Trade Union Speaks Out Against "Sexist" Heels • Iraq War Limits Iraqi Women's Freedoms



John McCain's got quite the storied past, which is probably why he lives there most of the time! But yesterday he had more of a Back To The Future moment in which he justified his past positions based on current events that he knew then were going to happen but not because they would be an obvious result of the action…
Many, many sad things can be said about the costs of the Iraq War to both the people of Iraq and those of us in America. One of those things was said by Andrea Bruce at the Washington Post today in her article about the group home for the deserted grandmothers of Baghdad: "Before the war, when the home was opened,…
"But you can't fly this! It has guns!" That's an Iraqi man to Marine and Super Cobra pilot Katie Horner in Sunday's Washington Post Magazine. "I feel like Dr. Phil with guns," says Dan Kearney, a 26-year-old captain in charge of a particularly hellish mission in the Koregal Valley of Afghanistan to Sunday's New York…
Being a mother is complicated — but it's a complete mess when you throw armed forces and ex-husbands into the mix. ABC News has a story today about military moms who face battles both in war — and in the custody of their children. Molly Moriarty, who is in the Navy, went to Kuwait in December 2005. Within three weeks,…

Our friends over at the Huffington Post caught word of our little contest and made mention of it to their readers, who had the following to say:
And then: Our readers' thoughts on the Photoshopping debacle — rife with further provocation of a very different nature — later today!