what she thinks about the first hundred days...

It's not nice to besmirch our new uberliberal best friends for life - the Iranians. They are our only bulwark against the evil global Jew menace.

Let's hope he continues along this path.

Yay. They'll create that "race of thoroughbreds" before you know it!

in using their health insurance to pay for abortions?

Clinton immediately rescinded it when he became president.

Why hasn't Obama?

White House Council on Women and Girls = F

To establish this politically throw away, in the face of the educational crisis that is going on for boys, and a recession that is almost exclusively effecting men, is an insult.

From what I've read the Obama administration is doing what they can to get Roxanne Saberi released. It's not a matter that can be tried in the press -- the Bush administration spent 8 years seeking to demonize Ahmadinejad and Iran -- so it's not like Iran is suddenly going to do the US a favor without some sort of quid pro quo. They are already being sanctioned. So we don't have alot of bargaining chips at this point.

At least Obama and Clinton are trying to address foreign policy with some subtlety instead of painting everything black and white. Journalists are very brave and invaluable to telling the world what is going on - but it's a risky job - and not sure what Obama or anyone else can do to change that. At least Roxanne is alive - which is better than the hundreds of journalists killed in Iraq and elsewhere without much accolade or acknowledgment. We all need to continue signing petitions and working to get UN and other groups to help free Roxanne.

How is stem cell research a feminist position?

This story is very similar to Zahra Kazemi...She was a Canadian Freelance Photographer who was jailed at Evin under similar circumstances...The Canadian Government also used "Subtle Diplomacy"...Let's see how this nuanced effort to repatriate a fellow citixen worked for her...

Although Iranian authorities insist that her death was accidental and that she died of a stroke while being interrogated, Shahram Azam, a former military staff physician who used his purported knowledge of Kazemi's case for seeking asylum in Canada in 2004, has stated that he examined Kazemi's body and observed that Kazemi showed obvious signs of torture, including a skull fracture, broken nose, crushed toe, missing fingernails, broken fingers, signs of brutal rape, marks from flogging, deep scratches on her neck, and severe abdominal bruising. Iranian officials claimed that Azam had been afflicted with mental health issues and that he had been discharged before Kazemi's death.

"...a recession that is effecting almost exclusively men..."

How is that, exactly?

"...As noted in my previous post on gender and unemployment, the current recession is hitting men hard--they've lost four out of every five jobs in the downturn..."

-The Nation

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20090425/cm_thenation/15430131;_ylt=ArV8XfNaxR7STUp8oHJNUS4e_8QF

He restored everyone's right to sue for wage discrimination. And stem cell research is a health issue for everyone.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/424706/unemployment_a_new_boys_club

What I took away from it was that women have been holding onto their jobs more because more of them had crappier, lower-paying jobs to begin with. I guess you could read that as "men are affected more" if you like.