NOTE: A few days ago we published The X Factor, in which lifelong Democrat Lynette Long urged women to vote for McCain/Palin. For balance, we asked Ann Bartow of Feminist Law Professors to make the case for Barack Obama.
The New Agenda is non-partisan and does not endorse any candidate. The following is Ann Bartow’s personal opinion.
The President of the U.S. has a tremendous amount of authority over judicial appointments, over federal agencies, and often, over the success or failure of legislation. …

(Originally posted at Tennessee Guerilla Women)
What do Sarah Palin and Hillary Rodham Clinton have in common? The reptilian brain in charge of the national discourse can’t ensure that uppity women are literally burned at the stake these days, but it can do its damnedest to make Sarah into an extremist radical witch rivaled only by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Because it’s just not scary enough or entertaining enough that Sarah Palin is a Republican pol with all the usual Republican positions. (And some of her positions are remarkably similar …

(Originally posted at Peacocks and Lilies.)
They are so scared. More scared than they’ve been since Hillary Clinton moved into the White House. They do this every time they get this scared, and they never get this scared of a man. Other people might wonder how politics and the media can be filled with so many pearl-clutchers when there are so few women in either profession, but such is the case. Some might suggest these folks were a little too close to mamma to grow up to be functional men, if …

NOTE: The New Agenda is non-partisan, and does not endorse any candidate. The following is Dawn C’s personal opinion.
In recent days we’ve heard that Sarah Palin is a pit bull in lipstick, a barracuda, that the media are piranas salivating for a cat-fight between her and Hillary, that Obama called her a pig, and that he’s sent his wolves to destroy her.
With so many animal metaphors flying around, it’s hard to tell whether we’re supposed to see Sarah Palin as a tough, capable attack dog candidate who just happens …

(Originally posted at The Lurking Canary.)
As someone who spends much of her professional time working on policy issues surrounding sex education, I know how hard it is to find straight answers.
Ever since Senator McCain announced his choice of Governor Palin, and especially since the fact of Governor Palin’s imminent grandparenthood was revealed, we’ve heard over and over again about her support for abstinence-only sex education programs. Much of the shaming and blaming has been justified by pointing to Palin’s abstinence-only position. To back up the charge that …

Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann have been relegated to the news agency equivalent of the back bench for the duration of this election, after charges of media bias put their networks’ credibility in jeopardy. You can read the story in WaPo or the NYTimes.
The Obama campaign must be breathing a sigh of relief. After the outrage over the endless stream of sexist vitriol aimed at Hillary Clinton and the subsequent defection of as-yet-uncounted women from the Democratic Party, the Dems must have been cringing every time a left-wing media …

NOTE: The New Agenda is non-partisan, and does not endorse any candidate. The following is Dr. Lynette Long’s personal opinion.
Gloria Steinem, in her recent editorial in the Los Angeles Times, came out strongly against Governor Palin, claiming the only thing women have in common with Palin is an X chromosome. I respectfully disagree. Governor Palin knows what it is like to be a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister — things the two men on the Democratic ticket can never fully understand. She knows what it …

…ruthless, unyielding, self-serving, has a “wild temper”, and a “mean streak.”
No—I’m not talking about Hillary Clinton. It’s Sarah Palin they’re saying these things about (surprise!), and yet it sounds so like the things that were said about Clinton, that if the geography and names weren’t there to clue me in, I’d never know the difference.
And I’m not going to link to the blog where I read that, because I don’t want to give it any more exposure, but it’s likely this uppity-woman meme will spread, because it’s what they say …

Consider these headlines:

Experts Helping Palin Brush Up on Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, September 5, 2008
High-Profile Foreign Policy Experts Guide McCain, Obama, The Statesman, August 10, 2008
A Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy, The New York Times, July 18, 2008  
Obama’s Policy Team Loaded With All-Stars, Chicago Tribune, September 17, 2007
Obama Taps Influential Foreign Policy Experts, Chicago Sun-Times, May 10, 2007

The Washington Post‘s headline suggests Sarah Palin is being tutored by foreign policy experts, rather than being ”guided” or ”advised,” as John McCain and Barack Obama are. Even when Obama was a …

NOTE: The New Agenda is non-partisan, and does not endorse any candidate. The following is The Stiletto‘s personal opinion.
Sen. John McCain gave perhaps the best speech of his life. He was expressive, relaxed and very engaging, with much of his remarks devoted to a promise of a bi-partisan administration, and taking the Repub party back from Congressional legislators who had become corrupt, power-mad spendthrifts (you know who you are).
I cheered when he stuck it to those who questioned how Sarah Palin could raise a family of five children, including a …