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    When it rains, it pours: NAACP now OK with same-sex marriage

    MAY 20, 2012 4:53PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: politics, family, gay/lesbian, belief/religion, william saletan, same-sex marriage, proposition 8, prop 8, president barack obama, politics, ohio, obama, national association for the advancement of colored people, naacp, marriage, lgbt, lesbians, jesse jackson, human rights, hope, homophobia, hiv, george w. bush, gays, gay rights, gay community, fourteenth amendment, equality, equal rights, equal protection clause, civil rights, change, california, black homophobia, black homophobes, black community, bigots, bigotry, benjamin todd jealous, barack obama, al sharpton, aids

    • 0 Ratings
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    2012 -- Year of Legislative Assault on Women & Privacy

    MARCH 10, 2012 11:42AM

    By teresa


    Topics: health, women, politics, news, feminism, open call, abortion, contraception, earl warren, eisenstadt v baird, fetal pain, fifth amendment, fourteenth amendment, fourth amendment, griswold v connecticut, guttmacher institute, hugo black, justice blackmum, justice goldberg, karen handel, ninth amendment, personhood, planned parenthood, potter stewart, right to privacy, roe v wade, sandra day o'connor, state legislative assaults on reproductive health, susan g komen fund, transvaginal ultrasound, unfunding planned parenthood, unintended pregnancy, webster v reproductive health services, willaim o. douglas

    • 4 Ratings
    • 486 Views
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    The wingnuts’ very bad day

    FEBRUARY 7, 2012 1:54PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: women's rights, women's health, united states supreme court, united states constitution, u.s. supreme court, u.s. constitution, susan g. komen for the cure foundation, susan g. komen, sarah palin, same-sex marriage, roe vs. wade, proposition 8, prop 8, pro-choice, politics, planned parenthood, mormon cult, loving vs. virginia, lawrence vs. texas, komen, karen handel, justice, human rights, hatred, haters, gay rights, freedoms, fourteenth amendment, feminism, equality, equal rights, equal protection clause, discrimination, civil rights, catholic church, california, bowers vs. hardwick, bigots, bigotry, anti-choice, abortion, 9th u.s. circuit court of appeals

    • 32 Ratings
    • 933 Views
    • 77 Comments
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    4 Those Who Worry Equality Means People Could Marry Monkeys

    DECEMBER 15, 2011 7:05AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: staying up nights worrying, your closest friends, relatives, colleagues, fourteenth amendment, equal protection clause, marriage equality, marrying monkeys, anti-miscegenation laws, states' rights, federal constitutional perogatives, pomeranans, floor waxers, guppies, sisters, brothers, cousins

    • Editor's Pick
    • 39 Ratings
    • 2604 Views
    • 77 Comments
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    An Open Letter to the Capitulator-in-Chief

    AUGUST 1, 2011 8:19AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: tom harkin, senator harkin, senator, senate, speech, harkin, democracy, process is broken, process broken, political process, majority rule, minority rule, take over, take-over, takeover, coup, surrendering, surrendered, surrender, unilateral surrender, pre-compromise, invoke 14.4, invoke the 14th, 14.4, constitution, fourteenth amendment, 14th amendment, debt, full faith and credit, tea partiers, tea party, obama, caving, caved, cave, folding, folded, fold, give away the store, give in, capitulation, capitualted, capitulating, capitulate, kidnaped, kidnaping, kidnapping, kidnapped, kidnap, extorting, extorted, extortion, negotiating with terrorists, terrorist, terrorism, negotiating with hostages, negotiating, hostage, negotiation, duress, unfair, sold out, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 1650 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    Taking Charge of the Debt

    JUNE 29, 2011 9:14AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: constitution, default, concession, agreement, republican, democratic, liberal, progressive, hillary clinton, hillary, compromiser-in-chief, compromiser, compromised, pre-compromise, compromise, barack obama, president obama, obama, brinksmanship, deficit, debt ceiling, dangerous game of chicken, game of chicken, chicken, 14th amendment, fourteenth amendment, debt, national debt, politics

    • 1 Ratings
    • 703 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Why We Need the Fourteenth Amendment

    FEBRUARY 13, 2011 2:29AM

    By Green Pumpkin


    Topics: fourteenth amendment, immigration

    • 2 Ratings
    • 486 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Citizens United and the need for a constitutional amendment

    JANUARY 13, 2011 6:48PM

    By Richard Erlich


    Topics: personhood, law, corporations, speech, fourteenth amendment, first amendment, free speech, constitution, citizens united, supreme court, politics, business

    • 38 Ratings
    • 1240 Views
    • 46 Comments
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    Original Intent 2.0

    AUGUST 23, 2010 9:39AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, constitution, strict construction, strict constructionist, strict constructionism, original intent, fourteenth amendment, repeal, roll back, 14th amendment, second amendment, 2nd amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, mosque, gray matters, cartoon, comic, hypocrisy, hypocrite, tea party, republican, conservative, humor, parody, satire

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