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GOP Rep. Slams Obama’s Contraception Rule, Claims Birth Control Is ‘Unrelated...
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)In a substantial victory for women’s health last week, President Obama approved a new rule that requires most employers to cover birth control in their health insurance...
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The War On A Woman’s Right To Choose, 2012 Edition
2011 was a banner year for anti-choice activists who succeeded in pushing through a record number of abortion restrictions. But it’s a new year, and it appears the GOP is dead set on outdoing itself....
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How Apple Sits On Billions And Makes Record Profits While Its Chinese...
Apple, Inc. is undoubtedly one of the most powerful and profitable companies worldwide. Last quarter, Apple made $13.1 billion, it’s highest profits yet and a 117 percent jump from last year. Apple’s...
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South Carolina Bill Would Make It Even Harder To Vote
South Carolina raced to be among the first GOP-led states to pass a radical voter ID bill that stands to disenfranchise “nearly 180,000 voters” in the state, “most of whom are elderly, student,...
View ArticleNew Home Sales Hit Record Low
CNN Money reports that new home sales hit a record low in last year, with just 302,000 new homes sold, 6.2 percent less than were sold in 2010. The low sales mark “a reversal of other recent housing...
View ArticleJudge: Hispanic City Council Candidate Cannot Speak English Well Enough To...
Alejandrina Cabrera, a Hispanic woman running for City Council in San Luis, Arizona, was singled out by city officials to take an English proficiency exam to prove she was eligible to hold office....
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Norquist: Republicans Will Impeach Obama If He Doesn’t Extend Bush Tax Cuts
Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist has long held a tight grip on the marionette strings of the GOP. Wielding undue influence as the head of the Americans for Tax Reform, Norquist ensures that...
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Rep. Allen West Tries To Walk Back Telling Obama To ‘Get The Hell Out': ‘I...
Rep. Allen West (R-FL) once again sparked controversy with a demagogic speech in Florida this past weekend where he demanded that liberals and President Obama “get the hell out of the United States of...
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Virginia Democrat Proposes ‘Gender Equity’ To Anti-Abortion Bill, Requires...
The Virginia legislature is starting off 2012 with a bicameral attack on a woman’s right to choose. The General Assembly’s very first bill, House Bill 1, is a “personhood” amendment that seeks to...
View ArticleAARP Slams Virginia Voter ID Bill, Says ‘Seniors Will Choose To Stay Home’...
Virginia is joining the growing number of states attempting to pass a voter ID bill that could jeopardize the voting rights of millions of minorities, low-income voters, students, and seniors. Today,...
View ArticleDays After ‘Taco’ Blunder, East Haven Mayor Asks If Latino Appointee Is ‘Not...
The mayor of East Haven, Connecticut Joseph Maturo Jr. landed in hot water last week when he suggested he’d “have tacos when I go home” as a Latino outreach tactic. Just days after apologizing for the...
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House GOP Wants To Ban Use Of Benefits At Strip Clubs, Insists ‘It’s Pretty...
The GOP is cultivating a staggeringly disdainful view of Americans who are struggling to get by in the wake of the Great Recession. Seeking to gut the social safety net programs on which an increasing...
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Old Yellow Goes Green: New York School District Will Start Using Electric...
As politicians and pundits continue to deny the existence of climate change, one New York school district is not only teaching students about climate science but taking it to the streets. CBS 2...
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Rep. Speier Pulls Support From Breast Cancer Foundation Over Decision To...
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA)Yesterday, America’s most well-known breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen succumbed to right-wing pressure and ended its partnership with Planned Parenthood, pulling...
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Iowa Gov. Branstad Falsely Claims Voter ID Is Needed Because People ‘Falsely...
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R)Iowa is joining the 26 states that are already looking to enforce harsher voter ID requirements this year. Succeeding to get a voter ID bill through the House last year,...
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Report: Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s Tax Plan Will Hit Poor Families 1,000...
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) spent his first year in office drawing up substantial tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy while shifting the tax burden onto Michigan’s most vulnerable. In a state...
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Komen Head Claims Response To Planned Parenthood Decision Is ‘Very Very...
America’s largest breast cancer organization the Susan G. Komen Foundation is sustaining serious blowback from its decision to sever ties with Planned Parenthood. Though the foundation insists its a...
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Poll: Majority Of Low-Income Republicans Believe The Government Does Not Do...
This week, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney admitted that he is “not concerned about the very poor,” a jarring sentiment that nonetheless seems to encapsulate the Republican party’s view of...
View ArticleApplying A Windfall Tax To Fracking Would Give Ohio $2.5 billion over ten years
Despite the sizable public concern over the considerable consequences, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) and Republicans are gung-ho on moving forward with fracking for natural gas in the state. But one...
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Arizona GOP Lawmaker Wants A State Holiday To Celebrate White People
Arizona’s unremitting campaign against its Hispanic communities has certainly reached an extreme, with the state GOP initiating a spate of radical anti-immigrant laws, banning Mexican-American and...
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