Last week, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) demanded Republicans take down a “Slap Hillary” game the GOP had no part in creating. The website was put up by an independent group called The Hillary Project. “‘Slap Hillary’ site isn’t
India has been plagued with rape cases in the last year. Most notably, a woman was gang-raped in New Delhi and died 13 days later from her injuries. However, that is only the tip of the iceberg because over 60
Yesterday, Dave Weigel at Slate spun the San Diego Mayor Bob Filner sexual harassment story by saying Filner only groped women in San Diego, never in Washington DC. Now that thirteen women have come forward, revealing physical groping or verbal
In response to Why the GOP’s ‘War on Women’ Riposte Makes Sense: “Populist outrage first, policy backstopping afterwards” is very well-put. It’s another way of emphasizing the importance of political narratives, especially in a short-attention-span, low-information political culture. Of course
Over at the Atlantic Garance Franke-Ruta has a thoughtful article arguing that the GOP’s current “war on women” response is ill-considered at best. Five different Republican committees this morning released a joint memo pushing back on the “Democrats’ War on
As Republicans fight to retake control of the Senate in the 2014 midterm elections, the specter of Bill (BJ) Clinton looms as “a popular, vote-getting, fundraising-powerhouse threat to their aspirations.” Enter Anthony Weiner, whose lewd and lascivious online buffoonery threatens
Francine Busby, Chair of that San Diego Democrat Party, told the New York Times that the party was giving Mayor Filner the “benefit of doubt” because they were so excited to have someone in office pushing a progressive agenda. “Democrats
Mind you, this story has been big for about two weeks. But they refused to cover it earlier– doing so might have cast the party fighting the War on Women in a bad light. Might have made them look like,
Apparently you can grope three women, but when the number threatens to hit the double digits, the San Diego Democratic Party, part of the militia auxiliaries in the ongoing fight against the War On Women, will step in to unambiguously
Now that the running tally on women who have publicly alleged harassment against Mayor ‘Filthy Filner’ has risen to THREE, the San Diego Democrats will meet today to “work out its stance on the political future” of the Mayor. Again. The
Democrats, especially female members, piled on Republicans like Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), Mitt Romney, and Rush Limbaugh in 2012, accusing them of insensitivity and waging a so-called war on women. But as even the left-leaning BuzzFeed has observed, female Democrats
“They’re running four perverts for public office in New York City,” said New York State Republican Party Executive Director Michael Lawler to Breitbart News on Wednesday. In the midst of more sex chats and pics that surfaced from former New
Today Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed into law a pro-life bill which will very likely be upheld by the Supreme Court. The law disallows most abortions after 20 weeks, the point by which an unborn child can fully feel physical
Women leaders in the Democratic Party have remained silent on San Diego Mayor Bob Filner’s admission he has sexually harassed women in his office and needs to seek help to change his ways. “I’m clearly doing something wrong,” Filner, a
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Hobby Lobby, and its sister company, Mardel bookstores should be allowed to seek exception from the part of the ObamaCare mandate that violates their religious beliefs. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver
On Wednesday, Democrats seeking to revive the war on women meme latched onto comments by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), who said that “the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low.” The comment came in the context of a
A new poll from Suffolk University finds Gabriel Gomez gaining considerable ground against Democrat Rep. Ed Markey in the special Senate election. Last month, Markey led Gomez by 17 points in the poll. Today, he leads by just 7 points.
Spooked that Democrat candidate Rep. Ed Markey holds only a slim lead over his Republican challenger, Gabriel Gomez, national Democrats are pouring money into the race. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is blitzing Massachusetts with a $700,000 ad buy attacking
On Thursday, during a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on a new bill to ban abortions in the United States after 20 weeks of pregnancy, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) continued the abortion advocates’ illogical position that funding a “Planned Parenthood clinic
The current Cannes Film Festival lineup features one female director competing for the coveted Palme d’Or, but that’s an improvement from last year when no women directors had such a chance. Meanwhile, roles for women in Hollywood are drying up,
During the 2012 election we heard about “Julia,” the woman who benefited from government programs or more specifically from President Obama being in office. What we didn’t hear (because Republicans failed to make the case) was the harm that big
On Friday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, honoring her dual mandate to pitch Obamacare as hard as humanly possible and forward the administration’s “war on women” meme, tweeted about the glories of the new bureaucracy: Actually, being a
Dick Harpootlian, the comically nasty dinosaur who headed up South Carolina’s Democrat Party until last Friday, doesn’t like Republican governor Nikki Haley very much. In fact, at the Democrat convention last year, he compared her to Hitler’s mistress, Eva Braun.
Using a quickly-mobilized email campaign, a pro-life organization in Waco, Texas, succeeded in ousting Planned Parenthood as a featured presenter for “Girls Day 2013,” a YMCA educational program for girls of ages 9 and up. According to LifeSiteNews, pro-life activists
Emily’s List, an influential progressive pro-choice group, will announce next week the first national campaign to elect a woman to the White House in 2016. Emily’s List President Stephanie Schriock said the group was “ready to put a Democratic woman in
