During Tuesday night’s CNN-Western Republican Leadership Conference Debate in Las Vegas, presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) tried to appeal to the mothers of America, telling them, essentially, that she has their back when it comes to the ongoing national problem of high foreclosure rates.
Although some in GOP politics have called her actions “divisive,” freshman lawmaker and tea party favorite Kim Pearson is only making good on a promise.
As GOP presidential prospects prepare to announce their candidacies and eye the Hawkeye State for supporters, members of Iowa’s tea party movement are vetting which candidates will best carry their message of regaining fiscal responsibility and limiting government.
Yet, a highly decentralized movement and diversity of political interests within Iowa’s More…
Sen. Joe Bolkcom (D-Iowa City) said in a statement Tuesday he will introduce a new abortion bill this week aimed at prevening a Nebraska doctor from opening a family planning clinic in western Iowa that would offer late-term abortion services. Whether or not it will match Republican desires
The three Republican women in the Colorado state Senate this year have voted as a bloc in support of at least two big family-protection bills that their male Republican colleagues have opposed. Weeks ago, Sens Ellen Roberts, Nancy Spence and Jean White argued passionately from the right in favor of More…
At an event in Boca Raton, Fla., last week for conservative Christian women’s group Women Impacting the Nation (WIN), tea party favorite Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) said that liberal women are “neutering American men” and implied that they are the cause of America’s dire financial straits.
Nebraska lawmakers, it seems, only need one bill to accomplish what would take two in Iowa: The legalized killing of abortion providers.
The Nebraska legislation was introduced by state Sen. Mark Christensen, who opposes abortion regardless of circumstance, according to a report from Mother Jones. The bill, which More…
From today’s Wall Street Journal:
Women are fading from the U.S. finance industry.
In the past 10 years, 141,000 women, or 2.6 percent of female workers in finance, left the industry. The ranks of men grew by 389,000 in that period, or 9.6 percent, according to a review of
When the stimulus was the talk of the town, some women piped up to note that the stimulus funds were seemingly targeted at male unemployment, only to be told that men were disproportionately unemployed. And while there’s been plenty of reporting on how the stimulus has given More…
Here’s what Afghan President Hamid Karzai told Fareed Zakaria about the disgusting Afghan marital rape law:
“Now I have instructed, in consultation with clergy of the country, that the law be revised and any article that is not in keeping with the Afghan constitution and Islamic Sharia must
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