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Politico reporting:
Levi Johnston is making light — and a new career as a pistachio pitchman — out of his talent for siring a son out of wedlock…
In a real classy move, Johnston munches a nut in an ad for a pistachio company’s “Get Crackin’” campaign with a burly bodyguard. The voice-over: “Now Levi Johnston does it with protection.”

Get an ounce of class Levi!

The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind will appear on America’s Morning News, The Washington Times radio show tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. EST.
Ms. Siskind will be discussing her Daily Beast op-ed Should Women Back Palin in 2012? and talk about the importance of women’s advocacy groups working with Republican women candidates on women’s issues.
You can find information on your local radio affiliate here.

Read Amy Siskind’s op-ed Should Women Back Palin in 2012? at The Daily Beast.

As the Senate Finance Committee moves to pass health-care legislation this week, reproductive rights has been all but sidelined as an issue by the Obama administration. Should we therefore be surprised by a stunning Pew Research Center poll last week which revealed that 42 percent of Americans don’t know that Obama is pro-choice. Maybe it’s time that women gave Sarah Palin another look. Palin, back in the headlines for rushing out a new book ahead of …

Cokie Roberts said what needs to be said yesterday on ABC:

This past week The New Agenda started to bring people to say that it’s not all right to take advantage of young women and girls by putting a petition up on their site asking that Roman Polanski be jailed for a crime that he committed in the ‘70s.
People that support Polanski’s charges being dropped have been arguing that it is a crime that took place so long ago that it should be forgotten.  They argue that the ‘70s was a time of promiscuity and lots of illicit drug use.
Should that …

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
In everyday life, in conversations and in big politics the topic of sexual violence is usually not a really big theme and hardly ever mentioned. It is kind of counter intuitive to the youth culture where sex = fun. The part of sex as power tool is blended out. And if a particular bad case rises to the surface as with the Polanski capture in Switzerland (see previous blog by …

The New Agenda congratulates Attorney General Martha Coakley for raising more than $2 million in her first month as a candidate for MA Senator. The opinions expressed herein and those of the author and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
Martha Coakley was born in 1953, as stated on page six of her Bar Application. After growing up in Pittsfield and North Adams, Massachusetts, she went to Williams College and graduated in 1975 and moved to Boston University School of Law. In 1979, she began her work with the …

At a school event tonight, a dad named Darren started chatting with me about the Polanski Rape. Darren was a bit coy at first because he assumed that since traditionally I have (past tense) voted Democrat, that I would stick up for Polanski. After all, just as Wall Street is viewed as aligned with “the Right,” Hollywood is viewed as “the Left.”
Which got me wondering: what values does Hollywood exactly represent that gives them the privilege of being associated with anything political? Or is their political …

The following is an excerpt from an article in The Smoking Gun which details testimony in the 1977 case of The People of the State of California vs. Roman Raymond Polanski.  Trial transcripts can also be found here.

Two weeks after Polanski plied her with Champagne and a Quaalude, Samantha Gailey appeared before an L.A. grand jury and recalled Polanski’s predatory behavior in a Mulholland Canyon home owned by Jack Nicholson.
The teenager’s troubling–and contemporaneous–account of her abuse at Polanski’s hands begins with her posing twice for topless photos that the director …