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High Stakes

Remember this? At the White House in September Michelle Obama stood before a booster club of liberal-minded women and coined the official slogan "Health Care is a Women's Issue," declaring that government-run medical care was essential to women's " ...

From MANON MCKINNON, American Spectator,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: White House,  Barack Obama,  Nancy Pelosi,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Planned Parenthood

Women to the Rescue

To help the federal government annex medical care, President Obama recently turned to women. Not just any women but some reliable allies and supporters of the White House Office of Women and Girls. That office, you may remember, was launched last ...

From MANON MCKINNON, American Spectator,  28 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Valerie Jarrett,  George W. Bush,  Nancy Pelosi

Dependency

Imagine this: a campaigning lawmaker speaks to a rally and here is what he says: "Vote for me, folks, and I'll make you dependent! That's right, my fellow countrymen, you won't have to do anything more than cast that ballot (ho ho), sit back and ...

From MANON MCKINNON, American Spectator,  8 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Saddam Hussein,  Charles Murray,  George W. Bush

This Is Where I Came In

Long ago when I came to Washington to change the world, I ran smack into a brick wall. That wall was called the election of 1964 and if you weren't there, let me tell you about it. A very liberal Democrat -- Lyndon Johnson -- was elected president in a ...

From MANON MCKINNON, American Spectator,  30 Oct 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Senate,  Lyndon B. Johnson

Beyond "Womens Issues"

As long as everyone else is putting in his or her two-cents worth on Sarah Palin, here's mine: the placement of a strong, no-victim, conservative woman on a presidential ticket is the best opportunity I've ever seen to counter (or kill) that demeaning ...

From MANON MCKINNON, American Spectator,  23 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Oprah Winfrey,  George W. Bush,  Michelle Obama

Confessions of a Political Junkie

Thank you, Joseph Epstein. Thank you for being the first to openly write -- as you have recently done in the Wall Street Journal -- of an addiction to anything to do with the Democratic primary race. You have opened the door and now who-knows-how-many ...

From MANON MCKINNON, American Spectator,  2 May 2008
Related Topics: Joseph Epstein,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  John McCain

Sisters, Sisters

Does anybody remember the White House Office for Women? It was a Clinton-era relic officially called the White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach. When the Bush Administration closed the office and moved women to the custody of the ...

From MANON MCKINNON, American Spectator,  3 Mar 2008
Related Topics: White House,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Maxine Waters

Don't Know Much...

What's this? A conservative hero and a liberal icon are out stumping for the same issue? It's true. Conservative-Republican-Reagan-cabinet member-and-author Bill Bennett, and liberal-Democrat-Al Gore-advisor-and-author Naomi Wolf are both worried that ...

From MANON MCKINNON, American Spectator,  13 Dec 2007
Related Topics: Naomi Wolf,  Bill Bennett,  U.S. Republican Party,  Al Gore,  U.S. Democratic Party

No Freedom to Farm

The legislation had barely gone into effect when the opponents of reform began their efforts to repeal the changes it brought, or at least to lay the groundwork for a return to the status quo. Although opponents of the reform legislation were ...

From MANON MCKINNON, American Spectator,  20 Nov 2007
Related Topics: U.S. Congress

Halloween for Codepink

Last week -- in the role of Elvira the Witch -- I hosted a spooky-fun Halloween party for my grandchildren. A few days later I saw in the newspaper that Condoleezza Rice was at a Halloween party, too, at which a really scary witch was flailing her ...

From MANON MCKINNON, American Spectator,  30 Oct 2007
Related Topics: Condoleezza Rice,  George W. Bush,  United Nations,  U.S. Congress

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