LAST-MINUTE WIN: MARYLAND HOUSE PASSES MARRIAGE EQUALITY
From The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/02/17/LAST_MINUTE_WIN_MARYLAND_HOUSE_PASSES_MARRIAGE/ By Lucas Grindley and Andrew Harmon February 17, 2012 What a week for marriage...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi Supports 2012 Democratic Party Platform Including Marriage Equality
From Metro Weekly: http://metroweekly.com/poliglot/2012/02/house-minority-leader-nancy-pe.html Posted by Chris Geidner | February 15, 2012 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports the...
View ArticleThe silicone breast implant scandal
One of the happiest days of my life was when I finally got my implants taken out after some thirty years of problems with them. I love my implant free boobies. From The Guardian UK:...
View ArticleAnother March to War?
From Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/another-march-to-war-20120217 By Matt Taibbi February 17, 2012 As a journalist, there’s a buzz you can detect once the normal...
View ArticleRachel Maddow Criticizes Gov. Chris Christie For Wanting To Put Civil Rights...
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/17/rachel-maddow-chris-christie-same-sex-marriage-bill_n_1284381.html Posted: 2/17/12 Rachel Maddow laid into Republican Gov. Chris...
View ArticleMoochers Against Welfare
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/opinion/krugman-moochers-against-welfare.html?_r=1 By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: February 16, 2012 First, Atlas shrugged. Then he scratched his...
View ArticlePat Buchanan’s Long History Of Homophobia, Racism, Bigotry and Nazi Sympathizing
So MSNBC finally dumped their resident racist bigot and Nazi sympathizer From The New Civil Rights Movement:...
View ArticleHow Violence Protects the State
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/17-1 ‘Violence is the modus operandi of the State. To build a free society, we will have to use different means.’ by Stephanie Van Hook...
View ArticleTouré: “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?”
From The Dallas Morning News: http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/sunday-commentary/20120217-point-person-our-qa-with-author-toure.ec February 19, 2012 In his new book, Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?,...
View ArticleWhy Is Rick Santorum Obsessed With Your Sex Life?
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/story/154211/why_is_rick_santorum_obsessed_with_your_sex_life/ Most Republicans like to talk about contraception and sexuality without actually talking about...
View ArticleCanada threatens trade war with EU over tar sands
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/20/canada-eu-tar-sands The row over the EU’s plan to label tar sands oil as highly polluting escalates as Canada says it ‘will not...
View ArticlePain Without Gain
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/opinion/krugman-pain-without-gain.html?_r=1 By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: February 19, 2012 Last week the European Commission confirmed what...
View ArticleOpus Dei: Neofascism Within the Catholic Church
From Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/19/1066389/-Opus-Dei-Neofascism-Within-the-Catholic-Church OllieGarkey Sun Feb 19, 2012 What we are seeing today in the fight over birth control...
View ArticleHow Greece Could Take Down Wall Street
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/20 by Ellen Brown Published on Monday, February 20, 2012 by Common Dreams In an article titled “Still No End to ‘Too Big to Fail,’”...
View ArticlePunishing Protest, Policing Dissent: What Is the Justice System for?
From Truth Out: http://www.truth-out.org/punishing-protest-policing-dissent-what-justice-system/1329418798 by: Erik Hoffner Monday 20 February 2012 This year promises to be another historic year of...
View ArticleTransgender Exercise of Male Privilege
It is an exercise of male privilege and expectations, of possessing male authority, when those who have penises presume the right to dictate to women how they should think and behave. That includes...
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