By Bonnie Erbe |
I would love to be wrong. But the Obama administration's decision to force Israel and the Palestinian Authority to sit down for peace talks strikes me as nothing but mere grandstanding. There's a three-sided war going on among Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party controls ...
By Bonnie Erbe |
Only in Iran. For a third time, the women of Iran have had to marshal forces to defeat a proposal by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to regulate legal “temporary” marriages. These so-called marriages are variously referred to as marriages of convenience, marriage for pleasure, and so on, and last ...
By Bonnie Erbe |
I agree with the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart who says self-proclaimed King legacy heir, and niece, Alveda King had every right to speak her mind at Glenn Beck's controversial rally in Washington, D.C., this past weekend. But I and others like me have just as much right to proclaim her ...
By Bonnie Erbe |
At first blush, I have no problem with a shelter for young Christian moms paying Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol $14,000 for a speech. Yes, that's a lot of money to hear from a young woman who has done precious little with her life other than have a baby out of wedlock. But Bristol has, most of ...
By Bonnie Erbe |
How sad and odd, that the so-called Anne Frank tree in Amsterdam should fall at a time when Holocaust denial is growing, especially in the Arab world, according to one White House official.
Hannah Rosenthal, U.S. special envoy to combat anti-Semitism, told the Jerusalem Post that the Obama ...
By Bonnie Erbe |
2010 is either the year of the Republican woman in politics, or it's not. I'm glad TIME Magazine has finally caught up with the realization that Republican women are running for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House, and for governor in record numbers. But even Time quotes Rutgers University's Center ...
By Bonnie Erbe |
Today marks the 90th anniversary of ratification of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote.
On one level, the progress women have made in lo these nine decades is nothing short of amazing. On another, we’ve a long way ahead of us until we enjoy the ...
By Bonnie Erbe |
The White House stepped into a crater the size of ground zero when President Obama decided late last week to weigh in on the side of Islamic supporters who want to build a mosque two blocks away. White House aides spent much of Monday explaining that President Obama's comments on the so-called ...
By Bonnie Erbe |
This is one of those cases that proves sexism is still alive and well in America. Can you imagine the following happening to a man?
A six months pregnant woman was forcibly hospitalized in Florida because the doctor said she was risking a miscarriage if she didn’t quit smoking and stay in the ...
By Bonnie Erbe |
The 2010 elections may be remembered as the year of the self-funded Republican female candidate. As every American who has not been living in a cave or in a locked basement knows by now, billionaire Meg Whitman of eBay fame is self-funding her run for governor of California to the tune of $100 ...
