If there’s one thing you can always count on when Donald Trump steps to a microphone and makes remarks, it’s that he’s gonna brag on himself. Whether he claims to be the smartest person around or the best businessman in the history of capitalism, the guy is gonna try and impress you. And yet, as […]
When Donald Trump met with and pandered to members of the religious right on Tuesday, one of those he spoke to and tried to court was a man named Troy Newman. Who is Troy Newman? He’s the head of the violent anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. As part of his wooing process, Newman reported that Trump […]
First Carly Fiorina tried to win a Senate race and lost badly to Barbara Boxer. Then she ran for the GOP nomination and failed miserably. And yesterday Ted Cruz announced her as his pick for Vice President, even though he has as much chance of being the 2016 nominee as my dog. Clearly, Ms. Fiorina […]
If you’re anything like me, you make a point of watching “The Rachel Maddow Show” each and every evening on MSNBC. Since Comcast took over ownership, Rachel is one of the few truly progressive and unapologetically liberal voices left on the network. On last night’s show, Rachel made a very important point that wasn’t being […]
First it was the now-infamous Center for Medical Progress releasing a series of heavily edited–and faked–videos in which they said Planned Parenthood officials were discussing the sale of body parts from aborted fetuses. Two of the ringleaders of that effort have now been indicted by a Texas grand jury. Then we had 2016 GOP candidate […]
Seems that Republican men–especially those who seek or achieve political office–are forever wanting to tell women what they should do with their bodies and reproductive choices. A look at this year’s crop of contenders for the White House on the GOP side is proof positive of this phenomenon.So what would happen if the roles were […]
Even though the validity of the undercover videos made by the Center for Medical Progress have been completely disproven and the two main figures behind them have been indicted by a Texas grand jury, Republicans announced Tuesday that they will move forward with continued investigation of the women’s healtcare provider. GOP Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn issued a […]
In an unexpected twist for right wingers who have been screaming for months that Planned Parenthood was selling body parts taken from aborted fetuses for money, the two main players who made the hidden camera videos–David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt–were indicted by a Texas grand jury on counts ranging from tampering with a governmental record […]
Back in 2015, when the Center for Medical Progress decided to release a series of hidden camera videos they said showed Planned Parenthood officials breaking the law by arranging to sell body parts from aborted fetuses, right wingers claimed it proved that the pro-choice community was aligned with murderers who profited off the death of […]
Stacey Newman is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives, and she’s tired of seeing Republicans pass restrictive laws in her state to make it nearly impossible for a woman to get an abortion while making it ever easier for virtually anyone to purchase a gun. In an article Newman wrote for Cosmo magazine, Newman […]