We Serve It, Even When It's Hard To Swallow
The right-wing has taken their culture war to a whole new level of insanity. Indiana State Rep. Bob Morris (R-Fort Wayne) has refused to support a bill recognizing the 100th anniversary fo the Girl Scouts because he claims the group is “radicalized,” promotes homosexuality and is a “tactical arm of Planned Parenthood.” Morris is also upset because Michelle Obama is the honorary president of the group.
Amy Poehler made a surprise visit to the ‘Saturday Night Live’ edition of ‘Weekend Update’ last night, joining co-host Seth Meyers in a “Really?!?” segment aimed squarely at the current debate over religion and birth control.
Some might call the term “state sponsored rape” a little severe or harsh, but I disagree. It involves forced, medically unnecessary, unwanted, unwelcome penetration of a woman’s vagina, and in Virginia, it’s being sanctioned and demanded by the state, thanks to a recently passed law, which is now headed to the desk of Governor Bob McDonnell (R), currently trolling for a vice presidential spot in the 2012 election. McDonnell has said that he will sign the bill into law, which would require a physician to perform a trans-vaginal ultrasound on women seeking an abortion.
“How did the Republican party become so greedy, crazy and destructive?” It’s the one question I see most often from progressives online. It’s a good question and one I find hard to explain to those who aren’t political scientists or historians. It’s complex. But former Reagan official Bruce Bartlett knows what happened to the right and how they strayed away from the traditional conservative platform.
Newt Gingrich was the final remaining Republican presidential candidate to address the audience at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC ) this year and during his speech, he brought the conservative extremists in the audience to their feet by declaring
Five years ago today, a few thousand people gathered in Springfield, Illinois, to launch an unbelievable and improbable campaign to usher in change and elect Barack Obama as President of the United States. We won that campaign, and even though the right-wing has done everything in their power to sabotage or obstruct this president, change has come. But more needs to be done.
Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra has found himself in the midst of a firestorm the morning after the Super Bowl because of a campaign ad he ran during the big game, which features an Asian actress amid rice paddies, speaking broken English to thank the Democratic incumbent for sending jobs and money overseas instead of helping out citizens here at home.
WARNING: This video contains material of a sensitive nature.
Meet Linda. She’ll tell you her own brave story in her own words. All I will say is that this is perhaps one of the most brutally honest and heroic responses to the Susan G. Komen Foundation that you will ever see.
The One Million Moms organization, an extension of the American Family Association, called on members to urge the company to rethink their decision. “Funny that J.C. Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are traditional families,”
The LGBT rights blog The New Civil Rights Movement has posted this incredibly accurate and moving video highlighting President Obama’s record over the past three years. The video is so effective that it appears on the verge of viral status and has caught the attention of commentators and pundits like Dan Savage and Andrew Sullivan.
It took a while, but The Muppets are finally firing back at Fox News for that network’s absurd suggestion that their recent film brainwashed young children against the oil company, big business, and capitalism itself. In the video statement, Kermit responds to Fox’s Eric Boiling’s ridiculous assertion in a dignified manner, while Miss Piggy summarized Boiling’s claim as “almost as laughable as accusing Fox News of being news.”
A lot has been made of Adelson’s support for Israel and his opposition to an independent Palestinian state, but it’s the casino owner’s disdain for employee unions, and his desire to pay less in taxes that is more likely at the center of his motivation.
‘Apparently Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, had a similar exchange with the president. It is very well known he has a prickly personality…’
Just a month after Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal invested $300 million in Twitter, the social media site has enacted a new policy that allows them to censor content coming from certain countries. The announcement comes one day after the one-year anniversary of the Tahir uprising in Egypt, a revolution powered by citizens who relied heavily on social media outlets like Twitter to communicate movements against the oppressive Egyptian government.
As the Republican primaries drag on, the GOP contenders have been taking their swipes at President Obama mid their attacks on each other. The swipes are illustrative of some of the core themes of the anti-Obama campaign. The themes share a common trait beyond being aimed at Obama: they’re all false.
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