Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is hot...as a Halloween costume choice this year. The Dallas Morning News looked into the phenomenon earlier this week: Buycostumes.com offered 99-cent paper masks of Ms. Palin within ... Read More

There's no excuse for depicting violence against women, even when making a political statement. So the West Hollywood homeowner who decided to hang VP candidate Sarah Palin in effigy from his/her ... Read More

Was Orlando WFTV anchor Barbara West simply being hard-hitting when she asked vice presidential candidate Joe Biden some pointed and tough questions last week? Or was she channeling Rush Limbaugh's ... Read More

For the thousands of women whose medical records carry a family history of breast cancer, a special month on a calendar isn't necessary to remind them of this fact of ... Read More

What does Europe think of our upcoming presidential election and our candidates? Dale Hurd filed a report yesterday with The Christian Broadcasting Network News. Since this is a women's issues ... Read More

Pam Atherton visited her dental hygienist and came away with a question: Why do some smart women think Sarah Palin is a good choice? Her answer, gleaned from conversations with ... Read More

Most women will likely shudder at the story of Anne Pressly, a 26-year-old Little Rock woman who was found savagely beaten in her home early Monday morning. But those who work ... Read More

Apparently Sarah Palin just discovered that 'feminist' is a dirty word, because she told NBC's Brian Williams that she wasn't going to label herself. This is a 180 degree turn ... Read More

Sarah Palin might not have caught John McCain's attention - or been selected as his running mate - had she not been Governor Sarah Palin. Senator Palin, maybe. Congresswoman Palin, ... Read More

Clothes make the man...and the woman running for vice president. The Associated Press reports that the Republican Party has spent $150,000 in the past two months to make Sarah Palin look ... Read More

Most of us know her as Obama's grandmother. But she had a rich and full life as one of the most prominent women in banking in the state of Hawaii ... Read More

I consider myself to be a person of moderate temperament, not one to take offense easily or express over-the-top nationalism or blindly rabid patriotism. I quietly respect and honor the ... Read More

Step aside, Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson. There's a woman whose name may not be familiar to a public used to hearing male names bandied about the old boys network ... Read More

Political wives have put up with a lot this year. Each one of these "Stand By Your Man" women have suffered enough squirm-inducing humiliation at the hands of their husbands ... Read More

With a hint of a smile on his face, John McCain's hooked-finger emphasis of a pregnant woman's "health" and the issue of abortion during the final presidential debate has drawn ... Read More

Debate moderator Bob Schieffer earns a standing ovation from me. He asked both candidates for their opinion on Roe v. Wade and how it would affect their nomination of future ... Read More

Ignorance and brilliance. Blinding stupidity and daring wit. Like inexpensive glass beads jumbled together with lustrous pearls, political junkies often find legitimate sites mixed in with absurdly fake spoofs as ... Read More

Flip the coin and watch it land. Which side is gender bias and sexism, and which side is female empowerment? That's the dilemma in writing about Sarah Palin, because she ... Read More

With all of Sarah Palin's talk about being a hockey mom, is she helping the sport? Michelle McAteer has her opinion. An Assistant Coach for the defending National Champion Women's Ice ... Read More

How desperate would a mother have to be to drive 12 hours straight - across several states - to dump her 13-year-old son in a state that offers safe haven ... Read More

Sarah Palin was not being entirely honest about the findings of the Troopergate report when she told Alaska reporters in a phone interview that she appreciated "being cleared of any ... Read More

Some might say, "Too little, too late." But in Gloucester, MA - the town that made national headlines when a slew of teenage girls became pregnant in the past year ... Read More

The 'Troopergate' report is out, and the determination has been made that Governor Palin's firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan falls within her authority to hire and fire executive ... Read More

For anyone worried that women candidates might not fare as well as men on the presidential campaign trail this year, put your fears aside. They do just as well as ... Read More

"Sarah Palin is fond of citing both her energy expertise and her love for the environment," writes my colleague Larry West who covers Environmental Issues, "but the longer Palin is ... Read More

She's mad as hell and she's not going to take it any more. McCain/Palin have co-opted her family name and she wants them to stop. 'She' is 82-year-old Terellita Maverick, a ... Read More

One week ago tonight, Sarah Palin left her one and only vice presidential debate feeling good about her performance and headed straight to a pumped-up rally of cheering Republican supporters. ... Read More

I love a good daddy-daughter story. And this may be one of the best. Nell Newman wanted to convince her father to join her in a business venture - an organic ... Read More

Amy Alexander's got guts for going where no one dares to tread with her straightforward look at Sarah Palin and the MILF factor. (Don't know what a MILF is? Alexander ... Read More

If doodles are the outpourings of the subconscious, then this quirky glimpse into Sarah Palin's past is rich with possible interpretations. It seems that when The New Republic's senior editor ... Read More

When it comes to policy issues that impact women of color, Avis Jones DeWeever won't settle for vague platitudes. Professionally and personally speaking, she can't. As the director of the ... Read More

Nielsen ratings indicate that nearly 70 million viewers watched the 2008 vice presidential debates. A political yawner in the past, this was was enlivened by Sarah 'Train Wreck' Palin and ... Read More

Seems like everybody's got an opinion on how the vice presidential debate went last week. But what does the moderator think - she who was supposed to show no bias ... Read More

It takes true genius to delve into the "partisan bickering" that's going on in Washington and on the campaign trail, extract the threads of truth, and weave them into the ... Read More

It's been said that "those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it." Ah, but what do you do when you don't know your history? ... Read More

Did Sarah Palin's comments crack open the door that led to Joe Biden choking up during the debate? In a short aside while rebutting Biden's comments, Palin said something that surprised ... Read More

Quick takes on the Sarah Palin/Joe Biden debate: From the moment she strolled onstage, Palin exuded warmth; she threw a kiss to someone in the audience and from her open mic ... Read More

Who knows how Sarah Palin will do in tonight's debate? It starts in just under two hours, and I know I'll be watching...and blogging afterwards. Perhaps if she does well, the ... Read More

It's not enough that Sarah Palin and Joe Biden are going head-to-head tonight. Now the moderator of the vice presidential debate is under attack. I haven't seen so many fireworks ... Read More

Never was the phrase 'make or break' more telling as Sarah Palin and the McCain campaign look ahead to tonight's first and only vice presidential debate. Once she steps up ... Read More