If you are wondering why the Republican base is screaming about science and mocking global warming and thinks Jesus rode a dinosaur, it is because that is what the GOP elites want them to believe: This is not because conservatives are a bunch of undereducated yahoos. In fact, quite the opposite: Conservatives with high school …
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NH House Republicans Pass Bill Banning Abortion After 20 Weeks
Here some news on the New Hampshire Forced Birth front. New Hampshire House Republicans just passed HB 1660, which makes it a felony for abortion providers to perform abortions after twenty weeks of pregnancy, based upon the entirely unproven and inconclusive assertion that fetuses feel pain: CONCORD, N.H.—For the fifth time in two weeks, the …
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Open Thread
Picture of my dog. I call this look, “please approach the bench, counselor.” Whatever it is, chat about it here.
Announcement and Bleg
I have some news, my little juice boxes. ABLC is moving to Raw Story on Sunday. My new address will be angryblacklady.rawstory.com (or something similar). So hooray! I’ll probably keep cross-posting here (much to the chagrin of some of you, I’m sure), but I won’t be cross-posting full posts (see? it’s not all bad!). It’ll …
Kansas House GOP Passes ‘Abortion Conscience’ Bill
Kansas’s war on women marches on. SB62 immunizes doctors and medical care facilities from liability for refusing to provide any care or prescribe any drug that might lead to abortion if those doctors or medical facilities have a moral objection to abortion or birth control: TOPEKA, Kan. (WTW) — A bill designed to give Kansas …
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thanks for the reminders, guys
Robert Wright and Jonathan Haidt on Bloggingheads So let me just lay my bias out there for you: my own family formation was complex. The story’s not of interest to most people. I bring it up only to remind us all that there are a lot of different ways in which families end up …
Totally Called It
And it seems the unofficial and unconfirmed winner of the Ni-CLANG Sweepstakes is Rick Santorum, folks! Speaking to a group of voters in Janesville, Wisconsin on Wednesday, the candidate seemed to catch himself before using a word that sounds like “n*gger” to describe the president. (The original video of the speech is available here. The remarks …