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I doubt that many will be shocked by the revelation that political correctness has taken hold at the Washington Post. Take the December 18 murder of pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett, whose baby was cut from her mother’s still-warm uterus. When news of the gruesome homicide began to trickle out, the Washington Post newsroom was astir. Why? Because the feminist catechism teaches that women are the eternal victims at the hands of those brutish men. But in this case, the alleged killer was a woman, Lisa Montgomery. Normally, the solution would be simple: bury the story. That’s exactly what the Washington...

Women who live in red states helped deliver the 2004 election, but their blue-state sisters are besting them on the map when measuring economic, political and health equity. The best places for women are Vermont, Connecticut, Minnesota and Washington, the non-partisan Institute for Women's Policy Research said in a report that ranks states by 30 factors including pay rates, education, mortality, health care coverage and political participation. The worst state for women is Mississippi, followed by South Carolina, Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. "State wage gaps are most surprising," said economist Heidi Hartmann, head of the non-partisan institute that...