Amid speculation that John McCain will announce his vice presidential pick soon, political nail-biters have begun placing bets. Favorites include Louisiana Gov. Jindal, with whom McCain is meeting Wednesday, and former Massachusetts Gov. Romney, whose resume is familiar.
Hillary missed it in no small part because of that man from Hope. Contrary to the braying of the wounded sisterhood, Clinton's defeat hasn't been the result of misogyny. She was defeated by her husband, by her own party, and by the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee.
What is true is that when attention rightly focused on girls' special needs--thanks in part to the 1992 AAUW report, "How Schools Shortchange Girls"--boys were, wrongly, shuttled to the back burner.
Full-bloodedness is an old coin that's gaining currency in the new American realm. Meaning: Politics may no longer be so much about race and gender as about heritage, core values, and made-in-America.
Among the moss-draped live oaks of Charleston Collegiate School's 33-acre campus of Johns Island, South Carolina--where children of all ethnicities, religions and abilities work and play together--the words of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright seem alien and hostile.
Author Todd Tucker's name recently surfaced beyond Amazon's pages when one of his books sparked an investigation at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis because a janitor was reading it.
If anyone still doubts the correlation between obese America and our fast-food culture, consider Oklahoma City, where the mayor has asked residents to join him on a diet.
But such thinking reveals an ugly truth about feminists and identity groups in general. They don't want what's best for the country; they want what's best for them.
Voters may not know any more about Mormonism than they did before Mitt Romney's faith speech on Thursday, but they surely know more about what it means to be an American.
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