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And now Senator Scott Brown, who hopefully will soon be replaced by Elizabeth Warren but don’t hold your breath, is sponsoring a “bill that would allow employers and insurers to limit specific health care coverage, including contraception, based on religious or moral objections.” As yttik said in comments downstairs: “It is disturbing, but the truth [...]

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Violet’s analysis is 100% correct: “But with contraception, Obama has acknowledged that it’s a special thing that can be denied on the basis of religious liberty. He has carved it away from the rest of the pack of treatments and medications, and put it over in a special class. A special class that has only one other [...]

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obama releases his budget; Violet Socks takes down obama’s Epic Fail on women’s civil rights; and I don’t care if you’re sick of me saying VOTE FOR WOMEN — here’s another righteous woman elected official who shows why I’m right Don’t believe me? Believe the science HERE and HERE (it’s the Out of the Mouths of [...]

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Looks like obama’s strategy of pretending to wage war on the catholic church in order to herd panicked and pissed off Catholics into the arms of Rick Santorum is paying off. Mitt Romney can beat obama. Newt Gingrich probably can too. Rick Santorum? When hell freezes over. For gawd’s sake even I would probably vote [...]

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Why does the president have such a problem with women with authority? “President Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) had what appears to have been an angry exchange of words on the tarmac in Phoenix over her portrayal of him in a book she published late last year. This is from press pool reports [...]

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From the Ryan Lizza article in the New Yorker that is hurtling around the internet today: “One Cabinet official made it clear that she did not share the President’s growing commitment to coupon-clipping: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She rejected the White House’s budget for her department, and wrote the President a six-page letter detailing [...]

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In support of wikipedia and other websites blacking themselves out today to protest the SOPA and PIP legislation, pumapac’s welcome page is black today. Enter your zip code to contact your reps and tell them to back off on corpogovernmental control of the internet. I for one do not admire China’s approach to internet policing. [...]

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Was reading this morning in the NYT a preview of the new movie about Margaret Thatcher starring Meryl Streep. Looks like Ms Streep will have to find room on her Oscar shelf for one more statue if the buzz about her performance is true. But what struck me most about the interview with Streep and [...]

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The attack was captured on video. Warning: it is VERY disturbing. From the Atlantic: “there is something especially barbaric about this photo. The taboo of violence against unarmed women is unusually strong in the Arab world. But to watch three soldiers beat a defenseless woman with batons, their fists, and for one extraordinarily cruel soldier [...]

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