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Abortion, the GOP, and the pleasures of the womb

June 19, 2013
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Please make them stop. Yet again, a member of the House Republicans' loony wing has taken it upon himself to school us in the particulars of female biology. Last year, Todd Akin said that the gals have the gift for identifying rapist sperm and thus preventing pregnancy; last week, Trent Franks said that the "incidence" of rape resulting in pregnancy is "very low" (which i... More »

North Carolina: Ground zero for conservative rule

June 18, 2013
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The corporate-funded conservative movement, which lost big in the 2012 presidential election, is nonetheless thriving at the local level— most notably in the swing state of North Carolina, where ascen... More »
Obama, Syria, and a nation weary of war

June 17, 2013
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The Syrian civil war has long bedeviled Barack Obama - American non-intervention has arguably made it worse; American intervention could arguably make it worse - but now he has finally made a decisi... More »
Obama, finally, surrenders to science

June 14, 2013
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One good thing happened this week. President Obama finally gave up his fight to put politics ahead of science. After 18 months of resistance, he announced on Monday that he would permit emergency con... More »
Republicans and rape - again!

June 13, 2013
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Seriously, what is it about Republican men and rape? Why do these men keep insisting that women impregnated by their rapists should be forced to give birth? And why, in defense of that stance, do th... More »
For Republicans, it's diversify or die

June 12, 2013
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It's decision time for the GOP. Does the party want to be competitive in future presidential elections, or does it prefer to doom itself to perpetual defeat? More »
Darrell Issa and the presumption of guilt

June 11, 2013
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The presumption of innocence, a staple of western law, can be traced all the way back to ancient Rome. Translating from the sixth-century Latin: "Proof lies on him who asserts, not on him who den... More »
Edward Snowden: Hero or traitor?

June 10, 2013
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So what do we think of Edward Snowden, the young computer whiz who blew the lid off the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance? More »
The bipartisan assault on privacy

June 7, 2013
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Nobody should be shocked to learn that the secretive National Security Agency is routinely collecting our phone records (known in the lingo as "telaphony metadata"), or that it's routin... More »
Obama stiffs GOP, elevates Susan Rice

June 6, 2013
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So Susan Rice gets the last laugh after all - as well she should, after having run the gauntlet of Republican lies. Last autumn and winter, while serving as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nation... More »