Once again the ladies of the Obama administration flex their power and help influence foreign policy and a changing global landscape.

The New York Times reports today that President Obama changed his position on intervention in Libya as a result of three powerful women in top positions in his administration. 

CNN released a poll today indicating that two thirds of those polled have a positive opinion of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. You can read about it here: http://bit.ly/fNy4Ds

In his March 10 article entitled “A Broadway Makeover for ‘Priscilla’ Queens,” New York Times writer Patrick Healy reports on the new musical, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and its journey to the Broadway stage.  You can read his article here: http://nyti.ms/fOqwOP.  And if you didn’t know, this musical is based on the 1994 movie, featuring two drag queens and a transsexual.

Last week I was having a conversation with someone that I’ve known for over ten years, and I was telling him about an incident that happened at work.  I explained that a colleague had come to me about a student issue, and I found myself not feeling very sympathetic about the situation.  In another time and place, I might have had a different response, but I felt no sympathy at all.

As much as the anti-homosexual, “un-Christian” message of Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church sickens me, I agree with the Supreme Court’s decision today to uphold the free-speech rights of the church to stage protests at events like funerals.  Protesting at a funeral has got to be one of the most inhumane and uncivilized actions that anyone can participate in, but then again, many believe that a romantic/physical relationship between two people of the same sex is inhumane and uncivilized.  Of course, I don’t agree with that, but tolerance (I dislike that word) needs to go both ways.  Freedom is not only guaranteed to those that we agree with, and the same goes for the protection provided by the Constitution.