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Pew Report Details the Sorry State of Religious Tolerance in the World
Pew tells us restrictions on religion were high or very high in 39% of countries and that Muslims are as likely to be persecuted as Christians
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Marco Rubio Flip Flops On Immigration Reform, Recasts Himself As Border Hawk At CPAC
Friday morning, at CPAC, Senator Rubio told an audience that he had learned that his previous support for immigration reform was a mistake.
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David Barton Lies That Lawsuit Which Did Not Take Place Proves He Doesn’t Lie
David Barton tried to refute his long history of lying by falsely claiming a lawsuit which never took place proves his innocence
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It’s Time to Break Up With Texas
Suspending a boy for threatening with a magic ring that doesn’t exist to trying to change the nature of math are just a few of Texas’ sins
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Debate on Gun Violence Limited by Either-Or Thinking
There have been 101 school shootings since Newtown. Obama said afteward, “the time is now.” It is now well past time, and nothing has been done
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Lawmakers Ban Open Carry In Washington State Capitol After Gun Nuts Storm Building
Approximately 200 gun rights activists demonstrated at Washington’s state capitol building on Thursday morning to ostensibly protest the passage of I-594. A day after this display, Lt. Governor Brad Owen, a Democrat and President of the Senate, announced that openly carried firearms are now banned from the public viewing area.
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Bishops Join GOP Drive To Make Women Celibate Or Birth Machines
American Catholic bishops are taking advantage of the power bestowed on them by the conservative Catholics on the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby ruling. As is typical of the bishops, their aim is controlling American women and forcing them to either become celibate or perpetual birthing machines.
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Republicans Condemn North Korean Human Rights Violations While Ignoring Their Own
The hypocrisy of this nation co-sponsoring a resolution condemning anyone country for human rights abuses (torture) is beyond the pale. Particularly in light of the recent Senate Intelligence Report verifying what the world has known for several years; America is guilty of committing gross human rights abuses on its own citizens and “suspected terrorists” held in captivity.
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Republican Kasich Forces Public Schools To Partner with Religion Or Lose Taxpayer Funding
Ohio Governor John Kasich made that “religious extremist duty” mandatory in Ohio. Kasich issued a statement through a spokesman informing Ohio schools that if they fail to align with Christian organizations, they will lose funding.
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Open Carry Texas Activist Arrested For Shooting And Killing Husband And Stepdaughter
Veronica Dunnachie, an Open Carry Texas activist is facing capital murder charges in the slaying of her husband and his adult daughter.
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Rick Perry Quotes Jesus To Justify Income Inequality and Poverty
Perry’s message is clear; there is no reason to address poverty, income inequality, or make any effort to help those suffering, and people in Texas are suffering, but not because it is written in scripture.
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No Texas Messiah: A Requiem for Rick Perry
Rick Perry is another in a growing collection of GOP banditti. In the old days, the Texas Rangers would have been hunting him down. In today’s Texas, he was their boss
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Rick Perry Getting Ready to Inflict Himself on America in 2016
Rick Perry is putting together a 2016 run that is certain to fail as spectacularly as his ill-fated 2012 run
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Bold Democrat Mary Landrieu Should Be Truthful About KeystoneXL
It may have been Democrat Howard Dean who said not long ago that if given a choice between voting for a Republican, or a Republican-lite, voters of both parties will always opt for the real Republican; because they cannot trust a Democrat pandering for votes as a Republican. It is a lesson Senator Mary Landrieu, and soon-to-be-former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, would do well to heed.
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If Only Santa Anna Had Been a Better General, Texas Would not be OUR Problem
Just think of it: Rick Perry and Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz and Louie Gohmert would all be Mexico’s problem today if Santa Anna had won
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Texas Legislator’s Biblical Proposal Abolishes Constitutional Equal Rights
Republicans and religious conservatives detest the 14th Amendment for myriad reasons, but chief among them is the guarantee of equal rights for Americans not in the biblical mold championed by Neo Christians; single mothers, atheists, Muslims, non-compliant Christians, and particularly gays.
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Ted Nugent Observes Veterans Day By Calling Animal Rights Activists “Subhuman Mongrels”
Draft-dodging ammosexual Ted Nugent went back to the well and reused a favorite insult of his when he referred to animal rights activists as “subhuman mongrels” on Tuesday.
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Pat Buchanan Says Democrats Have Forced GOP to Become Party of White People
Pat Buchanan presents an America where Republicans are the black voter’s best friend and where whites are forced to be Republicans by racist leftist politics
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Conservatives Turn on McConnell And Anoint Ted Cruz The Leader Of Congress
The real conservatives look forward to Cruz’s plan to push “his” Republican-led Senate to be as conservative and confrontational as “his” Republican-led House.
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Militia Member Met With Greg Abbott Days Before His Arrest On Illegal Weapons Charges
K.C. Massey, a member of a militia that ‘patrols’ the Texas border, met with and posed for photos with Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbot just four days before his arrest on illegal weapons charges.
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Extremist Christian Banned From Daughter’s School After Making Terrorist Threat
Last week, the hate mongers’ efforts finally paid off and drove an extremist Christian into a rage that earned him banishment from the Maryland high school his daughter attended for making what amounts to a terrorist threat against school officials.
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Republicans Amp Up The Fire and Brimstone By “Joking” That Wendy Davis Is Going To Hell
“Hear the one about Wendy Davis going to hell?” At an event held at a Tex-Mex restaurant in Frisco, Greg Abbott was introduced by apparent jester-in-chief, state Rep. Pat Fallon.
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Ted Cruz Has Disqualified Himself from Public Office
A series of episodes of egregious dishonesty this past week have clearly demonstrated Ted Cruz’s unsuitability for public office
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In One Fell Swoop Obama Announces Solar Jobs For 50,000 Veterans and Takes On Climate Change
Since Republicans have relentlessly obstructed jobs programs for America’s Veterans, the President took it upon himself to enact the program at American military bases and provide job training for at least 50,000 veterans.
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Texas Voter Turnout Was Higher On Its First Day of Early Voting Than It Was In 2010
Wendy Davis with help from groups that support her is leading the way in the people’s fight against vote suppression.
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Supreme Court Allows Texas To Enforce The Most Draconian Voter ID Law in The U.S.A.
By a vote of 6-3 The Supreme Court is allowing Texas’ draconian voter ID law to be enforced for this year’s election.
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Don’t Let The Republican Tactic of Suppress and Confuse Steal Your Voice
One of the ironies of court wars over vote suppression laws lies in the fact that proponents of suppressing the vote argue they want to preserve the “status quo” in the name of preventing confusion among voters.
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Even Fox Defends Wendy Davis Ad About Abbott’s History of War Against Justice For Texans
The focus of Davis’ latest ad is to chronicle Abbott’s history of believing in justice for some while denying it to others.
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Victory for Democracy as Wisconsin and Texas Voter ID Laws Come Tumbling Down
Democracy called checkmate against Scott Walker’s attempt to rig Wisconsin’s vote, while a Federal Court slapped down Greg Abbott’s attempt to suppress votes in Texas.
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Six House Democrats Call on DOJ to Investigate Texas AG- Greg Abbott’s Dirty Dealings with TEF
So far, Greg Abbott has used his power as Attorney-General of Texas to obstruct the release of documents that would shed light on Governor Rick Perry’s oversight of Texas Enterprise Fund and its mishandling of millions of Texas taxpayer dollars. However, the demand for answers increases from a variety of sources, including Wendy Davis and…
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The Supreme Court Enjoins Republican War on Voting in Earnest
The Supreme Court’s anti-democracy wing; Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy issued an announcement that their decision was not on the merits of the case because they had not yet heard any oral arguments defending voting restrictions. They just believed so strongly that since Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted invested such an incredible amount of time and energy to disenfranchise minority and working-class voters, and labeled his “appeal” an emergency.
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Fox Bristles At Colorado Students Thinking For Themselves Beyond Pizza And The Bible
During the past week, hundreds of students in Colorado were protesting conservative efforts to infuse their ideology and religion in textbooks for an advanced high school history class.
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If Upheld, Evidence Shows That Texas Vote Suppression Law Will Disenfranchise 600,000 Voters
On Monday, a U.S. District Court heard closing arguments in the case that challenges the most militant and vicious vote suppression law in America.
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The Right of Self Defense in Texas Completely Depends on Race
The Texas cases are telling in that there are two dead police officers as a result of not identifying themselves as law enforcement while breaking into private residences in the early morning hours. It is also revealing that a grand jury found that a white man who shot and killed what he thought was an armed intruder acted in self-defense, while a Black man in identical circumstances is charged by a prosecutor with capital murder and faces the death penalty.
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Texas Turmoil: Greg Abbott Fakes Support By Busing In People For Debate With Wendy Davis
Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott is being forced to bus in supporters to create a false impression of strength ahead of his debate with Democrat Wendy Davis.
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Panicked Greg Abbott’s Latest Ad Uses Debunked Talking Points To Attack Wendy Davis
With his latest political ad, Greg Abbott is showing all the signs of a panicked candidate. The ad is filled with talking points that have been debunked by facts and fact checkers.
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Jon Husted Freaks Out When Another Court Blocks His Latest Attempt at Vote Suppression
On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Peter Economus blocked the Republican Party’s attempt to suppress the vote in Ohio.
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Court Humiliates Greg Abbott (Again) And Crushes his Unconstitutional Attack on Public Education
This time, an Austin judge dealt a devastating blow to Greg Abbott’s campaign against public education
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Rick Perry Takes a Break from Bullying Texans to Attack Obama
At a Republican gathering in New Hampshire, Perry took time to attack Obama for the economy his party destroyed and has done nothing to fix
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Republicans Embrace Bizarre Conspiracy That Obama Is Behind Immigrant Surge
During the Thursday broadcast of his radio show, right-wing mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh discussed the possibility that President Obama is responsible for the surge of immigrants coming in from Central America in recent months.
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Wendy Davis Shows Leadership in Her Letter To Rick Perry on the Influx of Unaccompanied Children
With children fleeing violence and poverty in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador; there is a humanitarian crises in our border states.
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The Right To Bear Arms…If You’re White?
The right to bear arms is going crazy. People, mostly white males, are carrying rifles everywhere. Their reason? Because if they do not do this, they’ll lose their rights…huh?
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Republican Attorney-General Greg Abbott Humiliated in Federal Court Ruling
In a ruling on attorney’s fees related to a redistricting case, a Federal Court Judge dealt Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott two doses of humiliation.
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Rick Perry Doubles Down On Stupid During Same-Sex Marriage Discussion
Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry, who is contemplating a 2016 run for the White House, appeared on CNBC Monday morning to talk with Squawk Box host Joe Kernen. The interview did not go well for Perry.
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Rick Perry Believes That Homosexuality Is Like Alcoholism And Can Be Treated
Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry addressed the Commonwealth Club of California Wednesday night. He shocked the crowd, and perhaps put the final nail in the coffin of his Presidential ambitions, when he compared homosexuals to alcoholics.
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Louie Gohmert Tells Americans Without Jesus, They’re All Going to Hell
Gohmert asks, “So, you do not believe somebody would go to Hell if they do not believe Jesus is the way, the truth, the life?”
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The Republican Hate Platform Isn’t Working In Texas
Here is a roundup of Texas press reaction to the GOP party platform — they seem more than a little dismayed by the growing extremism.
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Ted Nugent’s He-Man Bromance with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach
Nugent claims, “Kris Kobach is our ass kickin BloodBrother & on the frontlines taking on the America hating ObamaGang at every turn”
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The NRA Backtracks and Apologizes To Gun Fanatics That Are Terrorizing The Public
By apologizing, and acquiescing to the lunatic OCT demand for a retraction and mia culpa, the NRA made a bold statement that they support gun fanatics terrorizing the public to make a point that, one way or another, gun zealots will not rest until their 2nd Amendment rights to frighten the public into staying safely ensconced in the homes are fully secured.
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‘Downright Weird’ Gun Nuts May Lead to NRA Finally Losing the Political Battle On Gun Laws
On Monday, a poll, conducted by Huffington Post and YouGov, was released. The poll asked Americans their feelings about open-carry gun laws and whether or not they were comfortable with armed customers in shops and restaurants.
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Gun Advocates Are Suing a Texas City For The Right to Terrify Motorists
A Texas city is being sued in federal court for violating the heavily-armed men’s 1st Amendment rights to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights to terrify motorists stuck in traffic.
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The Republican Effort To Rollback Workplace Safety Regulations is Literally Killing Americans
The fact that not adhering to regulations kills workers never seems to bother Republicans, or their business sector supporters which is why they vehemently oppose regulations; especially those enforced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
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Texas State Senator Claims That Obama ‘Thinks He’s God’ During Republican Debate
Republican State Sen. Dan Patrick of Texas is currently in a primary runoff with Texas’ current Lieutenant Governor, Republican David Dewhurst. The two candidates locked horns in a debate on Tuesday. Patrick said something unbelievable.
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Freedom? Republican Run States Are Now Telling People What They Can and Can’t Buy
In a relatively new form of Republican fascism and regulatory overreach, Republican states have told consumers what they can and cannot purchase, and enacted regulations forbidding one company from conducting business in their states.
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After Killing Your Job and Your Healthcare Republicans Are Now Targeting the Air You Breathe
Republicans are methodically defunding the Environmental Protection Agency to either abolish the agency or eliminate its ability to protect Americans from poison in the water they drink and toxins in the air they breathe.
Republicans Who Praise Ted Nugent Should Be Regarded as Nazi Sympathizers
There is a saying that a person is known by the company they keep, and the Republicans praising, excusing and defending Ted Nugent should be regarded as Nazi sympathizers.
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Ted Nugent Defiantly Gives Non-Apology For Calling President Obama A ‘Subhuman Mongrel’
During an interview with conservative radio host Ben Ferguson on Friday, has-been rocker and right-wing nutjob Ted Nugent gave a non-apology for his comments last month
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Ted Cruz Stands Up For Hateful Racist Ted Nugent During CNN Interview
In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) defended Ted Nugent as a passionate fighter for Second Amendment rights
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Crazy Steve Stockman Could Force Senator Cornyn Into Runoff in TX GOP Primary
A newly released poll shows Tea Party Congressman Steve Stockman closing the gap on Senator Cornyn, setting up a possible May runoff.
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Rand Paul Says Earrings and Tattoos Will Save Texas for GOP
Rand Paul believes that if the Republican Party gets hip by embracing tattoos and earrings, they can appeal to more voters. He thinks that the Republican Party can save a state like Texas from marching towards turning blue with cosmetic changes.
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Anti Marriage Equality Lawyers Try To Fool Supreme Court With Sham Study
The lawyers defending Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court of the United States don’t have the law on their side, nor do they have valid facts.
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The Christian Right Boycotts Girl Scout Cookies Over Wendy Davis
The fanatical Christian-right is targeting Girl Scout USA’s annual cookie sales for a boycott because the group listed Wendy Davis as an incredible woman of the year.
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Tea Party Darling Steve Stockman Gives Pathetic Excuse For Being MIA This Month
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX), who is running a primary challenge for Sen. John Cornyn’s seat this year, came out of hiding on Sunday evening.
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An Absurd Texas Religious Law Has Compounded the Suffering of Marlise Muñoz’s Family – Updated
Marlise Muñoz collapsed and died at home a week after Thanksgiving, but an absurd religious law forced the hospital to use Muñoz’s dead body as an incubator.
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Obamacare Delivers Knockout Blow To GOP As Majority Of States Have Expanded Medicaid
The further we go along into the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and more people see what it offers them, the less likely the GOP is going to be able to do anything about the law and will have to accept it.
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Ann Coulter Calls Wendy Davis ‘A Gold-Digger Who Found A Sugar Daddy’
In an article that was published on Real Clear Politics Thursday morning, Ann Coulter claimed that Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis is nothing more than “a gold-digger who found a sugar daddy.”
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Southern Republicans Are Using Charter Schools To Inject Religion Into Public Schools
There is a concerted effort in primarily southern Republican-controlled states to use sketchy and horribly underperforming charter schools to inject a healthy dose of religion into science and history classes using funding for public schools.
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Wendy Davis’ Ex-Husband Admirably Refuses To Play GOP’s Gotcha Game
On Tuesday, Jeff Davis declined CNN’s request to appear in an on-camera interview regarding Wendy Davis’ personal life story. Instead, he gave them an email response stating that he feels that Wendy Davis “would make a very capable governor.”
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Individual Donations Help Wendy Davis Soar Past GOP Opponent In Fundraising
On Tuesday evening, Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis released her campaign’s fundraising figures for the last half of 2013 and they were nothing short of amazing.
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Republican Deregulation Culture to Blame For Water Poisoning West Virginia Chemical Spill
Freedom Industries knew the 70 to 80 year-old tanks were in desperate need of replacement and did not want to spend the money to repair them because regulations did not require them to.
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Texas Gets Between a Doctor and Patient After The Religious Right Demands It
Republicans have no qualms using the government to come between a patient and their doctor if the religious right demands it, and that is what is happening in Texas since a week after Thanksgiving.
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Texas Republicans Would Murder Truth – And the Biblically Unapproved
The Texas gubernatorial race features very little science and more than a little bloodshed
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Study Finds That Red States Rejecting Medicaid Expansion Will Lose Billions Over Time
The Commonwealth Fund found that states rejecting Medicaid money will lose billions over time.
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Don’t Miss Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day Tomorrow
“The purpose of this event is to spark a campus-wide discussion about the issue of illegal immigration, and how it affects our everyday lives”
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The Republican War on the ACA Is An Attack On Women
The ongoing war against the ACA by Republican messiah Ted Cruz is an attack on women that he enlisted ALEC’s assistance to continue.
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The Left Must Accept that Ted Cruz is the Dominionist Messiah
God is about to begin his “rule and reign” and the anointed Ted Cruz will oversee a big “end-time transfer of wealth.”
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Texas Voter ID Law Prevents Women from Voting while Married
If you’re a woman in Texas, getting married or divorced could cost you your vote, especially if you drive too.
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Ted Cruz: Has the Tea Party ‘Golden Boy’ gone too far this time?
Ted Cruz has had the ear and hearts of the Tea Party and right-wing almost from the day he arrived in the Senate. That could be changing.
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Family Research Council Says Starving Children is Christian Thing to Do
Ken Blackwell of the Family Research Council (FRC) says there is “nothing more Christian” than cutting food stamps
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Red State Racists Give Paula Deen a Ten Minute Standing Ovation
Paula Deen’s popularity in a Republican state like Texas is not an aberration. It appears to correlate with the level of racism in former Confederate states.
Rick Perry Compares Obamacare to Titanic
Rick Perry and Martin O’Malley engaged in a debate over Obamacare on CNN’s Crossfire and Rick Perry promised Texans the freedom of the grave
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Republicans Substitute Conservative Ideology For Science and History In Public Schools
Republicans are using public school funds to teach Christian conservative ideology in place of science and American history.
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Louie Gohmert Suggests Defunding Executive Branch to Punish Obama
Louie Gohmert wants the Obama administration to come clean about non-existent scandals or face being defunded
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A Single Picture Perfectly Sums Up The Republican Anti-Woman Agenda
Most people have heard the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it is seldom the case that one picture sums up a movement’s agenda on a specific issue.
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In Defiance of Christ’s Teachings Right Wing Evangelicals Become Gun Toting Maniacs
There has been a shift among evangelical Christians of late to openly oppose everything Jesus taught and trade in Christ for the NRA.
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The Obama DOJ Challenges Texas’ Voter Suppression and Redistricting Law
The DOJ announced has announced that it will challenge Texas’ voter ID law because the law violates the Voting Rights Act as well as the 14th and 15th amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
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Rick Perry Under Investigation for Coercion of a Public Servant
It is no surprise that Rick Perry now finds himself being investigated for abuse of office charges and coercion revolving around the Texas Public Integrity Unit.
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Republican Led Texas Is a National Role Model For All The Wrong Reasons
It is true that Texas is a large state and its prideful and devoted residents, but the areas the state leads the nation in are embarrassing and put it at the bottom of some very pathetic categories.
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Republicans Seek to Decriminalize Rape and Other Crimes Against Women
Republicans seek to assuage the crime of rape by redefining it to prevent women from abortion services, claiming it is a blessing or legislating medical instrument rape to teach women their place.
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Eric Holder Puts Texas On Notice: Everyone’s Voting Rights Will Be Respected
Republicans see threat to white privilege in Eric Holder’s announced plans to make Texas obtain federal approval for changes to voting laws
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Ted Cruz Says Obama’s Trayvon Remarks Prove He is Coming for Our Guns
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) admitted he hadn’t watched Obama’s remarks about Trayvon Martin and Stand Your Ground laws, but complained that Obama was going after white folks’ guns again.
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Fundamentalists Want to Drive Your Womb Like a Clown Car
Get breeding ladies. There’s lots of great catches like Fischer and Deace lining up to drive your womb like a clown car.
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Devout Christian Jimmy Carter Calls Out The Use of Religion to Attack Women’s Rights
The 39th President and devout Christian addressed a human rights event and lashed out at all religious doctrines that contribute to political leaders passively accepting violence against women.
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Republicans Around The Country Are On A Law breaking Rampage
There is a definite patten among Republicans of finding some means of of ignoring , breaking, or circumventing laws that they disagree with.
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Republicans Have Gone From Hating the Government to Hating America
it is glaringly obvious that Republican hatred is directed toward the American people as much as the government meant to serve them.
The Tyranny of Flag Waving Rights Stealing Republicans Tarnishes Independence Day
A growing segment of the population are exploring new ways to subvert other citizens’ freedoms and expressing their desire to reinstate the conditions that drove colonists to break away from England.
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America is Under Siege As The Koch Brothers Look to Replace The Constitution
America is one election away from total dominance by the Koch brothers billionaire club and is on the verge of replacing the Constitution with Milton Freidman’s Capitalism and Freedom.
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Democrats Dance Around Protecting the Right To Choose Out Fear of the Extreme Right
In Congress and Republican-controlled states, and instead of decrying the loss of choice, Democrats dance around the issue out of fear of retribution from evangelical extremists.
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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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A Look Inside A State Democratic Convention A.K.A. Vote for Colbert Busch Tomorrow
There’s a lot of listening, clapping and jumping up and down at a Democratic state convention. Other than that, very little for delegates to except try to mobilize voters for Elizabeth Colbert Busch.