
brought into this world by a woman, why is it they have not cried out in protest? Or 
is it acceptable behavior to them?
During the 2008 campaign when the question was whether Barack Obama or Hillary 
Clinton would be the Democratic nominee, a dear friend told me, “This country is 
far more sexist than it is racist”, and projected correctly, that Obama would win the 
nomination. It was a disconcerting truth for me, but it should not have been. Think 
about it. Black men were given the right to vote in 1870 by the 15th Amendment (the 
amendment did not apply to any women black or white) . That’s 146 years ago. All 
women, however weren’t given the right to vote until June 4, 1920, - 50 years later. 
It took an additional 50 years and a lot of hell raising by women for this society to 
begin accepting women as an integral and important part of this society and another 
96 years to get a woman to the ‘top of the ticket’!
Today, Muhammed Ali was buried and to the person, every speaker spoke of Ali’s 
lifelong mission to have us treat each other with dignity and respect. There were 
speakers of every faith, every political persuasion, male and female, young and old. 
Throughout Ali’s message of every life being important and the need to respect each 
other as absolutely necessary for us to live in peace was reiterated. Ali fought to 
deliver that message for his entire life, including the last 30 years that he was battling 
Parkinson’s disease. He stressed through actions and deeds that all lives mattered. 
Do you think we could try to do the same? 
Susan Henderson, 
Publisher/Editor 
LEFT TURN/RIGHT TURNDICK Polman MAKING SENSE by Michael Reagan 
H. SUSAN Henderson 
WOMEN’S LIVES MATTER, TOO 
If you want an 
accurate reading 
on the 2016presidential campaign 
— who’s upand who’s down,
who’s ascendant 
and who’s a clown 
— look no further 
than Tuesday 
night’s speeches. Because it’s all about the 
optics. 
Hillary Clinton spent her time makinghistory. Donald Trump spent his time doing 
damage control. 
And Bernie Sanders — history’s roadkill, 
crushed in California and New Jersey —
did his best impression of Hiroo Onoda,
a Japanese soldier who hunkered in the 
jungle for decades, refusing to accept thereality that World War II had ended. 
There’s no denying Clinton’s achievement 
as the first female presidentialnominee. Hopefully we’re not so jaded orcynical or hateful or just plain weary thatwe can’t open ourselves to the witnessingof history. 
A sizeable share of women won’t vote for 
Clinton, but the historic nature of hercandidacy should not be underestimated.
Every campaign needs a narrative, andClinton’s has a built-in emotional component. 
As she remarked Tuesday night,
“I really wish my mother could be here... 
I wish she could see her daughter becomethe Democratic party’s nominee.” 
By contrast, Trump’s optics were... howshall I say this charitably... wretched. 
For 10 long days, the Republican nominee 
had splashed in the sewer, damning 
a federal judge for his Mexican heritageand insisting the judge is unfit to handlea massive case in which Trump is beingsued for fraud. The backlash from his own 
party reached a crescendo Tuesday when 
Paul Ryan said Trump’s attacks were the“textbook definition” of racism. 
Temporarily chastised, Trump surfacedin presidential mode, or at least some facsimile 
thereof. After ridiculing Clinton forusing a Teleprompter, Trump duly readfrom one (except for the moment whenhe ad-libbed a toilet joke). The aim wasto demonstrate that he’s capable of talking 
for 30 straight minutes without saying 
anything racist, sexist, or faintly fascist, 
understand the responsibility of carryingthe mantle.”) But it was like lashing a wildbeast to a stake in the hope that he won’tbreak free. 
Most of his lines were old stump chunks(“We are only going to have great tradedeals, OK?” and “We will make our country 
strong again, we will make Americagreat again”) - and how noteworthy it wasthat he said nothing about the burgeoningHispanic electorate (Hispanics are likelyto cost him at least four states - Colorado, 
Nevada, Virginia, Florida). His soleremark about blacks dripped with paternalistic 
condescension: “We are going totake care of our African Americans.” 
Indeed, Clinton in her own speech assailed 
Trump’s treatment of minorities:
“’Make America great again’ is code for‘Let’s take America backwards.’ Back to 
a time when opportunity and dignity was 
reserved for some, not all.” 
Anyone who thinks that Trump’s Teleprompter 
speech signals a “new Trump” 
should bone up on human nature. A narcissistic 
demagogue who knows nothing 
about policy is simply who he is. Lotsof Republicans and conservatives realize 
that. Which is why Bill Kristol calls 
Trump “a roaring jackass” and conservative 
radio host Hugh Hewitt dismissed 
Trump’s speech by saying, “The plane isstill heading toward the mountain.” 
Or, as nonpartisan analyst Larry Sabato 
said, “This year’s GOP is living with bothits feet planted on banana peels.” 
The next opportunity for slippage maycome early next week, when Trump ispromising to deliver a speech about theClintons - in his words, “all of the thingsthat have taken place with the Clintons.” 
Will he limit himself to legitimate questions 
about, say, the work of the ClintonFoundation, or will he steer the planeinto the mountain, ranting on the intercom 
about Vince Foster and other 1990s 
nothingburgers? 
Mitch McConnell said, “We’re all anxious 
to hear what he may say next.” I bethe is. Because each spasm of Republicananxiety could bring Clinton closer to herultimate historic achievement. 
Dick Polman is the national political columnist 
at NewsWorks/WHYY in Philadelphia (newsworks.
org/polman) and a “Writer in Residence” 
at the University of Pennsylvania. Email him at 
HILLARY CLINTON MAKES HISTORY 
WHILE TRUMP MOPS HIS MESS 
It’s time for Bernie Sanders to step down.
His young supporters will be disappointed for the rest oftheir lives, but it’s time for Bernie to join the cast of “Saturday 
Night Live.”
He fought hard and if nothing else he showed the America 
people how to deliver a speech full of stale socialist ideaswith a lot of honesty and pizzazz.
Hillary and Trump are vying to get Bernie’s enthusiasticarmy to enlist on their side.
Trump is hallucinating. Hillary is only dreaming.
When Bernie’s army is disbanded, whether it’s tomorrow or after the convention, 
they’re not going to change uniforms and join Hillary, Trump or anyoneelse – unless Jon Stewart decides to run. 
They’re going back to their dorms and parents’ basements to play video games 
or plan their summer vacation in Europe.
Most of them signed up for Bernie’s children’s crusade not because they wantedto put an old socialist in the White House, but because he promised them freestuff. 
Stuff like a free college education and free healthcare and free dry-cleaningservices. 
Now that their dream of free grad school is gone, they’re no longer interestedin politics.
Most of Bernie’s college kids look to me like they don’t understand that there’s 
this concept people used to call “work.”
They’re in that “Gimme, gimme, gimme” mode — the belief that because you 
breathe you deserve to be given free stuff that your parents or taxpayers haveto pay for.
It’s much worse today, but that attitude of entitlement was just getting startedback in the 1960s. I admit as a college dropout I even tried to take advantage ofit – until my “old-fashioned” parents set me straight.
As I write in my new book, “Lessons My Father Taught Me,” after I quit theUniversity of Arizona after a minute and a half, I knocked on my father’s door 
in L.A. 
No answer. 
I knocked on my mother Jane Wyman’s door.
No answer. 
When I called them on the phone, they answered.
“I’m home,” I said.
“No you’re not,” they said.
“We paid your bills while you were in college, but you dropped out. Now it’syour turn. You need to find a place to live. Get a job. The gravy train is over.”
I moved in with some friends and got a job on a loading dock, thanks to mysister Maureen. 
I worked at Asbury Transportation Co. from 5 at night to 1:30 in the morning 
loading oil well freight onto trucks that went to the fields in Bakersfield.
That’s exactly where I was the night my father won the election for Governor of 
California in 1966. 
My parents taught me if you want to go anywhere in life, you’re going to need astrong work ethic to get you there.
My father was tough, but my mother Jane made him look like Mister Rogers.
When I started my radio talk-show career in the early 1990s, I was driving 262miles a day roundtrip from L.A. to San Diego.
I was not getting paid because we were trying to start a national show. I had twokids and a wife and not enough money.
I called my mother and whined, “Can you help me out?”
“I have a suggestion for you,” she said before she hung up on me.
“Shut up and keep driving. Nobody died and said you didn’t have to pay yourdues. You have to pay them like everyone else. That way when you’re a success 
you’ll appreciate it. If it’s given to you for free, you’ll never learn to appreciate it.
So shut up and keep driving.”
I shut up and kept driving. I finally got the lesson about hard work and that 
show lasted from 1992 to 2009, when I walked away from talk radio.
It’s too bad the kids in college today – Bernie’s kids – don’t have parents astough — and smart — as I did. 
BERNIE’S ARMY OF FREELOADERS 
Michael Reagan is the son of President Ronald Reagan, a political consultant, and the 
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and, yes, he cleared that low hurdle. (“I 

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