By Nina Burleigh 10/22/12 12:46pm

The Bombshell

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Let’s Face It, Ladies: Obama’s Just Not That Into Us

The Bombshell loves O. Like so many other American women who helped elect him in ‘08, I adore that great, always-ticking political brain. I love his health care reform, his calm, cool and collected kill order for OBL. His barely clothed socialist tendencies drive me wild, too.

The trouble is, I’m not sure he really loves us—me and my sisters—back. Oh sure, we look pretty good about three months before an election. And yes, he’s put two women on the Supreme Court who will presumably help keep women’s basic rights intact for decades to come. But it really hurts to have to admit that, to him, women are tactical advantages, mere numbers and percentages in a demographic column.  Read More

By Azi Paybarah 5/18/10 4:02pm

Kagan Watch

Koch on Kagan’s Rumors

Ed Koch, who never married and deflected questions about his own sexuality, said the White House shouldn’t have answered questions about Elena Kagan’s sexuality, but rather, denied the legitamicy of the question.

Koch, in a commentary he emailed out:

Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s sexual orientation is the subject Read More

By Zeke Turner 5/11/10 10:07pm

Plausible Deniability

‘Absurd Question’: What Was the Wall Street Journal Trying to Say with Softball Cover Photo?

Politico’s Ben Smith attemps to drill down into the Wall Street Journal‘s decision to put a picture of Supreme Court nominee and Elena Kagan playing softball on its cover this morning. Were the Journal‘s editors trying to send its readers a message?

“If you turn the photo upside down, reverse the pixilation and simultaneously listen Read More