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The Religious Right’s Counterproductive Positions On Contraception And Abortion
It comes as no surprise that many in the religious right are not satisfied with the data released earlier this month showing a decrease in abortions. Margaret Talbot discussed their reaction: One...
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Democrats Seek To Regain Votes Of White Males
The Republicans have built a strange coalition. In terms of priorities, it is primarily the party of the top one percent, but many other upper income Americans still mistakenly believe the Republicans...
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The Republican War On Science: From Climate Change To Reproduction
There is good reason that, going back to the Bush years, only six percent of scientists identify themselves as Republicans. For several years Republicans have promoted views contrary to facts as...
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Ohio Bill Prohibits Insurance Coverage Of Both Abortion And Forms of...
Republicans have become increasingly successful in restricting insurance coverage of abortion in many of the states where they control the state government, and a bill in Ohio could extend this to...
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Conservative Activist Court Rules That Employers Can Impose Their Religious...
Republicans have long claimed that Roe v. Wade was an act of an activist court to impose liberal views upon them, energizing many religious conservatives to turn out to vote for them. Today’s Supreme...
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Hobby Lobby Case Shows That To Conservatives Freedom Means “Freedom” To...
Conservatives applauding the Supreme Court decision in the Lobby Hobby case are showing, once again, that to them freedom means the “freedom” to impose their religious views upon others. When...
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The Secret To Success In The Senate
Congress has a record low approval rating, which perhaps is why the most successful Senators appear to be those who haven’t spent much time there. Barack Obama sure didn’t waste much time in the...
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Three Reasons Democrats Might Retain Control Of The Senate
Republicans have an excellent chance to gain control of the Senate this year due to a combination of Republican voters traditionally turning out in higher percentages in midterm elections and the need...
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Response To Republican Support For Making Birth Control Pills Available Over...
While Republicans have generally been trying to restrict access to contraception, recently some Republicans have been promoting making oral contraceptives available over the counter without...
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Republicans Losing The Culture War, Helping Democratic Candidates
In past elections, Republicans have turned to social issues to get their supporters out to vote. This year some Democratic candidates are doing the reverse–using social issues in the hopes of getting...
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Is The Culture War Really Over?
Bill Scher has an article at Politico on How Republicans Lost The Culture War. While it might be premature to say they lost and the war is over, a subject I’ll get into later, he does have some good...
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Republicans Beat Something With Nothing Other Than Negativity And Fear
Ronald Reagan couldn’t save the Senate for the Republicans in his 6th year. While the closeness of the polls left hope until the end, realistically the Democrats were not in a situation to defy...
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Republicans Seek To Block Marijuana Law In Washington D.C.
Republicans, members of the party which claims to support small government, individual freedom, and states’ rights, once again shows that it doesn’t mean a word of this. The Hill reports on one action...
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Republicans Plan To Use Increased Power After Midterms To Restrict Access To...
Remember how the Republicans talked about down playing social issues going into the midterm elections? Now that they are in office, the party of limited government is returning to its agenda of using...
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Republican State Governments Expected To Renew The Culture Wars And Promote...
Democrats made a tremendous tactical mistake in the 2014 midterms. As the key Senate battles were in red states, Democrats ran as Republican-lite and Obama stayed quiet. As a consequence, turn out was...
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