Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
By Gloria Steinem
September 4, 2008
Here’s the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that
even the anti-feminist right wing — the folks with a headlock on the
Republican Party — are trying to appease [...]
Let’s do a fact-check on “Straight-Talk†McCain:
1. He embraced Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson AFTER earlier calling them “agents of intolerance.â€
2. He supported making Bush’s tax cuts for the rich permanent AFTER he had voted against them at their inception.
3. He voted against an anti-torture bill AFTER he had been a vocal opponent of torture [...]
HOUSTON — President Bush agreed to “a general time horizon†for withdrawing American troops in Iraq, the White House announced Friday, in a concession that reflected both progress in stabilizing Iraq and the depth of political opposition to an open-ended military presence in Iraq and at home.
Mr. Bush, who has long derided timetables for troop [...]
In every poll taken since 9/11, Americans say they STILL view Republicans as the party better able to deal with terrorism and a national crisis, confirming (as if there were any doubt) that voters either suffer from severe amnesia, or else they are monumentally stupid.
Have they forgotten that it was the Republicans who were in [...]
It is noon on January 20th, 2009, and Barack Obama has just taken the oath of office as the 44th President of the United States.
He speaks:
“My fellow Americans, before I address you in my new role and give you my thoughts on this occasion, I want to acknowledge the gentleman seated in the [...]
Win or lose in November, this Associated Press piece raises some interesting questions about the meaning of the Obama phenomenon:
The entire nation and countless foreigners are absorbing a moment that had seemed decades away, if possible at all. Smart strategists and rank-and-file voters ponder how Obama rose so far so fast, and theories abound. Historians [...]