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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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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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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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This article in the Atlantic, “The Most Racist Thing That Ever Happened to Me,” is generating a lot of interest around the internets. The story Jesse Jackson relates to the author about being denied entry and borrowing privileges from a PUBLIC library is heartbreaking. Over at Crawdad, miq’s response points out two very important facts: [...]
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Gasbags all over* are wishing for a Hillary Do Over now that obama’s support across the board is crumbling like paper mache Greek columns. Long-time pro-Hillary bloggers have been keeping the record straight on the fact that Hillary actually WON the Democratic primaries in 2008 if you consider “winning an election” to be defined as [...]
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Coming to a neighborhood near you?? “Islamic extremists have launched a poster campaign across the UK proclaiming areas where Sharia law enforcement zones have been set up. Communities have been bombarded with the posters, which read: ‘You are entering a Sharia-controlled zone – Islamic rules enforced.’ The bright yellow messages daubed on bus stops and [...]
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Saudi women defy ban to take driver’s seat Several women drive around in kingdom in open defiance of rule that prohibits them from driving. A number of Saudi women have defied a ban on driving by getting behind the wheel in the conservative kingdom. Friday’s show of defiance came in response to calls on social [...]
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The chief foreign correspondent for CBS News was gang-raped in the middle of the day by an unnamed number of Egyptian men in Liberty Square, Cairo, during, wait for it, DEMOCRACY protests. Ah, Tahrir Square, the place now as hallowed in the brainwashed minds of the mostly male, wholly misogynistic progressive left as the Old [...]
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One question: Where the HELL are the women?? I’m reading Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants which retells the history of the 20th Century in Europe and the United States. A great deal of it is about the Russian Revolution of 1917, history I know next to nothing about. Assuming the facts presented are basically true, [...]
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