What you saw: What they saw: C’mon, wingnuts, quit nancying around and just call them sluts. Remember the good old days when the Republicans were all up in arms about outsiders getting in between patients and their doctors? At any rate, the reason Santorum and the rest of the clown car parade in the GOP …
Because of wow.
Pat Buchanan out at MSNBC
MSNBC dropped conservative commentator Pat Buchanan on Thursday, four months after suspending him following the publication of his latest book. The book “Suicide of a Superpower” contained chapters titled “The End of White America” and “The Death of Christian America.” Critics called the book racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic, charges Buchanan denied. Pat Buchanan gave the …
I’ve Never Been More Ashamed To Be White
Looks like maybe I spoke too soon about CPAC not being as much of a freak show as it has been in the past: Is there any way I can publicly renounce my whiteness and become an honorary black person? Something like a reverse racial draft? (via)
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Religious liberty expands to include all employers, and all women, and all contraceptive coverage
Religious liberty is expanding very quickly. I don’t even know if I can keep up. We’ve gone from religious-affiliated entities (yesterday) to all businesses (today): That means removing the provision from the health care law altogether, he said, not simply changing it for Catholic employers and their insurers. He cited the problem that would create …
Guns Don’t Kill People
Abortions do: Well, here’s an interesting weapon! The Susan G. Komen Foundation, which collects and distributes money for Breast Cancer research and prevention is in the news for withdrawing its (relatively small) grant from Planned Parenthood. So the Komen Foundation doesn’t want to be associated with the nation’s largest abortion-provider. But they don’t mind partnering …
Always Look On the Bright Side of Rape
Just “WOW” is all I can really muster.
Required Reading, MLK Day edition
I’m ashamed to say that until Charlie Pierce in his own, powerful essay on MLK day pointed me to it, I had never actually read Lyndon B. Johnson’s speech to Congress urging — almost ordering — the legislators before him to pass the Voting Rghts Act. Here’s a sample: But even if we pass this bill, …