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Five Take-Aways From the Komen Fiasco
Now that the dust from the Susan Komen/Planned Parenthood mess is starting to settle, it’s time to ask: What should we learn from all this? Background. I’m sure many of you have already heard more...
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Paul Ryan: Veteran of the War on Women
Right after Paul Ryan was named as Mitt Romney’s VP, I did what every other political blogger in the world did: wrote an article almost entirely about his economic policies. Of course I did and we...
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Five Pretty Lies and the Ugly Truths They Hide
A week after Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comment, we should be long past the “OMG — I can’t believe he said that!” stage. It’s time to take a longer view and ask ourselves what the Akin incident says...
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Government Theology is Un-American
If Congressman Mourdock wants to interpret the will of God to the People, he should move to a country where government officials do that, and leave my country alone. This week, Indiana’s Richard...
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“Religious Freedom” means Christian Passive-Aggressive Domination
In an Orwellian inversion, “freedom” is now a tool for controlling others. It’s over. Try something else. For many anti-gay activists, the recent Supreme Court decisions on DOMA and Proposition 8 were...
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To Succeed, Fail Boldly
Five doomed proposals for changing the national conversation From one point of view, it all came to nothing. Two weeks ago, liberals around the country thrilled to the story of Wendy Davis’ filibuster....
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The Filibuster and the War on Women
The abuse of the filibuster is a hard issue to get people excited about. It’s one of those technical political things that takes too long to explain and is hard to connect to problems voters care...
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How Threatening is the Hobby Lobby Decision?
The Court’s five male Catholic justices outvoted its three Jews and lone female Catholic. Is that a problem? It is easy to be confused by the commentary on the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that Hobby...
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There’s Something About Todd
I strongly advise you not to read this post. Your browser has a Back button. Use it. I don’t know what it is about Todd Akin. The whole point of the Weekly Sift is to filter the junk and hype out of...
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Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party
Tea Partiers say you don’t understand them because you don’t understand American history. That’s probably true, but not in the way they want you to think. Late in 2012, I came out of the Lincoln movie...
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The 2016 Stump Speeches: Bernie’s Epistle to the Falwellites
[This article is part of a series on the speeches of 2016 presidential candidates. A previous Bernie Sanders speech was discussed here.] I finally got around to watching Bernie Sanders’ speech to the...
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Crime and Punishment: Did Trump Spill the Beans on the Pro-Life Movement?
Did Trump get the pro-life position wrong? Or just express it too bluntly? Fact-checkers tell us that Donald Trump makes mistakes all the time. [1] But Wednesday something unusual happened: He made a...
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A Dozen Observations about Abortion, Texas, and the Supreme Court
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/sep/03/opinion-john-deering-cartoon-about-texas/ As you undoubtedly already know, the Supreme Court refused to interfere with the new Texas abortion ban, which...
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The Roe v Wade Death Watch
https://www.ajc.com/opinion/mike-luckovich-blog/125-mike-luckovich-no-choice/RLWAWD4BKNGUHMOWE2YYL7TJQY/ Despite numerous claims during confirmation hearings that they would respect precedent,...
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Where Does the Religious Right Go After Roe?
https://politicalcharge.org/2021/09/04/the-weeks-best-cartoons-texas-abortion-ban/ Suppose the Supreme Court reverses Roe v Wade this term. Then what? The Dobbs case. The Supreme Court has already...
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What Alito wrote
https://www.ajc.com/opinion/mike-luckovich-blog/54-mike-luckovich-going-going-gone/PW5FT437ZJENHNII5YQRL2STFM/ A summary of his arguments, and how they might be used to take away other constitutional...
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Who’s to blame for overturning Roe?
https://www.timesfreepress.com/cartoons/2022/may/07/overturned/5402/ There’s plenty of blame to go around. The two featured posts today look at the leaked Alito opinion overturning Roe v Wade through...
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Three Supreme Court decisions with long-term consequences
https://claytoonz.com/2022/06/26/scotus-erode-us/ Scrapping abortions rights got the headlines. But don’t ignore the Court’s assault on gun regulations and the separation of church and state. Late...
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No Victims Allowed
Right-wing policies have obvious victims, but right-wing voters can’t be allowed to notice them. This week, reports of a pregnant 10-year-old brought out the full arsenal of denial. In the TV version...
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The Battle for Voters’ Imaginations
https://www.theeditorialcartoons.com/editorial-cartoon/Nick+Anderson%27s+Editorial+Cartoons/2022-07-28/195313 Post-Dobbs, voters are imagining very different abortion scenarios than the ones the...
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