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Huh--that's unexpectedly horrifying. I apologize for suggesting Tea Partiers should be treated with anything other than contempt. Must be my allergies or something....

Giving legal cover to doctors to lie or withhold information from women about any debilitating genetic conditions or birth defects that the fetus she is carrying may have, without fear of consequences. There's your 'small government' party in action. A woman has no right to know if the fetus she is ...

Huh--that's unexpectedly horrifying....

Kansas Bill Would Protect Doctors Who Mislead Women About Their PregnanciesThe Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee recommended a bill yesterday that would effectively allow doctors to lie or withhold information about debilitating genetic conditions or birth defects in order to influence womens decisi...

The modern day Democratic Party hardly seems like the pacifists they were in the past. They have been forced to become more hawkish under the threat of being called 'soft on terror'. They had that excuse in the Bush years, though I wish they hadn't used it. The media, in any case, didn't--so they ...

It occurs to me that the Democratic Party may not have reached out and made use of the libertarian extremists across the aisle to further a pacifist agenda in the last 5 years the way it might have.The modern day Democratic Party hardly seems like the pacifists they were in the past.They have been f...

Wow! Who would ever have expected that from old 'Freedom Fries' Jones? It occurs to me that the Democratic Party may not have reached out and made use of the libertarian extremists across the aisle to further a pacifist agenda in the last 5 years the way it might have....

GOP Rep Says Dick Cheney Will Rot in Hell Over Iraq WarFormer Vice President Dick Cheney is probably going to hell for his role in the Iraq War, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) said while speaking at a Young Americans for Liberty conference in Raleigh, N.C."Congress will not hold anyone to blame," Jones sa...

With 2 Ships Damaged, Shell Suspends Arctic Drilling After a series of costly and embarrassing accidents in its efforts to drill exploratory wells off the north coast of Alaska last year, Royal Dutch Shell announced on Wednesday that it would not return to the Arctic in 2013. The company’s two dr...

New Documents Show Reagan Gave Go-Ahead To Mayan GenocideRobert Parry on a newly-released document that spells out how President Ronald Reagan promoted genocide in Central America:Soon after taking office in 1981, President Ronald Reagan’s national security team agreed to supply military aid to the ...