British Cop: Peaceful Demonstration Is The New Terrorism?
Posted on February 16, 2012 in Videos
This cop doesn’t seem to know the difference between peaceful demonstrations and terrorism.
If Fox News Existed Throughout History
Posted on February 16, 2012 in Political Cartoons
Slavery is good for the economy, and Jesus is an infidel. I’ve heard worse on the fair and balanced news network.
The Republican War On Contraception
Posted on February 16, 2012 in Articles
The Article: The Republican War On Contraception by Nick Baumann on Mother Jones.
The Text: Last year was not a great one for abortion rights. First, congressional Republicans attempted to deny statutory rape victims access to Medicaid-funded abortions (twice). Then GOP-dominated state legislatures pushed record numbers of laws limiting abortion rights, including proposals that could have treated killing abortion providers as “justifiable homicide.”
Yet in the past six months, social conservatives have widened their offensive, and their new target is clear: Not satisfied with making it harder to obtain legal abortions, they want to limit access to birth control, too.
“Contraception is under attack in a way it really wasn’t in the past few years,” says Judy Waxman, the vice president for health and reproductive rights at the National Women’s Law Center. “In 2004, we could not find any group—the National Right to Life Committee, the Bush campaign, anyone—that would go on the record to say they’re opposed to birth control,” adds Elizabeth Shipp, the political director for NARAL Pro-Choice America. “We couldn’t find them in 2006 either, and in 2008 it was just fringe groups. In 2010, 2011, and this year, it’s just exploded.”
Wear Your Jeans, Cut Your Hair And Clean Your Sleeves
Posted on February 15, 2012 in Videos
Betty Wang By Hospitality off of Hospitality.
Santorum’s “Charity” For The Poor: Funds Go To Friends, Management And Allies
Posted on February 15, 2012 in Articles
The Article: Santorum charity for the poor spent most of its money on management, political friends by Carol D. Leonnig and Dan Eggen in the Washington Post.
The Text: As Republicans gathered for their national convention in Philadelphia a decade ago, Rick Santorum, who was then an up-and-coming senator from Pennsylvania, launched a charity that he said would improve the lives of low-income residents in his home state.
“Wouldn’t it be a great thing to leave something positive behind other than a bunch of parties and a bunch of garbage?” Santorum told a local reporter.
But homeless families and troubled children were not the biggest beneficiaries of Operation Good Neighbor. Instead, the foundation spent most of its money to run itself, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees for fundraising, administration and office rental paid to Santorum’s political allies.
