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“If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we’d have problems with caterpillars,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt” airing this weekend. “It’s a fiction.”

Dear Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. American women have been compared to lot of barnyard animals in legislative bodies around America. The novelty of trivializing a patriarchal fight for women’s bodies as the equivalent of a ‘Caterpillar War’ is the reality that from the cocoons emerge stark raving mad, incredibly beautiful Smart Sensuality butterflies! Let’s roll, ladies! ~ Anne Enke

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Elle magazine presents At the Pinnacle of Hillary Clinton’s Career, opening with the AOC 2012 election mantra.

Secretary of State Clinton has won over her harshest critics and become so popular that some Democrats are envisioning a future in which she replaces Joe Biden as vice president on the 2012 ticket and then—dare they imagine it—takes the top job in 2016.

Hillary Clinton is introduced by her husband Bill Clinton to didn’t arrive with a police escort. He is rushed to the stage for the Nonprofit International Crisis Group’s awards ceremony, shere his wife will be honored and give the keynote speech.

“I know I’m just sort of a warm-up act,” says the Secretary’s husband, to laughter. Bill Clinton is circumspect in thanking the honorees and Hillary for their enormous efforts on behalf of women’s rights. “Some day we hope to liberate every man on earth from the tendency as old as human history to identify our strength and manhood with the ability to control the lives, limit the chances, and doom the dreams of women and girls,” he says.

Then in a unique moment for Bill watchers, he cuts his remarks short and sits down. His wife follows with a speech that captured the hearts of her audience. A Human Rights Watch worker at Elle writer Rachel Combe’s table, held a hand over her heart, hearing Clinton’s steady voice saying “That may have been the coolest speech I’ve ever heard in my life.”

Women’s complex community ties make them invested in the well-being of many groups and more likely to raise issues that truly influence quality of life and maintain peace: education, health, justice, employment. Often marginalized themselves, women are more apt to speak up for ethnic and religious minorities. Since they’re usually not doing actual fighting, they can serve as mediators and mobilize other noncombatants to pressure soldiers to lay down their arms. “Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world,” she says. “It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children’s and grandchildren’s fates, are decided.”

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“Face it: Facebook board features seven white men, no women”, writes ZDNet.

Alice Baumgartner, one of FACE IT Campaign members says it “protests the fact that although women make up the majority of Facebook’s users, produce the majority of its content, and drive its profits, Facebook’s board is made up of seven white men. The Face It campaign is supported by community and business leaders who are tired of seeing so little movement on the issue of diverse leadership.”

Where Art Thou Virginia?

The big story at the 2012 Masters isn’t about gold. It’s about when and where will we find International Business Machines Corp. chief executive Virginia M. Rometty. IBM has long sponsored the Masters, and the company’s CEOs have been offered memberships. 

Augusta National, of course, is an all-male club and Ms Rometty is a golfer. Will she be offered a green jacket or will she only be entertaining clients in the IBM tent? If Rometty isn’t offered a place in the clubhouse, will it mean the end of IBM’s sponsorship of Augusta, or will clients’ social needs supercede even that decision? Of course, without a membership at Augusta, IBM can no longer take clients into the clubhouse.

The tournament began Thursday and Ms Rometty says she will attend.

Mitt & the Ladies

Top Democratic pollster Celinda Lake tells The Daily Beast that Romney may be trailing Obama badly with independent women, but he can change course.

“Independent women are very swing, so they are anything but locked up,” she told The Daily Beast. “I think they are paying attention earlier than they normally do because these things are so outrageous in their minds. It isn’t just the positions the Republicans are taking—it’s the priorities. These women thought, ‘Things are really tough for my family, this country is in as deep a trouble as I’ve seen in my lifetime, and you’re worried about my birth control?’ That’s the really big factor here.”

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Anne of Carversville

Keira Knightley | Mert & Marcus | Interview April 2012 | ‘Keira’

AOC Private Studio

Clara Alonso | Chris Colls | Elle Vietnam April 2012

Lenka Varvarova | Axl Jansen | Metal #27 | ‘The Drapey of Spring’

Olivia Wilde | Markus + Indrani | Modern Luxury | Wilde Beauty

Henrietta Hellberg, Sara E & Elsa F | Fredrik Wannerstedt | Tush #27 | ‘The Blondes’

Lidi O’Brian | Iris Brosh | L’Officiel Ukraine April 2012

Park Jihyuk | Harper’s Bazaar Korea April 2012 | Modern Flapper

Georgia May Jagger | Jacques Dequeker | Elle Brazil April 2012 | London Calling

AOC Style

Christy Turlington | Arthur Elgort | Tatler UK May 2012 | The Crew

Anne Sophie Monrad | Tierney Gearon | Marie Claire Ukraine April 2012

Nathalia Oliveira & Vanessa Adamatti | Gui Paganini | Marie Claire Brazil March 2012 | Moda Decorativa

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SN Living

Amber Anderson | John Akehurst | Elle UK April 2012 | The Greatest Light

Inguna Butane | Tobias Lundkvist | Elle Russia April 2012 | Jazz Women

Heidi Harrington-Johnson | James Meakin | Tatler UK May 2012 | Expose

Dovile Virsilaite | Jam | Tatler UK May 2012 | Embellishment

Melinda Rader | Angelo d’Agostino | L’Officiel Ukraine April 2012 | Summer Rush

Mandana | Amit Sharma | Harper’s Bazaar India March 2012 | ‘Take a Bow

Cisco | Filippo Del Vita | L’Officiel Ukraine April 2012 | Magnifica

Michelle Vawer | Diego Uchitel | Cosmopolitan US May 2012 | Sexy on the Beach

Candice, Adriana & Jasmine | Russell James | Victoria’s Secret Swim 2012

Milly Simmonds | Steve Hiett | Vogue Italia April 2012 | ‘Closeup’

Hillary Clinton -- Not Joe Biden -- Can Bank the Women's Vote in 2012 Elections | Violence Against Women Act

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Anne supported Hillary Clinton for president in 2008. She has called more than once for President Obama to put Hillary Clinton on the 2012 ticket as vice president, to insure that Obama is reelected for a second term. We’re presently not focused on the 2016 election, but rather, the current Republican War on Women.

There is no doubt that having Hillary Clinton and not Joe Biden running as vice president this year insures a turnout among Democratic women and independent voters, too.  Joe Biden cannot — and will not of choice — focus on rallying single women to vote. 

We can argue that the failure of single women to vote is part of the reason we’re in this horrible mess with women’s rights. AOC will do all we can to mobilize single women in 2012, but we WANT Hillary Clinton running for vice president, not Joe Biden. In fact, we are ready to petition Hillary Clinton for vice president.

We echo Maureen Dowd’s Don’t Tread on Us column:

Women have watched a chilling cascade of efforts in Congress and a succession of states to turn women into chattel, to shame them about sex and curb their reproductive rights. They’ve seen the craven response of G.O.P. candidates after Limbaugh branded a law student wanting insurance coverage for birth control pills, commonplace for almost five decades, as a “prostitute” and “slut.”

If women are so vulnerable, they may need one of their own.

Is she inevitable?

American women know that all the gains we’re made are up for grabs by Republicans. We have a RIGHT to an American vice president who is committed to women’s emancipation.

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“We’re mad, and we’re tired of it,” said Senator Maria Cantwell.Stephen Crowley/The New York Time Laws protecting women, originally enacted with broad bi-partisan support, are now the subject of fierce debate in the Republican War on Women. Today’s anti-woman menu du jour includes the Violence Against Women Act, a federal law signed into effect by President Clinton in 1994, providing $1.6 billion to help investigate and prosecute violent crimes against women. In 2000 the act was reauthorized by Congress, as it was again in 2005.

NYTimes writer Jonathan Weisman reported today that Democratic women senators would march together today, demanding quick action on its extension.

Alaka’s senator Lisa Murkoswki is warning Republicans that they are being successfully painted as anti-woman, with potentially severe consequences. Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, opposes the latest version of the bill, after supporting it in the past.

The legislation would continue existing grant programs to local law enforcement and battered women shelters, but would expand efforts to reach Indian tribes and rural areas. It would increase the availability of free legal assistance to victims of domestic violence, extend the definition of violence against women to include stalking, and provide training for civil and criminal court personnel to deal with families with a history of violence. It would also allow more battered illegal immigrants to claim temporary visas, and would include same-sex couples in programs for domestic violence.

The Greater New York City affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced that it has cancelled the Annual Awards Gala originally scheduled for May 17, 2012. A Grantees’ Breakfast is scheduled instead, with tickets controlled by organizers. NYC Komen exects say they’re uncertain about an ability to fundraise at this time. And they can’t control the ticket purchasers — opening the door to some ugly incidents at the big party.

Anne of Carversville

Crystal Renn | Tim Lim | Numero China March 2012 | ‘Crash’

AOC Private Studio

Siri Tollerod | Suzie Q & Leo Siboni | Exhibition #2 | ‘The Goods’

Lais Ribeiro | Alexi Lubomirski | Vogue Germany March 2012 | Americano

Felicity Jones | Tom Munro | Vogue Italia March 2012 | ‘Sorcery & Chips’

Eniko Mihalik | Camilla Akrans | Vogue Germany April 2012 | ‘Wild Mild’

Elettra, Marique & Corinna | David Dunan | Uterque Spring 2012

Ehren Dorsey | Andrea Carter Bowman | SCMP Style Magazine | ‘Rhapsody in Blue’

Catherine McNeil | Roe Ethridge | AnOther Spring/Summer 2012

Herieth Paul | Max Abadian | Flare April 2012 | All That Jazz

Marie Piovesan | Craig McDean | Interview March 2012 | No Photos. Please.

Kelsey Van Mook | Robert Wyatt | The Sunday Times Style March 2012 | Dream Mom

Andrej Pejic | Mami Keenan | Madame Figaro Japan March 2012 | New Balance

Nicole Richie | Max Abadian | Flare April 2012 | Fame Changer

AOC Style

Mila Kunis | Terry Richardson | Harper’s Bazaar US April 2012

Emma Pei | Louis Christopher | Grazia France March 2012 | Mode in China

Candice, Georgia May, Karen +  | Craig McDean | Vogue US April 2012 | Tails of the City

Ilva Heitmann | Maria Karas | QVEST Spring/Summer 2012

Valeria Dmitrienko | Adriano Russo | Giorgio Armani El Pais Semanal

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Shanina Shaik | Victoria’s Secret Lingerie March 2012 Lookbook

Shannan Click | Camilla Akrans | Plein Sud Spring 2012

Anne — along with other Pa citizens and people across America — has joined forces with these three busy moms who have strong views about what’s happening to the women of Pennsylvania at the hands of Republican legislators.

For good reason, most AOC writing focuses on the women’s rights assault of the day in America. Just trying to track the legislation is a nightmare. What’s lost in calling out one vaginal probe and personhood bill after another is the personal side of feminism and women’s rights in America.

Please check in at the Unite Against the War on Women national Facebook page and Unite Women’s new website. Follow on Twitter as @NatlWOW.

In Pennsylvania, link here for April 28th’s Unite Against the War on Women Harrisburg march.

Pa Press | If you are a member of the Pa press, Anne is happy to talk to you in her role as media liaison for the Pennsylvania march. Contact her here.

Rick Santorum's Alma Mater Catholic High School Will Protest His Speech on March 16 | Santorum on Woodstock

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Republican candidate Rick Santorum in his own words:

“Woodstock is the great American orgy. This is who the Democratic Party has become. They have become the party of Woodstock. They prey upon our most basic primal lusts, and that’s sex. And the whole abortion culture, it’s not about life. It’s about sexual freedom. That’s what it’s about. Homosexuality. It’s about sexual freedom. All of the things are about sexual freedom, and they hate to be called on them. They try to somehow or other tie this to the founding fathers’ vision of liberty, which is bizarre. It’s ridiculous. That’s at the core of why you are attacked.”

What changed was the ’60s. What changed was sex. What changed was the social and cultural issues that have huge amounts of money because if you look — I haven’t seen numbers on this, but I’m sure it’s true — if you go socioeconomic scale, the higher the income, the more socially liberal you are. The more you know you can buy your way out of the problems that sexual libertinism causes you. You have an abortion, well, I have the money to take care of it. If I want to live an extravagant life and get diseases, I can. … You can always take care of everything. If you have money, you can get away with things that if you’re poor you can’t.”

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Santorum protest March 16 at his alma mater in Niles Windy City Times

Martha Ann Cahill Weaver, Carmel Catholic class of 1967, who is active with her local chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) said; “I’m embarrassed that

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