A federal judge ruled Friday that the government must make the most common morning-after pill available over the counter for all ages, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and younger. In his ruling, he also accused the federal government of “bad faith” in dealing with the requests to make the pill universally available, [...]
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Susan Patton Revives “MRS. Degree” for Princeton Female Students
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.” – Susan Patton’s Marriage Advice for College Women THERE ARE way too many well-educated, well-meaning professional women these days giving relationship advice that simply don’t [...]
Krauthammer Sides with Bill O’Reilly, and the Laura Ingraham “Thump the Bible” Smackdown
“The compelling argument is on the side of homosexuals,” he said. “That’s where the compelling argument is: ‘We are Americans. We just want to be treated like everybody else.’ That’s a compelling argument. And to deny that you’ve got to have a very strong argument on the other side.” … “And the other side hasn’t [...]
AP Stylebook Makes “Illegal Immigrant” No Longer Valid
The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term “illegal immigrant” or the use of “illegal” to describe a person. Instead, it tells users that “illegal” should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally. [Associated Press] WHEN THE largest news gathering organization makes a “style” move like this everyone takes [...]
Ashley Judd Adviser Claims Kentucky Dems “Duped” Media and “Shoved Her Out’
“I have been raped twice, so I think I can handle Mitch McConnell.” The actress’ apparent flippant comparison of a political campaign to sexual assault spread like Ebola across the Internet, leading some to classify Judd as the Democratic version of Todd Akin. The problem is, it never happened. [Daily Beast] THE ADVISOR is Jonathan [...]
Don’t Rush Barbara Walters, She’s Not Done Yet
Her 1999 conversation with Monica Lewinsky remains the highest-rated news interview in television history. [Daily Beast] WHEN WALTERS arrived to sit next to Harry Reasoner his salary had to be raised, because as the first female news anchor in television history, Barbara Walters was getting paid more than the man. However, Walters’ $1-million-a-year contract also [...]
Loser of the Week: Ben Carson’s Gafferiffic Gay Marriage Implosion
CARSON: Well, my thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman. It’s a well-established, fundamental pillar of society and no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality. It doesn’t matter what they are. They don’t get to change the definition. So he, it’s not something [...]
Rush Limbaugh Actually Believes Marriage Equality is a Word Game
“This issue is lost. I don’t care what the Supreme Court does, this is now inevitable — and it’s inevitable because we lost the language on this. …” – Rush Limbaugh TODAY’S so-called conservatives are completely clueless about the ideology they trumpet. However, Rush Limbaugh is so pitifully ignorant about it he actually believes that [...]
Jon Stewart on Republican Efforts to “Revamp” Message
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook REPUBLICANS have a long way to go. If their stance on Prop 8 and DOMA is any indication, Karl Rove’s claim [...]
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 [...]
Rep. Michele Bachman’s Presidential Campaign Investigated in Ethics Probe
Embarrassments have become routine whenever she’s tried to forcibly reinsert herself into the national debate, as the sort of wild claims that helped make her reputation in the first place have increasingly been swatted down, even by fellow Republicans. In the last week alone she has been called out by Fox’s Bill O’Reilly for “a [...]
Democratic Failure to Reform Filibuster Lets NRA Gun Extremists Take Out Caitlin Halligan
There are four vacancies on the D.C. Circuit court. The nomination of Sri Srinivasan, Obama’s deputy solicitor general, has not yet gotten a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee. In his first term, Obama did not get a single nominee onto the court. Overall, eighteen of Obama’s judicial nominees are currently awaiting confirmation. [Washington Post] [...]
Showtime’s Dick Cheney Doc Reveals What Obama and Hillary Clinton Did in Resurrecting America’s Foreign Policy Brand
“If you’re a man of principle, compromise is a bit of a dirty word. The President made the decision that he wanted to avoid major controversy. It was his call, so that’s what we did.” – Dick Cheney on George W. Bush’s decision to reverse himself on warrantless wiretaps when he finds out what Cheney [...]
Begala Hits Back When CPAC Heckler Says Hillary Needs a Facelift [Video]
When someone in the crowd yelled out that she would use her time out of government after leaving the State Department to get a facelift, he responded, “No, not get a facelift, she’s not a Republican society lady, she’s a real woman.” [Politico] THERE’S nothing like Paul Begala with a microphone. It was a classic [...]
Another Reason the Pope is a Bigot: Rob Portman’s Gay Son Moves Him on Gay Marriage
I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn’t deny them the opportunity to get married. That isn’t how I’ve always felt. As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I [...]
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