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Born to Politics: Our American Road Trip to Tomorrow
By James Grady - Politics DailyAll politics is personal. There is no magic line between "us" and some "them." We're all in this together and politics is how we get things done. Ever since the Greeks invented the concept of politics as what occurs in our public space, ambitious leaders have claimed that their opponents were "playing politics" and for that reason, we should ... you got it: "Trust me." Right. If someone tells you that politics is the problem and they are a some magic "non-political" solution, hold onto your wallet, hold onto your vote, hold onto your children. I'll leave it to academics to argue over when ...
My Sign-Off From Politics Daily
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyTrue to form, I was too busy to go to the meeting and missed my own firing yesterday; don't you hate it when that happens? (All my life, my mom has been saying I'd be late to my own funeral, so could we please not tell her she was right?) There were a few other mix-ups, too, with the result that some AOL employees were invited to the Meeting of Death by accident, while others who were supposed to have been on the layoff list were walking around like Bruce Willis in "The Sixth Sense." Also in error, I mistakenly received some last-minute communications re: the best time to tell an AOL News ...
Michele Bachmann Slams Michelle Obama Over Breast-Feeding; Does She Have a Point?
By Greg Robillard - AOL NewsShould the U.S. government promote breast-feeding as a way to counter childhood obesity? Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., took a swipe Wednesday at Michelle Obama over the first lady's support of tax breaks to mothers for purchasing breast pumps and nursing supplies. Obama has cited studies that correlate longer breast-feeding with lower rates of childhood obesity, but for Bachmann, such government incentives smack of an all-too-literal "nanny state." "For them, government is the answer to every problem," Bachmann told radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham. "And so government got us in this ...
Alleged Al Gore-Laurie David Affair Never Happened, Says David
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyLaurie David, the environmentalist-activist, denied on Tuesday a tabloid report that she and Al Gore have been having a two-year affair. David, the ex-wife of the comedian Larry David, told The Huffington Post that the story in the Star was not true. Other media outlets reported that Gore's friends had also denied the report. The report in The Star, not one of America's leading newspapers of record but one that occasionally uncovers the snake under rock, comes shortly after Al and Tipper Gore announced that they are separating after 40 years of marriage. Laurie David, 52, was a co-producer ...
Feminism: The Belief That You Own Your Body and Are Man's Equal
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyIt wasn't too long ago that the word "feminism" or "feminist" had nearly vanished from our everyday chatter, consigned to the dust bin of passé labels. But here it is right back, rearing its many heads, pitting nice and sensible women against one another. The moment Sarah Palin revived the term "feminist" and injected it into the current political debate, laying claim to its mantle and hailing conservative Republican female candidates -- she calls them "mama grizzlies" -- as an "emerging, conservative, feminist identity," we all went a little bit out of our minds. Those "mama grizzlies" are ...
Hair-Gate: Carly Fiorina Stands By Barbara Boxer Jab
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIn terms of political scandals, this one seems pretty minor. Yet, there's something about a woman making fun of another woman's hair style that is, to borrow California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina words, "Sooooo yesterday!" On Wednesday, while having her make-up applied for an interview with CNN, Fiorina was caught on an open microphone mocking her opponent's locks. "Laura saw Barbara Boxer briefly on television today," Fiorina said, "and said what everyone says, God what is that hair. Soooo yesterday." Today, given the chance to step back from that remark, Fiorina declined. In an ...
Politics Daily Celebrates First Birthday at the National Press Club
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyPolitics Daily just turned one year old! Melinda Henneberger, PD's editor in chief, treats early arrivals to a retelling of our online paper's "creation myth," and kicks off the evening's "civilogue." Religion reporter David Gibson, just back from Rome, speaks about the crisis facing the Catholic Church. Carl Cannon, PD's deputy editor, introduces the debate between PD columnists Peter Wehner and David Corn (moderated by military writer David Wood) on our prospects in Afghanistan. ...
More Wives Should Dump Their Husbands
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyI've been thinking a lot about marriage lately. Or, more precisely: unhappy marriages. And I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't time for more women to -- as we say in politics -- "throw the bums out." I got to thinking about this after my colleague, Melinda Henneberger, wrote a post last weekend about one of those marriages about which we know just a bit too much: Silda and Elliot Spitzer's. You may recall Spitzer as the former governor of New York who stepped down when it was revealed that he'd been patronizing a prostitution service. And you will certainly recall his wife, Silda, who stood ...
Women in New Media: At the Top or in the Trenches?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyHere's good news! A quick tour of new and improved news-and-infotainment websites -- dozens of them -- reveals that women by the droves are successfully making the leap from old journalism to new media. Just the other day, as if to underscore this trend, a Business Insider article featured 25 media stars that have made that leap, and 13 of them -- 52 percent -- are women. Maybe that's not such a big number, but it looms large next to the pitiful number of women (six) named by the National Law Journal among the 40 most influential lawyers of the decade. Worse, the investor George Soros, the ...
Why I Could No Longer Be a Catholic
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyAn old friend of mine recently posted the following sentence on his Facebook page: "I know this is totally not a PC thing to say, but can someone please explain to me why anyone is still Catholic?" ...
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