The Curse of the Wow Factor
by New York Times Columnist Gail Collins In the middle of 2008, Hillary Clinton transformed herself from a perfectly-fine-but-slightly-boring presidential candidate to a really terrific campaigner. This all happened too late to…
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Daily KOS/SheKOS Diary: DNC Needs to include electing women in platform
From SheKos’s diary Huh. Guess there’s nothing actually in the platform about party outreach towards fielding more female candidates. (For the record, the passages on grooming more minority and LGBT Democratic candidates are…
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NPR Ranks the Top 10 Senate Primary Races; Includes Four Women
National Public Radio’s (NPR) political junkie, Ken Rudin has ranked the top ten U.S. Senate primaries coming up in May and June, and the list includes just four women. Arkansas Senator, Democrat…
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A Nope for Pope: Maureen Dowd Takes on Catholic Church
By MAUREEN DOWD, New York Times Op-ed Columnist Yup, we need a Nope. A nun who is pope. The Catholic Church can never recover as long as its Holy Shepherd is seen…
Read MoreLake County Florida Democratic Women Holding Campaign Training Seminar
The Democratic Woman’s Club of Lake County Florida are hosting a seminar entitled RUN JANE RUN, to teach Democratic women about how to run for public office. The seminar is Saturday, April…
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The Iron Lady of Politics – Nancy Pelosi
by Attorney, Michael Yaki When the pundits claimed that the Democrats were too fractious to unite behind a single health care bill, one person calmly said it would not only be possible,…
Read MoreThe Future of Black Women In Politics
In 2010, black politics is often written in male faces. Tomorrow, women may be the torchbearers of black political power. Today’s pantheon of African-American political talent begins with President Barack Obama, who…
Read MoreIndia’s Parliament Approves Quotas to Improve Women’s Political Participation
“This is a momentous development in the long journey of empowering our women,” said India’s Prime Minster Manmohan Singh, speaking after the upper house of India’s parliament approved a historic bill that…
Read MoreJuanita Goggins Dead: Once-Revered SC Lawmaker Freezes To Death Alone
When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer and twice visited the president at the White House. Three…
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