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I found myself gagging at the first line of Sandra Tsing Loh's article where she says, ''Sadly, and to my horror, I am divorcing.'' Something about that horror part got under my skin—that she was trying to convince us, her readers, that divorce was something that ''just happened'' to her, outside of her control. And that was only ...

Great job, Obama! You've finally succeeded in getting somebody else to take some of those Guantanamo detainees off your hands. Your masterful diplomacy, although strangely ignored by more than 100 of our petitioned allies, has swayed the tiny island country of Palau to generously take a small group of the least dangerous detainees. ...

Sunday night was when I first found out abortionist Dr. George Tiller had been murdered. But unlike Elizabeth Weil, I knew exactly who he was. I grew up in a conservative Christian family: loving my dad's lapel pin of tiny baby feet, dropping change in baby bottles to raise money for crisis pregnancy centers, and keeping up with relevant ...

Politico just ran a pretty intriguing story speculating on why there are so few women in the Republican party, and it definitely rang true for me. A few weeks ago, I went to a GOP lunch at the National Press Club sponsored by the RNC.The main speaker? A fiftysomething white guy in a suit. Who proceeded to talk nonstop for the next 30 minutes about ...

Ms. magazine reports a brief story today about the suspiciously high number of women registering to vote in Afghanistan's upcoming election. Officials are starting to think something is up, given that some of the areas reporting record registration are regions where women don't travel.  Normally, that headline wouldn't merit my second ...

Keep your eyes open. That sweet little grandma next door: possible heroin dealer. The AP reports that Pennsylvania's Monroe County District Attorney, David Christine, expressed shock that two innocent-looking sisters, age 65 and 70, were raking in $10,000 a week as heroin dealers. You have to wonder why the neighbors never thought it strange ...

The storm of criticism is already brewing, but I for one want to commend Mary Ann Glendon, a professor at Harvard and a former ambassador to the Holy See, for refusing to accept the Laetare Medal and speak at Notre Dame's spring commencement.  I love the eloquence of her open letter to the press explaining why speaking alongside ...

There's a gender drama of Olympic proportions being staged by the Canadian women's ski jumpers team. (The girls also made headlines earlier this year when their chairperson Brent Morrice claimed they could all afford to lose 20 pounds. Too much Tim Horton's, maybe?) Since men's ski jumping is already a recognized Olympic sport, the ladies are ...

In all the XX Factor rejoicing of making Plan B available to 17-year-olds, no one has mentioned one peep about any of the possible consequences this change could bring about to high school sexual culture—we are talking about juniors and seniors in high school here, not adults, after all. Judge Korman's ruling is certainly a triumph of ...

Yesterday, the Texas state Senate debated a bill that would require doctors to perform an ultrasound before performing an abortion, but that would give the woman the choice whether or not to see the findings. The underlying motive behind the bill is to give the pregnant woman as much information as possible to make her decision. The ACLU is ...