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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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Rick Santorum Tells Convention Romney and Ryan Will Keep Dream Alive

The Republican Dream apparently being one where children will be forced into life by Big Patriarchy but allowed to die in poverty after that

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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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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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A Mountain of Legislation Proves Legitimate Rape is a Republican Policy, Not a Gaffe

As Akin begs forgiveness for his words, not one Republican apologizes for the mountain of legislation that proves ‘legitimate rape’ is a GOP policy, not a gaffe.

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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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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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A Win for Planned Parenthood with Kansas Prosecutor’s Decision to Drop Remaining Charges

Prosecutors in Kansas dropped the remaining 32 charges against Planned Parenthood bringing an end to, anti-choice zealot, Phill Kline’s witch-hunt masquerading as a prosecution.

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Brian Fischer Says Shooting Proves NRC and AFA Not Hate Groups

Brian Fischer thinks if somebody hates a hate group that the hate group is magically no longer a hate group and wants SPLC to agree with him

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Ross Douthat Wants Moderates to Believe Paul Ryan is Their Guy

Ross Douthat removes the details from the picture so he can clarify it, getting rid of all those pesky, distracting facts

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Fundamentalist Christianity Is a Collection of Justifications for Hate

Christian Fundamentalism represents less a coherent religion than a collection of excuses and justifications for bigotry and hatred

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Mitt and his Rove Jr. VP Grace 60 Minutes and Honesty Was Hard to Come By

60 Minutes Romney/Ryan interview Romney & new VP questioned by Bob Schieffer TV interview exposes BS of Mitt and Paul.

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Dogma and Expediency War for Conservative Christian Hearts and Minds

For years we’ve been told Obama’s Christianity matters but where Romney’s Mormonism comes in, will expediency win out over dogma in 2012?

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Paul Ryan’s Odd VP Selection As a Play for Women’s Votes Through His Wife

So Romney picked Paul Ryan, eh? And at the decidedly unmedia-worthy time of 7 a.m. ET on a Saturday morning. Who’s staffing newsrooms on early Saturday mornings? Well, Clyde, the 75-year-old ex- 6 & 11 p.m. anchorman now doing weekends and still threatening an age discrimination suit if they let him go and ace weekend…

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Romney and Ryan to Embark on 87 Days of Terror

Mitt Romney is hurting in the polls, has insulted nearly everyone he’s met, and now plans to take to the road to show his blue-collar cred

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Another Oregon Republican from the Frat Leadership Goes Down in Sex Scandal

After forcing another Republican to step down after he was caught in a sex scandal, Rep Kevin Cameron (R-Salem) was afraid he’d be ratted out for a strip club outing.

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Bryan Fischer Says Sikh Temple Shooter a Liberal Because He’s a Nazi

Fischer claims the the neo-Nazi Sikh temple shooter was a liberal because he was a Nazi but a glance at the rhetoric tells a different story

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The Case against Using Religious Freedom to Block Birth Control Access

As the birth control mandate went into effect this week, religious freedom arguments continue to threaten it. Here’s why they’re wrong.

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The Great Commission’s False Prerogative A Specter of Doom on the World

A falsified passage in the New Testament leads conservative Christians to believe they have the right and obligation to convert us all to their gospel

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Marriage Equality Verdict is In: God is a Whiny Little Bitch

The verdict is in: based on fundamentalist Christian response to the Democratic Party’s marriage equality platform, God is a whiny little bitch

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It’s a Big F**king Deal: Free Preventive Care for 47 Million Women Kicks in Today

Despite the fact that Republicans tried to block this portion of the ACA from kicking in, thanks to Obama and the Democrats, today is the start of free preventive care for women.

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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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Ticking Clock: House GOP Try to Force Pro Violence Against Women Act

The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act has already expired and with just weeks left to go before Congress goes home, may not be passed thanks to House Republicans.

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Gregory Peterson: Utah GOP Activist and Romney Supporter – and Rapist

Gregory Nathan Peterson, a Romney supporter who had hundreds of Utah’s GOP luminaries over for BBQ, is accused of being a serial date rapist

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NOW Endorses Obama, Says Romney Wants to Take Us Back to 1950’s

NOW/PAC endorses President Obama, drawing clear contrast between Obama’s pro women’s rights achievements and Romney’s efforts to turn the clock back to the 1950’s.

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A Grain of Charen Salt When It Comes to Wage Equality

Conservative columnist, Mona Charen recently wrote that the suggestion that women are paid less than men for the same work is fiction. Nope!

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In Louisiana School, Loch Ness Monster Disproves Evolution

A fundamentalist Christian textbook used in a Louisiana school insists that because the Loch Ness Monster is real, evolution must not be

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The GOP and the Limits of Positive Thinking

When bad news piles on bad news, how does a person carry on, and how far can positive thinking carry you in the face of insurmountable odds?

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Vaginas and Uteruses and Republicans, Oh My!

Republicans must talk about vaginas given the laws they’ve been making but they’re not about to extend Democrats the same privilege

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The Vagina Protest Strikes Back Against the Censorship of Women

Conservatives in Michigan and across the country seek to regulate women’s bodies and their relationships with medical profession, but women are pushing back.

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Shut Up, Know Your Role, or Die – the GOP’s 2012 Platform

The conservative mind is focused on a sense of privilege and possession of rights nobody else gets to enjoy, whatever the Constitution says

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‘Religious Freedom’ Measure Targeting Women’s Reproductive Rights Goes Down in Flames

While Republicans pass alleged ‘religious freedom’ laws aimed at knocking down women’s reproductive rights across the country, at least one has gone down in flames.

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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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Conservatism Looks More Like an Online MMORPG Every Day

You have to wonder the degree to which conservatives are even aware any more of reality as they indulge in increasingly twisted fantasies

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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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Demonize It! The Fundamentalist Obsession with Demons

Most 21st century Americans deal with the world they see and give no thought to an underlying reality full of demons and demonic influences

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Religious Bigots Gather at National Religious Freedom Conference

Religious Freedom: a euphemism used by Christian groups who embrace subordination and a culture of suppression of other religious viewpoints

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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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Sponsor a Uterus And Save An American Woman from Herself

Now you can make decisions for a uterus stuck in a woman’s body, and you don’t even have to know the woman hosting the uterus.

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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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Painting President Obama as a Culture Warrior

Ross Douthat, in an op-ed for the New York Times, paints President Obama as a culture warrior who ignores the economy to his own detriment

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Seven Reasons Why Obama Is the Obvious Choice for Women

All women have to do to emphatically support Obama in 2012 is compare his policies to the Romney and the Republicans, but here are 7 reason why the president is the obvious choice.

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Look Out First Amendment – Theocracy Inbound

Theocracy is coming to with a GOP win in 2012: they have made their position clear enough and it becomes more pronounced with each new bill

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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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Kate Beckinsale Talks about Republicans in Her Vagina

The Republicans want to get into your vagina, and in this humorously mocking piece Kate Beckinsale and others make the arguments in favor of letting them in

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Obama Campaign Crushes Romney with War on Women Ad

Mitt Romney is pallin’ around with transvaginal ultrasound pushers. Yup, Mitt Romney’s top surrogate in Pennsylvania is the man who told women to “just close your eyes” during a transvaginal ultrasound.

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The Dirty Thirty – Occupy May Day Edition

Look at all the things wrong in America right now and then look at the GOP solutions since 2010. You will see they have no intention of fixing any real problems

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Sisterhood Slideshow from War on Women Rallies A28

Rallies were held in 55 cities today to unite against the war on women. Here are some photos shared with us from today.

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Watch Live: Unite Against The War On Women Protests

If there is no War on Women, why are there 55 Unite Women rallies for women’s rights today? Watch the live streams here.

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GOP Women Still Embracing Mama Grizzly Chic

I am afraid, Mama Grizzly Chic is still the rage in the GOP’s harem culture, where conservative women are real women and just being mama grizzlies you betcha

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Susan Sarandon Explains Why Women Need White Man’s Di*#s

Gearing up for the Unite Women nationwide march this Saturday, Susan Sarandon explains the many benefits of having a white man’s d*$k (WMD) in this Funny or Die video. NSFW.

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Protecting Women from Themselves in Mississippi

Mississippi Gov Phil Bryant says if liberals really cared about women’s health issues, we’d join him in stripping women of the right to make their own healthcare decisions

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Champion the Vote Champions Faith-Based Bigotry

Bill Dallas of Champion the Vote is upset that he has to explain about gays to his little daughter. His solution is to get out the vote to vote the gay away

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Of Buggery, Nuns, and the World’s Oldest Good Old Boys Club

The Catholic Church has sicced the Inquisition on the nuns of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious: Buggery be damned: these women are getting uppity!

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Neutering the Republican Penis

The Republican Party is eager to legislate on women’s use of their reproductive systems; they have so far shown no willingness at all to legislate use of their own

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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

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Catholic Bishop Goes Into Persecution Mode – Claims Obama is Hitler

After spending 1500 years relentlessly persecuting every alternative to itself, the Catholic Church has the audacity to claim it is the persecuted party

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The GOP Give Women an Ideological ‘Up Yours, Girls!’ On Equal Pay Day

Demonstrating just how Republicans honor Equal Pay Day, Scott Walker, whose polices are endorsed by Mitt Romney, actually repealed parts of the Equal Pay Act in Wisconsin just days before the national event.

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I Think That Belongs to Me, Said the Elephant

The Republican Party has staked its claim to women’s vaginas, as should be obvious by now to all

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Welcome to Talibanessee

It is time to define gateway sexual activities and to determine whether or not they can be considered a spectator sport

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What it Means if Dick Lugar is a Centrist

If Lugar is a centrist than the true centrist position is an extreme left position just as Republicans insist and everything the left of that is beyond the pale

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According to the Right, You Are Afraid of Ann Romney!

According to a couple of Republican women writing for CNN, the left is afraid of Ann Romney because she is somehow every woman.

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Vision Forum Ministries is Pimping the Titanic for Christ

Vision Forum Ministries takes an exception to the rule of every man for himself and turns it into a mythical Christian principal of women and children first

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Condemning the Catholic Church’s Attack on Americans’ Freedoms

You live in a modern world only because you have insisted on living in a modern world, not because the Church has ever agreed to or condoned it, but simply because since the Enlightenment they haven’t been able to do anything about it

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Romney Views The War On Women Through Rosen Colored Glasses

What to do with Hilary Rosen, a powerful Washington figure is going to be the question for the Obama administration.

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David Barton Lies About Who was Burning Whom at the Stake

David Barton wants to pretend Christians were being burned at the stake by the government but doesn’t mention it was a CHRISTIAN government

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The Republican War on the Girl Scouts

The Republican Party has gone to war with the Girl Scouts, accusing them training girls to be radicalized, anti-religious baby-killing feminazis

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Gene Roddenberry, Where is My Star Trek Future?

Star Trek promised us a Utopian future of peace and tolerance and science; the Republican agenda has thrown all this – and us – under the bus

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America the Beautiful Gets Tarnished Thanks To the Radical Right

The Republicans and their far-right religious sycophants have all but rendered the government ineffective through grid-locking strategies the prevent any meaningful initiatives from being passed.

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The Desperate Need for Broad-Left Coalitions In the Era of the Corporateer

The two-fisted right-wing war on the working and middle-class has arrived and only wave after wave of Broad Left coalitions can truly stem the tide of fully corporatized America.

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A Trip to Crazy Town: CNN’s Dana Loesch Calls Liberals Fascists

CNN’s Dana Loesch took to her radio show today to work herself into a lather where she accused Democrats of “using women as prostitutes for votes” before she called liberals “latter day fascists.”

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Women Roar With Record Support For President Obama

Women have pushed back against the Republican war against their health and reproductive decisions by giving President Obama record levels of support.

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The Dirty Thirty – April Fool’s Edition

The Republican assault on American liberties has continued in 2012 with continued emphasis on the reproductive rights of women and women’s health

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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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The Consequences of Alaska’s Female Sexual Servitude Legislation

Alaska legislation proves that state-sponsored sexual servitude is alive and well. So much for the First Amendment, because all this is 100% religiously based

Santorum Ignores Economy – Makes his Religion a Problem for Voters

The media is slowly becoming wise to the fact that Rick Santorum’s campaign is fueled by religion, not the economy. His stance on issues is religious, his rhetoric is religious and his appeal is not to fiscal conservatives but to social conservatives, to those on the religious right who menace our democracy with the specter of theocracy.

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The Republican Platform Aims at a Time Before the Constitution

Republicans don’t want to take back our country; they want to take our country back, back to a time before the United States, before the Constitution to the unworkable Articles of Confederation, to pre-Constitutional religious intolerance and oppression of minorities and of women.

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.

Republicans Are Signing Their Own Death Warrant by Opposing the Violence Against Women Act

Refusing to immediately reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act as it is written is a mistake that the Republican Party may not recover from.

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Decoding the Genesis Code

There is nothing new or original in Genesis so claiming science proves Genesis has an effect fundamentalists won’t tell you: it actually proves every creation myth

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Rick Santorum Pushes the ‘Right’ Race and Religion Buttons to Capture the Deep South

Rick Santorum won in Alabama and Mississippi because Evangelical right-wingers constituted the overwhelming majority of Tuesday’s Deep South voters. And they voted race no matter what they tell you.

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The Grim Calculus of Rights of Conscience

The grim calculus of conservatism’s so-called rights of conscience is this: I don’t believe so you can’t… Their religious freedoms are your slave chains.

The Shining City on a Hill is a Destroyer of Freedom

It’s easy to see why Robison likes the city on a hill imagery because the only freedom will be that of Talibangelicals like Robison to force the rest of us to toe the religious line.

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Bill Maher Got It Wrong: Why We Must Keep The Pressure On Rush Limbaugh

Bill Maher thinks we should accept Rush Limbaugh’s apology, but here’s why we must pursue Limbaugh to a point where he pays an actual price and everyone in the business knows it.

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The Dirty Thirty – March 2012 Edition

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Georgia Rep. Compares Women to Cows, Pigs and Chickens

Giving Limbaugh the Bum’s Rush

27 years of inflammatory speech have finally caught fire in a campaign that hopes to send Rush Limbaugh into retirement.

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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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Obama’s Constitution-friendly Religion

Jeffrey T. Kuhner of the Edmund Burke Institute, who last year accused President Obama of having “black nationalist sympathies” (whatever those are) wrote a column for the Washington Times on February 23, which he entitled Obama’s pseudo-religion, arguing that the “President’s secular moves” are “out of step with Judeo-Christian culture.” His claim is that “Mr. Obama is…

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