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Fire From the Heartland,The Awakening of the Conservative Woman Fire From The Heartland Trailer - The first-ever film to tell the entire story of the conservative woman in her own words, "Fire from the Heartland" is a powerful statement about America at a crossroads and the women who have awakened to the crisis. With role models such as Clare Boothe Luce, Margaret Thatcher, and Phyllis Schlafly as inspiration, these women are the unintended consequence of the liberal feminist movement. Tracing the long history of the many conservative women who have been the backbone of this great nation, from the founding...

Ann Clare Boothe was born on April 10, 1903, in a dismal apartment house on Riverside Drive in New York City…. Clare herself once succinctly pictured her unpropitious prospects as a baby. Shortly after her conversion to Catholicism, she was attacked by an ardent disciple of Mrs. Sanger for the Catholic stand against birth control. She wound up her tirade by saying, “I cannot understand anyone as enlightened as yourself subscribing to that doctrine.” “I think I appreciate your logic,” said Clare. “Let’s take the case of a young married woman, frail and ill, deserted by her husband, earning a...

I was thinking about asking for a Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute 2006 calender a little late, but I was wondering if anyone else had it or has a picture of exactly how it is. I love the idea, but I guess I'm a little curious about how it looks... I'm looking all over the site and all I can find is a list of the girls, but I want an example of one of the months just to see the format and stuff. Thanks a lot!

Emphasizing the failures and hypocrisy of the feminist movement and calling feminists who claim to speak for women "phonies," conservative activist Michelle Easton told a gathering of students this week to be wary of the tendency of the media, feminists and other liberals to ignore and often marginalize conservative women. Easton, president of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, an organization that prepares women in leadership skills, spoke to the Young America's Foundation 25th Annual National Conservative Conference, a week-long event that brings together young conservative activists from across the nation. Comparing the women's movement of a century earlier to...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States is the only country able to fight a "twin-headed'' monster -- Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein -- in its efforts to eradicate terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said Monday. "Evil has never been so technically difficult, never been so elusive,'' she told about 800 people after receiving the Clare Boothe Luce award from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Thatcher, who was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, was nicknamed the "Iron Lady'' for her forceful brand of conservatism. She led Britain out of...