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‘People With Conventional Views’: Welcome To The Real Modern Family, Washington Post.
The political and media firestorm about Richard Cohen’s recent column, as typical, missed the real issues.
Tagged Abortion
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Federal Judge Issues Restraining Order Against Wisconsin Abortion Law
Judge William Conley ruled that “There is a troubling lack of justification for the hospital admitting privileges requirement.”
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Rick Perry Takes A Very Personal Cheap Shot at Wendy Davis
Rick Perry takes it very personally what choices Wendy Davis and her mother have made and demands that all women make the same choices.
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Forget the GOP, House Republicans Are Rebranding Wombs
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House Republicans want government small enough to fit in your womb. And we need to make sure women remember that in 2014.
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Iraq War Propagandist Accuses Obama of Encouraging Criminal Behavior with Plan B
Blakeman said that since having sex at the age of 15 can be statutory rape, President Obama is encouraging criminal behavior by making Plan B available over the counter.
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Elizabeth Colbert Busch Shows What A Democrat Has To Do to Win in the South
Elizabeth Colbert Busch had to try to appeal to Democrats, Republicans and Independents in her Monday night debate with Mark Sanford.
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Lila Rose’s Disturbing Obsession with Hypothetical Horror Captures a Willing Press
Instead of accepting reality, our media jumped into the distorted fun house mirror of Ms. Rose’s brain and pronounced that Satan really is afloat in New York City, and his name is Planned Parenthood.
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The GOP’s Boston-inspired Insanity
The GOP: Sodomizing our shared reality – and you
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Republicans Use Their Power to Establish State Religion and Steal Individual Rights
There are those who say the mood of the nation toward gays and women’s rights are changing for the better, yet the far right is forging ahead to restrict their rights.
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Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Sarah Palin, the GOP’s New, Kinda New and Old Voices
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Sarah Palin seem to have captured the spirit of the current crop of Republicans; still extreme and still anti-Obama.
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Pro-Life Iowa Republican Kills Maternal Care Bill with Abortion Amendment
Here is the proof that ‘pro-life’ Republicans are not actually concerned with the life of a fetus: An Iowa Republican killed a maternal care bill with a poison pill.
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The Mind Boggling Idiocy of Defunding Family Planning Will Cost Texas Taxpayers $273 Million
Texas Republicans were shocked to learn that their 2011 legislative efforts to defund family planning will result in more unplanned pregnancies and cost $273 million.
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The Most Effective Dismantling of Reproductive Rights Comes From Stigma
People actually willing to vocally support reproductive rights have become less and less common owing to the success of stigmatization
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Republicans Turn Victims of Rape and Incest into Felons and Forced Incubators
According to legislation proposed by New Mexico Republicans, if you get raped or molested, you are the criminal. If you don’t carry the fetus to term, you may face up to three years in prison.
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Personhood of Convenience: The Hypocrisy Behind Sanctity of Life
One might think that the gospel, and all those deeply held religious values really are only wallet deep.
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A Big Win for Women’s Liberty on the Anniversary of Roe V Wade
There’s good news for liberty on this 40th anniversary of Roe V Wade. For the first time ever, a majority of Americans support a woman as having the right to make her own medical decisions.
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Republican Paul Ryan Protects Rapists’ Rights in New Fetus Bill
Buried deep in Ryan’s latest Fetus Rights Bill is a section that will allow a rapist to sue his victim in order to stop her from getting an abortion.
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House Republican and OBGYN Says Akin Was Partly Right About Legitimate Rape
A pro-fetus House Republican from Georgia is defending legitimate rape Todd Akin of Missouri and the gift of rape Richard Mourdock of Indiana.
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The GOP Needs to Shed its God Problem Before it’s Too Late
The Republican Party needs to shed its God problem before its unhealthy obsession destroys America
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James Dobson Says Sandy Hook is God’s Judgment on America
James Dobson says America has turned its back on God and Sandy Hook is God’s response: the murder of our children in retaliation.
Eric Cantor’s letter spells out the continuing ALEC/Koch right-wing agenda
Eric Cantor has gotten his orders from Koch/ALEC headquarters, and there is no mistaking their intent; continue to make life hell for the President and Democratic House members.
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Federal Judge Says North Carolina’s Choose Life License Plates are Unconstitutional
A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina cannot offer choose life plates without also offering pro-choice plates
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Court Strikes Down Anti-Abortion Laws that Conservatives Call ‘Regulations’
After the Okla. State Supreme Court ruled anti-abortionist laws were unconstitutional, conservatives attempted to justify it as a regulation.
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Election Defeat Hasn’t Stopped the War on Women From Raging On
The election was a rejection of Republican extremism on women’s reproductive rights, but in states with GOP majorities, there is still a crusade to restrict choice.
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Move Over Star Wars: A Trilogy of GOP Cognitive Dissonance: 2008, 2012, 2016
The Republican Party’s doldrums are likely to continue until they acknowledge reality, but there are no signs of that happening soon
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Obama’s Culture of Life: Abortion Rate Drops by Largest Percentage Since 2000
In a newly released study, the CDC found that 2009 had the ‘largest single year decrease’ in abortions for the entire period from 2000 to 2009.
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2012 is a special Thanksgiving thanks to key Congressional races
The 2012 election was especially satisfying for the Presidency and the new faces that will show up in Congress, especially the Senate.
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In spite of huge Republican money and relentless attack ads it’s Obama
Incredible amounts of money were spent on the 2012 General Election. And lots of that money was wasted when expensive attack ads didn’t work
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Ryan to Evangelicals: Obama’s Path Compromises Judeo-Christian Values
Paul Ryan says Obama’s path compromises some non-existent values; the real problem is that Obama stands between Ryan and the Constitution
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The War on Women Takes a Toll in Swing States and with Independents
A new poll shows that independents and swing state voters are aware of the war on women, crossing over liberal/conservative lines. So much for the GOP’s talking points.
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Newt Gingrich Tells Women Upset Over Mourdock’s Comments To ‘Get Over It’
Newt Gingrich was on ABC this morning telling women to ‘get over it’; it being their outrage over Mourdock’s comments about pregnancy from rape being a gift from God.
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The Republican Party: The Crazy Ex in Charge of Your Freedom
The GOP is being overtaken by the crazy exes, bitter and bursting with desire for revenge against a world that threatens to take away their control and power.
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Tick Tock: It’s Been Two Days and Romney is Still Silent on Mourdock
Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz called Romney out on his silence and said that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, Richard Mourdock and Todd Akin are ‘two sets of twins’.
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Romney Refuses to Answer Questions about His Support for Mourdock
Jim Acosta reported that Mitt Romney refused to answer questions about his support for Richard Mourdock while campaigning in Ohio today.
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Even Scarborough Sees that Romney Needs to Demand Mourdock Take Down the Ad
Even Joe Scarborough slammed Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s rape comments and said that Romney should come out stronger against them.
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President Obama Sets Mourdock Straight: Rape is Rape and It’s a Crime
President Obama told Jay Leno on Wednesday night that ‘rape is rape’ . He added that mostly male politicians should stay out of women’s health care decisions.
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Rubio Confirms That Romney Will Sign Bill Banning Abortion
Romney surrogate Sen. Marco Rubio confirmed a troubling fact: as President, Mitt Romney would sign a bill banning abortion. He doesn’t tell us which bill, of course.
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Debate Moderator Candy Crowley Calls Out Romney ‘Then and Now’ on Abortion
Candy Crowley, who is moderating the upcoming Presidential debate, called Mitt Romney out on the inconsistencies in his abortion positions today.
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Paul Ryan Outed the GOP Ticket’s Extremism on Abortion in VP Debate
Paul Ryan said that elected officials should be in charge of Row V Wade, raising the alarm bell that a Romney/Ryan admin intends to implement the Personhood Amendment.
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What Last Night’s Debate Tells us About How Team Romney Sees Women
Paul Ryan made clear last night that he wants his religious beliefs to inform our decisions, while claiming it is his that are under attack
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Don’t expect Obama/Romney part deux Biden is one tough cookie
Joe Biden debates Paul Ryan in the only Vice Presidential nominee debate. Biden is expert in Foreign Affairs and very learned domestically.
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Pro Life Women Condemn Republican Todd Akin for His Beliefs
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has a brutal new series of ads running against Republican Representative Todd Akin (of legitimate rape infamy) in Missouri.
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Romney’s Ever Changing Abortion Positions Backfire
Romney should be focusing on selling himself to the center, not driving attention to his very radical positions on abortion and women’s health.
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Romney Tries to Trick Voters into Believing He’s Moderate on Abortion
Romney said he had no plans to make any legislation restricting abortion and two hours later, his campaign quietly issued yet another retraction.
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Todd Akin Doubles Down Concern Over Legitimate Abortion
Todd Akin made headlines when comments he made in 2008 about abortions being performed when women weren’t pregnant made the rounds. In case you thought this was a misquote, he’s doubling down.
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Mitt Romney Funded Surrogate Contract for His Son that Allows for Abortion
Mitt Romney, who claims to support the Personhood Amendment that denies abortion under all circumstances, funded a surrogacy contract for his son that includes the option for abortion.
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Romney Throws Details out Window, Turns to God
Mitt Romney has never been very specific about what he would do as president to “fix” things. He just says he’d fix this and he’d fix that. The “how” is vague. Instead of specifics, we get emotion: God. Apparently, Romney will fix America’s problems by not taking “God out of the public square.” That’s what…
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Romney’s Latest Play for Women Voters is Giant Lie About Obama’s Abortion Policy
Proving how little he knows about the issue of abortion and how little David Gregory cares about the facts, Romney announced a policy position today that has already been in place since 1976.
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History Provides an Ominous Precedent for War on Women
Since we know it is possible we may soon be told we must give birth, how much of a stretch is it to imagine someone might tell us we can’t?
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Former Republican Says Give Obama Four More Years to Protect Women’s Freedom
Conservative Maria Ciano kicked some serious Republican bottom tonight at the DNC when she urged Americans to give Obama four more years, saying, ‘When women’s rights are threatened, President Obama doesn’t hide.’
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Deval Patrick Rocks the Convention With Impassioned Call for Obama
Deval Patrick issued a fiery call to Democrats to rally around Obama, implying that Romney is more interested in having the job than doing it
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The DNC in Charlotte To Be Ground Zero for Fundamentalist Bigots
The Democratic National Convention in Charlotte is being targeted by fundies as Ground Zero for acts of martyrdom and cries of persecution
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Invalid Signatures Keep Colorado Personhood Off the Ballot in November
Personhood fell victim to its own dishonesty yesterday in Colorado, even as the Romney campaign called the abortion debate a distraction
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75% of Americans Oppose the Republican Convention’s Abortion Plank
The Todd Akin, Tom Smith one-two media gut punch is hiding the fact that three quarters of those polled oppose the Republican Party’s no exceptions anti-abortion plank.
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The GOP Attempts to Drag America Back to Their Imaginary Conservative Utopia
Republicans adopted positions in their platform which are steeped in ideological purity that defines the party as angry, white, patriarchal, and paranoid.
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Marco Rubio Touts GOP Abortion Platform That Suggests Women Are Not Humans
Rubio claimed Republicans were ‘protecting the rights of a human being to live,’ suggesting that pregnant women are not human beings.
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It’s Personal Now: Republican Women Explain Why They’re Voting Obama
‘This is personal now.’ Women explain why they can no longer support the Republican Party, and instead are voting for President Obama.
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Why Won’t Sarah Palin Admit Her Body Has Magic Powers
Bryan Fischer is upset that his word isn’t good enough; that his Christian male voice does not invalidate a woman’s experience and science
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Republican Candidate for Sheriff Will Use Deadly Force to Stop Abortions
A Republican candidate for Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Sheriff won’t rule out the use of deadly force to stop an ‘elective’ legal abortions.
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Paul Ryan Insults Women Voters, Calls Forcible Rape a ‘Side Issue’
Paul Ryan says women won’t be distracted by ‘side issues’ of Ryan’s positions on rape, which align closely with Republican Representative Todd Akin’s views.
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Romney Busted – Proud to Have Endorsement of Akin Rape Doctor in 2007
The insincerity of GOP Akin-rebukes have become apparent with the revelation that Romney accepted the endorsement of the doctor behind Todd Akin
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Todd Akin Claims He’s the Real Victim and Raises Money Off Legitimate Rape
Todd Akin is claiming that he is the victim of his legitimate rape scandal, and now he is circulating a petition of support and trying to raise money off his comments.
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Newsweek Tumblr Changes Cursor to Coat Hanger to Mock Women
Newsweek changed the cursor on their Tumblr account to a coat hanger in order to support the GOP platform, mock HuffPo, and women’s reproductive rights.
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Withering Support for Todd Akin, and Karl Rove Pulls His Ads
Todd Akin is running out of friends. Even an anti-abortion group wants him to quit. But his biggest loss will be Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS
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The Devil Inside Paul Ryan and Todd Akin’s Redefinition of Rape
Romney and Ryan are trying to run away from Akin this morning, saying they are for abortion in the case of rape, but history tells a different story.
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Todd Akin Says Raped Women Do Not Get Pregnant So No Abortions
Missouri Republican Todd Akin says that women who are legitimately raped don’t get pregnant and that abortion punishes the child, not the rapist
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The Ghost of Ayn Rand Haunts Paul Ryan
Don’t tell Paul Ryan, but many of his positions go against everything that Ayn Rand stood for.
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Allegedly Pro Life Christians Politicize Death of 24-year-Old Woman
Allegedly pro-life Christians are politicizing the tragic death of a young woman in order to call for an end to federal funds for all Planned Parenthoods.
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Reproductive Rights Hang by a Thread in Mississippi
Women’s reproductive rights in Mississippi are hanging by a thread much to the delight of conservative politicians.
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The Tea Party May Think it Runs the Country, but They are Wrong
Citizens may think the ultra right tea party has all the power in the U.S. In truth, they have almost none. A few people control America.
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House Republicans Use the NDAA to Take Away Access to Abortion
House Republicans claimed that the NDAA should not be used for social issues, but they did exactly in order to cut down access and funding for abortion.
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How Many Otherwise Socially Liberal Men Have Abandoned Reproductive Rights?
Some of Ron Paul’s otherwise socially liberal followers are an example of men who have turned their backs on reproductive rights.
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The Dirty Thirty – June 2012 Edition
Today marks a new format in the Dirty Thirty, which will now include only updates (the entire updated list will be posted on its own page)
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Twisted Fox News Freaks Demonize Women With Fake War on Gendercide
Fox News has increased its attacks on and demonization of women by embracing and spreading the collective right wing hallucination that gendercide is running rampant in the United States.
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Sure, the Christian Right Champions Religious Freedom – For Themselves
The Christian Right pretends to be champions of religious freedom; but the only freedom they care about is their freedom to ignore ours
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What the Bible Says Versus What Republicans Wish it Said
The GOP insists we obey the Bible but the Bible doesn’t define traditional marriage and it turns out God orders abortions with wild abandon
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Abortion: Religion-Based Bigotry Versus the World of Facts
The GOP stance on abortion hinges on religious dogma, not on science and even when science does enter the picture it is 18th century science
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The War on Women Is a Perfect Portrait of GOP Denial and Projection
The War on Women does exist and it is being waged by the Republican Party. You wouldn’t know this if you listen to Republicans or watch Fox News.
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Oklahoma Supreme Court to Personhood USA: Oh, No You Don’t
Those nut jobs pushing Personhood amendments around the country got slapped down again today, this time by the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
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The War on Women is No Joke, But The Denials of the Right Are
Matthew Continetti, founder of the Washington Free Beacon, thinks the Republican war on women is a joke without victims or perpetrators
Arizona Legislates Women Into a State of Perpetual Pregnancy
The Arizona State Legislature with the help of ALEC has done the impossible. Without involving a single sperm, they have legislated women into a state of perpetual pregnancy.
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Do As I Say Not As I Do: The Truth About the Anti-Abortion Crowd
Republican women claim to be against abortions, but statistics don’t support this hypocritical stance. It’s possible that conservative women have just as many abortions as liberal women.
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CNN’s Erick Erickson Spreads More Lies About Obama
CNN’s resident tea party hate monger, Erick Erickson repeated Rick Santorum’s false accusation that the President is pro-infanticide.
Counterstrike: Using The Free Market To Hold Men’s Sperm Accountable
In response to the patriarchal treatment of our bodies as property, here is sample legislation based upon licensing & property laws, demanding that men pay for “licensing, use and maintenance of our bodies & the offspring we create.”
Taliban? Talibangelical? They Both Hate Women
It is no surprise that Talibangelicals can compare women to livestock, as State Rep. Terry England did recently in Georgia. Livestock can’t control their own bodies, so why should women? It’s how God wants it, after all.
Kansas Gets Santorumed As The GOP Walking Dead Roll Through The Sunflower State
The Republican primary death march rolled through Kansas today where evangelical zombie Rick Santorum scooped up the hate vote and rolled to victory.
Right Wing Privilege and Paranoia Gang up on Equal Rights
Ready to demonize and belittle any socio-economically disenfranchised group available for the abuse, America’s right-wing is directly appealing to the paranoid at the behest of the privileged.
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Late Night Snack: The Consequences Of The War On Women And Romney’s Cadillacs
Mitt Romney tries to be a common man by talking about his Cadillacs, and Republican complains that the war on women is costing him sex.
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The Republican Presidential Field Hits A New Low In Obama Hate
A general review of the debate lies and hateful Obama references of the three remaining viable GOP Presidential candidates.
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The Republican War On Reproductive Rights Has Women Fleeing The GOP
With the GOP Presidential primary candidates, this current reproductive rights flap started with Planned Parenthood, took a turn to a woman’s right to choose and now has gone full circle with their unanimous opposition to contraception whether its through the candidates statements or the stand up comedy of their ancient surrogates, one of whom advises…
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Rep. John Fleming Proves That Republicans Will Literally Believe Anything
Louisiana Republican Congressman John Fleming (or, to be fair, a member of his staff) failed his recent gullibility test, and proved that Republicans will believe anything.
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CNN Contributor Strikes Again: Dana Loesch Goes Nuts
CNN is on a roll these days, from Roland Martin’s offensive tweet about David Beckham’s Super Bowl underwear ad to Erick Erickson’s unforgiveable comments about President Obama to the latest offense du jour. Tea Party affiliate, Editor-in-Chief of Big Journalism and CNN contributor Dana Loesch brings this one to us from her radio show, saying…
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Shocker: Right Wing News Editor Seriously Misinformed About Breast Health
A right wing news editor celebrates Komen’s political attack on Planned Parenthood while simultaneously denying it was political.
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Roe V Wade @ 39: The Struggle For Female Liberty Continues
In the South and Midwest of our country, an evil struggling against female freedom is winning ground. In Mississippi, a woman is charged with murder for giving birth to a still born. In Alabama, a mother of three awaits a ten year sentence for a Cesarean that resulted in the death of her baby. In…
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Civil Liberties Not Part of the Republican Plan for America
Jeff Sessions denounced ACLU DNA on the Senate floor, and with it, the very idea of the civil liberties the ACLU defends, and which our constitution guarantees.
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Children First: the Underground Railroad War Against Women’s Freedom
Back in April of 2009, anti-women’s freedoms groups won the approval for specialized license plates reading “Choose Life†in 18 states. A few states were holding out, continuing the legal fight. One of those states, New Jersey, just gave in last week to stop the financial bleeding of the endless court battles.
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Republicans Talk and Hate and Offer no Solutions
You can search and search; you can look high and low, but you won’t find much. Right now, the closest thing the Republicans seem to have to a real policy is orchestrating a win for Bristol on DWTS.
