On April 17, smack in the middle of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Gov. Rick Scott vetoed $1.5 million for the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence. The Legislature allotted the funds to the organization in order to support 30 rape crisis centers as they face impending r …
Well thought out commentary of the role and importance of contraception for not only the health and well being of women but also of their families, society and our economy.
Men practicing abstinence before marriage have found it very effective in preventing STD's and HIV/AIDS therefore reducing their and societies costs. In addition there are no paternity suits resulting from pregnancies outside marriage, forced marriages, etc.
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I was listening to Ron Paul today and he noted again that federal funds (we are broke) shouldn't be used to help disaster victims and that he had won elections by campaigning against FEMA. At other times the has indicated that they shouldn't get medical services if they ha …
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Do you believe that non-profit organizations that received government money should be able to deny an employee birth control pills or other contraception medications because of religious reasons.
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Parker and her colleagues, who work at a legal brothel in Nevada, launched a "Pimpin' for Paul" campaign. "Any customer who comes into the Bunny Ranch who says, 'I'm Pimpin' for Paul' gets a great discount off his party.
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Doctors in Peru removed a parasitic fetus from a 3 year old child. Is the removal of the parastic twin murder because this was a fertilized egg and is considered a fetus by the doctors? If this fetus was removed from a girl or woman would it be co …
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A married woman gets raped, husband looks at his pregnant wife everyday for 9 mo, knowing that she is the incubator for the rapist. Who pays for pre-natal care? Who pays for the hospital delivery? The family and insurance company of the victim? How many women wa …
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I remember when JFK was elected president and I have never seen such rudeness toward a president no matter how much the members of congress didn't agree with him. This tone of this open rudeness, giggling, chuckling, etc. is obnoxious This sounds like high school …
The lie is "exploded onto the scene in 2009 in opposition to what activists saw as unchecked spending by President Barack Obama and the Democratic congress." So it was ok for Bush to spend twice as much as Obama with 2 unfunded wars, unfunded Pharmacy Benefit bill and mass …
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This gives you an opportunity to see what kind of country you want. Tell what you picked before you run out of money.
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Currently the House bill has us starting this process in 6 mo. I believe that we will get nothing done if we have to do this drama for the next year. What do you think?
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Right now - let's see if we can shame them and their staff's into not getting paid. Thank you.
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Just trying to figure it out.
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I am tired of months of talking, proposals, counter proposals, rigid ideological differences and gamesmanship.
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How do I influence the onion getting the Pulitzer prize. If cartoons can get the Pulitzer I believe that the Onion, Colbert, Daily Show should also go for Pulitzer based on a category of Satire.
The minimum wage in Maine is $7.50 an hour, and there is no training or subminimum wage for students.
On all categories US House and Senate Pensions are on the high end of a majority of state government civil services workers pensions.
Anti-abortion groups welcome Gov. Scott Walker's budget plan to cut state funding for family planning services and repeal a state law requiring insurance companies to cover prescription birth control.
Koch in Madison - based on what has happened and how the Wisconsin Union vs. Walker situation I feel that it would be good to revisit this article.
The poor are being asked to pay taxes (flat tax), unemployment is being stopped, the unions are being broken, the funding for the homeless and women & children is being cut. "Everyone" is being asked to share in the pain. Well not everyone -
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Dana Milbank - The Republican takeover of the House put a chairman's gavel in the hands of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the gadfly GOP presidential candidate with a cult following. On Wednesday, he used that gavel for the first time - to remarkable effect.
"We hold teachers accountable, we're holding students accountable, we're holding administrators accountable," explained Stargel. "Frequently, I was hearing from teachers saying I can't educate a child who's not there."
The rampage shooting in Arizona is another anguishing reminder that mental health is the weakest link in our ailing health care system.
"One hundred and fifty years after the Civil War began, we're still fighting it --"
It should be so obvious by now. The Republicans are backing such measures as discouraging insurance coverage of birth control, obstructing abortion in every way possible, and apparently wishing women back into the “barefoot and pregnant” 1950s. And what does this acco …
Can you believe it? The Republicans are in a strong position to regain power after only a short four year hiatus from the White House. Many on the Left will blame the Rightwing for obstructing Obama's agenda as the reason the President failed to deliver on major camp …
Now that it has been established that a candidate's teenage years help define the man to come, it might be time to take a new look at the adolescent Obama and his then-mentor, the late Frank Marshall Davis. I would guess that not one Obama voter out of one hundred could identi …
President Obama’s headline-grabbing flip-flop on gay marriage may cost him dearly in the more religious parts of the black community, reports CNN today, as pastors tell their congregations the president is wrong in stepping in. In a report on the divide over social issue …
Historian and author Nancy L. Cohen explained to Reason TV on Monday the powerful influence of “sexual fundamentalists” on the Republican Party. “About forty years ago, everything changed in America,” she said. “Birth control actually used to be i …
Dudh, Bush sure isn't a cowboy; and I like cowboys. The only thing he thinks he know about a cowboy is wearing boots, hat and jeans; and just because he can ride a horse. A real cowboy does not mind working for what he has; and they know how to wear those boots, hats, jeans and ride a horse. Bush just want to play that role because he is from Texas and has oil rigs. A real cowboy you can spot him a mile away, and that isn't just the young ones either. The older cowboys you can spot them, too! There is a way a real cowboy carries himself that you can't help but notice. Ye-ha!
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