Pro-Choice Nun Volunteers as Escort
You read that right–a nun is a clinic escort volunteer.  News comes from weird sources and this time is no exception.  In a recent Google Alert on the topic of “gender discrimination,” I found that there is a nun who volunteers her time as a clinic escort because she perceives choice to be a gender discrimination issue: Amy Keane, a pro-life witness for 11 years, says Quinn has acted as escort for “six years, at least.”  Keane des

Kuwaiti Women A Bit Freer
Kuwait’s supreme court gave women in that country a reason to rejoice this week when that court decided to give women the right to get a passport without spousal consent: The court found the article in the decades-old law “unconstitutional” because it goes against the principal of equal rights for men and women. “It undermines her free will and compromises her humanity,” the court explained according to a copy of the decision provided by the lawyer. Although this is a great step forward, Kuwaiti activists warned

When To Stop Blaming Bush?
Short Answer:  A long time from now. I was thinking about just this topic this week given all of the acrimony about the Afghan war and various other topics.  When do we draw the line between what W did wrong and did not do properly and where we start taking responsibility?  Apparently, good ol’ Jack Cafferty was thinking the same thing over at CNN: There’s no doubt President Bush deserve

Shriver Report Says Women Are Half…Are We Surprised?
That’s right, folks.  The newly released Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything has found that women are now half of the workforce and that 2/3 of all families have a female breadwinner or co-breadwinner.  The report is being hailed as groundbreaking: For the first time in US history women are about to become the majority of the nation’s paid workers.

Justice of the Crazy
A justice of the peace in Louisiana refused to issue a marriage license this week to an interracial couple.  Trying to justify the decision, Keith Bardwell claimed that the children of such marriage would not be accepted by either race and would thus have a difficult life.  He then tried to play the “I have Black friends” card: “I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing th