Posts Tagged ‘women’

GOP legislators make teabaggers proud with rude, out of order disruptions on House floor

This morning, prior to the vote on health care reform, the GOP orchestrated, in the now world-renowned teabagger style, an ugly disruption of the Democratic Women’s Caucus statements for the record (which had already been shortened by agreement between the two parties. The Dem leadership persists in making these agreements although they are never honored [...]

Fair payback

The company that knowingly screwed Lilly Ledbetter out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, then spent hundreds of thousands to “defend” itself from her discrimination lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court, was Goodyear Tire & Rubber. Please remember that the next time you are in the market for tires.
Fair is fair. That [...]

Stimulating family planning

There is a great op-ed, Counting Out Women, by Melissa McEwan published today in the Guardian (UK) about Chris Matthews and the general idiocy in the US media (not to mention a huge hunk of the blogosphere) about some parts of the original economic stimulus package, in which she specifically addresses the segment from Hardball [...]

OETA interview with Wilma Mankiller to repeat 1pm Sunday

OETA’s program “A Conversation With …” has completed that sentence with “Wilma Mankiller” and the program will be replayed several times in the next couple of weeks.
An excerpt is provided at the program page gives a taste of the interview, and of Mankiller’s interesting life and many contributions to our state and country.
Upcoming [...]

Demographic forecast: political changes for OK panhandle

James over at Mahatma X Files has an interesting post about demographics and politics in the Oklahoma panhandle. He shows a map that delineates, by country, where the Hispanic population is relative to the national average.
Focusing on the Oklahoma panhandle, you’ll notice that the most populous county, Texas County (it’s the one right in the [...]

Activist-singer Miriam Makeba passes away

In 1963 (a year after Nelson Mandela was imprisoned), she testified before the UN and asked them to intervene, give black South Africans rights in their own country, release political prisoners. The UN did nothing and for her trouble, the white minority government stripped her of her South African citizenship.
She finally went back to [...]

The great women bloggers, as collected by Firedoglake

Meet the New Boss:
Note link to great article on Colbert & the media at start of the post.

Pam Spaulding at Pam’s House Blend
Taylor Marsh
Arianna Huffington
Watertiger at Dependable Renegade
Belle Waring at Crooked Timber
Laura Rozen at War and Piece
Barbara O’Brien at Mahablog
Avedon Carol at the Sideshow
Susie Mandrak at Suburban Guerilla
Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon
Sheri [...]

Abortion is good

Kos won’t put this on his front page, but I will.
It’s always painful when places you thought might be one of the last few outposts of saniety’s [sic] owner and other readers decide they’re willing to trade your life away, and the lives of others away, and ultimately their own lives away, because for some [...]

New blog: Oklahoma Women

Oklahoma Women is a new blog promoting the accomplishments of Oklahoma women, politicians, artists, educators, et. al., as well as providing news about and information for Oklahoma women. You can nominate a notable Oklahoma woman with a comment or email to the admin.