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Valentine's Dinner Odds in Blizzard Season
Scott Brown and the Palin Path: Will He Choose Brassy or Boring?
Democrats Leave Health Care Behind for Jobs, Toyota, Gays in Military
Murtha Turned Against War, but Not Grab-While-You-Can Politics
Rep. John Murtha, Advocate for Pa. District, Pentagon, Dies at 77
Liz Christman, Enemy of the Passive Voice, Who Rocked Some Jaunty Hats
Is Obama's Search for 'Common Ground' Real?- Tim Tebow's Brilliant Fake Leads to Pro-Life Score
'Snowmageddon' in D.C. -- The Politics, Talk Shows and Snowball Fights Go On
Sarah Palin Serves Tea Party Delegates Red Meat and Certainty
My Left Breast Put Fancy TSA Scanner to the Test
From a Grass Roots Tea Party, a PAC Blooms
Liz Christman, Enemy of the Passive Voice, Who Rocked Some Jaunty Hats
By Melinda Henneberger
My writing teacher and friend Elizabeth Christman, who wore a spiffy new suit and hat on the first day of every semester and was one of the finest humans ever, died last week at age 96. To be honest, I am completely bereft. Miss Christman, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, was a literary agent in New York who read "The Catcher in the Rye" when it was still in manuscript form, and once took Agatha Christie shopping for a bathing suit. But that was before she went back to school at the unheard of age of 52, to pursue a doctorate and a dream -- to teach ...
On Super Bowl Sunday, Woman UP with Obama, Katie, and the Tebows
By Melinda Henneberger
Today on Politics Daily's all-woman online Sunday show, Woman UP, Patricia Murphy, Ria Misra, Helena Andrews, Bonnie Erbe' and I discuss life with the Tebows, gay dating with Mancrunch, and a new study that suggests abstinence-only pregnancy-prevention programs might work a lot better than we thought. (And isn't that good news? Then why aren't we smiling?) ...
Mass. State Senate President Therese Murray Responds to EMILY's List Criticism
By Melinda Henneberger
In the interest of furthering debate and examination of key political issues, below is a response from Massachusetts state Senate President Therese Murray to an article by Jill Lawrence that questioned the support EMILY's List gave Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts special Senate election won by Scott Brown. Much has been said about the special election in Massachusetts. Yes, it was a blow to health care reform and a disappointment to Democrats both nationally and locally. There's a variety of reasons that will continue to be debated about the loss, but Jill Lawrence, in a recent article ...
Is Denying Abstinence News Any Different From Denying Climate Change?
By Melinda Henneberger
It's been a bloody week in the culture wars: First came the news that abstinence-only pregnancy-prevention programs may work a lot better than we thought. (Sometimes, I say "we" were wrong just to be polite, but this isn't one of those times; only last week I was on our colleague Bonnie Erbe's PBS show flapping my jaws in favor of the mixed-message approach and insisting that abstinence-only wasn't getting the job done. Live and learn, though; it's not like this is a theological debate, right?) A study of 662 6th and 7th graders published earlier this week in the Archives of Pediatric & ...
Now More Than Ever, Wishing Sandra Day O'Connor Had Never Stepped Down
By Melinda Henneberger
This week on Politics Daily's online Sunday show, Woman UP, Jill Lawrence, Patricia Murphy, Emily Miller, Bonnie Erb and I discuss love, work, family, -- and how the world is different today because former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor took early retirement to care for her ailing husband. (Any guesses as to whether any male justice has ever done likewise?). Jill also has a piece on what O'Connor's missing voice on the Court has meant to women and to the country. ...
James Grady and Bonnie Goldstein's PD Investigations
By Melinda HennebergerWith the publication of today's main story by Adam Zagorin and Michael Smallberg, Politics Daily is launching its new investigative reporting unit. Our investigative coverage, dedicated to the fundamental belief that readers need to know what's going on beneath the crush of daily events, adds original, in-depth, reported examinations to our online newspaper's lineup. Investigative newspaper writing has long been a mainstay of American journalism and democracy, pioneered and perpetuated by enterprise reporters Upton Sinclair, Nelly Bly, Ida Tarbell, Woodward and Bernstein, Seymour Hersh, Drew ...
Did Gender Loyalty Blind EMILY's List to Coakley's Flaws?
By Melinda Henneberger
Click play below to watch Politics Daily's new online Sunday show, and scroll down to read the accompanying article by Jill Lawrence: Did Ellen Malcolm (Accidentally) Help Elect Scott Brown? by Jill Lawrence Ellen Story is a Massachusetts Democrat, a state representative and an independent thinker. Breaking with her state's female political leaders, she did not back Martha Coakley in the Senate primary late last year. "People were stunned that I wasn't supporting her, stunned and irritated," Story told me. Though she would have loved to back a woman, the Amherst legislator said, she ...
Do We Have EMILY's List to Thank for Coakley's Primary Win -- and Health Reform's Loss?
By Melinda Henneberger
Click play below to watch a preview of our online Sunday show, and come back Sunday morning for the complete episode. ...
Peter Wehner, Annie Groer, and Tom Diemer to Join Politics Daily
By Melinda HennebergerI am so proud to announce several additions to our team, which continues to grow along with our readership, which hit 8.7 million unique visitors last month. Peter Wehner will be joining Politics Daily as a regular columnist, starring opposite David Corn and starting as soon as we can get his byline typed. Regular readers of these pages know David, who is Washington's Mother Jones bureau chief, to be a smart and authoritative – and independent – voice from the left. My conscious design in recruiting Pete is to give Politics Daily a bit more ballast on our starboard side. We will ...
Are We All to Be Punished Because Martha Coakley Doesn't Know from Curt Schilling?
By Melinda Henneberger
So there was young Martha Coakley – it is Martha, right? – studying her tuchas off in law school at B.U., unaware that not only her own political future but the passage of landmark health insurance reform legislation in this country depended on her knocking off and attending a few baseball games, for heaven's sake. (You know, in Fenway Park, where lifelong fan Ted Kennedy threw out the first pitch last season?)Do I feel for this poor female, flailing in a world awash in testosterone and sports metaphor -- and in a race so tight that her outta-nowhere insistence that former Red Sox ...
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