February 2012
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“Sir Richard, life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.”
– Oh snap, Dowager Countess
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“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really...”
– David Lynch (via kateoplis)
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GOP senators: Domestic violence against... →
motherjones:
A very important NY Times editorial.
“The bill includes smart improvements aimed, for example, at encouraging effective enforcement of protective orders and reducing the national backlog of untested rape kits. The Republican opposition seems driven largely by an antigay, anti-immigrant agenda. The main sticking points seemed to be language in the bill to ensure that victims...
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Dear CPAC,
Get out of my neighborhood.
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“Planned Parenthood is a gigantic bully, using Komen as its own personal punching...”
– Karen Handel, former senior Komen official, in an interview with The Daily Beast
Oh shut up.
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Planned Parenthood, Komen & Moving Forward
amaditalks:
So Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure today announced that they will no longer give any funding to Planned Parenthood.
This funding allowed Planned Parenthood to provide breast examinations and referrals for mammography and ultrasound to patients at their health centers, patients who were able to be seen and treated at Planned Parenthood regardless of income or insurance, because of...
January 2012
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Amid abortion debate, Komen cancer charity halting... →
The nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates — creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women.
The change will mean a cutoff of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants, mainly for breast exams.
Planned Parenthood says the...
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Deporting All Of America's Illegal Immigrants... →
A year ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deputy director Kumar Kibble told Congress it costs about $12,500 to deport an undocumented immigrant.
However, a 2010 report by Center for American Progress and Rob Paral and Associates took a close look at all the budget appropriations for ICE and broke down the costs per person for each one of the four stages of deportation process:...
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“We do not intend to succumb to the insatiable Republican obsession with...”
– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
“D.C. Abortion Ban, Authored By Arizona Rep. Trent Franks, Draws Ire From Locals”
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“Send me a law that gives them a chance to earn their citizenship, I will sign it...”
– President Obama, in support of comprehensive immigration reform and the DREAM Act
I hope he matches his challenge to Congress with actions he can take now under his own power to reform immigration enforcement. You don’t have to wait on Congress to halt Secure Communities, Mr. President.
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Got a G&T in hand and SOTU on TV
This is my Super Bowl
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“Take the money we’re no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our...”
– Obama (via kateoplis)
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“The military-only DREAM Act treats military service as a kind of punishment and...”
– “Service Guarantees Citizenship! Do you want to know more?”
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"'Self-deportation' is just a cleaner, less... →
motherjones:
Watched the GOP debate? Then you probably heard a lot chatter about something called “self-deportation.” Adam Serwer explains what it is, and why it’s such a chilling concept.
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“Anytime you catch yourself saying things like, “It shouldn’t get to me, but…”...”
– Dear Coke Talk: On letting it get to you.
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Supreme Court Rejects Texas Election Map that... →
The Supreme Court gave an early win to Texas Republicans in the fight over redrawing election districts and the balance of power in Congress, ruling that the district lines should mostly follow those set by GOP lawmakers and not those by judges who drew new boundaries to favor Latinos.
…While Friday’s ruling gives Texas officials much of what they sought, it is not a final victory...
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Beyond Tebowmania - Giving Women a Choice →
In “He’s a Quarterback, He’s a Winner, He’s a TV Draw, He’s a Verb” (This Land column, front page, Jan. 14), Dan Barry writes about a 2010 Super Bowl commercial telling how Tim Tebow’s mother decided not to end a life-threatening pregnancy and he adds, “There was no tebowing that week in the halls of Planned Parenthood.”
That suggests that Planned Parenthood does not celebrate birth or a...
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“The great conservative bugaboo, Obamacare, is also far more moderate than its...”
– Andrew Sullivan absolutely kills this. He defends Obama’s first term as remarkably prolific, moderate and true to principle. Hear, hear. (via thecallup)
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