Phyllis Schlafly

Gay marriage goes before the U.S. Supreme Court today

2013-03-26 06:50:00

SAN FRANCISCO — As the battle over gay marriage takes center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, a new survey shows that attitudes on same-sex marriage have shifted rapidly. Polling data consistently show that knowing a gay person is a...

Chief Justice Roberts' lesbian cousin hopes for gay marriage win

2013-03-25 20:02:00

SAN FRANCISCO – For Ohio senator Rob Portman, knowing that his son was gay helped change Portman's mind. For President Obama, talking with gay White House staffers and learning that his daughters’ friends had same-sex parents proved...

Art appreciation 101: 'Glittering Images' by Camille Paglia

2012-12-28 07:00:00

-------------------- Glittering Images A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars Camille Paglia Pantheon: 202 pp., $30 -------------------- In the 1990s Camille Paglia established herself as a cultural critic to be reckoned with. Her daring...

Is Tropical Storm Isaac a divine message to Republicans in Tampa?

2012-08-28 05:00:00

When a powerful tropical storm sweeps close enough to wipe out the first day of the Republican National Convention, is it a sign of divine intervention? A small, but significant, segment of Republican voters believe that extreme weather is more than a...

Likeable Rick Santorum attracts independents Romney is losing

2012-02-07 05:00:00

Is Mitt Romney the Republicans' man of destiny or will Rick Santorum finally get his moment in the sun? You remember Rick Santorum, the guy who, in last summer’s Republican debates, was placed at the end of the row near the exit sign and never...

Ellen McCormack dies at 84; antiabortion presidential candidate

2011-04-02 00:00:00

Ellen McCormack, a New York housewife who briefly became a national figure in American politics when she twice ran for president, in 1976 and 1980, in campaigns designed to galvanize the antiabortion movement, has died. She was 84. McCormack died of...

On conservative Phyllis Schlafly's new book, 'The Flipside of Feminism'

2011-03-31 16:34:51

Phyllis Schlafly: back on the attack

2011-03-31 00:00:00

Sharon L. Sievers dies at 71; pioneered women’s studies program at Cal State Long Beach

2010-04-23 00:00:00

Sharon L. Sievers, a history professor who helped pioneer women's studies at Cal State Long Beach in the early 1970s and with others later sued the university to preserve the program, has died. She was 71. Sievers, who also was a noted scholar of...

Ann Coulter, Carrie Prejean, Michele Bachmann become calendar girls -- and Phyllis Schlafly too

2009-10-05 16:34:26

'When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present' by Gail Collins

2009-11-15 00:00:00

When Everything Changed The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present Gail Collins Little, Brown: 472 pp., $27.99 I don't think I've ever finished a Gail Collins-penned editorial in the New York Times, and now I know why. Collins, the...

Going protectionist over a fantasy highway

2007-09-20 00:00:00

The U.S. is known for its "paranoid style" of politics, so brace yourself for the next Big Scare coming down the pike (literally) -- the Trans-Texas Corridor. Isolationist conservatives, emboldened by their jihad last year against the Dubai Ports World...

David Horsey / Los Angeles Times

2012-08-28 00:19:00

Henry Hyde sits at the at the GOP national convention in 1980 in Detroit. Next to Hyde is conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, who opposed the Equal Rights Amendment.

2007-07-26 00:00:00