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40 Years After Roe—By The Numbers
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decided by a 7-2 margin that a woman has a right to an abortion. Forty years later, though 70 percent of Americans support the court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, 87 percent of counties in the United States do not have one clinic that offers legal abortions, and…
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Romney was a Diamondique. He flip-flopped in so many directions that he became a political contortionist.
It’s not that Romney never let the voters in to see the the real Mitt as the Boston Globe piece implies. If it were that simple his handlers and media advisors would have picked up on that and fixed it quickly. Romney’s problem was that he was a fake diamond: a diamondique. In Mass. he…
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31 School Shooting Since Columbine and Still We Do Nothing.
From Fayetteville, NC to Los Angeles, CA. These are some of the major shooting since Columbine, not a complete list. MAJOR SCHOOL SHOOTINGS SINCE 1999 Chardon, Ohio, February 27, 2012A seventeen-year old boy fired ten shots at a group of students in the Chardon High School cafeteria as school began Monday, then shot an…
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Welcome Tim Scott to the US Senate. (R-SC)
The newly appointed Senator from South Carolina proposed a bill to kick families off of food stamps if one member went on strike as part of a union. And he called for the impeachment of Obama over the debt ceiling. (washingtonpost.com)
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McCain’s Backing Away from Susan Rice Comments.
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2012 Arizona Senator John McCain backed away yesterday from comments he has previously made about UN Ambassador Susan Rice. CNN was told yesterday that the intelligence community was responsible for the changes made to Rice’s talking points. And, during closed door testimony, the congressional investigative committee learned that the Obama administration made…
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It’s a far more liberal Senate than it was four years ago.
Molly Ball’s fun story about the leftward shift in the Senate reminds us of a fact forgotten five minutes into election night. Bob Kerrey, the two-term Nebraska senator, lost his comeback bid. While Ohio’s Sherrod Brown was promising to hike taxes on the rich and save entitlements from the “grand bargain” guillotine, Kerrey was being…
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Wisconsin Lawmakers Back Bill To Arrest Federal Officials Who Implement Obamacare
The Huffington Post | By Mollie Reilly Posted: 11/13/2012 7:19 pm EST Updated: 11/14/2012 12:23 am EST Nine Republican members of the Wisconsin Legislature say they would back a bill to arrest any federal officials who attempt to implement President Obama’s signature health care law in the state. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports…
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Stop pretending the US is an uninvolved, helpless party in the Israeli assault on Gaza
The Obama administration’s unstinting financial, military and diplomatic support for Israel is a key enabling force in the conflict A Palestinian man carries a wounded child at a hospital following an Israeli air raid in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, on November 17, 2012. Photograph: Moiz Salhi/AFP/Getty Images A central premise of US…
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