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3 Jun 2007, 1:01 am
During World War II she smuggled messages, scrawled on music sheets, for the French Resistance, and served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force -- service for which she was awarded a Médaille de la Résistance française and appointed a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. [read post]
2 Jun 2007, 4:47 am
Many of these women and girls, including some barely in their teens, are recent refugees. [read post]
2 Jun 2007, 12:07 am
I wasn't going to write about this post by Ian Schwartz, because it involves something I consider to be an old blogosphere flame war. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 3:09 am
The whole point of a dreadful set of Rehnquist Court decisions, including Boerne (unconstitutionality of RFRA), Morrison (unconstitutionality of Violence Against Women Act a), and Garrett (unconstitutionality of applying American With Disabilities Act Against States in order to achieve damages remedies), is to stop in its tracks any notion tht Congress should be taken seriously as an independent partner in the enterprise of constitutional interpretation. [read post]
31 May 2007, 8:48 am
[JURIST] Japan's Nagoya High Court [official backgrounder] Thursday upheld a district court's denial of compensation to a group of seven South Korean women who were former slave laborers at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s aircraft factories during World War II, finding that neither the Japanese government or Mitsubishi were obligated to provide compensation, apology, or unpaid wages because [read post]
30 May 2007, 3:03 pm
After the war, Maxine performed perhaps her most valuable service to the world. [read post]
30 May 2007, 3:00 am
Fortunately, various jurisdictions, including Maryland, have expressly exempted public breastfeeding from the indecent exposure laws, and I have heard of various courts addressing the Constitutionality of banning topless sunbathing by women. [read post]
29 May 2007, 6:50 pm
With the end of slavery, women's suffrage, the One man one vote decision, and other developments, I'd like to think that, at least in principle, that debate is over. [read post]
29 May 2007, 9:35 am
I figure we'll leave War and Peace for second grade! [read post]
29 May 2007, 1:48 am
Amid news that 1 in 8 Iraqi children dies before turning 5 years old, that escalation of violence against Iraqi civilians continues, that the month nearing its end has been 1 of the most deadly for U.S. servicemembers in Iraq, and that the Bush Administration, having forced war-funding legislation that omitted an earlier requirement for troop withdrawal, now is contemplating end-of-summer withdrawal of troops from Iraq, here is the Memorial Day count:Iraq Body Count reports that as of… [read post]
29 May 2007, 1:20 am
"And here's how Uncle Jimbo puts it in a blogpost he calls "Moonbat Memorial Day":They had anti-war BS and every flavor of agit-prop, but not a single solitary moment in 2 1/2 hours mentioned the sacrifices of all the men and women since 1776 who made it possible for them to whine, and whine they did. [read post]
28 May 2007, 2:33 pm
The bulk of his legal work — which took up the bulk of his professional life — was the predictable work of a small-town lawyer with a wide practice: property disputes, petty cirminal cases, family arguments over money, neighbor at war with neighbor, bankruptcies, and, oddly, libel suits where local women defendend themselves against charges of prostitution. [read post]
28 May 2007, 11:25 am
The Catholic church wants to discriminate against women when ordaining priests. [read post]
28 May 2007, 7:01 am
There is also evidence that organized women's groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, "Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping" by Nella L. [read post]
28 May 2007, 3:37 am
Fernandez echos the thoughts of all of us at home during this time of war. [read post]
28 May 2007, 1:20 am
She joined the Women's Army Corps for reasons she would never put in personal terms. [read post]
28 May 2007, 1:14 am
But this is also our war. [read post]
27 May 2007, 10:11 pm
Veterans at the celebration were mostly from the Vietnam War, with a few elderly Korean War veterans on hand along with some younger veterans representing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. [read post]
27 May 2007, 10:00 pm
Congress passes first minimum wage boost since 1997 Congress passed first increase in federal minimum wage since 1997 as part of measure for supplemental funds to fight Iraq war. [read post]
27 May 2007, 5:44 pm
Rape is a strategy of war. [read post]
