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Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed at Number 3 in the 2019 edition of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women from Forbes. This marks the 16th yearly edition for the list. It was released on Thursday.The most powerful woman in the world is once again German Chancellor Angela Merkel. This is her ninth consecutive year to earn that distinction. Forbes credits the distinction due to Merkel’s “crusading against anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe”, which sounds like a typical diversity-obsessed response. An argument can be made that Merkel’s cave to the open borders crowd that allowed thousands and thousands of migrants to cross...

Alice's looking glass had an odd property. It not only reversed the appearance of objects, it reversed logic.. When Alice entered the world behind the mirror 'she discovered that if she tried to run she remained in place. If she wanted to go toward something she had to try to move away from it. The claim that abortion "empowers" women uses such reverse logic. The most powerful action a woman can take is to make a new human being. Abortion shuts down that powerful activity. Making babies allows women to have a huge impact on the world. . Two of...

Forbes annual "the 100 Most Powerful Women" in the world was released late Thursday and topping the list was Condeleezza Rice. America's first female African-American Secretary of State was dubbed the most powerful woman in the world by the nation's most respected business magazine. "She advises the leader of the world's largest superpower and has an unparalleled level of trust with and access to the president," Forbes says in explaining her selection, adding "And she has served two other U.S. presidents, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. For all of these reasons, and more, Rice, 50, is the most powerful...