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• Conservatives angry over Pell Grant funding - which they consider akin to welfare - in Boehner debt bill

  Fri Jul 29, 2011
  • Pell Grants are also a social program that contributes both to equity as well as to economic efficiency. This is a classic example of the radical right's willingness to put ideology above common sense.

• Former Nazi teeny bopper rock-stars are singing a liberal-pro-marijuana tune after bout with cancer

  Mon Jul 18, 2011
  • Okay--this is the plot of a bad Lifetime movie-- Blonde twins become the poster children of the white nationalist movement. Twin gets cancer. Twins have change of heart. Become liberal, pro-pot hippies.

• Whooping cough epidemics are sweeping California counties with the highest rates of "personal-belief" vaccine waivers.

  Thu Jul 22, 2010
  • I am in no way trying to endanger my son or anyone else's child.

• Gasoline: Still $0.20 a Gallon

  Mon May 16, 2011
  • Beggar thy neighbor strikes again...

• Republicans in Texas Senate approve guns on campus

  Tue May 10, 2011
  • If this legislation is written similarly to VA's proposals, the wouldn't--at present VA's colleges and universities get to determine their own guns on campus policies.

• Last World War I combat vet dies in Australia

  Thu May 5, 2011
  • And history forgotten.

• Nebraska Woman Forced To Carry Non-Viable Pregnancy to Term Because State Law Bans Abortions After 20 Weeks

  Mon Mar 7, 2011
  • You might be surprised. I didn't think I'd be ashamed of fertility problems until I found out that I had them. Then the shame (and guilt) became damn near overwhelming.

• Rep Anthony Weiner: "Don't let anyone who supports this bill say they're for less government regulation... This is the mother of all regulation, the regulation of an individual woman in a room with her doctor..." (VIDEO)

  Thu Feb 24, 2011
  • Damn skippy. It's about time someone started calling the "conservatives" on their bullshit hypocrisy.

• Culture Of Life Strikes Again, GOP wants to allow hospitals to deny care to pregnant women in need of life-saving emergency abortive services

  Fri Feb 4, 2011
  • To paraphrase George Carlin, these assholes aren't pro-life--they're killing women. What kind of pro-life is that?

• Obama's Tucson Speech: The View From Blacksburg

  Thu Jan 13, 2011
  • I buried nine students. At the time I was teaching numerous others who were injured. Don't you dare tell me that I am not sensitive to the needs of the individuals in question or that I didn't grieve for my students.