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Texas GOP Considers Turning State Into Tax Dodge Over Contraception Mandate

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A new law would give employers a tax break for ignoring federal law.

 

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RNC Skips First Day Due to Issac; Still Searching for Unity

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A day off may be what they need to get everyone on the same page.

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How Have The GOP and Tea Party Hurt Women? Let Me Count The Ways

Want to see every battle in the recent War on Women?  Now you can!

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In Kansas, Secrecy, Control, and Limited Participation Are Hallmarks Of Brownback’s Town Halls

Governor Brownback’s policies are designed to favor the likes of the Kochs, not the kids of Kansas. His “town halls” are further proof of the control that our governor demands over every interaction, every policy and every man, woman and child within Kansas boundaries.

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Milwaukee County Prosecutor Investigates Claims of Anti-Choice Voter Fraud

a Milwaukee County prosecutor is examining allegations that the anti-choice group Wisconsin Right to Life and Family Action offered gift cards valued at $25 to $75 to volunteers who hit targets for persuading voters to fill out absentee ballot applications in the recall primary elections held last month.

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Milwaukee County Prosecutor Investigates Claims of Anti-Choice Voter Fraud

A Milwaukee county prosecutor is examining allegations that the anti-choice group Wisconsin Right to Life and Family Action offered gift cards valued at $25 to $75 to volunteers who hit targets for persuading voters to fill out absentee ballot applications in the recall primary elections held last month.

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How Abortion Caused the Debt Crisis

Radical right wing populism in it modern form got its start opposing desegregation and reproductive rights.  But now it’s grown in size and power, and the radicals brought this country to the brink with a manufactured debt crisis. 

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What’s the Matter With Kansas? Hint: It’s Not About Abortion

Kansas facing rising rates of poverty, extreme poverty, child poverty and other problems, even outpacing the nation as a whole in terms of poverty.  But for Brownback and the extremists in the Kansas legislature, its all-about-abortion all the time.

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GOP Salivates at Prospect of Cutting Funds for World’s Poorest Women

The Republican/Tea Party majorities in the House of Representatives are, literally, salivating at the prospect of cutting aid to the world’s poorest women.

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Afternoon Roundup: Kanye West’s Abortion Tweet Annoys Lily Allen (And Many Others)

Kanye West’s bad-mood-producing abortion tweet; NYC’s racist, anti-choice billboard; the Tea Party’s “we’re not interested in the culture wars” culture-war agenda setting thus far; and midwifery saves money!

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