Tammy Bruce

Tammy Bruce and other like-minded National Organization for Women supporters are critical of Howard Stern and, by extension, of the women who voluntarily decide to become part of his "misogynist and sexist" ventures ("NOW Shock Waves," Morning Report, Oct. 22). Isn't the whole point of the women's movement that all women should be allowed to choose their own role in society, not that which others formulate for them? This means, of course, that if a woman wants to become a doctor, astronaut, baseball umpire, construction worker or homemaker, she should have the right.

A group that began a recall effort against Orange County Superior Court Judge Nancy Wieben Stock after she awarded O.J. Simpson custody of his children accused her Tuesday of creating "complete fabrications" in her defense. At a news conference outside Municipal Court, the group said a written statement from Stock contained several inaccuracies concerning a second controversial decision that returned two children in 1991 to an Anaheim woman who later shot the children and herself.

One of the greatest misconceptions circulating in Orange County is that Judge Nancy Wieben Stock followed the law in both the Kyle and Simpson-Brown custody cases. That is simply not true. The plain facts are that Wieben Stock was neither following the law nor using common sense. I have searched to no avail for the law that required Wieben Stock to return these children to a home wherein there was established domestic violence and the children were at high risk. Used generally to make children wards of the court, [the law]

For two nights in a row, a disturbed woman kept radio listeners spellbound as she confessed to shooting at two people and contemplating suicide. Early Friday morning, Patricia Nelan, a homeless woman from Oxnard, followed through on her threat and turned a shotgun on herself after police approached her truck in Sylmar.

The battle over abortion moved Wednesday to a Los Angeles fast-food restaurant--a Carl's Jr. outlet--where 100 pro-choice picketers protested the financial support that the founder of the Orange County-based chain has given to anti-abortion efforts. The picketers described the late-afternoon action as part of a national strategy to fight back against major funders of anti-abortion organizations, including Carl's Jr. founder Carl Karcher and Domino's Pizza magnate Thomas S. Monaghan.

In Hollywood where a deal is not always a deal, a strange deal was struck last week between the cable network E! Entertainment Television and the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women. The two alphabeticals agreed to sit down and talk about programming, what areas of the network's show-business emphasis might be covered, what new areas of entertainment journalism might be explored, a practice usually reserved for network programming executives.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich regrets offending people when he sarcastically used the term hot flash during a debate with Supervisor Gloria Molina, his spokesman said late Wednesday. Spokesman Dawson Oppenheimer said it would be wrong to characterize the supervisor's response as an apology because "that would indicate some intention to insult Gloria Molina or women in general . . . and he did not intend the remark as an insult."

Re "Liberal Media Ignore What They Don't Want to Hear," Commentary, Feb. 14: As the country reels from the Enron scandal--grand theft--and waits for the other shoe to drop from the ill-conceived, albeit successful, effects of Enron's lobbying to influence George W. Bush and Dick Cheney on energy policy, Norah Vincent has the audacity to suggest that "special interest bureaucrats," which she defines as flacks, are "almost exclusively the property of...

Vowing to fight a rising national and local tide, nearly 75 representatives of various women's organizations marched from City Hall to the Ronald Reagan State Office Building in Downtown Los Angeles Thursday to protest a proposed ballot initiative that would eliminate most affirmative action programs.

Have you seen this woman? The leggy blonde in a tight-fitting, thigh-exposing outfit? She's on billboards and posters all over town, amorously straddling that obscure and unlikely object of desire--a beeper. The electronics store behind these ads is the object of some irate messages from women.