This is the third diary in the Women's History Month Series. March is Women's History Month. March 8th is International Women's Day.

I'm getting a little ahead of myself in terms of cataloging the First Wave. The first two installments of this series discussed the Seneca Falls Convention, largely considered the birthplace of the First Wave of feminist action in the United States. With the 19th Amendment we jump ahead to the conclusion of the First Wave, and many significant events and people populate the time in between. We will come back to them.

But tomorrow, women in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont go to the polls, as they have since just 1920--just 88 years ago--and the story of how they got there is a harrowing tale of fighters like Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, as well as a different kind of 50-state strategy, mass arrests, maggot infested force-feedings, rose wars, and so much more.

Join me below the fold for details along the road to Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, and every state in the Union!

If you've been in the fight to restore the rule of law to our nation for any length of time, the questions have probably occurred to you already: "To what extent should Presidents be immune from criticism of their actions (or inactions) during wartime – and how far should he let his goons go in protecting his image?"  "In what ways have past Presidents overstepped their bounds and inflicted torture upon their own citizens?" and, of course, the Great Riddle of American Jurisprudence, "Does a charge of obstructing traffic really warrant strapping someone to a chair and forcing a three-foot tube down her throat?"

Join me, if you will, in the Cave of the Moonbat, where tonight we'll take a look at another W (actually, a double-W) who was willing to subvert the Constitution in order to further his own aims.  Our journey begins about 95 years ago – back when men were deliberating whether or not women should be entrusted with the right to vote...