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To Serve Women (a cookbook)

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This really might be the dumbest, most ill-conceived and poorly written Daily Caller opinion piece ever, which, lordamercy, is saying something: Why, to serve as civilizing hose-bags and poop out babies, of course! Well, at the very least, the column puts paid to any notion that the GOP’s “woman problem” will end when dinosaurs like [...]

Pat Buchanan out at MSNBC

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MSNBC dropped conservative commentator Pat Buchanan on Thursday, four months after suspending him following the publication of his latest book.  The book “Suicide of a Superpower” contained chapters titled “The End of White America” and “The Death of Christian America.” Critics called the book racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic, charges Buchanan denied. Pat Buchanan gave the [...]

Santorum calls Foster Friess’s Bayer aspirin comment a “bad joke”

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Rosie Gray, writing at BuzzFeed, chatted up Rick Santorum about the unfortunate comments his SuperPAC backer, Foster Friess, made about contraception earlier: Rick Santorum wasn’t very amused by his friend and super PAC backer Foster Friess’ comment today about using aspirin as birth control. Today on MSNBC, Friess said “Back in my days they used [...]

GOP Justification for State-Sanctioned Rape in Virginia

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blink Apparently, once vaginally-penetrated, always vaginally-penetrated: During the floor debate on Tuesday, Del. C. Todd Gilbert announced that “in the vast majority of these cases, these [abortions] are matters of lifestyle convenience.” (He has since apologized.) Virginia Democrat Rep. David Englin, who opposes the bill, has said Gilbert’s statement “is in line with previous Republican [...]

Thursday Night Recipe Swap – Mardi Gras (Gumbo!)

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From our Food Goddess, TaMara: I’m getting ready to travel again, so I’m swamped with getting everything done at work and home. But that doesn’t mean we can’t still celebrate Fat Tuesday with some New Orleans style food and drink. Bring on your party recipes. And next week let’s go vegetarian. I wanted to do [...]

Quitters Never Win

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I understand why Mitt Romney would pull out of the March 1 CNN debate (four days before Super Tuesday). He should miss every opportunity for voters to calibrate their dislike for him, and an event on the eve of some primaries he and his PAC advertising will probably be able to buy is doubly worth [...]

Look back in anger

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My opinion on the contraception coverage issue for churches is that it will have no political effect. I think it’s too complicated and most people just don’t care. It was a bad move for the Catholic church, but it probably won’t impact whether people vote Republican or Democrat this fall. Democracy Corps thinks it has [...]

Thursday Evening Open Thread: Moral Objections

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(Jeff Danziger’s website) This cartoon is from last year—like any good reactionary, Santorum’s been banging the same dishonest themes since he started his campaign. With his help, we can look forward to Walmart explaining that they refuse to pay for insurance to cover “lifestyle-related” problems like heart disease and diabetes, on the highly moral grounds [...]

Wingnut Medical Science

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NH Republican Jeanine Notter asserted that the pill causes cancer. Prostate cancer. In men. You do the math: Is it possible that maybe the public is just punking us all by electing these morons for entertainment purposes?

Friess’s Frame

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The Man Behind The Froth has spent millions bankrolling Santorum through his super PAC so far, and today Foster Friess pretty much undid every dollar of “free speech” he bought with this awesome statement on birth control to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell: On this contraceptive thing, my gosh, it’s so inexpensive. You know, back in my [...]

If I wasn’t watching it happen, I wouldn’t believe it

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Ladies and Gents, here’s the all-male panel that are debating access to birth control in Congress today: But it’s much, much bigger than birth control now. This is Adam Serwer on the new Republican proposal to allow any employer a veto on virtually any aspect of health insurance coverage. Any employer: In their latest move [...]

Hypocrites

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Of course: Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich), a leading GOP critic of the Obama administration’s loans to Solyndra, pressed the Energy Department in 2009 to back a Michigan solar firm that filed for bankruptcy this week. In a Dec. 2009 letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Upton and the rest of the Michigan delegation pressed the [...]

They pay people for advice like this…

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The life of a DC gasbag is a sweet one. Take the latest advice from GOP maven Mike Murphy to Mittens (emphasis added): “He should drop the biography-based message. Nobody wants a well-intentioned accountant in charge when the house is on fire. For the first time [????] in his professional life, Romney needs to stop [...]

Crossing The Rubin Con: Endless Wargasm

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Jennifer Rubin pauses from her Romney cheerleading day job to go after the 51% of America that actually learned a lesson from the decade of wars we’ve been thrust into, as the latest Pew Research poll finds there’s not too much support for backing up an Israeli attack on Iran.  With only 39% of Americans [...]

More Good Economic News

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Unemployment claims are down for the fifth week in a row. And GM just recorded a record profit.