Laughable Leap into the Gender Gap
Teagan Goddard's Political wire today features two stories that indicate the Republicans have made a huge strategic error, or at least that the combination of anti-contraception pandering and...
View ArticleCincinnati's Xavier University Joins the War on Women
The hypocrisy of the Catholic Church or any of its institutions crying about "religious freedom" in its crusade to deny women access to contraception has manifested itself again, the time at...
View ArticleIndiana fires subtle shot at Romney campaign
A new poll was released this week in Indiana, showing Mitt Romney ahead of Barack Obama 49% to 40%. This is excellent news for the Obama campaign. Let me explain.
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How much will negative advertising affect Obama?
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown has been slammed with Super PAC negative ads, but to what effect? They're going to throw a millions of unregulated dollars against President Barack Obama. In an ad entitled...
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Is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in Serious Trouble? Look...
Remember this one... This is a website screen shot of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) April 13, 2012. The day they all, the Koch Brothers and their mega-wealthy cabal, greedy CEOs,...
View ArticleBundle or Nothing: Big Telecoms ENDING Universal Phone Service
Add this to your reasons to be disgusted by the big telecom companies. After a century of offering basic landline phone service to the entire country — a service they maintained in order to convince...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Is Democratic Rep. Pete Stark losing it?
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: • CA-15: Long-time Dem Rep. Pete Stark has a reputation for saying...
View ArticleMandy
I was inspired by a rec-list diary about a student being banned from his high school graduation, and decided to post one of my own stories about things I went through and things I witnessed. My high...
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Ohio Republicans move to defund Planned Parenthood
Ohio Planned Parenthood, and women, to the back of the bus Ohio Republicans want to get rid of Planned Parenthood but apparently don't want to get into the kind of trouble Texas did and lose Medicaid...
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MediaMatters on Michigan Media: Passing of ALEC Asbestos Bill Should Matter,...
This just out from MediaMatters.org with the title "No Oxygen: Michigan Media Silent As State Passes ALEC Bill Limiting Compensation For Asbestos Victims": "Last week, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R)...
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Operation Resurrection & Resurrecting Lives: From Movie to Movement
By Marc Erich Wolf, Edited by Jim Luce Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Chrisanne Gordon is building a new army to fight a new war – and that is the war on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) which hundreds of thousands...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: The women's vote, 2012 elections, and a...
Another day, another serving of conflicting data on the presidential election. Having a double-digit point spread between presidential polls has been the norm, as of late, so today's offerings won't...
View ArticleTenn. Legislature to Teachers: Don't You Dare Say Gay (UPDATE: Fear of teh...
Perhaps you've heard of this law moving through the Tennessee legislature which specifically bans teachers from telling their students that yes, homosexuality exists in nature, and that includes...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: When national and state polls don't seem to...
I'd like to thank the House of Rasmussen for giving me the catalyst for today's Wrap analysis. They're not the first to exhibit this odd phenomenon, as of late. But theirs might be one of the most...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: The Rasmussen disconnect deepens
Critiques of Rasmussen polling from the left have become something of a time-honored tradition, particularly here at Daily Kos. Today, though, it is not just a matter of them being on an island. It is...
View ArticleBoy Scouts' "Out" Gay Den Mother Possible Crooks Hate Crime Conspiracy
As in "Throw's Out". That's right, the Boy Scouts of America are saying "No Gay - No Way" to Cub Scouts' Cruz [Tyrrell] mother Jennifer Tyrrell (I assume the child's last name). Their logic is...
View ArticleRadio Host to Father: Have Your Lesbian Teenage Daughter Raped Straight
No, I'm not exaggerating. As reported by Towleroad, a Cleveland radio personality--Dominic Dieter of WMMS 100.7's show Rover's Morning Glory--told the father of a possibly lesbian girl to have his...
View ArticleDominic Dieter not only broke the law, but put WMMS' license in immediate danger
By now, many of you have learned that Dominic Dieter, co-host of "Rover's Morning Glory" on WMMS in Cleveland, told a father to have his lesbian daughter raped until she goes straight. We can all...
View ArticleMay '70: 1. Finally On Our Own...
[This diary may have special significance since Occupy Wall Street broke on the scene last fall. It deals with a similar explosion of struggle, now nearly forgotten, that found hundreds of American...
View ArticleDeafening silence of Cleveland mainstream media on DJ's call to have a girl...
On Friday morning, Dominic Dieter, co-host of "Rover's Morning Glory" on WMMS in Cleveland (and syndicated on at least one other station, WZNE in Rochester, New York), suggested that a man "cure" his...
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