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                                      PM David Cameron (center)The Daily Beast just published an extract of a Daily Mail/UK article offering ample evidence the women are still held in thinly veiled contempt by some of their male counterparts:
British Prime Minister David Cameron is in the doghouse. In a bid not to alienate female voters, Cameron on Sunday apologized for comments he made to two female Parliament members that have been criticized as sexist. In April, Angela Eagle, Parliament’s …

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* Bumped Up at 4 p.m. ET Saturday — The walk and rally are going on right now! Check the evening news and give us reports! *
UPDATE from the Villages blog 29 minutes ago: “SlutWalk NYC Preparing to Take Over Union Square“ (Go to Runnin’ Scared for more Voice news coverage.) Included is this great video:

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Original post: Below the fold, I discuss the history of Saturday’s event and its …

Cross-posted from A Time For Choosing and the RuBegonia blogs.
KABC’s Victory Sessions ~ Stephen Bannon, co-host Amy Siskind & guests talk about this week’s treatment of Sarah Palin in the blogosphere

Sarah Palin [as the Republican nominee] would be the GOP Establishment™ Unemployment Act
~ Amy Siskind

By Gary P. Jackson
Host Steve BannonThis is a great two hours worth radio with hosts Stephen K Bannon and Amy Siskind. Guests include NY Times columnist Anand Giridharadas, Human Events editor Tony Lee, Real Clear Politics reporter Scott Conroy, Rob Port from Say Anything blog and …

Cross-posted from Riverdaughter blog with the express permission of the author. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
So, the truth comes out about what it’s like to work as a woman in the White House. In Ron Suskind’s new upcoming book, Confidence Men, Women in Obama’s White House felt excluded and ignored:
A new book claims that the Obama White House is a boys’ club marred by rampant infighting that has hindered the administration’s economic policy and left top female advisers …

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This Sunday morning offered sun and thriving green in northern New Mexico, after a week of low clouds and unusually heavy rains. I took a cup of coffee and a stack of work out to the deck and then found myself just sitting there, bathed in such an astonishing wash of contentment that I decided to retrieve my journal and explore it on paper. Only as I wrote down the date did I remember. …

A.P./Miami Herald: In this April 11, 2011, file photo, Elizabeth Warren, then-assistant to the President, speaks during a summit on consumer protection by the National Association of Attorneys General in Charlotte, N.C. The consumer advocate Warren is jumping into the Massachusetts race against Republican Sen. Scott Brown.Women across the nation are rallying to back Elizabeth Warren’s bid as the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, held by Teddy Kennedy for decades prior to his untimely death. In a 2010 special election that was widely viewed as …

Poring over the head-to-head match-ups looking for a divining rod for the election, most professional political pundits have declared that Romney is the “electable” Republican candidate.
What these analysts fail to acknowledge as they debate the tautological concept of “electability” (only by being elected can one be shown to be electable) is that the presidential contest will look completely different – different levels of turnout, different states in play, different kinds of media coverage – depending on which candidate wins the Republican nomination.
And the reality is this: If sexism doesn’t derail …

Sarah Palin had QUITE a day in Iowa on Saturday. That title of this post? That’s the headline of the story published in the Washington Times, in which lively reporter Eric Golub describes the day and the message:
Despite torrential rains, Sarah Palin lit up the Iowa sky and lit into the failed Obama presidency.
It was an honor to be one of her “opening” acts.
I met Governor Palin for the first time recently at the Iowa State Fair. She is every bit as genuine as I expected. She is …

Cross-posted from Taylor Marsh’s blog with her express permission. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
“… Without the women’s vote — because women comprise the majority of the electorate — it’s virtually impossible for a candidate to win the election.” – Jennifer Lawless, director of the Women and Politics Institute at American University

This is the alternate, political version of why buy the milk if the cow is free?, with the biggest feminist names in Democratic politics giving away their power …

 Last week, a friend sent me a fun bit of political humor (h/t S. Moss):
The movie Wizard of Oz is 72 years old.

Today, if Dorothy were to encounter Men
with no brains, no hearts, and no courage
She wouldn’t be in Oz …