Ellen Moran
We have just learned that Ellen Moran, President Obama’s Communications Director, has been given her packing papers.  Didn’t last long.  Ellen was the only woman on the President Obama’s communications team.
Ellen was formerly at Emily’s List.  Ellen was a voracious advocate for Obama in his campaign run.
We wonder what happened?  Did she tick Larry off?  Couldn’t deflect all those stories about the $8 million in 2008 bonuses and the bungling of the economy underway?
Or are women simply held to a completely different standard?  And when a scapegoat is …

Yesterday Fortune Magazine came out with a story titled: Fortune 500 CEOs: Women on the rise. The story posits:
But the news about women is positive: A record 15 female CEOs populate the latest Fortune 500.
Excuse me for being one to rain on the parade; but I find it hard to get too excited about this notion. After all, only 15 of the 500 CEOs are women – this means that 485 of the CEOs are men. So we get up to 3% and this is …

Many of us have been following the situation for women in Afghanistan where a new law passed by Parliament and signed by President Karzai would forbid women from leaving the house without their husbands’ permission and legalizing marital rape. Brave women in Afghanistan took to the streets last week to march in protest.
Yesterday, I received a bright bit of news courtesy of a new group called NoLimits.org. The letter was from Ann Lewis and here’s what she had to say (emphasis added):
Women Senators have spoken up: a bipartisan …

Dear Members,
On April 18th, your organization held its second Founders Meeting. Founders flew into New York City from all over the country to spend the day with our sleeves rolled up and our heads together. So much has happened since our organization first formed eight months ago, and it was time to plan our way forward.
As with our first meeting in August, the outcome of this meeting was revolutionary. You will see some major changes in your organization going forward.
I would like to highlight some of the exciting outcomes …

Chewing the Fat with Ophelia will be guest-hosted tomorrow night by Lisa Macci, a co-founder of The New Agenda and the host of The Justice Hour on WPBR 1340 am.
Joe Soll, the author of Adoption Healing… a path to recovery and co-author of Evil Exchange, is a psychotherapist and lecturer internationally recognized as an expert in adoption related issues. He is director and co-founder of Adoption Crossroads, an international, non-profit organization consisting of over 470 adoption agencies, mental health institutions and adoption search and support groups in 8 …

Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent

A few hours after Susan Boyle stunned audiences on Britain’s Got Talent, a commenter at my blog posted the link. “Have you seen this?” she asked. Six days later, everyone has seen it. Everyone with a TV or an internet connection, that is.
When I first watched the clip, I was disturbed by the audience’s initial eye-rolling and derisive laughter. This, I thought, is why I have so little tolerance for pop culture. The twits were laughing at Susan Boyle for …

 
It was two years ago today that Seung-Hui Cho went on his murder spree at Virginia Tech, killing 32 people, wounding 17 others, and finally turning the gun on himself. It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
A few days after the massacre, Sarah Baxter put her finger on what was troubling Cho in an article that must surely rank as one of the most brutally inane things ever published by the Times: it was feminism made him do it! What the shooting revealed, said Sarah, was “the crisis …

Editor’s note: We are pleased to present this guest post by Bill H, who’s known around the internet as run75441, and who can usually be found writing in his area of expertise: finance.
Recently, Stanford Magazine did a nice article on one of the University’s former law review presidents who graduated at the top of the 1964 class. The first female to hold either distinction of graduating first in her class and also as president of the school’s Law Review. “Prophet and Loss.” April 2009.
“Well, you probably will always believe there …

Burger King Gone Wild? And in a prime time commercial for our young children to see?
The New Agenda says: No how! No way! NO SALE!
In the 30-second TV commercial that began airing last week, the Burger King performs a take-off on Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back,” the original lyrics to which were “I like big butts…with that butt you got me so horny.” In the commercial, the lyrics are:
Burger King:
I like square butts and I cannot lie,
Squid and Sea Star can’t deny.
When a sponge walks in, four …

Rear Admiral Michelle Howard
Just  three days after Rear Admiral Michelle Howard assumed command of the Navy’s anti-piracy task force, Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama.  Howard, who in 1999 became the first African American woman to command a U.S. Navy ship, now leads the Expeditionary Strike Group 2 and the international Combined Task Force 151, which includes the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer, onto which Maersk’s Captain Richard Philips was transferred after his rescue.  When she took command, Howard said , “My top priority right now is to deter piracy …