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Richard Mourdock Wins, Or Why Senate Democrats No Longer Have A Choice On Filibuster Reform | ThinkProgress
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 3:11 PM EDT (Think Progress)
In 2009, when President Obama was close to the height of his popularity and political capital, only nine Republican senators voted to confirm Justice Sotomayor: Lamar Alexander, Kit Bond, Susan Collins, Lindsay Graham, Judd Gregg, Dick Lugar, Mel Martinez, Olympia Snowe, and Geor …
Top 5 Things You Need To Know About Richard Mourdock
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 2:58 PM EDT (Think Progress)
Last night, Richard Mourdock (R) upset Sen. Dick Lugar (R) in Indiana’s Republican Senate primary. Mourdock, who currently serves as State Treasurer, trounced the 36-year Senate veteran by 22 points, 61-39, due in no small part to his support from Tea Party groups. Mourdoc …
VIDEO: GOP Candidate's Son Applauds 'Kill' Claire McCaskill Line
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 2:48 PM EDT (Think Progress)
Yesterday, we noted that Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is getting beefed up security after a Tea Party activist said “we have to kill the Claire Bear” last week at a Tea Party rally in which Sarah Steelman, McCaskill’s GOP challenger, was present. The St. Louis …
North Carolina: Marriage Rights (but Not Equal Rights) on the May 8th Ballot | RH Reality Check
Seeded on Wed May 2, 2012 10:08 AM EDT (RH Reality Check)
North Carolina polls are open for early voting in the primary election, and the rights of unmarried couples are being put to a public referendum. I voted against North Carolina’s Amendment One, which seeks to amend the state constitution “to provide that marriage …
Rachel Maddow Reaffirms Pay Gap Argument Following Feud With Alex Castellanos | Mediaite
Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 3:15 PM EDT (Mediaite)
On the heels of her tête-à-tête with Republican strategist Alex Castellanos over the facts of pay equity on Sunday’s Meet The Press, Rachel Maddow doubled down on her argument during her MSNBC program Monday, this time, with CNN’s fact-check team on …
This Weekend Thousands Fought Back Against The War On Women | RH Reality Check
Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 11:26 AM EDT (RH Reality Check)
The war on women may seem like an endless battle, but this weekend thousands of women joined together to make it clear that we are ready to fight back. Across the country, women gathered to march and protest the political football that has become women's health and rights with …
Oklahoma "Egg-As-Person" Ballot Initiative Ruled Unconstitutional
Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 11:20 AM EDT (RH Reality Check)
Last week, the move to declare that a fertilized egg has the same rights as a living, breathing woman was blocked in the legislature as Oklahoma Republicans decided their re-election prospects mattered more to them than the support of the most extreme of the anti-choice activis …
Federal Judge Blocks Texas Effort to De-Fund Planned Parenthood | RH Reality Check
Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 11:17 AM EDT (RH Reality Check)
A federal judge today blocked the state of Texas from de-funding Planned Parenthood affiliates in the state, and excluding them from participating in Texas's Women's Health Program (WHP). Last year, the legislature passed and Governor Perry later signed a bill that included pr …
S.C. Senator: Fetuses Are "Victims," Women Who Have Been Sexually Assaulted, Not
Seeded on Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:23 PM EDT (RH Reality Check)
It's Sexual Assault Awareness Week, and in South Carolina, a debate is raging in the legislature as to who are the real victims of sexual assault -- the woman or girl attacked, or a fertilized egg, embryo, fetus created during the assault. For South Carolina State Senator Kev …
A suicidal veteran and a call for help, unanswered - Stripes - Independent U.S. military news from Iraq, Afghanistan and bases worldwide
Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:46 PM EDT (News - Stripes)
Jacob Manning waited until his wife and teenage son had left the house, then walked into his garage to kill himself. The former soldier had been distraught for weeks, frustrated by family problems, unemployment and his lingering service injuries. He was long ago diagnosed wit …
Report: VA failing to provide timely mental care - CBS News
Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:44 PM EDT (CBS News)
Federal investigators reported Monday that nearly half of the veterans who seek mental health care for the first time waited about 50 days before receiving a full evaluation, a much longer lag-time than cited by the Department of Veterans Affairs.The VA has been saying that 9 …
Homeless mother who sent six-year-old son to better school in the wrong town jailed for five years | Celebrity Gossip News
Seeded on Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:37 PM EDT (copcop.net)
A mother who pleaded guilty to fraudulently enrolling her six-year-old son in the wrong school district has been sentenced to five years in prison. Tonya McDowell sent her son to an elementary school in Norwalk, Connecticut, instead of her home city of Bridgeport. The 34-year-o …
A Woman's Lifetime Earnings Lost To Pay Gap Could Feed A Family Of Four For 37 Years | ThinkProgress
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:40 AM EDT (Think Progress)
As of today — which is Equal Pay Day 2012 — women make 77 cents for every dollar that men earn. Over the course of a woman’s career, that disparity adds up to more than $430,000 in lost wages for an individual woman.
What the Buffett Rule Will and Won't Do
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:36 AM EDT (Center for American Progress)
As Americans complete their tax returns U.S. Senators are preparing to cast an important vote on tax fairness. Early next week the Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012 (S. 2230) will be put to a vote. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), codifies the &ldquo …
What's Behind Texas' Proposed New Abortion Reporting Requirements? No One Knows | RH Reality Check
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:26 AM EDT (RH Reality Check)
We know Republican Rep. Bill Zedler thinks the new abortion reporting requirements he's "requested" from the Texas Department of State Health Officials are necessary, but does anyone besides Bill Zedler think so? The abortion providers to which RH Reality Check spoke this …
Mississippi Could Be Abortion Free...
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:23 AM EDT (RH Reality Check)
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant will sign into law today the state's new bill requiring all abortion providers to be registered OB-GYNs with admission privileges to a local hospital. The new regulations, which could possibly stop the state's only clinic from operating, …
Texas Women's Health Program Stays Fully Funded, But Will Women Still Have Easy Access? | RH Reality Check
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:18 AM EDT (RH Reality Check)
Texas has been striving to prove that their conservative lawmakers' ideological battle with Planned Parenthood isn't affecting the poor women in the state. To that end, they have now announced that the Women's Health Program, a Medicaid-backed fund for low income and unin …
Obama sticks up for Ann Romney in working mom flap - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:42 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
President Barack Obama is sticking up for Ann Romney, the wife of Republican rival Mitt Romney and the target of a Democratic operative who suggested that she's unqualified to speak about the economy's tolls because she's "never worked a day in her life." "It was the wrong thi …
Governor of Alaska Denies Kids and Teens Health Care Because of His Fears of Abortion Funding | RH Reality Check
Seeded on Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:38 AM EDT (RH Reality Check)
n 2010, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell refused to approve an expansion of Denali KidCare, a program that provides health care for low-income pregnant women and children, even though a $1 million expansion paid for by the state would have resulted in nearly twice that much federal f …
Arizona Rep. Calls Constituent a "Baby-killer"
Seeded on Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:33 AM EDT (RH Reality Check)
The Arizona Senate has passed one of the most sweeping omnibus anti-choice bills in the nation, and it is now heading back to the House for a vote.
Bill Maher: People Need To Stop Throwing 'Conniption Fits' Over Things They Find Offensive | Mediaite
Seeded on Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:22 PM EDT (Mediaite)
If there’s one thing in this world that’s been able to unite people like Bill Maher and Ann Coulter, it’s the obsession some people seem to have with getting offended over every little thing people say. Being offended is the best way to change the subject in …
Romney Celebrates Health Care Reform Anniversary By Lying About It | ThinkProgress
Seeded on Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:42 PM EDT (Think Progress)
On the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, Mitt Romney seems willing to say almost anything to distance himself from the fact that his 2006 Massachusetts health care law served as a template for the national coverage expansion — even if it includes outright ly …
Not a Joke: Personhood for Women | RH Reality Check
Seeded on Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:39 AM EDT (RH Reality Check)
Melissa McEwan started a Personhood for Women petition suggesting that "a person identifying as a woman and/or having a uterus shall retain all of the full, basic, and fundamental rights of a US citizen as guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence" …
Illinois House To Vote on Forced Ultrasounds For Cattle... I Mean Women | RH Reality Check
Seeded on Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:31 AM EDT (RH Reality Check)
Here we go again. This time, it's the state of Illinois that aiming to pass a forced ultrasound bill. And, like all of the bills meant to restrict a woman's reproductive rights, it went through the Agricultural Committee, just like always.
What If You Threw a Public Trans-vaginal Ultrasound Show And No One Attended? | RH Reality Check
Seeded on Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:29 AM EDT ()
Idaho senators passed a bill that would require all women to get at least one, if not two mandatory ultrasounds before obtaining an abortion. The bill passed by a two-to-one margin, and is expected to do even better in the Republican dominated House. Lawmakers are eager …
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