In complaining that Senator John McCain is making a cynical choice to appeal to women and Evangelical voters in choosing as his running mate Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, critics are saying a great deal more about themselves than about Governor Palin.
It’s no wonder some leftists are exercised. In many cases, they …
By HEATHER ROBINSON
A survivor of domestic violence and rape, Katarina Tepesh has spent much of her adulthood trying to forget.
But after Sept. 11, the 58-year-old Croatian, who immigrated to New York at 17, started trying to remember.
An upper …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Overlooked in the controversy over whether China’s women gymnasts - including He Kexin, winner of this week’s tiebreaker for the gold medal in uneven parallel bars - are of age (16, as required by the International Olympic Committee to compete in the Olympic Games) is a …
If you’re watching this year’s 2008 Olympic Games (NBC will broadcast from Beijing starting Friday August 8 at 7:30), be sure to look out for former Sudanese refugee and “lost boy” Lopez Lamong. A Southern Sudanese Christian who as a boy ran for his life from genocidal war that pitted the Arab Islamist government …
Thank Heaven For Little Girls
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Overlooked in the controversy over whether China’s women gymnasts - including He Kexin, winner of this week’s tiebreaker for the gold medal in uneven parallel bars - are of age (16, as required by the International Olympic Committee to compete in the …