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Two women will likely square off for West Virginia’s Senate seat
Archive for the ‘Women’ Category
August 20th, 2013
Category: Women
Women’s issues may be an increasingly important factor in determining which politicians appeal to senior citizens
June 30th, 2013
Category: Politics and Leadership, Women
Allison Pearson holds nothing back in diagnosing the destruction of Australian PM Julia Gillard. Pearson argues that the Rubicon was crossed when Gillard ripped into opposition leader Tony Abbott for his misogyny: It took nine months for Julia Gillard to be ousted, but she signed her political death warrant that day, when she stopped playing [...]
May 20th, 2013
Tomorrow, Los Angeles voters go to the polls to elect a new Mayor. (At least a few of them, anyway: current estimates predict onyl 25% turnout, about which more later). In September, New Yorkers will do the same. And depending upon the way things turn out, political and cultural reporters could have a field day. [...]
November 1st, 2012
The right to choose is more than a slogan. It’s the right to be treated with dignity as people face some of the most intimate and difficult moments in life.
April 21st, 2012
When I was a brand new baby lawyer in my twenties, I could not fathom sexual harassment. I got the point that a law school diploma and an admission to the bar were meaningless in the face of my complete lack of knowledge about how the real work of lawyering was done. I understood [...]
March 26th, 2012
Five suggestions for the future to the new starlet of the Russian opposition.
March 16th, 2012
Category: Watching Conservatives, Women
There’s a difference between voting for a vicious law and being a vicious person.
March 4th, 2012
Limbaugh’s website has “A Statement from Rush” that has been widely misreported as an apology for his now-famous sliming of Ms. Fluke. The original piece of schweinerei has to my knowledge attracted a clear, unambiguous condemnation from three (3) Republicans of any note: George Will, Peggy Noonan, and a senator in a tight Massachusetts race. [...]
