Women in Power: The Personalities and Leadership Styles of Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher (Arts Insights)
No colo do meu avô... (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
"A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body." André Maurois "The past is not a package one can lay away." Emily Dickinson "The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it." Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Andrew Sullivan on le Sarah Palin “phenomenon”: Let’s face it: if Palin looked like Golda Meir, there’s no chance McCain would have picked her. And no one would currently give a damn. She is the Carrie Prejean of politics; and like the Ailes-tested fembots on Fox News. Women are not so dumb as to buy it. [...]
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The Newsweek cover of Sarah Palin in fitness clothing is becoming the teachable moment of the year. Because liberal women are beginning -- just beginning -- to acknowledge that liberals of both genders are so driven by hatred of Sarah Palin that their worst instincts are coming out. And it is recognition of those instincts, not the specific treatment of Palin, which forms the basis for the teachable...
Politik Ditto (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
AssociatedContent.com : The Sarah Palin Newsweek cover shows the former Governor of Alaska is in very nice dark shorts and a tight, red top with nice hair, a nice smile, and an American flag nearby. The Sarah Palin Newsweek cover is a declaration of war. Mind, the original photo ran on the cover of Runners World and contains a small flag with a blue star, representing Sarah Palin's son who is now serving...
girlie jones (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Ya know? All things considered, and having half my family on my mother's side brutally murdered as a result of Hitler's policies, I'm gonna go with ... um ... NO! I DO NOT PLACE SECURITY ABOVE FREEDOM! NAZI LOVING BASTARD! If I'm not free, what's the point of being safe? A Western Australian politician says his comments about Hitler during a debate in State Parliament have been misrepresented. The...
Scandalous Women (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Even though technically I'm an adult, I still read graphic novels. A couple of months ago, I was in one of my favorite comic book stores when I found these comics by Blue Water Productions . Featuring Hilary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Michele Obama and Caroline Kennedy in the first few issues, the initial mandate was to feature strong women in politics. These issues have been collected into one book. Since...
David Pryce-Jones (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The story of Shabtai Kalmanovich, resumed in just four short and amazing paragraphs in the Daily Telegraph , is a challenge that a thriller writer would have to be very inventive to match. Kalmanovich, it appears, emigrated to Israel from his native Lithuania in 1971. Lithuania was then a fully-fledged Soviet republic, and by the look of it the KGB must have already recruited Kalmanovich. Once an...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold will give a free lecture at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, in the fourth-floor Conference Center of the Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave.
=== The Jet Set (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
And not the good kind, with the ska. I have every minute of this week scheduled--something which usually irritates me to the point of fury. I am a delicate swan who comes up with creative ideas! I do not execute! All this executing is going to strike me down in the prime of life! Wednesday night I sewed much of two costumes, including this little sneak peek. Much like any well-oiled machine, every...
The Galilean Word (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Courtesy: Emmanuel Navon http://www.navon.com In one of the many phone calls that Golda Meir made to Henry Kissinger during the Yom Kippur War, she thought it would be a good idea to pull the Jewish emotional trick in order to speed up the urgently needed arms delivery. Kissinger got quite annoyed. "Let me explain something to you, Golda" he said. "I am, first and foremost, an American....
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
By Gideon Levy Fri., October 16, 2009 Courtesy Of Haaretz NewsPaper Those who are to blame for everything have been found: the "Goldstoners." Not the occupation, the settlements, Israeli aggressiveness or brutality; just Goldstone. According to Ari Shavit (Haaretz, October 8), the spirit of Judge Richard Goldstone will bring the next war upon us, and it will be called the Goldstone War. Prime...
Liprap's Lament - The Line (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
They didn't know anything much, and was it a shocker. " Something very important happened in 1948 ," I began. "Anybody know?" Blank stares from these sixth and seventh graders. Someone tentatively said, "The Holocaust?" Another student said, "The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?" Ummm, no . Trying to give them a hint that what happened occurred in the Middle...
tbirdnow.mee.nu (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Dana Mathewson forwards this: Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie, 'Munich' was based.. He was Golda Meir's bodyguard - she appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games. In a lecture in New York City a few weeks ago, he shared information that EVERY American needs to...
And you thought YOU were cranky? (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
THE BATTLING GOSSELINS and why they should knock it off! Golda Meir famously opined that the Arab/Israeli conflict would cease when the Arabs loved their children more than they loved killing Israelis! Jon and Kate Gosselin - take note. It doesn't matter one whit to me who is right and who is wrong. I'm delighted that Jon Gosselin shut down that execrable show on TLC - and it should have been done...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Granted we women are no angels and are rather more likely to be devils in Prada. The line of steely female leaders is fearsome – Benazir Bhutto, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Madeleine Albright, later Condi Rice and Hillary Clinton, now Angela Merkel. I'd rather be locked in a dark room with bullish Tory Eric Pickles than any of the those. Too many of Eve's daughters use the...
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