Wednesday, July 2, 2014
SCOTUS Orders Hobby Lobby Outcome To Apply To All ACA-Approved Contraceptives
If you thought the Hobby Lobby case only applied to those contraceptives which wingnuts sincerely believe cause abortions, think again. All contracept... Read more
ABC News: Oh Noes, The ISIS Caliphate Is Coming! Or Maybe Not
I saw this as it was being spread around by the pantswetter brigade yesterday, but I assumed most people would have the common sense to ignore it. Oop... Read more
Heritage Foundation Is Now In Charge Of Policy Thanks To Right Wing Stupidity
This month's Washington Monthly cover story about how Republicans made Congress stupid is disturbing and fascinating all at once. And yes, the result... Read more
Liz Cheney Will Make A Comeback, Dammit!
Does Your Organic Food Company Stand With Hobby Lobby?
So the "organic way" is to keep dropping babies, live in poverty and die young -- right, Michael Potter? Talk about misunderstanding your core custome... Read more
CNN Rips Hobby Lobby For Investing In Birth Control: 'Hypocrisy At Its Finest'
CNN host Ashleigh Banfield on Wednesday highlighted the "hypocrisy" of Hobby Lobby for investing in companies that made the same birth control product... Read more
Hospice, Inc. - The Huffington Post
Since 2006, the U.S. government has accused nearly every major for-profit hospice company of billing fraud.
The ocean is swallowing up Virginia so rapidly that its leaders are forgetting to bicker about climate change
The usual US partisan divisions over climate change were absent today in the state of Virginia, where Republican and Democratic officials met to discuss what to do about the threat of rising sea levels to the state. The proposals include the launch of a climate-change task force, which Virginia’s Democratic governor will announce tomorrow. Christina DeConcini, government affairs director at the World Resources Institute, a research organization, told Quartz this is the first time to her knowledge that Republican leaders (very few of whom accept global warming is both real and man-made) and Democratic ones have come together to craft a policy on global warming. Read more
10 Blistering Highlights from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Hobby Lobby Dissent
Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a scathing 35-page dissent in the disastrous 5-4 Supreme Court decision Monday granting corporations First Amendment religious rights to deny women birth control coverage. The court had ventured far out in to unprecedented territory by granting private companies the right to be exempt from laws their owners don't agree with. Crazy! In their zeal to deny women access to reproductive healthcare, expand the rights of corporations and hurt Obamacare, "The court," she wrote, "has ventured into a minefield."
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/10-blistering-highlights-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-hobby-lobby-dissent
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/10-blistering-highlights-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-hobby-lobby-dissent
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
If you have a ton of fruit flies in your house...
...turn off all but one light source and wait 2 minutes. They will congregate there. Then, flick on a lighter and turn off the light source. The flies will burn their wings off trying to get close to the light source.
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Ginsburg Got It Right: Poor Women Are Getting Screwed By Hobby Lobby
The real victims of this week's Supreme Court ruling are the low-income women who are already struggling to make ends meet.The ... Read more
Judge Overturns Kentucky’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban: ‘These Arguments Are Not Those Of Serious People’
Following a previous ruling in February, a federal judge has overturned Kentucky's ban on same-sex couples marrying within the ... Read more
Fox News Host: Hillary Clinton Needs Support From ‘Beyoncé Voters’ Who Want Free Birth Control
"They depend on government because they're not depending on their husbands."The post Fox News Host: Hillary Clinton Needs ... Read more
Renewables Projected To Add Triple The Capacity Of New Fossil Fuel Plants By 2030
A Bloomberg New Energy Finance report finds "Renewable energy may reap as much as two-thirds of the $7.7 trillion in investment ... Read more
John Oliver Takes A Look At The Other Ways We Can Make Corporations More Like People
On Sunday night, ahead of this Monday's ruling by the Supreme Court, where they once again decided that corporations are "people" Last Week Tonight's ... Read more
Sen. Mike Lee: Birth Control Pills Are For 'Recreational' Use
Maybe Mike Lee should just come out and call women sluts for wanting access to contraceptives? Oh wait, I think he just did! The free boner pills are ... Read more
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