Now my first thought, having been to Wisconsin and witnessing first hand the generous and polite character of that area of the country, was to wonder if these teapartyers are simply more polite than others and that this left an opening to … [Read more...]
New Marriage Equality Ad for Maine
Hilarious
Just caught this hilarious video on ThinkProgress: Blogger-activist Mike Stark has been staking out Capitol Hill recently, trying to get Republican congressmen on the record about whether or not they believe President Obama was born in the … [Read more...]
MA Challenges Federal DOMA
From Boston.com: Massachusetts, the first state in the nation to legalize gay marriage, has become the first state to challenge the constitutionality of a federal law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman, saying Congress … [Read more...]
Confronting Reality: Pro-Life meets Real Life Abortions
Ezra pointed out an article in the Washington Post by Rozalyn Farmer Love, a young pro-life medical student in Alabama and her confrontation with the realities of abortion and those who seek abortion medical services. My parents are … [Read more...]
Bigots, Predjudice, Shame, and ‘Civil’ Debate
Lets start with some terms. In the original post I pointed out: ...the Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines "prejudice" as: 1 : injury or damage resulting from some judgment or action of another in disregard of … [Read more...]
Excellent debunking on homosexual marriage
Just caught this youtube video and thought it excellent: (h/t Ed Brayton) … [Read more...]
“Deadliest” Captain Testifies to Congress (drill baby drill… NOT)
Mie Dunford at The Questionable Authority, has a post up about a joint hearing of the Energy and Mineral Resources and Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife Subcommittees of the House Committee on Natural Resources (there's a mouthful). … [Read more...]
Health Care Call to Action
Ezra explains why this is a reasonable request: There's no reason the CBO shouldn't be asked to run the numbers on H.R. 676 (the leading single-payer bill). Single payer is, after all, the most common set-up for the health systems of … [Read more...]
The Return of the Line Item Veto
Ed Brayton alerts us: This is an interesting development. Fox News reports: A bipartisan group is giving the line-item veto another go at it, albeit with some key tweaks, more than a decade after the Supreme Court struck down the procedure … [Read more...]
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