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This is War: Women Are In Pain and Republicans Are Mocking Us
But by Monday, I knew it was a lifetime war. Tuesday I knew I would get there. And I will.
Tagged Republican War on Women
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Under Trump Women’s Reproductive Rights Reeling Under Onslaught of Anti-Choice Bills
Indiana SB 118 “Removes provisions allowing a pregnant woman to decline to view the fetal ultrasound imaging and hear the fetal heart tone.”
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Thank You Donald Trump For Proving Democrats Right About Republican Sexism
Donald Trump’s overt misogyny and sexism draw attention to the motive and meaning of the Republican Party’s policies designed to control and punish women for their independence.
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Gallup: 7 Out of 10 Women Have Unfavorable View of Trump
7 out of 10 women have an unfavorable opinion of Trump, and almost 6 out of 10 men, and only 1 out of 4 women view him favorably
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‘Misogynistas’ Trump and Cruz Race to See Who Can Hate Women More
It’s more than a bit like saying to women, “Vote for us, and we’ll take away your rights.†It’s EXACTLY like that
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Conservative Attitudes Toward Women Haven’t Evolved in 2000 Years
Women stood up for their rights in the Roman forum 2000 years ago, and women today are forced to do the same or consent to male control
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Republican Failures Are Distracting Voters Again With A Secret Weapon
Ohio’s John Kasich and Sam Brownback of Kansas are just the latest Republicans to use abortion to distract their residents from bad policies
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Study Documents The Transformation of Women’s Legal Status From Persons To Birthing Vessels
Women today are living out The Handmaid’s Tale, where faulty “birthing vessels” are prosecuted for failing to perform as a birthing vessel.
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House Democrats Blast Republican Plan to Create Committee on Planned Parenthood
When House Republicans announced a new witch hunt against Planned Parenthood, Democrats were swift and decisive in their response
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Hillary Clinton Slams Republicans for Plan to Shut Down Government Over Planned Parenthood
Clinton called out the Republican “race to the bottom,” their hateful rhetoric and lies used as an excuse to shut down the government
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Arsonist Burns Planned Parenthood Building As War On Women Burns On
Arson was ruled the cause of a fire that burned a Planned Parenthood health center early Friday morning in Pullman, Washington.
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Pope Francis Outshines Republicans by Forgiving Women Who Have Had Abortions
The Pope, once again, has moved in the opposite direction of the Republican mainstream, declaring that, as part of the Church’s jubilee year of mercy (8 December to 20 November 2016), women who have had abortions should be granted forgiveness.
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Hillary Clinton Is Right – Republicans Are Terrorists
The reason Republicans are attacking Clinton over non-issues is that they are terrified that she is neither intimidated by nor afraid of them
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Ted Cruz Urges Pastors to Join His War on Women
Thinking like a terrorist, Cruz wants pastors to help him radicalize their congregations to join his war on women with a pre-prepared sermon
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Hillary Clinton Nails it: 2016 is the Attack of the Republican Clones
Clinton points out that all 2016 Republican contenders are the same, and they do have their misogyny in common, and wear it on their sleeves
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Marco Rubio Thinks Rape Victims Who Become Pregnant Should Be Forced To Give Birth
Marco Rubio supports government enforced childbirth for rape and incest victims who get pregnant through no fault of their own.
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Trump Proves at GOP Debate He Has no Respect for Women
Trump told Megyn Kelly, “I’ve been very nice to you, although I could probably maybe not be, based on the way you have treated me.”
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Mike Huckabee Says he Will Use Military to Prevent Abortion
Asked in Iowa how he could stop abortion when it’s perfectly legal, Huckabee said, “We’ll see, if I get to be president.”
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2015 Began with 332 Anti-Choice Provisions in Just Three Months
Susan B. Anthony List has called a rape exception “abominable,” “regrettable,” “just wrong” and “completely intellectually dishonest.”
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Oklahoma Rep. Says He’d Set Self on Fire Over Abortion – if Only His Beliefs Allowed It
You really have to admire the courage of Religious Right figures who, like Jerry Boykin and the Benham brothers, say they are willing to die for their beliefs, especially when there is absolutely no risk at all of that actually happening. I guess it makes them feel like men (or women) and they get some…
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Texas Republicans Reach New Low as They Demand Non-Viable Pregnancies Be Carried to Term
Once again Republicans show they haven’t read their Bibles – or their Constitution – before they start legislating Jesus into law
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GOP Lawmaker Shows Us Some Valentines Love by Declaring Women “A Lesser Cut of Meat”
How do we handle all the love that Republicans show women?
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Republicans Fooled Americans Again To Eliminate Women’s Reproductive Rights
Instead of introducing legislation to create jobs, or help Americans struggling in an economy created for the benefit of the rich, on the first day of the 114th Congress Republicans introduced five separate bills restricting women’s reproductive rights; something they did not pledge would be at the top of their legislative agenda.
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Women’s Greatest Enemy Is Evangelical Women, Not Republican Men
Even shaky reason dictates that a robust women’s electoral movement would cleanse Republican patriarchs from Congress, governorships, and state legislatures, and bring the Republican war on women to an abrupt and just end. However, that is certainly not the case and it is down to American women’s greatest enemy and it is not Republican men per se, but the evangelical women electing them.
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Republicans: Women Problem? What Women Problem?
Nothing wrong with an exclusive and hate-filled Republican message. Just with the people who aren’t sufficiently white, male, and Christian.
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Republican Lindsey Graham Attempts To Steal Women’s Rights Without Even a Vote In The Senate
The latest Republican to introduce legislation attacking women’s right to choose is Senator Lindsey Graham who attempted to bypass a committee and asked for unanimous consent to bring the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” up for a vote.
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Conservative Christians Claim They Should be Able to Spew Hate Without Consequence
Conservative Christians want to be able to spew hate and lies but for nobody to have the right to disagree with or refute them
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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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The GOP’s Boston-inspired Insanity
The GOP: Sodomizing our shared reality – and you
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It Is Time For Democratic Women to Usurp the Power of Male Republicans
By any measure, America is in decline. The fault lies almost completely with male Republicans. Democratic women must usurp the power.
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Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp Put the Fool in April Fool’s Day
Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp says marriage equality is unpatriotic and will destroy the family and motherhood – and even your apple pie
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God Wills It! Things You Will Never Hear an Atheist Say
When Reshad Riddle gunned down his father at Church, he didn’t say his act was the will of atheism.
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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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Instead of Apologizing CNN Is Outraged By the Backlash Over Their Pro-Rapist Coverage
Instead of apologizing or listening to the complaints that the network was soft on rapists due to their Steubenville rape convictions coverage, CNN is outraged and dismissive.
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The Bill to Fund the Government Is the Latest Bit of Stand-up Comedy From House Republicans
The primary purpose of House Bill 933 is to perpetuate the bloat of the defense budget and decimate domestic programs.
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It’s a BFD: Obama Renews Biden’s Violence Against Women Act After GOP Obstruction
President Obama said today while signing the Violence Against Women Act, “I promise you this – not just as your President, but as a son, as a husband, as a father – I’m going to keep at it.”
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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 VAWA Finally Passes and Reveals A New Truth For the Republican House
The Republican majority in the House is split. This was revealed today in a painfully obvious way when moderate Republicans joined the Democratic minority to pass the Violence Against Women Act.
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America’s Capitalism Has Embraced White Slaves as Well as Black
American capitalism supported white indentured servitude before and alongside black slavery and relinquished it only reluctantly.
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The GOP’s version of VAWA Should be called the Defense of Violence Against Women Act
The House GOP’s watered down version of the VAWA is more about preserving their bigotry than anything about protecting women from violence.
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Women, Not Right Wing Evangelicals, Have Lost Their Freedom To Tyranny
It turns out there is a segment of the population who have lost their freedom due to tyranny, but it originates with Republicans at the behest of Catholic and evangelical personhood advocates.
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Republicans Love to Regulate When it Benefits Their Wealthy Friends
A long-time and oft-repeated Republican criticism of Democrats is the tendency to regulation. But, so do Republicans, especially for friends.
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Show Me State Republicans Need Somebody to Show them Reality on Gun Control
If any facet of the GOP’s war on America has grown to lunatic proportions, it is gun control. The more people die from gun violence, the more the GOP sinks into denial.
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Ralph Reed Invokes MLK’s Fight for Freedom in Defense of his Fight to Oppress
So Ralph Reed of the misnamed Faith and Freedom Coalition, took exception to my findings yesterday, that the Bible is irrelevant as a determinant of United States immigration policy reform. He thinks he’s pretty clever and like any good conservative these days, goes right to invoking MLK: “So MLK was wrong to invoke the BIble &…
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Freedom Works Exposed as Behind Opposition to Violence Against Women Act
Freedom Works has been exposed as the force behind the opposition to the Violence Against Women Act, because they feel that protecting women from violence is mean and unfair to men.
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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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The Right Claims Liberals Have a Dull-Witted, Self-Defeating, Abjectly Wicked Worldview
Conservatives seem completely confused and befuddled by reality, as evidenced by Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber and his recent scree
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New Bipartisan Violence Against Women Act Takes Aim at Untested Rape Kits
The Senate reintroduced the Violence Against Women Act but this time they added a provision to give law enforcement the tools they need to test unprocessed rape kits.
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Misremembering is the Conservative Way of Treating Martin Luther King
As our nation celebrates Martin Luther King Jr, conservatives choose NOT to remember him, but to misremember him as a conservative
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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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House GOP Shames America by Endangering Women
It’s not just the Sandy bill. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and John Boehner (R-OH) also killed legislation that would help protect 30 million American women’s lives.
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If this is war in Michigan, then we had better win
Republicans are using Michigan as a grand experiment to see if they can get away with setting fire to democracy in plain sight. They want to see if revenge bears fruit in winter.
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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The vicious red states are engaging in an attack on the public school system
South Carolina is a prime example of right-wing attempts to destroy the public school system and replace it with private school profiteers
Bryan Fischer Claims Homosexuality is a Birth Defect
The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer misrepresents a scientific study to claim that homosexuality is a birth defect
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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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The Demographics of Progress and the Demise of the America of Conservative Dreams
The numbers don’t lie: they didn’t lie on Election Night, and they do not lie in the longer run when they prove that America is becoming more, not less progressive.
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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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Fox News Has a Holiday Wish List but Governor Chafee Can’t Have a Holiday Tree
“All I want for Christmas is to kill it,” seems to be the song conservatives think liberals sing each and every holiday season. Fox News has made a lucrative living pushing a nonexistent war on Christmas, seizing on every example of religious pluralism in this country – that is, the right of people to believe…
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Why Conservatives are Wrong When They Say Liberalism Will Fail
Conservatives have convinced themselves of libearlism’s illigitimacy; now they have convinced themselves liberalism will fail
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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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Republicans Turn Charter School Officials Into the New Robber Barons
School privatization is the new Gold Rush. There is money to be made in them there hills. And charter schools are the the Republican hammer to be used to prise it out of our hands.
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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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America is a Christian Nation. If We Don’t Like it, We Should Get Out
Another one of the 24 percent tells the 76 percent to get out because America is THEIR country: white and Evangelical
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Republicans Declare Defeat and Claim They Have Lost the Culture War
Longtime foe of multiculturalism, William J. Bennett, says Republicans lost culture war and accuses Democrats of playing identity politics
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Mrs. Cleaver’s America is Dead – and Thank God For It
Republicans, in appraising the causes for the Republican defeat in 2012, shy away from the real reasons for that defeat: the culture war
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What Obama’s Victory Means to the Religious Right
The Religious Right took a black eye in 2012 but they are far from powerless and will be back to attack the Constitution in 2016
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Was Election Night a Mandate for the Status Quo?
America won four more years for President Obama, but did we issue a mandate for change or for the status quo?
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Binders of Women Bring Down the GOP’s Pro Rape Senate Candidates
The Republican rape triplets running for the senate took a big hit last night. The War on Women was a bad move for Republicans.
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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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A last and final look at Mitt Romney close up prior to November 6th
There could be no worse selection for President than money-monger, Mitt Romney. He himself admits, 47% of the population will be sidelined.
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Romney Lies on CNN. This is his Real Vision for America
Mitt Romney took to CNN’s opinion page to lie about his vision for America but his real vision is somewhat different
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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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Mourdock Loses Ground in Senate Race But GOP Party of Rape Not Even Close to Getting It
The GOP is headed into Election Day as the Party of Rape, a group of white fratboys who never grew up
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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 Supporter Jon Huntsman Breaks with Mitt and Backs Women’s Freedom
Republican Jon Hunstman told HuffPost Live, ‘I cringe. It’s like fingers on a chalkboard every time I hear men talk about women’s health issues.’
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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.
Romney’s Endorsement of Rape Enthusiast Richard Mourdock
Mitt Romney wants Richard Mourdock, who thinks rape pregnancies are a gift from God, changing things in Washington, D.C.
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Conservatives Feign Outrage Over MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski’s Pay Disparity
Conservatives are hoping to save Mitt Romney from his failed attempt to avoid a policy discussion about equal pay by feigning outrage over Mika Brzezinski’s pay.
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GOP Congressman – Evolution a Lie Straight from the Pit of Hell
Paul Broun and Todd Akin, both serving on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, deny evolution and embrace superstition
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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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Kirk Cameron Throws Stones at Gays But Says He is the Stoning Victim
Kirk Cameron has been stoning gays and lesbians but wants to present himself as the victim because people dared criticize his hate speech
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Hear Us Roar: Obama Leads Romney with Women 56-38
‘It is also very difficult to win an election when you are getting shellacked among women, the group that makes up about half the electorate.’
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Republicans Show Their True Colors With Their Undisguised Hatred of People of Color
In the span of a little over a day, there have been 3 blatant examples of Republican racism including Newt Gingrich and John Sununu
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I Would Like to Say Goodbye to Patriarchy
You would think that in 2012 we’d be in a position to say goodbye to patriarchy but instead it has become the focus of the Republican Party
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Dirty Laundry: John Kasich Thinks Calling Women Heroes Makes up for the War on Women
GOP Gov John Kasich of Ohio called us laundry-doing women ‘heroes’ even as the man he was introducing, Paul Ryan, has voted against equal pay for women for years running and is obstructing our civil liberties even now.
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The Recipe for a Republican Politician
The unsavory ingredients that go into making a Republican politician create a perfect storm for America and the world in 2012
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Tea Party Deadbeat Joe Walsh Tells Sandra Fluke to get a Job
Tea Party hero Joe Walsh told a diner full of old white folks that Sandra Fluke needs to get a job, equating healthcare with’entitlement
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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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Ann Romney Orders Women to Wake Up and Vote for Mitt
Ann Romney assured women today that we’ve ‘come a long way, baby’ (nothing says progress like invoking the 1968 ad campaign for Virginia Slims) and that we work harder than the guys do.
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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