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Most Offensive Campaign Ad Against Women Ever!
Salon – A screengrab from the Turn Right USA ad targeting Janice Hahn who is running for Congress in California. The creator of a deliberately offensive ad portraying a female congressional candidate as a stripper and featuring two black men holding guns and repeatedly screaming, “Give me your cash, bitch!” is refusing to apologize to critics…
Read MoreRep. Michele Bachmann, Mother of 28 Children, Enters Race for President
Huffington Post – MANCHESTER, N.H. — Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota has formally entered the presidential race. The tea party favorite announced Monday that she has filed papers to kick off her bid for the GOP nomination to challenge President Barack Obama next year. Her comments came in the opening minutes of a televised…
Read MoreCivil rights activist Clara Luper dead at 88
(CNN) — Oklahoma civil rights activist and educator Clara Luper — was best known for organizing a 1958 sit-in at a segregated Katz Drug Store in downtown Oklahoma City — died Wednesday night at her home in Oklahoma City. She was 88. Luper, who was celebrated as a pioneer of civil rights in Oklahoma, organzied…
Read MoreCongresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ Staff Gives Candid Account of Her Condition
Arizona Republic – Pia Carusone knew the day would come when the questions about her boss, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, would become more indelicate. After answering some of those questions, Carusone, Giffords’ chief of staff, told me: “We want to give people a clear picture (about Giffords). It’s not in anyone’s interest to have anyone feel…
Read MoreHillary Clinton and Angela Merkel joke about their love of pantsuits
It’s no secret Hillary Clinton loves a good pantsuit. Clinton, who possesses them in virtually every color of the rainbow, has made suits her fashion uniform of choice during her time in the public eye. And so prior to yesterday’s state dinner, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is herself a pantsuit fan, poked some gentle fun…
Read MoreChina’s Li Na Wins French Open
PARIS — Which woman had the weight of China on her shoulders? It was easy to get confused on Saturday with Francesca Schiavone more on edge and off target than Li Na for much of the French Open final. But Li, not Schiavone, was the long-aspiring veteran trying to become the first player from her country…
Read MoreJustice for Jaycee – 431 years for kidnapper and rapist
An 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped on a street in her neighborhood and was held against her will as sex slave for 18 years until she was discovered and rescued in 2009. Yesterday, her tormentors were sentenced to life in prison and given the maximum sentence by the judge. Jaycee’s mother read a victim impact…
Read MoreNew York Times Appoints First Female Editor – Jill Abramson
New York Times – Jill Abramson, a former investigative reporter who rose to prominence as a Washington correspondent and editor, will become the next executive editor of The New York Times, succeeding Bill Keller, who is stepping down to become a full-time writer for the paper. Ms. Abramson has been one of Mr. Keller’s two top…
Read MoreObama Campaign of 2012: Not such a boys’ club
POLITICO- The 2008 Obama campaign may have epitomized racial diversity, but gender was another story. While Hillary Clinton was defining a new place for women in politics two decades after a woman ran Michael Dukakis’s 1988 presidential campaign, the three most visible figures for Barack Obama — David Plouffe, David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs — were…
Read MoreFemale Physicians Changing the Politics of Medicine
New York Times – AUGUSTA, Me. — With Republicans in complete control of Maine’s state government for the first time since 1962, State Senator Lois A. Snowe-Mello offered a bill in February to limit doctors’ liability that she was sure the powerful doctors’ lobby would cheer. Instead, it asked her to shelve the measure. “It was…
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