Roofies and Rape, by Denise Oliver Velez L.A. city attorney issues retaliatory charges against interracial couple over alleged lewd conduct, by Frank Vyan Walton 'Let them eat cake': The GOP and its attacks on the middle class, by Mark E Andersen Paul Ryan's triple scam on tax reform, by Jon Perr The Price of Justice, by Susan Grigsby Pssst. Might I have a word with you, Sen. Inhofe..., by Meteor Blades GOP says Obama pushes popular immigration policies to win votes. Er, that's called democracy, by Ian Reifowitz When the going gets tough, the tough go to the initiative process, by David Jarman The coming GOP meltdown on defunding, by Armando
This week, Republican lawmakers in Ohio pulled out all the stops to advance an extreme anti-abortion bill in the state’s lame duck session. They added the legislation to the schedule at the last minute on Thursday morning, and even restructured a House committee — replacing the legislators who oppose the measure with different legislators who support it — to ensure the bill’s passage. HB 248, which now heads to a vote in the full House, would criminalize abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, something that typically occurs around six weeks of pregnancy. That shaves off about 17 weeks from the window that women can access legal abortion services under Roe v. Wade. It’s also so early that many women may not even realize they’re pregnant at that point.
HB 248, which now heads to a vote in the full House, would criminalize abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, something that typically occurs around six weeks of pregnancy. That shaves off about 17 weeks from the window that women can access legal abortion services under Roe v. Wade. It’s also so early that many women may not even realize they’re pregnant at that point.
Liz Warren: We Tried Republican Ideas and It Was "Nearly Catastrophic", by TomP Elizabeth Warren to Obama: "Enough is enough." No more Wall Street nominees, by Progressive Pen CBS, FOX, NBC & ABC Not Airing Immigration Speech Live, by FiredUpInCA
Elizabeth Warren to Obama: "Enough is enough." No more Wall Street nominees, by Progressive Pen
CBS, FOX, NBC & ABC Not Airing Immigration Speech Live, by FiredUpInCA
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey says that he has gay friends but that he opposes same-sex marriage. As gay marriage is legal in New Jersey, we asked the governor if he would ever officiate at one. He had a ready answer: “I can’t officiate weddings because I don’t have that authority as governor of New Jersey.” If he could, would he? “That’s so ridiculous, a hypothetical,” he snapped. “I would never answer that.”
If he could, would he?
“That’s so ridiculous, a hypothetical,” he snapped. “I would never answer that.”
When it first began making noise five years ago, many on the left wanted to dismiss the Tea Party as a cynical exercise in astro-turfing, with moneyed right-wing interests bankrolling sham organizations that created the illusion of a grass roots-fueled movement. But the Tea Party, properly understood, is a term that describes the heart of the modern Republican base—people with similar cultural anxieties and economic grievances and the same deep distrust of Washington and hostility toward entrenched power.
Brown’s true mission, however, is economic: He wants to boost the well-being of working Americans by any means necessary. Brown has been talking and legislating about how to accomplish it for years before Elizabeth Warren left Harvard for the Capitol. During Obama’s first term, he advocated a larger stimulus package, called for re-enacting the Glass-Steagall Act to rein in big banks, and stumped for comprehensive immigration reform. He champions the rights of unions and the power of the National Labor Relations Board and criticizes unregulated “free trade” for destroying manufacturing jobs at home. He also led the charge among Senate Democrats that pressured Obama to drop his plan to appoint Larry Summers to head the Federal Reserve and appoint Janet Yellen instead.
Team blackness discussed President Obama's executive action on undocumented workers, even more Cosby rape allegations, the price of texting, and Steve McQueen's upcoming movie about Paul Robeson.