While locating a “gay rights battleground” is something most of us can do by just looking around wherever we are, this year Virginia is providing a particularly stark example, as an article at Politico noted. A gubernatorial race already defined partly along culture-war lines has grown even more contentious since … Virginia Republicans nominated as [...]
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Terry McAuliffe Opens Slight Lead on Cuccinelli
THE WAR on women could not have a better example than the Virginia governors race between Terry McAuliffe and Ken Cuccinelli. Quinnipiac’s latest polling shows McAuliffe up 5 points in a race where neither man is seen to have a clear advantage. McAuliffe is as connected a Democratic elite politician can get, tied closely to [...]
Obama Slams Antiabortion State Laws [Video -Full Remarks]
Obama — the first sitting president to address the group in its nearly 100-year history – took aim at North Dakota’s law, which bans abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be detected, at around six weeks. “A woman may not even know that she’s pregnant at six weeks,” he said. As long as [...]
No Kermit Gosnell Coverage on Weekly Standard or National Review
THE ridiculous charge surrounding the trial coverage of Kermit Gosnell is that it’s all a liberal conspiracy because of abortion rights. Never mind that the disgusting illegal and criminal intent alleged is about one example that everyone wants to make sure never ever happens in America again. It’s the one thing abortion rights and anti [...]
Dr. Kermit Gosnell on Trial
No, they aren’t right about the Gosnell story. If you’ve never heard of the Gosnell story, it’s not because of a coverup by the liberal mainstream media. It’s probably because you failed to pay attention to the copious coverage among pro-choice and feminist journalists, as well as the big news organizations, when the news first [...]
Bob McDonnell’s War on Women Takes Virginia Back to When I Had to Cross State Lines to Get An Abortion
“… We say it is a moral tragedy but that it should not be the government’s role to deny its availability.” – Presiding Episcopal Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori [Huffington Post] THERE ARE few subjects that are more hypocritical than so-called “conservatives” pretending it’s a conservative principle to inhibit a woman’s right to self-determination. It’s actually [...]
McAuliffe v. Right-Wing Cuccinelli: Run, Bolling, Run [Video] *Update*
Cuccinelli, right, so here’s a guy – Tea Party favorite in Virginia – the guy is certifiable when it comes to mainstream political thought. This is a guy who attacks Medicare, he attacks Medicaid, he attacks Social Security, this is a guy who said he was thinking about not having his children get Social Security [...]
News Desk — Roe v. Wade at 40: 7 in 10 Americans Want Abortion Legal
“I don’t need a constitutional amendment to overturn Roe,” said Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, an antiabortion law firm that works with state groups on local legislation. “Clinic regulations do actually challenge Roe.” – Support Grows for Roe v. Wade Abortion Ruling [Wall Street Journal] ROE V. WADE and the 40th anniversary [...]
Virginia’s Shame: Becoming the Next Kansas
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy It’s way past time: House Republicans need to stop talking about rape. That’s the message GOP lawmakers got here Wednesday evening from Kellyanne Conway, a top GOP pollster. [Politico] THE STATE of Virginia continues the war against women, with Republicans in charge, which [...]
Virginia: Romney Contraception Ad, as Obama Seen Fighting for Women
…Then suddenly, a couple of weeks ago, Obama’s edge with women began to melt away. More than any other group, women have accounted for Romney’s surge in the polls, which has now given him a slim lead in the national popular vote and in some calculations of the electoral college. Women, it appeared, were not [...]
Obama Hits Romney On Women’s Equal Pay and Health Care [Video]
REPUBLICANS HAVE been targeting women through far right wing laws in legislatures across the country, including in Virginia, with A.G. Ken Cuccinelli moving on women’s clinics. It’s now a dog fight here in Virginia, with pitches like what Obama made on Friday a very powerful message in the state. Transcript to the video above: OBAMA: [...]
Top Story: Romney’s Best Debate Hope, Gear Up the Old Etch-a-Sketch
TAKING A PAGE from the playbook on his late move on young immigrant visas, Mitt Romney needs to unload his wingnuttery and embrace his alter ego, Governor Mitt from Massachusetts, then offer a mea culpa for falling off the right-wing cliff. Don’t worry about Barack Obama in the debate. The troubles Romney has are real [...]
NoBama “Lynching” in Virginia, Obama Campaign Manager Depicted as Pedophile
THE RIGHT is getting desperate. Blue Virginia posted on the picture above, which is as virulent as it gets. In one shot over there you can clearly see a George Allen sign for Senate. Though there is no link whatsoever between the campaign and this scurrilous shot, it does draw up the memory of Allen’s [...]
News Desk: Women Help Obama Take 8 Point Lead in Virginia
President Obama holds a clear lead over Mitt Romney in Virginia, buoyed by enthusiastic support rivaling what he marshaled in 2008 to snap the Democrats’ 40-year losing streak in the state. – Washington Post WHEN THIS all began, the buzz here in Virginia wasn’t good for President Obama. What a difference a candidate like Mitt [...]
Ken Cuccinelli is Doing for Virginia What Romney-Ryan Want to Do for America
**UPDATED** “We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country,” Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, told the audience at the Omni Shoreham hotel. “We will never have the elite, smart people on our side.” [Buzzfeed] LEAVING MISSOURI couldn’t come fast enough for me. The dreams I had of getting to Broadway [...]
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