kristof.blogs.nytimes.com - 2/6/2009
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The U.S. Senate is taking a welcome step: empowering a subcommittee specifically charged with global women's issues. It's the first time a subcommittee has had that mandate, and it will be led by Barbara Boxer of California, who will surely use her voice and spotlight to do some good on these ...
christiannewswire.com - 2/7/2009
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After Ambassador Susan Rice's inability to make an
"iron-clad commitment" for immediate ratification, Boxer will ask Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton for U.S. support of the UNCRC Contact: Jim Bentley, ParentalRights.org , 540-751-1245 ...
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Senator Boxer Asks State Department to Expedite the U.N. ...
briefingroom.thehill.com - 2/13/2009
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu signaled that the Obama
administration may consider a tax on carbon emissions, a
measure to combat climate change that top Democrats have spurned up to this point. Chu, in an interview with The New York Times published Thursday, said that alternatives to the ...
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Energy Secretary Chu Opens Door to Carbon Tax
crooksandliars.com - 2/6/2009
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Download | Play Download | Play Nobody
does wounded indignation quite like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC),
and this was quite entertaining. I saw it on Hardball right after Lindsey was all red and sputtering, saying Republicans ...
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Boxer to Graham: There's No Business Like Show Business
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Boxer to Head New Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Global Women’s Issues
The Moderate Voice —
From a blog post by Nicholas Kristof at the New York Times:
The U.S. Senate is taking a welcome step: empowering a subcommittee specifically charged with global women’s issues. It’s the first time a subcommittee has had that mandate, and it will be led by Barbara Boxer of California, who will surely use her voice and spotlight to do some good on these issues.
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Issues like trafficking and maternal mortality and sexual violence finally seem to be getting some traction. Eve Ensler has helped put a relentless spotlight on mass rape ...
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Just the headlines today, folks:
New York Times: Till Children Do Us Part
Zuky: Ongoing Echoes from the Women of the Long House
Muslimah Media Watch: Hope from Whom and for Whom? Palestine as a Muslim Cause
Feministe: Woman Set on Fire Outside Strip Club
Awesome & Fabulous: "The Last Bastion of Acceptable Sexism"
Salon: The great girl gross-out
Nicholas Kristof: The Senate discovers women
What About Our Daughters: Dear Jonesboro Dance Team, You Are Not Sluts ...
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Senator Barbara Boxer (D, CA) wants to speed the process of handing power over U.S. sovereignty to the United Nations as soon as possible by urging the State Department to come out in support of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
The UNCRC imposes ...