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Is President Obama using a “school uniforms” approach in creating policy?

As I read this morning’s question, I immediately thought about a book published in 2010 titled, “Switch, How to Change Things When Change Is Hard.” Though the authors, Chip and David Heath, are better known for the bestseller, “Made to Stick,” the premise of this book is how to affect transformative change through “little bite-size…

Latest Scandals Are a Reflection of Character

Last week, Americans watched in astonishment as scandal after scandal involving well-respected government institutions (the Secret Service, the GSA, the U.S. military) unfolded, and each new revelation just angered us more. The Secret Service scandal prompted Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee and Congressman Carolyn Maroney (D-NY) to…

Sarah Steelman for Senate

Today’s Woman in the Lens is a “hats-off” to a Republican woman running for the US Senate from the state of Missouri. Palladian View does not endorse in contested primaries, but we do like to draw attention to Republican women who embody the principle of “Building leaders of tomorrow by empowering women today.” Mrs. Sarah…

Discuss the Foreign Policy of the GOP Candidates

Voters are looking for more than words. They want a clear vision backed up by a discernable plan. Vague platitudes like, “America must continue to lead …” or “We must have resolve to do what is necessary …” will not cut it. For instance, on the issue of taxes and spending, what has traction right now…

Is the Democratic Party, the party of women?

Only 15 percent of women hold top positions in American corporations. As of 2010, women make up 46% of the workforce but comprise 3% of Fortune 500 chief executive positions and 7.6% of Fortune 500 top earner positions and hold just 15.7% of Fortune 500 board seats. Gender gap with women is not a “Republican…

A Thousand Cuts

‘One of Margaret Thatcher’s defining characteristics as a politician was a need for enemies. To fuel the aggression that drove her career she had to find new antagonists all the time to be successfully demonized, confronted and defeated.” John Campbell in his book The Iron Lady devotes an entire chapter to this unusual premise. In simple terms,…

School Choice: A Tale of Two Sons, Two Schools

I am the product of public education: from Irmo Elementary School to a Juris Doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law. Likewise our identical twin sons have received excellent educations in public schools from Pine Street Elementary School to the Freshman Academy at Spartanburg High School. I can point to seminal teachers…

Is that the mouth you kiss your Mama with?

My mother reared me to be a lady – or at least, she attempted to. (And yes, one says “reared” when talking about children; “raise” is what you do with livestock. As the mother of a teenaged boy, I am willing to concede that the distinction between these processes blurs on occasion.) My mother taught…

Ann Wagner for Congress

Today’s Keystone is a “hats-off” to a Republican woman running for Congress in Missouri’s 2nd District. Palladian View does not endorse in contested primaries, but we do like to draw attention to Republican women who embody the principle of “Building leaders of tomorrow by empowering women today.” Mrs. Ann Wagner is a shining example of a conservative Republican…

Standing Room Only at CPAC

Palladian View’s women did what most women do every hour of every day—we multitasked. While part of our team was at the Catherine Templetonstate Senate committee confirmation hearing, the other part of the team was at CPAC 2012 (the Conservative Political Action Committee) presented by the American Conservative Union. Both occasions were important and historic for…