"We who prospered should pay tax"
I just got a glimpse of an incredible and classy rant on CBS Sunday Morning. Linda McGibney, a producer of Stargate Universe on the SyFy Channel took a few minutes to refute Ben Stein's whiney...
View ArticleRachel on Monday: The Assassination of Dr. Tiller (Updated)
Rachel Maddow's entire show on Monday, October 25, 2010, at 9:00 pm EST will be devoted to a special on the assassination of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in 2009, entitled: The Assassination of...
View ArticleThe Right Wing's 20 Year Plan (from 2004)
I wrote this in 2004 after the puzzling "re-election" of George W. Bush. With the emergence of the Tea-Party and other paramilitary groups threatening violence if they don't get their political way,...
View ArticleDr. Warren Hern: SD Anti-Abortion Bill - Rx for Killing Doctors
After the assassination of my friend Dr. George Tiller in May of 2009, there are only a few abortion doctors willing to provide late term abortions. One of those is Dr. Warren Hern in Boulder...
View ArticleSD Now Wants to Require Abortion Patients to Visit Anti-Abortion Center
The dust is barely off the bru-ha-ha last week whereby the South Dakota legislature attempted to redefine "justifiable homicide" to be allowed as a defense for killing abortion providers . After mass...
View Article(R) Candidate for FLA Mayor Jokes About Bombing Abortion Clinics
The outrage just doesn't stop. Speaking to a Catholic Church audience, Florida Mayoral candidate, Mike Hogan (R-Idiot), was trying to up his anti-abortion creds and said according to Mother...
View ArticleGA Trying to Outlaw Abortion by Mandating that they are Performed in...
This was just sent to me from the Feminist Women's Health Center in Atlanta. Those naughty boys at the State Capitol are at it again. They want to require that all abortions are performed in a...
View ArticleLife Begins at Erection. It's all about the Sperm.
WARNING: While reading this Diary, keep your hands above your keyboard at all times.A couple of days ago, I was lamenting the avalanche of anti-abortion bills coming out of the State legislatures and...
View ArticleUnintended Pregnancy Costs U.S. Taxpayers Roughly $11 Billion Yearly
This is no surprise to most progressives, but the "fiscally conservative" Republican Party should take note. Reprinted in its entirety with permission from the Guttmacher Institute:NATION PAYS STEEP...
View ArticleCong. Rob Woodall (R-GA) takes his Taxpayer paid healthcare because "It's FREE".
This video has got to be seen to be believed. The heroine questioner is reported to be Ilene Johnson who repeatedly asks Woodall to refuse his government sponsored healthcare and buy on the open...
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Occupy My Uterus. My Ass! Fertilized Eggs Are NOT People!
On November 8th, the voters of Mississippi will be considering a "Personhood Amendment" (Amendment #26) which would give a fertilized egg more rights than a live born woman, and would outlaw abortion...
View ArticleKaren Santorum Cohabitated with an Abortion Doctor, NOW She's Married to an...
It seems that when Karen Santorum met hubby Rick in the 70's, she was cohabitating in Pittsburgh with an abortion doctor, Dr. Tom Allen, who cofounded one of Pittsburgh's first abortion clinics. On top...
View ArticleNEWS FLASH. It's not about Birth Control or Abortion. It's about Sex and Power.
I've worked in reproductive health and abortion since 1976. Most of you reading this weren't even a twinkle in your parents' eyes. Many of your parents weren't even born then. So, I guess you could...
View Article"A Week Later, She Was Back on Her Ladder"
Frank Bruni has a powerful Opinion piece in the New York Times that chronicles the evolution of a college classmate from a devout Catholic to a progressive abortion doctor. Although the doctor is not...
View ArticleAlabama abortion clinic to close May 18th due to anti-abortion pressure
New Woman All Women in Birmingham Alabama is the abortion clinic bombed by Eric Rudolph in 1998 resulting in the death of a police officer and the maiming of a nurse. It has now been "bombed" by the...
View ArticleRIP Andy Griffith. Let's all whistle the theme song.
Andy Griffith died today at age 86. He was a lifelong Democrat and the Dems in NC tried to recruit him several times to run against Jesse Helms.Whistle that theme song today in his memory.
View ArticleWill the last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi be open after today? Update: YES!
The last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi, Jackson Women's Health Organization, may be closed at the end of the day. Federal Judge, Daniel P. Jordan, a W. Bush appointee and former Mississippi...
View ArticleBREAKING: Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi to remain OPEN.
In my Diary earlier today I posed the question:Will the last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi be open after today?.The answer is a resounding YES! Federal Judge Daniel Jordan in Jackson extended his...
View ArticleSheldon Adelson is 7X Richer Now than in 2009
Major Romney/Newt billionaire donor Sheldon Anderson IS better off now than in 2009.According to Wikipedia:In the Forbes 2009 world billionaires list, his ranking dropped to #178 with a net worth of...
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