Ross: Seven Surprising Secrets of Best-Selling Female Authors

On November 18th, the Conservative Women’s Network, a gathering of conservative women co-sponsored by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute and the Heritage Foundation, had the pleasure of welcoming to the podium Mrs. Marji Ross, President of Regnery Publishing, which has published almost 50 New York Times best sellers in the last twelve and a half years. Mrs. Ross, a wife and mother, spoke about secrets she has learned from the most successful conservative women authors—lessons as applicable in marriage, family, and interpersonal relationships as in the business world.

Tea Party Unveils its Budget Plan for Debt Reduction

On Nov 17 the Tea Party's Debt Reduction Committee released The Tea Party Budget. Highlights:

• Repeals ObamaCare in toto.
• Eliminates 4 Cabinet agencies — Energy, Education, Commerce, and HUD — and reduces or privatizes many others, including EPA, TSA, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac.
• Ends farm subsidies, government student loans, and foreign aid to countries that don't support us — luxuries we can no longer afford.
• Saves Social Security and greatly improves future benefits by shifting ownership and control from government to individuals, through new SMART accounts.
• Gives Medicare seniors the right to opt into the Congressional health care plan.
• Suspends pension contributions and COLAs for Members of Congress, whenever the budget is in deficit.

It's a serious proposal, one clearly geared to saving a nation rather than a few political jobs. Check it out.

Beck: God Given Rights, Small Government, and a Strong National Defense

Human Events| Glenn Beck writes of Michele Bachmann (as part of a series of profiles, from the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, of influential, prominent conservative women):

I think our Founders would be proud of the way Michele represents their principles ... She also created and is the Chairwoman of the Tea Party Caucus which has 60 members in the House and four members in the Senate. Their mission is to promote fiscal responsibility, hold fast to the Constitution and limit the size of government. With Michele leading the charge, they might just succeed ... I could not be more pleased that the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute is honoring Rep. Bachmann as one of the most influential conservative women in America.

Notes for Nov 17

Does Socialism Work? A Classroom Experiment - an updated version adds five morals to the story.
Obama's Energy Crisis: Solyndra Scandal and the Nov. 3 Layoffs - a growing legal mess for someone?
CBO: 'Stimulus' Plan Hurts Long-Term GDP Growth - wasteful spending does not create wealth or jobs; it destroys them.
Occupy Has Lost Jon Steward - Daily Show video of the dim bulbs in Zucotti Park.
Rasmussen Poll Shows Gingrich with Double-Digit Lead in Iowa - Gingrich 32/Romney 19/Cain 13/Paul 10.

Sexual Harassment: Vague, Subjective, Slippery

Under the headline, "In Favor of Dirty Jokes and Risque Remarks," NYU journalism professor Katie Roiphe questions "the creative, capricious rubric of sexual harassment:"

The words used in workshops — ‘uncomfortable,’ ‘inappropriate,’ ‘hostile’ — are vague, subjective, slippery. Feminists and liberal pundits say, with some indignation, that they are not talking about dirty jokes or misguided compliments when they talk about sexual harassment, but, in fact, they are: sexual harassment, as they’ve defined it, encompasses a wide and colorful spectrum of behaviors.

[T]he majority of women in the workplace are not tender creatures and are largely adept at dealing with all varieties of uncomfortable or hostile situations. Show me a smart, competent young professional woman who is utterly derailed by a verbal unwanted sexual advance or an inappropriate comment about her appearance, and I will show you a rare spotted owl.

Hayward: "Veterans Day: The Defiance of Tyranny"

"Freedom is the defiance of tyranny, not its absence. Let the despots of the world be forever afraid that the hearts of their oppressed people will stir at the sight of the Stars and Stripes," writes John Hayward at Human Events. "The American veteran gave the world victory without conquest, valor without cruelty, and vigilance without domination. History has never seen anything quite like them before, and since the day American soldiers took up arms against their first “unbeatable” enemy, they have never stopped making history..."

Enough already!

Blame Clinton Admin for Economic Collapse

On April 15, 1994, the Clinton Administration codified a 20-page "Policy Statement on Discrimination in Lending" that basically told (threatened?) banks to either (a) lend high-risk home mortgages to unqualified applicants in the name of 'fairness', or (b) be branded as 'racist', sued by the Feds for 'discriminatory' lending practices, and denied access to funding from federally-controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. So began the housing bubble that 15 years later destroyed the U.S. economy. Reports Investor's Business Daily,

And it's still alive today. Obama is building on the fair-lending infrastructure Clinton put in place.

Surber: That Was Then, This is N.O.W.

Enlightening: Don Surber contrasts what was said by National Organization of Women president Patricia Ireland on April 2, 1998, concerning sexual harassment charges against Bill Clinton, and what NOW is saying today about charges against Herman Cain.