When I sat down for an interview with 82 year-old Arline Mathews, who is spending the last years of her life advocating for the reform of archaic laws and policies that allow sexually violent criminals to get released early from prison only to re-offend again, I was greeted by a woman whose clarity, eloquence, and [...]
In the aftermath of child rapist Roman Polanski being taken into custody after trying to enter Switzerland on Saturday, questions about culpability, morality and teen sexuality have arisen. The Academy Award-winning director pled guilty in 1977 to a single count of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, acknowledging he had sex with a 13-year-old [...]
Here is a link to my latest piece on MomLogic.com, a collaboration with my co-author Heather Robinson, concerning human rights abuses in North Korea and the danger of appeasing one of the world’s worst human rights violators.
Am I the only person who finds the image of Bill Clinton sitting down to a [...]
After a hellish couple of weeks on an African tour, Hillary Clinton has begun to fall apart. Her first melt-down occurred when our nation’s chief diplomat lashed out at a student in the Republic of Congo on Monday who asked her for her husband’s opinion on China’s role there. While the media and pundits were quick [...]
Dear John,
It has been nearly a year since you went on national television and reluctantly admitted that you had a brief affair with Rielle Hunter, only after you were caught with your pants down. At that time, you vehemently denied that you were the father of her newborn baby girl, despite the fact that only [...]
When I was four months pregnant with my first baby, I went to my OB for a routine checkup and structural ultrasound. I remember feeling so excited to have the opportunity to see a 3-D image of the little baby whom I was already completely in love with.
Once my doctor began performing the ultrasound, I [...]
In the aftermath of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s announcement earlier this month that she plans to resign from office, pundits have been scrambling for an explanation. Personally, the whole matter has left me feeling a little like I did at the end of seventh grade, after a year spent passively watching bullies ostracize and pick [...]
The families of the victims of the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 watched in disbelief and horror as the monster responsible for the attack was just released from a Scottish prison on “compassionate grounds.” Scottish Justice Kenny Macaskill freed Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was serving a life sentence, because he reportedly has terminal [...]
Yesterday when I went to drop my son off at preschool after the long weekend, I was surprised by what I encountered. The little preschool lobby was packed with teachers, administrators and children sitting on the linoleum floor, watching the Presidential Inauguration on a rolled in television. I had my baby daughter in one arm, [...]
“I just think it’s creepy,” my friend Lauren remarked. We were having our weekly dish session at the local PinkBerry. This week were looking at the tabloid pictures of Barack Obama in a bathing suit in Hawaii. “What’s even worse is all the discussion of his abs. I don’t want to see my President in [...]
