Benghazi Scandal Gets Deserved Attention
Lisa Schiffren
The Administration succeeded in suppressing interest & information during the election season, and continues to throw cold water on the investigation. Today the President, rather tauntingly, called the whole incident plus cover-up a “sideshow.”
Government Needs to Lean Out to Help Working Moms
Carrie L. Lukas
Female powerhouses offer lots of advice for how to juggle work and family. Yet while some women are inspired by calls to "lean in" to their careers, many women simply don't aspire to corner offices.
Love Fest: Bittman Reviews Pollan
Julie Gunlock
The real advice we need to give parents is to cook for your family. Do the best you can using a combination of fresh, frozen, canned, convenience, raw, and whole ingredients. What matters is making the effort to provide your child a homemade (or half-homemade) meal. After all, no one’s perfect . . . except Pollan in Bittman’s eyes.
Nutritious Apples, Poisonous Claims
Angela Logomasini
Exaggerated pesticide warnings could scare us from a healthy diet
Boston Strong: Behind the Bluster
Charlotte Hays
There was true courage on the scene of the Marathon bombing, with Americans, as is their wont, rushing to help others at peril to life and limb. But is Boston Strong rhetoric a way of cloaking our fears?
Government Regulations Hinder Economic Growth
Donna Wiesner Keene
Innovations and jobs cannot cross borders due to conflicting regulations. Someone has to pay for the senseless American regulatory systems we see today -- and that someone is us.
Young Workers Should Rest Uneasy When Politicians Make Big Promises
Carrie L. Lukas
Young Americans should pay attention to a new pledge garnering signatures among Democrats. While sold as a promise to protect key entitlement programs, it’s a pledge to give young workers the shaft.
Sunday Reflection: Yes, there are gentlemen on campus
Karin Agness
Susan Patton's controversial letter to the Daily Princetonian advising Princeton women to search for husbands while on campus may encourage more college women to focus on dating and finding a man. But what happens to the college woman who hasn't found someone by senior year? Some such women are embracing the term SWUG -- "Senior Washed-Up Girls."
Why Americans will never love Obamacare
Lane Scott
Like most Americans, I want to live in a society that takes care of people like my friend’s son; like most Americans, I would be ashamed if we collectively refused to lend a hand to people who, through no fault of their own, desperately need help. And, like most Americans, I do not support Obamacare. In fact, I despise it.
Out-Spent, Out-Numbered, Out-Researched: The Power Of Progressive Women's Groups
Sabrina Schaeffer
Today pro-Democratic women’s groups dominate the Progressive political landscape, serving a critical role in growing government and keeping Democrats in power.
Warren Buffett Has His Secretary—and Barack Obama Has…Me
Charlotte Hays
Like countless other U.S. taxpayers, I was interested but not at all surprised to learn, when I paid my annual visit to Mr. Block, that my effective tax rate for 2012 was higher than Mr. Obama’s enviable effective rate of 18 percent.
The Effects of Media's Focus on Women Candidates' Appearance Aren't Pretty
Karin Agness
While predicting a person's political future by a haircut seems harmless, research released this week by Name It. Change It. suggests that how the press covers the appearance of women candidates matters in elections.
Equal Pay: Seize It!
Krista Kafer
If women earned 77 cents on a man’s dollar, as some claim, what company would ever hire a man? Businesses would dismiss their male employees and hire cheaper labor if this statistic were true. They aren’t and it’s not.
The Clock is Turning Back on Women, But Not How You Think
Hadley Heath
Hillary Clinton recently remarked that "in places around America, large and small, the clock is turning back" for women. She's right. During the past few years, many American women have had less happiness and fewer choices.
Straight talk about the wage gap
Sabrina Schaeffer
Today, feminist groups and their allies in the White House and Congress will celebrate “Equal Pay Day,” a made-up holiday aimed at focusing attention on the so-called "wage gap," the notion that women only earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. Of course we know that this is a gross exaggeration. This number comes from comparing full-time working women to full-time working men with no consideration for education, career choices, job markets or even time spent out of the workplace.
