Phyllis Schlafly

In the five days since she was introduced as John McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin has been defined by news media accounts of her views, her family and her brief record as Alaska governor. Now it's her turn to define herself. Palin is earning high...

Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to...

John McCain chose the supremely underqualified Sarah Palin as his running mate partly because she is a woman. If you have a problem with that, you're a sexist. She talks incessantly about being a mother of five and uses her newborn, Trig, who has Down...

Who would have dreamed that a hockey mom could produce such a bounce? I didn't even think the puck was supposed to get off the ice. But now that so many women have skated over to her side, allow me another metaphor. Sarah Palin is the Zamboni of this...

When does an unmarried, pregnant 17-year-old merit the attention of the media? Rarely, unless the young woman's mother is the Republican candidate for vice president, who, as governor of Alaska, opposes federal funding for sex education classes, a...

Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly criticized John McCain's campaign yesterday for canceling Sarah Palin's appearance at a sold-out Republican National Coalition for Life reception. The Alaska governor accepted an invitation to attend the $95-per-head...

The topic was Sen. John McCain's vice presidential pick, and talk show host Laura Ingraham was on a roll. Accepting an award from the Republican National Coalition for Life on behalf of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was under wraps working on her...

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Trying to defend Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) against attacks from the right, President Bush went on the Fox News Channel last weekend to vouch for the Republican presidential front-runner's conservative credentials. "I know the principles that drive him....

The U.S. is known for its "paranoid style" of politics, so brace yourself for the next Big Scare coming down the pike (literally) -- the Trans-Texas Corridor. Isolationist conservatives, emboldened by their jihad last year against the Dubai Ports World...

LEON E. PANETTA and retired Adm. James D. Watkins were on Capitol Hill last week lobbying for a treaty that, depending on how you look at it, is three to 25 years overdue for a Senate vote. As co-chairmen of the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative and...

NEARLY 25 years after the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment, feminists and their political supporters, who now control Congress, are back at it. Last month, the constitutional measure, now dubbed the Women's Equality Amendment, was reintroduced in...