Thursday’s VP debate was a chance for Sarah Palin to gain back what she’s lost - the female vote. According to a Time Magazine poll, female support for the McCain/Palin ticket has fallen drastically, from 55% to 38%. Compare that to a poll taken immediately after the convention, where McCain/Palin support was at 47% [...]

UPDATE 2: The House of Representatives has passed the “bailout bill” 263-171. The vast majority of Democrats were for the bill (172 to 63) while a slight majority of Republicans were against the bill (91 for, 108 against).
UPDATE: On the evening of Wednesday, October 1, the Senate approved the revised version of the [...]

Cynthia Cheng

The bill which was proposed to save the US economy from turmoil has been narrowly defeated 228 to 205. Stocks began to fall prior to the official announcement, with the Dow dropping as much as 700 points after the announcement. According to reports, with the majority of Republicans (133) and a handful [...]

The first woman Member of Parliament in Canada was Agnes Macphail, elected in 1921.  Coincidently, this was the first federal election women voted in, after the bill allowing women to vote was passed two years before.  In the United States, the first woman elected to the House of Representatives was Jeanette Rankin, a Republican from [...]

Robert Haynes-Peterson
There are times I wake up feeling if my skin is oozing wine, or whichever spirit I inhaled at the previous night’s soiree. Now luxe spas in vine regions around the world are actually offering wine and vine-based treatments, providing a healthier definition of “booze soaked.” As more and more destinations-from Walla Walla, Washington [...]