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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton made a star turn this morning at former President Bill Clinton’s conference on global challenges, calling for a concerted attack on the “feminization of poverty” by destroying cultural, political, and economic barriers that trap women and children in desperate conditions. Before a standing-room-only audience in a ballroom of the Sheraton hotel in midtown Manhattan, Mrs. Clinton gave opening remarks at the conference session “Women and the Power of Economic Opportunity” then moderated a panel that included President Bush’s former secretary of agriculture and three leaders in the development and anti-poverty fields. “Far too many women are...

By Associated Press Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) -- The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a group of young women who claim their constitutional rights were violated when they were ordered to leave a book signing event featuring Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, claims that two of the women were arrested for trespassing last year and three others threatened with arrest because of their political views. According to the lawsuit, in August the women went to a Barnes & Noble store at Concord Mall in...

Some of you may remember the review of Rick Santorum's book that I posted a couple weeks ago on this thread: Give the Gift of Santorum this Christmas. Well, some of the usual suspects on the left obviously stood up and took notice, too, and did what comes natural to them--they spam voted the good reviews out of the 'spotlight review' section and voted in two negative reviews, one of which is simply an exercise in name-calling. Note that this is not an Amazon.com-inspired attempt at trashing Rick. It's a coordinated use of the Amazon.com "helpful" buttons by political ideologues...

Following is a Free Republic exclusive review of Rick Santorum's book, It Takes a Family (otherwise know as a vanity post). ----------------------- As is well-known to anyone who peruses Free Republic with any regularity, Senator Rick Santorum is headed for the political fight of his life in 2006. The lame-stream media has giddily reported polls showing him down 15-25% to challenger Bob Casey, Jr. and the homosexual lobby is already dancing on Senator Santorum's political grave--almost literally--a full year out from the election. Sadly, even some here on FR have risen to the media bait, calling him a RINO who...

In 1960, a Republican senator named Barry Goldwater published a little book called The Conscience of a Conservative . The first printing of 10,000 copies led to a second of the same size, then a third of 50,000, until ultimately it sold more than 3 million copies. Goldwater's presidential candidacy crashed in 1964, but his ideas did not: For decades, Goldwater's hostility to Big Government ruled the American Right. Until, approximately, now. Rick Santorum, a second-term Republican senator from Pennsylvania, has written a new book called It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good . The book is worth...

ASPINWALL, Pa. — Sen. Rick Santorum (search) is a rising Republican star Democrats desperately want to take down in 2006. State treasurer Robert Casey Jr., (search) his likely Democratic opponent, is ahead in state polls. He's quietly raising millions for what is expected to be the closest Senate race in 2006. Casey, like Santorum, opposes abortion, and he has name recognition from his late father, Gov. Robert P. Casey. He was recruited to run by national party leaders seeking to take out a Republican Party leader. "This is going to be a race that's going to be viewed as a...

Santorum visits Delaware to tout new family values book By RANDALL CHASEAssociated Press Writer WILMINGTON, Del. -- A Wilmington-based conservative think tank welcomed home its first best-selling author Wednesday as Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Rick Santorum touted his new book on family values. Santorum's book, "It Takes A Family: Conservatism and the Common Good," is seen by some as the GOP's response to the views expressed by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., in her 1996 book, "It Takes a Village." Like Clinton, Santorum, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, is viewed by some political observers as a possible 2008 presidential candidate....

Now, Santorum has compiled his views into a newly released book that his opponents are embracing as 449 pages of ammunition for the battle over his Senate seat in 2006. In "It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good," Santorum finds fault with two-income families, cohabitation before marriage and working women, who have chosen not to stay home with their children, he contends, "because of the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders." He also compares abortion to slavery. ... Santorum is a favorite among evangelical voters and conservatives who cheer his outspokenness,...

SEETHING Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton unloaded yesterday on a Republican senator whose new book ridicules her claims that it takes a village to raise a child. Clinton paused during an interview with The Post's Ian Bishop in the basement of the U.S. Capitol to let out a week's worth of pent-up frustration in a brief but icy exchange with socially conservative Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.). Santorum's new book, "It Takes a Family," slams Clinton's earlier tome, "It Takes a Village." He blames the former first lady for supposedly weakening the American family by calling in her book for a community...

2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was reportedly "seething" after what the New York Post says was a "frosty" encounter yesterday with her conservative Senate colleague Rick Santorum. Clinton paused during a Capitol Hill interview with Post reporter Ian Bishop "to let out a week's worth of pent-up frustration," the paper said, over Santorum's new book, "It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good." Santorum penned his tome in response to Clinton's own bestselling tribute to socialism - "It Takes a Village." But up until now, the former first lady has held her fire. "It takes a village, Rick, don't...

Sen. Rick Santorum compares abortion to slavery in his new book "It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good," which is promoted as an alternative to the views of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. The book by Santorum, R-Pa., was in some Washington bookstores on Tuesday. It describes his evolution from a young politician uncomfortable with abortion to a major player in the anti-abortion movement. It tackles subjects ranging from home schooling to welfare reform, and advocates family over what he describes as the big government village in Clinton's 1996 book, "It Takes a Village." "The African proverb says, 'It...