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A bill that would require voters to present a photo ID at the polls won key approval from the S.C. House on Thursday, but not before House Democrats — equating the proposal to segregation-era efforts to disenfranchise voters — walked out. About 30 members of the Legislative Black Caucus and other House Democrats staged the walkout as debate moved into its fourth hour and it became clear the bill would pass. “You’ve made it clear it’s your way or the highway,” state Rep. David Weeks, chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus, said to House Republicans, moments before the walkout. “There...

Susan B. Anthony chastising Grover Cleveland.Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She traveled the United States and Europe, and gave 75 to 100 speeches per year on women's rights for 45 years. Biographical excerpt from about.com ------------- Susan B. Anthony was raised in New York as a Quaker. She taught for a few years at a Quaker seminary and from there became a headmistress at a women's division of...

MUCH has been made of the timing of Hillary Clinton’s speech before the Democratic National Convention tonight, coming as it does on the 88th anniversary of women’s suffrage. Convention organizers are taking advantage of this coincidence of the calendar — the 19th Amendment was certified on Aug. 26, 1920 — to pay homage to the women’s vote in particular and women’s progress in general. By such tributes, they are slathering some sweet icing on a bitter cake. But many of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters are unlikely to be partaking. They regard their candidate’s cameo as a consolation prize. And they are...

"If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen." —Ann Coulter, Oct. 2 New York Observer With Hillary Clinton still the leading Democrat in the race for president, a lot of news stories over the next year will discuss women voting patterns. Some women may well vote for Mrs. Clinton, even if they disagree with her policies, simply because she is a woman. Terms like "historic" will be thrown around a lot,...

Ann Coulter has a new book. "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd be Republicans." Suggested subtitle ... "You Can't Fix Stupid." I guess we now know just what sentence, paragraph or thought expressed in Coulter's book is going to be used by the MoveOn Democrat Party and the loony left in an attempt to demonize her. Here's an excerpt from an interview with Ann Coulter by George Gurley. Here we find Coulter talking about women: "If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a...

"... let me put the matter plainly: Is it a sign of strength in the West that women can vote, hold political office, and be shapers of public opinion on political issues including matters of national security? Or is it a sign--and a cause--of a profound, perhaps fatal weakness? There is much to be said for the view that affording women political rights (as distinct from the protection of their human rights, property rights, and civil rights) inevitably leads society in the direction of the Nanny State that we see in full bloom in today's Britain and Europe, leading ultimately...

Women voted in Kuwait for the first time yesterday as the conservative emirate became the last Gulf state to allow universal suffrage. Kuwaiti voters appeared to embrace the milestone in Middle East democracy as turnout figures surged to over 80 per cent. Womeny voted in separate stations across the conservative state as Islamists had demanded. Campaigners handed out roses to voters or water bottles with candidates' photos printed on them and volunteers offered voters rides to polling stations in golf carts. "I don't know how to describe my feelings, I am so happy, it's a beautiful day as women practice...

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - A Kuwaiti budget airline said it is offering free air tickets to all women who wish to travel to Kuwait later this month for the first election in which women can campaign and vote. "We want to ensure that as many women as possible have the available access to return to Kuwait to vote in these historic elections," Chairman and CEO Marwan Boodai of Jazeera Airways, Kuwait's first private airline, said in a statement.

No democracy for `uneducated' HK AP , HONG KONG Saturday, Apr 29, 2006,Page 4 Advertising A senior Chinese law expert has said Hong Kong isn't ready for full democracy partly because the community lacks a consensus on the issue and people need better patriotic education, local media reported yesterday. The comments were widely reported in the media because leading Chinese legal academics are believed to serve as the spokesmen for the communist leadership. The remarks were made on Thursday at a conference in Beijing about Hong Kong's mini Constitution, or "Basic Law." by legal scholar Wang Zhenmin (‰¤�U–¯). "I believe...

This guy goes around and gets women to sign a petition to end womens suffrage, which is their right to vote. Click here to view video.

DEAD SEA, Jordan (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Laura Bush called on Saturday for greater voting rights for women in the Middle East and said the United States respected all faiths during a tour to counter anti-American sentiment in the region. "Women who have not yet won these rights are watching," the first lady told a conference on the shore of the Dead Sea. One of the White House's more popular international envoys, the first lady had begun her solo diplomatic mission by talking frankly on Friday about America's growing image problems here. At the World Economic Forum on Saturday,...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's parliament passed a law on Monday granting women the right to vote and run in elections for the first time, after pressure from the pro-Western Gulf Arab state's reformist government. "We made it. This is history," prominent activist Roula al-Dashti told reporters. "Our target is the parliamentary polls in 2007. I'm starting my campaign from today." Outside parliament, people danced and cheered, passing drivers hooted their horns in support and fireworks lit the sky. Parliament speaker Jassim al-Khorafi said a majority of the all-male parliament passed the law after a marathon nine-hour session. Thirty-five voted in...

KUWAIT CITY (AP) - The emir should have the last word on granting women political rights if Muslim clerics disagree, said a religious edict issued by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs on Saturday. The Cabinet and the suffrage supporters hope the edict - or fatwa - will convince undecided lawmakers, mostly tribal and independent, to approve a government-proposed bill that could give Kuwaiti women the right to vote and run as candidates. The Cabinet's amendment to the 1962 election law that restricts political rights to men is expected to be up for a vote in the coming weeks. The emir,...

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JEDDAH, 25 November 2004 — A number of Saudi women have called for urgent state policies to protect victims of domestic violence in the country. “We want policy change so that courts and police can process cases of domestic violence and protect women,” a woman said under condition of anonymity. Statistics on the number of women who suffer domestic violence, either by their husbands or other male relatives, are unavailable in Saudi Arabia, but many Saudi women insisted that things must change. The UN’s Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is observed around the world today. “There is...

Life Liberty and Property, but among these three, Property.

At first glance, it may seem a long shot in an era of orange alerts and stepped-up border patrols. But quietly and carefully, elected officials, labor unions and community groups are starting to push the notion of allowing legal immigrants who are not United States citizens to vote in New York City elections. Supporters say it is not an outlandish proposition. They point out that even without citizenship, legal immigrants pay taxes, send their children to public schools and serve in the military. Noncitizens in many states were allowed to vote in local, state and even Congressional elections as recently...

<p>"It seems to me," Jeannette Gilder wrote in 1894, "that it's a bigger feather in a woman's cap -- a brighter jewel in her crown -- to be the mother of George Washington than to be a member of Congress from the 32nd District."</p>

Christina Hoff Sommers wrote a book several years ago entitled Who Stole Feminism? in which a former feminist of the 1960s variety explores just was happened to a movement that had general public support during through the early 1970s. In this book, she explores the errors and the outright lies of modern feminists. Although a wonderful book, the premise that feminism was "stolen" is not quite right. It was murdered, and the crime took place several decades earlier.That movement which we call feminism began in the 1840s and it was intimately intertwined with several other movements, all of which were...