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During my travels over the weekend I missed a very important front page offering in Sunday’s Sioux City Journal by Bret Hayworth, “Wanted: Women Lawmakers.” No, there isn’t much information in the article that regular EE readers won’t already know, but it is always good to see reporters and news outlets outlining and reinforcing the [...]

Warning: Readers may find some of these photos disturbing. I debated on the drive home if I would include them and/or edit them, but ultimately decided that readers here deserve an unfettered lens. People from at least 17 states converged on Bellevue, Neb. on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 28 and 29. Some came to protest [...]

Why oh why oh why do I stay a member of the Republican Party?  I must be losing my mind! The survey sent out by Michael Steele is an insult to anyone with a brain, even half a brain, or as Rush says with half my brain tied behind my back!  Afraid of not being [...]

The often radical anti-abortion group Operation Rescue is targeting a Nebraska doctor, one of the few in the nation that still openly provides late abortion services. Dr. LeRoy Carhart, who was a friend of recently assassinated Dr. George Tiller, performs abortions in his Bellevue clinic — and plans to do so even as protesters converge [...]

I have to agree with 64-year-old Raymond Denny who described this question on a Republican National Committee survey as being “beyond the pale.” Images of the full survey, including an introductory letter from Chairman Michael Steele, are available on The Washington Independent.

The following proclamation was signed by Pres. Barack Obama today in honor of Women’s Equality Day: Today, our country renews its commitment to freedom and justice for all our citizens. As we prepare to celebrate this women’s day of equality, we reflect on the sacrifices once made to allow women and girls the basic rights [...]

I wrote a post yesterday that was scheduled to publish today in honor of Women’s Equality Day. But, upon waking up this morning to the news that U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy had lost his battle with cancer, I knew what I’d written wasn’t nearly enough. By all rights I should not have been touched by [...]

Today I discovered an absolutely fascinating article that focuses on the intersection of two of my personal interests: Rural living and women’s rights. The article focuses on the Convention of the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), adopted by the United Nations in 1979. As such, it is worth noting at the [...]

For anyone who has ever had the misfortune of attempting the I-80/I-380 interchange, this is good news: The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) will hold a location design public hearing Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, in Iowa City to discuss the proposed improvement of the Interstate 80/Interstate 380/U.S. 218/Iowa 27 interchange in Johnson County. The purpose [...]

A study in the latest issue of Economics & Human Biology (abstract available online) notes that women — especially Caucasian women — who receive government assistance for food tend to weigh more than women who do not. The study, conducted by Jay Zagorsky of Ohio State University and Patricia Smith of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, [...]