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Phenomenal Woman! And Man!
September 4, 2008
As anyone who saw it knows by now, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention tonight was electrifying, eloquent, and appropriately tough.
At long last, someone had the guts to drop the...
Her Competence and Integrity are What Count, but Governor Palin Should Update Her Look, Too
August 30, 2008
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...
Breaking the Silence to Aid Victims of Family Violence
August 26, 2008
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 East Sider who works...
Thank Heaven For Little Girls
August 20, 2008
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 –...
Thank Heaven For Little Girls
August 20, 2008
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...
Former Lost Boy of Sudan to Carry American Flag in 2008 Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony
August 8, 2008
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...
Don Quixote Comes to Israel
July 25, 2008
It is fitting Daniel Lubetzky would grow up to be an entrepreneur who tries to bring peace to the Middle East. He recalls how, one summer when he was 12 and working for a textile wholesaler in Mexico City, he overheard people on the...
Come Laugh at the New York City Dating Scene
July 14, 2008
For every woman who’s been fixed up once too many with a man who needed fixing, for every man who’s ever been fixed up with a woman in need of a psychiatric evaluation, for everyone who needs a laugh: have I got a treat for you! This...
Americans Are Fed Up With Energy Inaction–Give Us a New Manhattan Project
July 10, 2008
This terrific video comes to me courtesy of my friend Dave Reaboi at the Center for Security Policy in Washington D.C. It really hits home. The time is long overdue for both Democrats and Republicans to get serious about new energy policy. Time...
La Plus C’est Change, la Plus C’est la Meme Chose
July 1, 2008
This interview from 1958 of the great Abba Eban, at that time Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. and its chief delegate to the U.N., provides eye-opening perspective on Israel’s enemies and detractors, as well as its...