Category Archives: Publisher’s Keystone

Was the health care ruling a actually a long-term victory for conservative jurisprudence?

Was the health care ruling a actually a long-term victory for conservative jurisprudence?
Some conservative activists have turned against Chief Justice John Roberts for his role in the Supreme Court decision basically upholding the Obama health care law. Yet the decision written by Roberts did have a strong conservative element. While ruling that the individual mandate was an allowable tax, he also wrote that he did not believe the Obama administration's argument that…
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Is the political media biased against women?

According to Julie Burton president of the Women’s Media Center“Women’s “views and voices” are missing in print, television, radio, online and in film.” Women’s voices are systemically underrepresented everywhere not just in media but also in politics, education, business...The proportions for which journalists rely on male commentators rather than women is simply mirroring the landscape…
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Brave Teaches Women How to Change Their Fate

Latest offering from Disney/Pixar is first to feature a female lead. Like so many Disney/Pixar classics, “Brave” is a love story, but is unusual because it is the story of love between a mother and daughter and the quest by the daughter to change her fate. “Brave” begins with a film score reminiscent of those before…
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Are Palin and Bachmann too similar?

Are Palin and Bachmann too similar?
As a resident of South Carolina, the state with the fewest women elected to public office in the nation, my first reaction upon hearing this question was… why is this even a question? Why are there not more woman offering themselves for the highest position in our country? Voters are certainly capable of discerning differences…
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Can Mia Love turn the tide for black voters, GOP?

In an almost ironic twist, a race in Utah’s 4th congressional district has emerged pitting a long-term Democrat incumbent against a mother and Republican mayor of Saratoga Springs. This mother also happens to be black and Mormon. Utah is an anomaly like no other state....well almost any other state. Read More
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Another high profile female business leader departs…

As I look back over the past 25 years, I have seen a cycle emerge here in South Carolina. Women leaders rise to prominence here before making an exodus to positions elsewhere. Some may say “that’s just business.” But in actuality, it’s much more. Today the light is dimmer with Duke Energy South Carolina President…
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Does Walker’s victory pave the way for the GOP in 2012?

Until last night, President Obama's 2008 Wisconsin win (by 13 points) led most strategists to skip over this heartland as a potential state in play. Today, with the "fall of the recall" the game has changed. A new GOP "message" frontier for other states like Pennsylvania, Colorado, Ohio, and Nevada, each of which Obama won…
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Is Obama right to want to eliminate tax loopholes?

Is Obama right to want to eliminate tax loopholes?
Though sources differ on the scrivener of “You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong” it is generally accepted that Reverend William Boetcker’s collection of ten maxims underscore the failures associated with an overzealous government. Whether they are the ideas of the Minnesota governor or President Obama, the reality is that the success or…
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