NPR: Women still earn much less than men, and minority women fall even lower on the pay scale. This, according to a new report by Women’s Way advocacy group. Valorie Rawlston Wilson, a scholar with the National Urban League Policy Institute, and Melissa Weiler Gerber, executive director of A Woman’s Way, discuss gender discrimination in pay. NPR reported its five highest paid employees were: 1. Managing Editor Barbara Rehm, $383,139

I was relieved to give my sister the good news: “Your boy is straight, and he can ball.” Well, I can see where that would . . . um . . . be . . . a, uh . . . relief.

with the candlestick? No? Well, don’t ask Snopes. And at David Thompson’s, Atomica.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips.

Via Hot Air Headlines: I have no sympathy for Madoff. But the fact is, his alleged Ponzi scheme was only slightly more outrageous than the “legal” scheme that Wall Street was running, fueled by cheap credit, low standards and high greed. What do you call giving a worker who makes only $14,000 a year a nothing-down and nothing-to-pay-for-two-years mortgage to buy a $750,000 home, and then bundling that mortgage with

It may be too late to stop the Caroline Kennedy juggernaut. But, sooner or later, New York Democrats will have to ask how – despite decades of House delegation dominance – they found themselves in the position of needing a Clinton or Kennedy to preserve a Senate seat. Where are the apparent losers that they’ve been nominating for safely gerrymandered House seats all these years – the folks who were

Read the whole thing, at NRO: In September 2002, senior leaders on the Senate and House intelligence committees — Democrats and Republicans — began receiving briefings on the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation program,” including the use of waterboarding on top al-Qaeda operatives. Among the leaders briefed was Nancy Pelosi, now speaker of the House. The lawmakers raised no objections. According to Porter Goss, a congressman at that time and later head

And the D.C. City Council recently created a new concern: The panel passed emergency legislation that would allow bars and restaurants to stay open around the clock and serve alcohol until 5 a.m. from Jan. 17 through Jan. 21. What could possibly go wrong?

Who’s Worse: Madoff or Blagojevich? December 15, 2008 1:05 PM One is an elected official accused of trying to sell a vacant senate seat…violating the trust of the voters who put him in office, making a mockery of elected power. The other stands accused of carrying out one of the biggest financial frauds in history…potential bilking investors big and small, including charities, of 50 billion dollars…making a mockery of the

The White House has prepared more than a dozen contingency plans to help guide President-elect Barack Obama if an international crisis erupts in the opening days of his administration, part of an elaborate operation devised to smooth the first transition of power since Sept. 11, 2001. The memorandums envision a variety of volatile possibilities, like a North Korean nuclear explosion, a cyberattack on American computer systems, a terrorist strike on