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Fall Classic – Game 1 – Phillies at Yankees **Open Thread** »

Tonight kicks off the World Series. The Phillies meet the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, with the game starting at 7:57 (why do they pick such weird times?). The game will be broadcast on Fox (sadly – that means having to listen to Tim McCarver and Joe Buck go on and on. No [...]

Fuzzy Math For Women »

Co-written with Reverend Amy.
MSNBC is devoting the week to news and opinion stories on the dramatically shifting power and influence of women in America. The week’s reports, led by Maria Shriver and John Podesta, is called “A Woman’s Nation.” Below you’ll find videos of two segments that contain impressive statistics on the growing [...]

Go, Hillary, Go! Fighting for Women and Girls Worldwide »

Christian Science Monitor’s article today, The Potential In Hillary Clinton’s Global Campaign For Women tells us “no other Secretary of State has so focused on women’s rights. It’s a powerful shift.” The editorial board of CSM states:
When Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to Africa last month, she visited war-racked eastern Congo to speak [...]

A Different Take On Secretary Clinton’s Africa Trip »

Faithful NQ reader, CG, mentioned recently that the Washington Post actually did a very nice article on Secretary Clinton’s recent trip to Africa. Well, you coulda knocked me over with a feather. This morning, in my daily “DipBlog” from the State Department, sure enough, there it was, along with a link to an [...]

“Women Should Lose Themselves In Men” »

I know, not the kind of headline one might expect from me, to put it mildly. This is a quote from the following article, What women’s lib? 70 Percent Of Americans Think Women Should Take Spouse’s Name After Marriage. Say whaaa??
The results of this article came out the other day, though one [...]

Secretary Clinton’s Accomplishments in Africa Blunted by Junk Politics »

Judith Warner penned an excellent article in the NY Times on Friday, “Hillary Fights a Tide of Trivialization.” She speaks of the vital mission that Secretary Clinton was engaged in while touring Africa, to promote the rights of women and children and also build bonds with partners and allies. Warner points out the [...]

Milbank And Cillizza Video Series Canned »

Recently I had the following video in my post, “Hatred Rears Its Ugly Head.” It is the not-at-all-funny video of Chris Cilliza and Dana Milbank making a blatantly sexist statement, among other not-funny “entertainment”:

Hatred Rears Its Ugly Head »

You may have seen this report of Gay youth who were murdered in Tel Aviv:

The spontaneous march in response, the solidarity evident, brought tears to my eyes.
While we are on the subject of the GLBT community, as of this writing, according to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, 332 service members have been dismissed under DADT [...]

“Productive Women” And “Saving The Planet” »

I was taking a look at the news, how the House is trying to ram through Obama’s Health Care Initiatives before the recess, even if it means running over a bunch of Democrats to do it, much less people actually reading the damn thing, and all I could do was shake my head. I [...]

Pitcher Perfect »

For a bit of a departure from politics, I get to write about my other two loves, baseball, and soccer (aka, football). First to baseball:
This doesn’t happen very often. In fact, it has only happened EIGHTEEN TIMES EVER, including this game. A perfect game. Wow. It is not the same [...]

This Mouth is Mine »

(expanded and bumped up from the weekend)
As I read Amy Suskind’s excellent piece “Sit Down and Shut Up” on the marginalization of American women in politics, I couldn’t help thinking about all that the suffragettes endured – ridicule, beatings, and imprisonment in their quest to gain the right to vote for American women. [...]

161st Anniversary “Celebration” »

Sunday and Monday are the 161st Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first Women’s Rights Convention. As a refresher, here is a bit of history on that auspicious occasion:
The seed for the first Woman’s Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, [...]

After a Coup d’Etat at NOW, the Future of “Feminism” »

I am the president and co-founder of The New Agenda. This article was originally published at Huffington Post.
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It’s not personal, it’s business. Revenues have been decreasing at an escalating rate in all business lines. Major losses in the main subsidiary have been financed through intercompany borrowings. Despite the financial hemorrhage, management has been [...]

HEY LADIES—GET THE MESSAGE? »

Written by: Mary Ellen of Bad Habit

Personally, I’m not one to follow the Hollywood gossip news, my life has enough drama in it so I don’t need to watch it on TV. So, why am I bringing them up in my post? I’m doing it to show there seems to be an ongoing [...]

Well, That Ought To Learn Him… »

I saw this discussion on Kelly’s Court prior to the trial of Chris Brown, who was facing felony charges, possibly an attempted murder charge, against Rihanna. Let me go ahead and warn you now that the photos of Rihanna are graphic: