Rebekah Kuschmider

Rebekah Kuschmider

Bio

Rebekah Kuschmider is a DC area writer with a background in non-profit management and advocacy. Her work has been seen at Babble, Scary Mommy, Huffington Post, The Mid, Redbook online, and The Broad Side. She is the creator of the blog Stay at Home Pundit and is a contributor to the upcoming book Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox (an anthology, SheWrites Press, Nov. 2015). You can follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

Rebekah Kuschmider Articles

Sarah Palin: "Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am"

As Americans, we all believe staunchly in freedom of speech. That fundamental concept in the American experiment has led to artistic masterworks like A Streetcar Named Desire, world-changing orators like Martin Luther King Jr, and entirely problematic stuff like everything that comes out of Sarah Palin’s mouth.

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Rumors around Capitol Hill at the end of last week suggest that the Republicans are close to being finished with their AHCA bill, and they also think they’re close to having enough votes to pass it. (Image Credit: Flickr/Gage Skidmore)

Senate Republicans Are Planning Their AHCA Legislation In Stealth Mode

There is a working group of 14 Republican men and one Republican woman (the woman was added after the outcry about the original all-male revue-style workgroup got loud enough) who are creating the Senate version of the bill in secret. Behind closed doors. No hearings to discuss major points of the law. No input from stakeholder groups like hospitals, patient advocacy groups, doctors, or insurance companies. No input from Senate Democrats.

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Better living through chemistry. Image: Thinkstock.

Antidepressants Helped My ADHD

The SSRI I took didn’t have as dramatic an effect as my stimulants did, but it allowed me to laugh and love life again and still managed to take the rough edges off my concentration.

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Another day, another attempt by the Trump team to strip health benefits from Obamacare.

Trump Reportedly Wants To Insulate Business & Insurance Companies From Covering 'Essential Health Benefits'

The Trump administration wants to broaden the Essential Health Benefits exemptions even further. According to documents that Vox got a hold of, the new regulations would let any employer with a moral or religious objection to covering birth control apply for one. They could cite any reason for their objections.

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Short answer: It's complicated.

Ask A Feminist: Can I Be A Feminist If I Don't Like Gay People?

Sexual orientation is not a lifestyle and gay people are not a monolith. Much as women are all individuals with different wants, needs, and preferences, so are gay people, bi people, asexual people, polyamorous people, and pansexual people (also people who present gender differently that the usual male/female binary but gender identity is a different thing than sexual orientation and will likely be the subject of a whole different essay).

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"Netflix And Chill"? How About Cuddle Party And A Movie?

In a world shrunken down to the size of a phone screen, we don’t always even connect with another person’s eyes. Going someplace to touch and be touched might reaffirm our humanity.

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"Here we all thought they didn’t care about public health!"

In A Radical Departure, GOP Develops Sudden Interest In “Public Health”

My god, that is IT! The GOP has finally unveiled their crack public health analysis and they are going after the root of all health problems!

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Image source: The Today Show

Ben & Jerry's (Finally) Releases Dairy-Free Ice Cream #GBLESS

Breaking! Breaking! Ben & Jerry’s is introducing a line of non-dairy frozen desserts!

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"Sort of the way they brought the Garden of Eden to life, complete with dinosaurs and humans living together."

This New Kentucky Attraction Is Possibly The Strangest Attraction

Have you ever wondered what Noah’s Ark looked like? Would you like to go inside the Biblical vessel and see how the last family on earth after the Great Flood lived and how they kept all the animals? Well, you’re in luck! Tomorrow a museum called the Ark Encounter is opening in Kentucky!

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Image via Eva Longoria's Twitter: @EvaLongoria

Eva Longoria Blesses Us With Epic Emoji Keyboard

Grab your iPhones and launch the app store! There’s a new emoji keyboard out there, and you are going to want to grab it!

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