Steve Benen flagged this story this morning — of an Orange County judge who was reprimanded by the Commission on Judicial Performance for stating in court that a rape victim couldn’t have been really really raped because she didn’t put up a fight, and that the rape wasn’t a “real, live criminal case,” but only …
Vagina Outrage
Anti-Choice Message on Wire Hangers? Dude, naw.
Via Robin Marty at RH Reality Check (who is sitting across from me right now at the RHRC strategy meeting), a dry-cleaner outfit in Cincinnati, Ohio is splashing its Forced Birther message on wire hangers, either blissfully unaware or blissfully not giving a fuck about the optics of putting a Forced Birth message on a …
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Religious Arguments Against the Birth Control Benefit in the ACA Defy Logic
The various organizations that have sued the Obama Administration, claiming that the birth control benefit in the Affordability Care Act violates the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, are touting arguments about religious liberty that are intellectually dishonest as well as wholly lacking in common sense. These arguments prioritize the “religious freedom” to …
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Shorter Ross Douthat: Birth More Babies, Bitches!
Have a goddamn seat, sir. Ross Douthat has (yet again) penned a piece befitting his nickname “Douchehat.” In his latest spectacularly abysmal attempt to be insightful, Douthat laments the decreasing fertility rates in America and implies — nay! — outright states that women who are “retreating from child-rearing” are lazy layabouts unwilling to make the …
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Nancy Pelosi is leading while old.
At a press conference this morning, Luke Russert, numbnuts extraordinaire, asked Nancy Pelosi whether she is too old to be House Minority Leader: Nancy Pelosi got a little bit heated with Luke Russert Wednesday when the young NBC News reporter suggested at a press conference that it might be time for her to pass the …
Open Thread: Blame the Single Ladies!
I like Amanda Marcotte’s explication at Slate: Now that the shock of losing has settled in, the conservative media has moved on to the important task of castigating the various demographics that broke for Obama, a reaction that can in no way be one of the reasons said demographics dislike Republicans. Since Obama won basically …
Paul Ryan Panics; Claims ‘Obama Threatens Judeo-Christian Values’ [updated]
In a last-minute desperate attempt to scare the shit out of as many voters as possible, Paul Ryan made an outlandish claim that another term for Obama will threaten Judeo-Christian values. Because apparently, contraceptive access will bring about the end of days: CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Representative Paul D. Ryan accused President Obama on Sunday …
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