Why Do Feminists Reject Margaret Thatcher?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 2nd, 2012 5:31 am by HL
Why Do Feminists Reject Margaret Thatcher?
Kyle Smith, New York Post
When it comes to the feminist version of history (sorry — herstory!), it’s hurrah for Gloria Steinem. She started a magazine nobody ever read. And cheers for Billie Jean King, the tennis player who proved a young professional athlete could beat a 55-year-old slob.Give it up for Indira Gandhi and Hillary Clinton, who proved that you could sweep into power on the coattails of your dad or husband, and by all means let us celebrate Oprah Winfrey, who proved that you could spin mystical mumbo-jumbo, airy empowerment talk and perpetual wounded victimhood into a billion-dollar…
Washington Is in a Cocoon of Denial
Mark Steyn, Investor’s Business Daily
Ring out the new, ring in the old. No, hang on, that should be the other way around, shouldn't it?Not as far as 2011 was concerned. The year began with a tea-powered Republican caucus taking control of the House of Representatives and pledging to rein in spendaholic government. It ended with President Obama making a pro forma request for a mere $1.2 trillion increase in the debt ceiling. This will raise government debt to $16.4 trillion "” a new world record! If only until he demands the next debt-ceiling increase in three months' time.
President’s Support Falters in Iowa
Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa — Bobby Burns has had a dramatic change of heart.Burns, 23, was one of those young people swept up in Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Three years and one college degree later, he cannot imagine a scenario in which he would consider voting for the president's re-election.”I guess you could say I have seen the light,” he said.On Tuesday he will caucus in a precinct right down the road from where he grew up. His vote will go for Mitt Romney.Davenport is 60 miles east of here along Interstate 80, past two closed service-station interchanges and…
Obama Faces Re-Election as a Mortal
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Four years ago this week, a young and inspirational senator who promised to turn history's page swept the Iowa caucuses and began his irresistible rise to the White House.Barack Obama was unlike any candidate the country had seen before. More than a mere politician, he became a cultural icon, “the biggest celebrity in the world,” as a John McCain ad accurately if mischievously described him. He was the object of near adoration among the young, launching what often felt like a religious revival. Artists poured out musical compositions devoted to his victory in a…
