Condoleezza, Please Baby Please…
Posted by Nyna
What beauty! What brains and intelligence! But Condi, you’re playing on the wrong team. You so eloquently stated that this was not 1968 when Russian tanks could invade a capital and get away with it. But how many people world-wide are believing that American forces can’t bomb and invade a country falsely […]
McCain fumbles on Gay Adoption
Two loving parents regardless of gender and sexual orientation DO HAVE value! Two parent families are good for America. AGREED, 1 female + another female = TWO Parent Family!
The Lambda Legal Defense Fund estimates 6 million to 10 million gay parents are caring for 6 million to 14 million children.
There are 119,000 children waiting to […]
How Long, O Lord?
Posted by Nyna
Now that the International Criminal Court has finally issued an arrest warrant for Omar Hassan al-Bashir, president of the Sudan, how much time must elapse before the women of Darfur actually feel the effects? After years of hemming and hawing and hand-wringing at the United Nations, (which has officially acknowledged over 400,000 deaths […]
Women Face Stoning Death In Iran
At least eight women and one man are reported to have been sentenced to death by stoning in Iran.
The group, convicted of adultery and sex offences, could be executed at any time, lawyers defending them say.
The lawyers have called on the head of Iran’s judiciary to prevent the sentences from being carried out.
The last officially […]
Nancy Pelosi Blames Bush and Cheney for Gas Prices
via (CNN) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday blamed the “two oil men in the White House,” President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, and their Republican allies in Congress for gas prices exceeding $4 a gallon.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she does not plan to permit a vote to lift a ban on […]
McCain Dodges the Birth Control Bullet
Republican Sen. John McCain resisted being dragged into a discussion last week about insurance companies that will cover erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra but not birth control products. “I certainly do not want to discuss that issue,” the presidential candidate said when a reporter asked him about it on his campaign bus. Carly […]
Air America’s Sweetheart
Since Rachel Maddow hit airwaves with her eponymous show on Air America in 2004, the former Rhodes Scholar has become one busy politico. Listeners can hear the 35-year-old California native play part logician and part devil’s advocate in the plum listening hours of 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. every Monday through Friday on XM Satellite […]
Female Heads of State: Who Are They, Where Are They?
We almost did it! France tried and failed. India did it years ago, as did Israel, Great Britain and the Philippines. So did Germany, Chile and Liberia. Even Pakistan. There are 42 countries that have had at least one woman as president or prime minister over the last half century. Here […]
Welcome Home Ingrid!
Posted by Nyna
We are so happy here in Paris to witness the return of Ingrid Betancourt, the Franco-Colombian politician, wife, and mother who had been held hostage by the FARC rebels for nearly seven years. I had just been standing in front of her photo hanging in front of the Hotel de Ville in Paris […]
Gay Marriages Begin In California
With a series of simple “I dos,” gay and lesbian couples across California inaugurated the state’s court-sanctioned and potentially short-lived experiment with same-sex marriage on Monday, the first of what are expected to be a crush of such unions in coming weeks.
In San Francisco, Del Martin, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 84, were the first and […]
