On Tuesday, Bill Maher was politely confronted by Elizabeth Hasselbeck on ABC’s The View over his comments regarding reporter Lara Logan the year before.:
“…he [suggested] that after the horrendous sexual assault of a CBS News reporter, we should send Hasselbeck to Egypt.”
Though Hasselbeck is the token conservative on the show, I found it horrific that her sister cast members would not make any kind of a stand against this kind of despicable and violent rhetoric, whether or not these other women agreed with her politics. Maher basically suggested that …

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Here’s a riddle: What do Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Patty Murray have in common? Well, they all descend from royalty of course! Or at least that’s how their adversaries would classify them.
Elizabeth Warren was recently coined “Queen Elizabeth” by the Scott Brown campaign when they registered a ‘Queen Elizabeth Warren’ website in anticipation of the Senate race.
In a 2009 article, Andrew Sullivan mockingly referred to …

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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 …

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From FEMA's site, "The Heroes of 9/11" – this photo was selected to be featured in the section for children. Click the image to see FEMA’s site.

I was not in New York that day. I was getting ready to drop my four-month-old baby off at my parents’ so I could go to a luncheon with my former co-workers, in honor of my having worked for the company. It was just pizza and …

Republished from MORE magazine, September 10, 2011.
We go behind enemy lines for the real story.
It’s back-to-school time, which is exciting for the kids except for, oh yeah, all their anxiety over schedules, books, classes and clothing.  Yet those pale in comparison to what moms face coming back this week—another year on the PTA battlefield.

I’m a PTA mom in transition. I spent 19 years working on Wall Street. Three years ago, I left to raise my kids and became more involved with the PTA. Wall Street was easier. Hands down.

Having been …

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 …

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Marvell Scott, Reese On The Radio file photoYes, another clear-cut case of sexual assault has a man walking free without jail time. The accused pedophile, Marvell Scott, left his job as a sportscaster for WABC one year ago to return to being a full-time doctor. This week, he has pleaded guilty of misdemeanor for endangering the welfare of a child, a 14-year-old girl who has accused him of rape. Scott did not plead guilty to …

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Image from ucsdnews.ucsd.eduNext Monday night, HBO is showing a documentary called Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words. An activist, feminist, journalist and writer, Steinem co-founded Ms Magazine and spent her life advocating for women’s equality. Here’s her blog for more of her accomplishments towards this end.
The HBO special airs on the 18th at 9-10pm, and the Women’s Media Center has an entire page focused on it. Its objective is to get as many people to sit down …

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What’s this? Naomi Wolf, author of seminal feminist text The Beauty Myth, and more recently, boys’ club honorary member, seems to be exploring new ideas! We’ve long known that Naomi was a woman of strong passions, and so we heartily welcome her to our side.
She hasn’t always played on our team: after joyously championing the candidacy of Senator Barack Obama over his competitor Senator Hillary Clinton, proclaiming him “Christmas, and New Year’s, and …