If Abortion Isn’t Health Care, What is It?
Republican Congressman Chris Smith, a conservative Catholic, introduces “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” says abortion is “not health care.”
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Congress Reads the Constitution, Tea Party-Style
The Tea Party-inspired constitutional recitation of January 6 immediately ran into the problems any fundamentalism has with sacred scripture: what do you do with the parts that speak to the original intent of an entirely different era—stoning adulterers, casting down fire on one’s enemies, selling all one’s possessions and giving to the poor, requiring the return of runaway slaves, and counting slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation?
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“Liberal Nazis”: The Republican Crusade Against NPR
National Public Radio may soon be under real assault from Republican lawmakers, if Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes’ comments about “liberal Nazis” are any indication. A congressman from Colorado Springs, Doug Lamborn is leading the charge.
Read MoreMan-Made Climate Change Not Possible, Says Potential Energy Committee Chair
“The earth will end only when God says time to be over”
Read MoreThe Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership
The fixers and string pullers party while jobless numbers mount.
Read MoreHealth Care Acrimony Will Only Get Worse
Has the incivility and outright hostility finally wound down, or is it just getting started?
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