Wednesday, July 2, 2014

GOP’s losing sexist strategy: Here’s how conservatives are handling Hobby Lobby

GOP’s losing sexist strategy: Here’s how conservatives are handling Hobby Lobby

"If you’re wondering why Republicans have a losing streak when it comes to political battles over contraception and women’s reproductive health, it’s because there’s always a Mike Huckabee or Todd Akin or Rush Limbaugh waiting impatiently to turn themselves into caricatures of misogynist conservatism."

Does Your Organic Food Company Stand With Hobby Lobby?

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 customers! Women (who tend to do the food shopping) are boiling mad and letting Eden Foods know they won't be buying any more of their products."

Boehner caught flopping on political pitch

Obama happy to invite contrast with Congress

The Dirty 100: Meet the Companies and Institutions You Should Avoid After Hobby Lobby

www.politicususa.com/2014/07/01/list-100-plaintiffs-filed-opposition-birth-control-mandate-obamacare.html
"It’s not just Hobby Lobby. There are one hundred cases that have been filed for the right to discriminate against women’s healthcare. NOW calls them the "Dirty 100".'

GOP’s great disconnect over immigration

SCOTUS Union ruling impacts health care workers

Why We Might Be on the Verge of Another Financial Crash

www.alternet.org/economy/why-we-might-be-verge-another-financial-crash

"The denial of fundamental economic principles is setting the world up for another Great Crash.
Although wages have been flat or declining since the West started following Thatchernomics and Reaganomics in the late '70s and early 1980s, the stock market has risen to all-time highs. Billions—hundreds of billions—have been made by individuals on Wall Street."

Obama: Boehner’s lawsuit is ‘a stunt’

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

This Fox News Frat Boy Needs To Stop Being So Scared Of Strong Women

This Fox News Frat Boy Needs To Stop Being So Scared Of Strong Women

"Bill O'Reilly producer Jesse Watters is a frat boy who clearly has some Mommy issues."

The Koch Brothers Are Using Fox News Employees As Campaigners

www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07/01/the-koch-brothers-are-using-fox-news-employees/199914
"At least 15 Fox News hosts and contributors have recently campaigned with two political organizations created and heavily funded by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch. Many of those same Fox News personalities have also defended the Kochs from attacks and praised their political efforts on-air."

The data is brutal: the GOP has a real birth control problem

www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/01/1310961/-The-GOP-s-2014-birth-control-problem
"The good news is that these views are as obsolete as the Neanderthals, and far outside the American mainstream."

Mississippi College Republican Chairman Rejects GOP And Joins Democratic Party Over Tea Party Extremism

www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/01/mississippi-college-republican-chairman-rejects-gop-and-joins-democratic-party-over-tea-party-extremism/
"Alvarez is not only young, he’s also Hispanic. As the son of a Cuban immigrant, Alvarez is part of the fastest growing minority group in the United States. It’s growing so fast, in fact, that predictions are being made that many red states like Texas could turn blue in a matter of a few years. And that’s a big problem for Republicans since 70 percent of Hispanics voted Democratic in 2012."

Blackwater Made Death Threats To Keep Money Flowing & It Worked

Meet The People, And The Families They Care For, Whose Lives Just Got Harder Thanks To The Supreme Court

www.thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/07/01/3455511/harris-workers/
"By the end of this year, thanks to the collective bargaining agreement reached by their union, they’ll be making $13 an hour. They also now have health care and paid training opportunities thanks to agreements obtained by the union. Such benefits could now become harder to secure."

Supreme Court Rules Disadvantaged Workers Should Be Disadvantaged Some More

Supreme Court Rules Disadvantaged Workers Should Be Disadvantaged Some More

"The decision in Harris v. Quinn—written by the Court’s leading union-hater, Justice Samuel Alito—appears designed to cripple unions by creating incentives for "free riders.""

House Ethics Committee Now Hides Congressional Trip Disclosures

House Ethics Committee Now Hides Congressional Trip Disclosures

"It's going to be a little more difficult to ferret out which members of Congress are lavished with all-expenses-paid trips around the world after the House has quietly stripped away the requirement that such privately sponsored travel be included on lawmakers' annual financial-disclosure forms."

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Hobby Lobby

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Hobby Lobby

John Oliver on the Hobby Lobby case.

3 Lies About Birth Control That Were Just Reinforced By The Hobby Lobby Ruling

www.thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/30/3454815/birth-control-lies-hobby-lobby-ruling/
"Indeed, by siding with Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties, the country’s highest court effectively validated some of the plaintiffs’ problematic arguments about contraception. Monday’ s ruling affirmed three claims about birth control that simply aren’t true"

The Boehner Lawsuit: The Caucus Room Conspiracy Continues

Maine's RWNJ Gov Conspired With 'Sovereign Citizens' Who Wanted Dems Hanged

Maine's RWNJ Gov Conspired With 'Sovereign Citizens' Who Wanted Dems Hanged

"What happens when a state elects an irrational, temper-driven ideologue as Governor who has no moral rudder? Why, he conspires with and takes advice from seedy characters calling themselves "sovereign citizens"."

Christian right secession fantasy: Spooky neo-Confederate talk grows louder at the fringes

Christian right secession fantasy: Spooky neo-Confederate talk grows louder at the fringes

"In short, if you think that secession talk has been crazy since President Obama took office, it could get significantly worse."

Corporations Are Now Religious People - Thanks Supreme Court!

Sexual Assault Survivor George Will Mocked Asks What He Would Say If His Daughter Was Raped

Sexual Assault Survivor George Will Mocked Asks What He Would Say If His Daughter Was Raped

"Lisa Sendrow is the woman that George Will referenced in his hideous op-ed column where he claimed assaulted women enjoyed "a coveted status that confers privileges"."

Obama carries weight of do-nothing Congress

The Christian right’s twisted notion of religious freedom

The Christian right’s twisted notion of religious freedom

"Sadly, this argument that the Christian right to religious freedom includes the right to foist their faith on others has made the leap to the Supreme Court, with Justice Scalia arguing incoherently that the “First Amendment explicitly favors religion” in order to justify the hijacking of a school event to force religion on the non-believers in attendance."

SCOTUS claim of ‘narrow’ ruling defies reason

GOP losing women again: Hopelessly backward contraception politics make comeback

GOP losing women again: Hopelessly backward contraception politics make comeback

"The real driving force behind these fights is the conservative sexual morality that casts contraception as an enabler of sinful licentiousness. Professional Republicans try to disguise this by reframing the fight as one of religious liberty or government tyranny, but activists and pundits who don’t have to care what other people think of them are far less guarded and happily give away the game."

Alarmed churches fear ‘Hobby Lobby’ fallout

GOP created a nativist monster: How radical wingnuts seized the party

GOP created a nativist monster: How radical wingnuts seized the party

"From churches to the Chamber of Commerce, pro-immigration Republicans are now under the thumb of loons. Here's why"

Major loss for unions in the courts

Comparing Bush and Obama’s executive orders

Corporations are people, my friend

Another day, another damaging oil spill

Bill O'Reilly On Hobby Lobby Decision: Birth Control Is Abortion!

Bill O'Reilly On Hobby Lobby Decision: Birth Control Is Abortion!

" It doesn't matter what science says just as long as you believe."

What is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act?

Supreme Court hits public sector unions

The human rights crisis in Detroit

Sen. Mike Lee: Birth Control Pills Are For 'Recreational' Use

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 totally fine with this guy, but if you're female, you're a slut."

Aftermath of the Hobby Lobby case