"Clinton presented [Russian Foreign Minister] Lavrov with a gift-wrapped red button, which said "Reset" in English and "Peregruzka" in Russian. The problem was, "peregruzka" doesn't mean reset. It means overcharged, or overloaded. "
CNN has confirmed the cancellation of D.L. Hughley Breaks the News, saying a "new role" has been agreed upon for Hughley.
Read Phyllis Schlafly's latest column (click the headline).
"Poor Annie has completely lost it. Cornell diplomas don't make any reference to individual college or major. They're Cornell diplomas. Mine looks exactly like hers, only if she was an out-of-stater she probably paid 8-10 times what I did for mine. And the premise of the University is that anybody can take almost any course. Nearly half of mine were in "her" Arts College. And this is the first time since I went there in 1975 that I've ever seen a Cornellian rag on all the other colleges. It's a long way to go just to rationalize Limbaugh not knowing the Constitution from the Declaration of Independence."
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former top Bush aides Karl Rove and Harriet Miers agreed Wednesday to testify before Congress under oath about the firings of U.S. attorneys, a controversy involving allegations of political interference that grew into a constitutional standoff between two branches of government.
The Bush White House had fought attempts to force Rove and Miers to testify, and the agreement - steered by aides to President Barack Obama - ended that dispute. Both the White House and lawmakers, especially now that Democrat Obama has replaced Republican George W. Bush - were leery of having a judge settle the question about the limits of executive privilege, for fear of losing.
The agreement calls for Rove and Miers, Bush's top political adviser and White House counsel, to be interviewed by the House Judiciary Committee in closed depositions "under the penalty for perjury," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich. The committee says it also might call the two for public testimony.
Mrs. Bush is recovering after a successful open hear surgery which replaced her aortic valve. It was a scheduled operation following reported shortness of breath by the fmr. FLOTUS. She was diagnosed with a hardening of the aorta. A full recovery is expected.
"MIAMI - An abortion clinic owner is accused of delivering a live baby during a botched procedure and then throwing the infant away.
Belkis Gonzalez, 42, was arrested Tuesday and charged with practicing medicine without a license and tampering with evidence, both felonies, said Ed Griffith, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office. If found guilty, Gonzalez would face at least a year in prison and up to 15 years."
"At 23 weeks, an otherwise healthy fetus would have a slim but legitimate chance of survival. Quadruplets born at 23 weeks last year at The Nebraska Medical Center survived.
An autopsy determined Williams' baby - she named her Shanice - had filled her lungs with air, meaning she had been born alive, according to the Department of Health. The cause of death was listed as extreme prematurity."
"'It really disturbed me,' said Joanne Sterner, president of the Broward County chapter of the National Organization for Women, after reviewing the administrative complaint against Renelique. 'I know that there are clinics out there like this. And I hope that we can keep (women) from going to these types of clinics.'
"The strategy took shape after Democratic strategists Stanley Greenberg and James Carville included Limbaugh’s name in an October poll and learned their longtime tormentor was deeply unpopular with many Americans, especially younger voters. Then the conservative talk-radio host emerged as an unapologetic critic of Barack Obama shortly before his inauguration, when even many Republicans were showering him with praise.
Soon it clicked: Democrats realized they could roll out a new GOP bogeyman for the post-Bush era by turning to an old one in Limbaugh, a polarizing figure since he rose to prominence in the 1990s. "
"The patently unconstitutional bill to give the District of Columbia a voting representative in the House of Representatives was pulled off the House calendar because - according to one House Republican leadership source - they feared that the so-called Blue Dog Democrats would not support it."
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Terribly missed at this past weekend's CPAC was Phyllis Schlafly. Schlafly is the founder of Eagle Forum and is credited (deservedly so) with defeating the Equal Rights Amendment in a 10 year battle from 1972 t0 1982.A Woman Who Deserves Recognition
Posted: 3/15/07March is Women's History Month, or as the National Organization for Women (NOW) is calling it, National "Herstory" Month. The month of March will be used by women's centers and women's organizations across the country to celebrate their history and the history of women who have had an impact on society. Places like the Women's Center on campus and organizations like NOW will celebrate women's role models like Gloria Steinem and landmarks in their history - like the decision to remove abortion from the jurisdiction of the states in Roe v. Wade.
Unfortunately on campus, and from organizations like NOW, you will never hear the stories of many women who have made more of an impact on this country other than Maureen Dowd's columns in The New York Times have. You'll hear about Madeline Albright but you won't read a thing about Condoleezza Rice. You will never see women who celebrate motherhood and the family, and who oppose abortion and don't agree with the feminist agenda celebrated by these organizations that purport to honor and speak for all women.
One woman that you will never hear about on virtually any college campus during Women's "Herstory" month is Phyllis Schlafly. Schlafly, who will turn 83 this August, should be an icon to anyone who wishes to celebrate influential women in society. Unfortunately, people will never read about her in Vanity Fair, she won't be celebrated on "The View", or on "The Today Show," because she raised a family and opposed feminist action in the 1960s and 1970s. Since you won't ever read about Schlafly in any literature from women's center, I've decided to write about her today.
Schlafly grew up during the Great Depression, during which both of her parents worked. Her mother made sure that Schlafly would get an education working long hours to send her to a Catholic girls' school. However, money for higher education was not an option. Despite this, Schlafly enrolled in Washington University in St. Louis and put herself through college by working the night shift as a laboratory technician testing ammunition by firing rifles and machine guns. After graduating in 1944 with final honors, Schlafly went on to earn her Master's degree in political science/government from Harvard University. At the end of her time there, her professors were encouraging Schlafly to apply to Harvard Law School despite the fact that the law school was not accepting women yet. However, at that time, Schlafly, having no interest in attending law school, declined to apply. When she was in her 50s Schlafly would get her degree from Washington University Law School after feminists would assail her for not having a law degree.
Schlafly would instead marry and begin her family, but family life would in no way slow down Schlafly's drive. In 1952, in time for the Republican National Convention, Schlafly would write and self-publish her first book, "A Choice Not an Echo," an account and criticism of how the Republican Party had abandoned its conservative principles and how its conventions had been hijacked by the "Rockefeller" Republicans (the predecessors to today's "New England" Republicans). While the average nonfiction book sells 500,000 copies, Schlafly's self-published rebuke of the direction of the Republican Party would sell three million copies and would deliver the Republican Party's presidential nomination to Barry Goldwater. Despite Goldwater's loss in the general election, most historians recognize that "A Choice Not an Echo" was responsible for changing the Republican Party forever and for making a Ronald Reagan Presidency possible.
Schlafly would go on to co-author several books with Admiral Chester Ward about foreign policy including "the Gravediggers" and "Kissinger on the Couch," which detailed the inadequacies of Henry Kissinger's policies. During this time in the 60s, while early feminists were debating whether or not the bra was a symbol of a patriarchal society, Schlafly continued to be a vocal proponent of things like a missile defense shield - a topic very hotly debated in the midst of the Cold War.
Then in December 1971, what should be a day of infamy for feminists, the Source Library was looking for someone to oppose the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in one of its many debates to be broadcast on the radio. The only problem was that they could not find someone to oppose the issue. A friend of Schlafly suggested her for the debate. Here, history almost skipped a beat. Schlafly declined the debate and told them to call her if they ever ran a debate on national defense. Her friend implored her to simply read the amendment and then reconsider. Schlafly gave in, read the amendment, was understandably horrified and thus entered the debate. The feminists had no clue what they had just done to themselves. When Schlafly entered the debate on the ERA, the amendment had passed in the Senate (84 to 8) and in the House (354 to 23). It had been ratified by 30 states in the year since its approval and would need only eight more to be added to the Constitution. Schlafly would stop it in its tracks. She built a grassroots army of women and together they exposed just what the ERA would do to the legal structure of the country and how it would be detrimental to women. In the next nine years, five states would ratify the amendment. However, Schlafly's army convinced five other legislatures to rescind their ratification. The ERA had been beaten by Schlafly.
Schlafly has not slowed down since then. She is a delegate to every Republican Convention and is credited with authoring many parts of the Republican platform. Today, her brain child - the Eagle Forum - has thousands of members. Schlafly has authored or edited 20 books in total. She writes a syndicated column that appears in over 100 newspapers. She also delivers daily radio commentaries and weekly radio addresses on the status of education in the country. In addition for the past 38 years, she has authored a monthly newsletter called "The Phyllis Schlafly Report." She also leads the fight to secure our country's borders and still fights on behalf of the family and against detrimental feminist policies.
Despite all of her accomplishments, the most telling part of Schlafly's personality is the part of her biography that she is most proud of - in 1992 she was named the Illinois "Mother of the Year."
Schlafly is an example of what feminists wish they could be and more. She is an accomplished mother and the prime example that women can have it all. She is a lawyer, activist, a mother and she did not need the ERA to tell her that she could do it. She is an inspiration to women everywhere, but unfortunately the places that exist on our campus and the organizations that exist across the country that purport to empower and speak for all women will never tell her story.
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