Tag Archives: right-wing

“Save The Storks” and other guerrilla anti-choice tactics

By Samhita | Published: March 22, 2012
Tweet (If you see this bus driving around–please run and call a friend. It’s full of people that want to force their scary beliefs on to you) On the spot ultrasounds seem to be taking the anti-choice country by storm. First, in Texas, where there is a rogue van called “Save the Storks” that is driving [...]
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Blunt Amendment tabled

By Samhita | Published: March 1, 2012
TweetThank goodness that is over. The Blunt Amendment has been tabled by the Senate–the bill that Maya wrote about yesterday would allow your boss to decide what specific pieces of coverage and you and can’t have based on personal belief systems. This would not just be a threat to access to contraception (the most obvious benefit [...]
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Rick Santorum strikes again, describes patriarchy in a nutshell

By Lori | Published: October 17, 2011
TweetI’ve generally tried to steer clear of Rick Santorum’s brilliant thoughts since he converted me on gay marriage this summer, for fear that exposure to any more nuggets of Santorum genius would sink into my brain and revolutionize my worldview yet again. But his latest wisdom is too revealing–and disturbing– to pass over. Rich Wing [...]
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Roundup: The Giffords shooting and violent political rhetoric

By Maya | Published: January 10, 2011
TweetAlthough much is still unknown about the motives of the shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, Saturday’s tragic shooting almost immediately sparked debate about the role of violent rhetoric in American politics. Many conservatives have been quick to dismiss suggestions that the hostile, inflammatory rhetoric of the right played any role in the shooting. (Jack Shafer will [...]
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