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In Discussing ENDA, Sen. Reid Reveals Niece Is Lesbian
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid revealed why he has been such a strong support of LGBT rights, including the ban on workplace discrimination known as the Employee Non-Discrimination Act or ENDA. The reason being that his niece is a lesbian. In fact, he stated in an interview with reporters that “My niece is a lesbian. [...]
DoD Furloughs Reduced From 22 Days to 11 Days
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has announced that, after a review of budget cuts made due to sequestration, the Department of Defense will not only need to require eleven furlough days beginning this July. This is down from the originally envisioned 22 days of furlough. Hagel spoke at a town hall meeting at the Mark Center [...]
Texas in the Crosshairs Again
With fourteen more unaccounted for, officials are saying that the death toll from Wednesday evening’s tornados may be higher. Three tornados plowed through Granbury, Texas around 8 p.m. local time, destroying more than 100 homes in the Rancho Brazos subdivision, sending 48 people to the Lake Granbury Medical Center. Some of those have been [...]
Earthquake Flower Art by Accidental Pendulum
What happens when you have an earthquake with a pendulum over sand? This. “When a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook Olympia, Wash., in 2001, shop owner Jason Ward discovered that a sand-tracing pendulum had recorded the vibrations in the image above…Seismologists say that the “flower” at the center reflects the higher-frequency waves that arrived first; [...]
Gosnell, PA abortion doctor, found guilty of murder
In a case that has horrified abortion-rights advocates and given abortion-rights foes ample fodder, the 72-year-old doctor has been found guilty of murdering three babies that were born alive at his clinic in Philadelphia, by severing their spinal cords with scissors. He was also found guilty of infanticide and conspiracy in the three cases. [...]
DoJ Seizes AP Records Causing Major Uproar
The Associated Press (AP) has revealed that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of reporter and editor records from spring 2012. The records are part of the Justice Department’s “war” on leaks. President Barack Obama has been strongly critical of leaks coming from the Executive Department. AP President Gary Pruitt wrote to Attorney General [...]
Minnesota Passes Marriage Equality- Becomes Number 12!
Minnesota…the twelfth state to have same-sex marriage. Minnesota’s Senate passed the bill with a nice majority clearing the way for Governor Mark Dayton to sign the bill. The debate was, of course, typical. An exemption for businesses did not make it through the vote. Such language would have allowed businesses free reign to discriminate against [...]
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The Lesson of Gosnell regarding Reproductive Rights
The very existence of Gosnell’s clinic, the Women’s Medical Society Clinic, described in court testimony as a “house of horrors”, is indicative of the very real need for safe, legal women’s reproductive care across the nation. Yes, Gosnell’s crimes horrify us. His clinic, filthy, using unsterilized equipment and untrained assistants, flouting every possible law [...]