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Dear Hillary, Where are you? We haven't heard from you since your strong and eloquent speech at the Democratic National Convention. You might be taking a well-deserved vacation--certainly you must need one after all those arduous months campaigning. But we need to hear from you right now. We need your voice to speak for all the women (and there are many of us) who are angry at the assumption that, just because Sarah Palin is female, we will fall in line behind her. We need you to make clear that women do not automatically judge someone because of gender; we...

Tomorrow is the fourth anniversary of my father's death. For anyone who has lost a loved one, those anniversaries are both sad and sweet. The sadness is obvious—you don't stop missing the person who has gone; you don't stop wishing you'd had one more year, one more day. The sweetness sneaks up on you. It comes in the form of memories, some of them long buried. But mostly it comes with the realization that nothing ever dismantled the love between you, even though many things seemed to along the way. At this time of year in California, the jacaranda trees...

Oct. 25, 2006 - When I was a kid, I was once being teased relentlessly by a bully at school, and I faked being sick to stay home and avoid him. My parents knew I was faking (the thermometer under hot water trick didn’t work) but they also knew something was wrong. My father came into my room to talk to me, and I willingly confessed. He patiently explained to me that the best way to deal with a bully was to totally ignore him—treat him as if he is invisible. Because all bullies really want is attention. I got...

May 3, 2006 - I don’t know a single person who isn’t acutely aware of the fact that we’ve become a very rude country. It’s gotten to the point that if we don’t encounter rudeness at least twice a day, we’re shocked. < snip > I understand we have a problem with imigration, but it seems very un-American to suggest that 11 million people who have lived and worked here for years and years should be forced to leave. Particularly since they might be some of the most patriotic among us.

Patti Davis, the daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan, spoke fervently Tuesday night to an audience at Tilson Hall about the ability of stem cell research to save lives. The 2005-2006 Indiana State University Speaker Series wrapped up Tuesday night with Davis, whose father succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease in 2004. Davis, 53, a writer and a vocal advocate for embryonic stem cell research, spoke about the final years of her father’s life, her work promoting stem cell research and her thoughts about the current White House administration. Her most recent book, “The Long Goodbye,” is a chronicle of the...

Aug. 23, 2005 - Pat Robertson considers himself a man of God, a Christian, a preacher of the Gospel. To all of these aspects of his self-delusion, the only appropriate response is: Huh? His latest suggestion, as this self-proclaimed man of God, is that Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, should be assassinated. On his “700 Club” TV show, Robertson said Chavez could turn Venezuela into a safe haven for Communist and Muslim extremists. "You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to...

Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan’s renegade daughter, has an article in the current Newsweek titled “Dirty Footprints” in which she pleads, “We must write letters of outrage to the senators who voted to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). But maybe all there is left to do is weep. When I saw the news today, I sat down and wept.” Davis continues with, “President Bush must be feeling so victorious. The Senate has now said ‘yes’ to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—the pristine place President Eisenhower took measures to protect in 1960.” She laments, “Environmental groups have...

So, in the clear light of dawn, it made me think of America under the Bush administration, deep into the deadly traffic jam of a war that we got into under false pretenses (let’s please not forget the WMDs that were never there). The stated goal of this president is peace. Yet he began a war. And he has dug us in deeper and deeper. His stated goal is freedom—for everyone, everywhere—but where is the freedom for other people when foreign troops are patrolling their country, turning their cities into rubble, frightening citizens who don’t even speak the same language...

SANTA MONICA -- If she'd been just another wild child of a baby boom generation that produced so many, Patti Davis muses, none of it would have mattered so much. Sure, she did her share of recreational drugs, but in the 1960s and 1970s, what young person didn't? There was more, of course: posing naked in Playboy magazine, a string of bad love affairs, speeches at anti-war rallies. There was a difference, though. While Davis the protester denounced war at those rallies in the 1980s, other demonstrators denounced her father, President Reagan. "I regret all of it," says Davis, who...

October 19, 2004 -- Ronald Reagan's daughter is suing the Salvation Army, charging it canceled her lucrative speaking gig because of her outspoken support of stem-cell research. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Patti Davis says the Salvation Army's cancellation of her $15,000 speaking engagement because of her moral beliefs is "a wanton, willful and malicious act." "It was obviously very upsetting to her," said Davis' lawyer, Lawrence Fabian. Mike Watters, the lawyer for the local California Salvation Army chapter that had planned the event, denied the charge. He said his clients decided not to hire Davis after seeing...

NEW YORK - Patti Davis, daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan (news - web sites), has filed a lawsuit charging that the Salvation Army canceled her speech planned for one of their events because she supports stem cell research. Davis was scheduled through her booking agent, Greater Talent Network, to speak at a Salvation Army event in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Nov. 19 for a fee of $15,000, said her lawyer, Lawrence Fabian.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Author Patti Davis, the daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan, has sued the Salvation Army for breach of contract, saying the religious group reneged on a $15,000 speaking engagement because she supports stem cell research. According to the complaint filed last week in Manhattan Supreme Court but made public on Monday, Davis signed a contract to speak at a Salvation Army event in Santa Rosa, California, on Nov. 19, 2004. But one day after appearing on ABC's "Prime Time Live" in August, the Salvation Army told Davis's booking agent, Greater Talent Network, Inc., that it...

This weekend's announcement by Patti Davis Reagan that she intended to take on the Bush administration over the issue of stem cell research isn't the first time she's found herself on the same page with Sen. John Kerry. In a move that most viewed as coincidental, Kerry just happened to decide to devote his Saturday radio address to the stem cell issue at the same time Patti was penning her Newsweek piece on the issue. But lo and behold, it turns out that Ms. Davis and Mr. Kerry aren't exactly strangers to one another. Back in 1989, for instance, Davis...

Text of remarks by Patti Davis at Friday's burial service for former President Reagan, as transcribed by eMediaMillWorks Inc.: Many years ago, my father decided to write down his reflections about death, specifically his own, and how he would want people to feel about it. He chose to write down the first verse of an Alfred Lord Tennyson poem, "Crossing The Bar," and then he decided to add a couple lines of his own. I don't think Tennyson will mind. In fact, they've probably already discussed it by now. Tennyson wrote: "Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for...

<p>LOS ANGELES — In a week of enduring images, perhaps the most poignant came at the end.</p> <p>Nancy Reagan, saying her final farewell to her husband of 52 years, rested her head on his casket, crying and caressing the mahogany coffin as she was surrounded by the president's three surviving children.</p>

Patti Davis famously fell out with her father Ronald Reagan, but was reconciled with him before his death. She was at his side when he died a week ago. Here she describes his final days, and the gap his departure has left in the life of her family June 3 My father is dying. Only a few days left now. Maybe a week. Maybe his soul is already gone. It looks like that — blue chalk eyes, more like a child’s drawing then real eyes. No life in them, just existence. Its been 10 years since the diagnosis. Alzheimer’s. A...

Jun 11, 2004 Quotes From Ronald Reagan's Children During Burial Service The Associated Press Remarks from Ronald Reagan's children during burial service: "Ron Reagan adopted me into his family in 1945. I was the chosen one. I was the lucky one. In all these years, he never mentioned that I was adopted either behind my back or in front of me. I was his son, Michael Edward Reagan." - Michael Reagan. --- "Nearly at the onset of Alzheimer's disease, my father and I would tell each other we loved each other and gave each other a hug. As the years...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Moments before Ronald Reagan (news) died, he awoke and looked at his wife of 52 years, Nancy, with eyes "full of love," the couple's daughter Patti Davis was quoted as saying. AFP/POOL/File Photo   For Nancy Reagan, the former US leader's last moments of apparent consciousness were "the greatest gift" he could have given her, Davis wrote in an edition of People magazine that goes on sale Friday. "At the last moment, when his breathing told us this was it, he opened his eyes and looked straight at my mother. "Eyes that hadn't opened for days...

The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags and tiny dishes for water and food. When I lost my first patient, when the tiny gray creature died in my hands without ever eating any of the Cheerios I'd provided for it, my father patiently explained to me that the bird was free now, flying happily through the blue breezes of heaven, where there are no hazards such as windows. I was locked into his eyes,...

June 14 issue - The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags and tiny dishes for water and food. When I lost my first patient, when the tiny gray creature died in my hands without ever eating any of the Cheerios I'd provided for it, my father patiently explained to me that the bird was free now, flying happily through the blue breezes of heaven, where there are no hazards such as windows. I was...

June 7, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — Patti Davis, who feuded with her parents for decades, says she made peace with her father just before Alzheimer's disease struck almost 10 years ago. Davis recalls walking along the ocean with her father when the disease was just beginning. "I would walk beside him along the beach, after he had already begun slipping into the shadows of Alzheimer's," writes Davis, in this week's edition of Newsweek. "He looked up at a flock of seagulls soaring overhead and his eyes followed them, shining with something I couldn't decipher, but which I interpreted as longing,"...

The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags and tiny dishes for water and food. When I lost my first patient, when the tiny gray creature died in my hands without ever eating any of the Cheerios I'd provided for it, my father patiently explained to me that the bird was free now, flying happily through the blue breezes of heaven, where there are no hazards such as windows. I was locked into his eyes,...

<p>LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis wants people to have a clear understanding of what Alzheimer's disease has done to the 92-year-old former president.</p> <p>Davis wrote in an essay for the Dec. 15 edition of People magazine that she is often asked how her father is doing and whether he recognizes her.</p>

Former President Reagan rarely wakes up, is bedridden and can neither walk nor talk according to his daughter Patti Davis. Speaking to People magazine, Davis sought to dispel popular misconceptions that her 92-year-old father remains somewhat active and mobile because his privacy has been zealously guarded by his family. Said Davis: "But it would be a disservice to every family who has an Alzheimer's victim in their embrace to say any of that is true, and I don't believe my father would want us to lie." According to People magazine, the former president "spends his days either in a bed...

Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis wants people to have a clear understanding of what Alzheimer's disease has done to the 92-year-old former president. Davis wrote in an essay for the Dec. 15 edition of People magazine that she is often asked how her father is doing and whether he recognizes her. "It makes me realize that my mother and I have been so protective of his condition since he became ill - almost a decade now - that it has allowed people to imagine he is still talking, still walking, still able to stumble into a moment of clarity. But...

'The Reagans,' From One of ThemPatti Davis on why the Ronald Reagan depicted in the biopic is nothing like the father she knows  By PATTI DAVIS Tuesday, Nov. 04, 2003Finally, CBS is doing the right thing about "The Reagans." Under pressure the network has decided not to air the two-part biopic, steering it instead to the cable outlet Showtime (like CBS, owned by Viacom). But just because a far smaller audience will now see the film (Showtime draws maybe a million viewers on a top night) doesn’t make this story any more accurate. According to the screenplay for “The...

'The Reagans,' From One of Them Patti Davis on why the Ronald Reagan depicted in the biopic is nothing like the father she knows By PATTI DAVIS Tuesday, Nov. 04, 2003 Finally, CBS is doing the right thing about "The Reagans." Under pressure the network has decided not to air the two-part biopic, steering it instead to the cable outlet Showtime (like CBS, owned by Viacom). But just because a far smaller audience will now see the film (Showtime draws maybe a million viewers on a top night) doesn’t make this story any less accurate. According to the screenplay for...

Finally, CBS is doing the right thing about "The Reagans." Under pressure the network has decided not to air the two-part biopic, steering it instead to the cable outlet Showtime (like CBS, owned by Viacom). But just because a far smaller audience will now see the film (Showtime draws maybe a million viewers on a top night) doesn’t make this story any less accurate. According to the screenplay for “The Reagans,” my father is a homophobic Bible-thumper who loudly insisted that his son wasn’t gay when Ron took up ballet, and who in a particularly scathing scene told my mother...

<p>PATTI Davis, the daughter of 40th President Ronald Reagan, is developing a TV show about the rebellious daughter of a U.S. president.</p> <p>She's titled the show "Ribbon," which was the actual code name she was given by the Secret Service during Reagan's two terms in the White House.</p>

<p>August 27, 2003 -- RONALD Reagan's would-be assassin, John Hinckley Jr., is seeking greater freedom, but the former president's daughter, Patti Davis, hopes he rots in the psycho ward. Responding to the news that Hinckley wants to be allowed unsupervised furloughs from his hospital, Davis told PAGE SIX: "In the late '80s - when they were trying to get him out on supervised visits - it was discovered that he was pen pals with [serial killer] Ted Bundy and Charles Manson." Shockingly, Hinckley - who shot Reagan, crippled James Brady and killed a Secret Service agent in 1981 to impress a young Jodie Foster - has been allowed to make supervised visits to friends and family since 1999. Davis thinks his latest request is part of a plan to win his eventual release. She asked: "Is there some valuable part of John Hinckley that society is missing out on?" Davis has written an opinion piece for newsweek.com that further expresses her feelings.</p>

<p>John Hinckley Wants Out His lawyers say the man who shot Ronald Reagan needs more freedom in order to get well. The president’s daughter says ‘who cares?’</p> <p>Aug. 26 — Since 1999, John Hinckley, the man who shot my father, has been walking off the grounds of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital accompanied by a member of the hospital staff. These “supervised day trips” have included visits to shopping malls, book stores and bowling alleys, as well as meals with his family. The U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia has gone to court numerous times trying to convince judges that Hinckley should not be wandering around the nation’s capital even with a hospital attendant accompanying him, but they have not succeeded. The supervised day trips have continued.</p>

Davis Ruminates About Childhood in Essay Mon Jun 9, 6:52 AM ET By The Associated Press NEW YORK - Patti Davis, daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, ruminates on her years as a petulant child — and how she's come to appreciate her father's guidance as she's grown older — in a Father's Day essay for Newsweek. In a home movie showing her as an 11-year-old, Davis writes, "my petulance is obvious as I shrug myself away from my mother's outstretched arm — asserting my will, brandishing my independence." What wasn't filmed during those years, she writes, was "my father's...