When you hear Republican legislators or candidates say nonsensical things like "it's God's will" when a female is impregnated and the girl or woman should have the baby regardless, what that translates as is "subjugation of the female is...
Former college football coach (including head coach at multiple schools) Tommy Tuberville knew of plenty of players who got women, sometimes girlfriends and sometimes one-night stands pregnant.  More importantly, when the "coach, can you help me out?" question from...
In the last day or so I've been seeing stories (like this one from The Independent) and TV segments on a disturbing new effort by GOPers.  Anti-abortion people are exactly what those two words indicate.  They ARE zealots.  Calling...
 “No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.” (Gen. George Patton) The Not-At-All Distinguished Senator from the state of Alabama...
Oh, man. There is naive, there is tone deaf, there is oblivious, and then there is Nikki Haley. She takes the cake. Haley appeared on Maria Bartiromo's show and they talked about abortion. And here are Haley's glad tidings....
The issue of legal abortion is a thorny one, and one reason is that the issue has become so politicized. Conservatives hate it, and liberals love it, pure and simple. But just as simple is the fact that both justice and...
A lot of voters turned out in the August heat for this election, an "uncharacteristically high number," in fact, according to the New York Times. Once again, the Republican party is getting the message loud and clear that people...
This is what happens when you let the imbeciles go to the mall for a field trip. With asylum credit cards. The next thing you know, your Amex bill rivals the GDP of Saudi Arabia. This Mel Brooks version of A Nightmare...
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville wouldn't be a Senator had he not spent nine years (pretty successful ones) as head coach of the Auburn Tigers.   The only better "qualification" he could  have had would have been a successful stint as...
I have written previously about how, after more than a decade of gerrymander success, the state GOP legislatures have become drunk with power. They no longer feel answerable to their own constituents, since they have gerrymandered themselves to a...

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