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Pat Robertson’s Advice on Infidelity

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. US News | Syria News | More ABC News Videos “Males have a tendency to wander a little bit. And what you want to do is make a home so wonderful he doesn’t want to wander.” – Pat Robertson INFIDELITY is expected of men, according to Pat Robertson. [...]

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Obama Puts Politics Over Science with Plan B Appeal

AH, yes, paternalism. America’s Father, Barack Obama, finally deciding to fight hard, but it’s to keep a perfectly safe medical product away from young teen girls. He thinks it will keep them from having sex or if they do it will force them to go to a parent or guardian if they get into trouble. [...]

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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 [...]

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As the Pope Turns, the Villain in the Vatican

HE WAS once called “God’s Rottweiler,” but the entanglement of scandal that has become Pope Benedict’s reign and will be his legacy is now morphing into the stuff of potboiler melodrama. Think Godfather III, the reality show edition. The paper claims that around the time that Pope Benedict decided to step down, the pontiff learned [...]

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Where are They Now, Romney’s Hacks Edition

BAY BUCHANAN has evidently quit politics and is starting a new career in real estate. Considering how badly she comported herself in the campaign season it’s a better decision than continuing the path she was on. From a report: “It was so tough. It was brutal,” she said of the loss to President Obama. “I [...]

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With Mika Away, Joe Scarborough Does His Worst on Women in Combat

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “There will obviously be limits, correct, for certain assignments women can do based on physical ability. [..] There’s a reason why there are no women are in the NFL… there’s a difference physically between men and women. Can we say that in 2013? [...]

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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 [...]

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Right Smears John Brennan as “Arabist,” Ignores Purge of “Arabist” James Baker Wing

IF YOU want to start dissecting what’s happened to the sane branch of the Republican Party, it dates back to Georg H.W. Bush and James Baker, a time when realism in foreign policy took over for Ronald Reagan’s ramshackle militarism that led to Iran-Contra and near impeachment. The big story in the Republican Party over [...]

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Top Story — History is Made as 20 Female Senators Sworn In

THE 113th Congress was sworn in with 20 female senators, Republicans and Democrats, which makes history. “I think that until we get to 50, we still have to fight because it’s still a problem,” Boxer said. “I think this class as you look around, Republicans and Democrats. … I think that because of this new [...]

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Matt Damon in Playboy: “No Matter How Hard You Work To Change Things, It Just Doesn’t Matter”

NO SUCK ups, please. Your party and political position exist for your own amusement or delusion. You can’t impact a thing. Unless you’re a member of the Tea Party, that much maligned and mocked political entity that continues to send shudders through our government and populace. They’ve succeeded in hamstringing the Speaker of the House [...]

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Biggest Losers for 2012: Republicans

Nothing on taxes. Nothing on gun control. Nothing on climate change. Nothing on gay marriage. Nothing on immigration reform (or an incremental, piece-by-piece approach, which will result in nothing). It’s a very odd situation when the losing party is the party refusing to negotiate. It may be how you disrupt, but it is not how [...]

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New Rules and the Mythical “War on Men”

HOLY OVARIES! There’s a war on men. Phyllis Schlafly’s daughter Suzanne Venker has done some research, written three books, and is now weighing in on the gender war. Oh, and guess what. She’s finally discovered what was known in the ’90s, as the third year of the second decade of the 21st century dawns. The [...]

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Boehner Scurries to Find Woman in All Male GOP Boys’ Club to Chair Committee She’s Not Even On

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy AFTER BEING busted for an all white, all male Republican leadership monopoly, with no woman in sight, Speaker John Boehner responds by taking a woman not even on the committee, because there are no women on the last remaining committees without a chairman, [...]

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News Desk: Church of England Blocks Women from Becoming Bishops

The Church of England has forfeited right to speak on assisted dying – because it has just committed suicide, assisted by #synod — Ruth Gledhill(@RuthieGledhill) November 20, 2012   OH. SWEET. Jesus. Another patriarchal slap in the face, where the elite establishment rules over the majority, by acquiescing to individual parishes who want women to [...]

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Top Story — U.N. Report Declares Contraception an International Human Rights Issue

Additional Investments in Family Planning Would Save Developing Countries More Than $11 Billion a Year — Access to family planning is an essential human right that unlocks unprecedented rewards for economic development, says new UNFPA report. – UNFPA REPORT TAKE A BOW Secretary Clinton, who began this push in 1995 as first lady when she [...]

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