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Abortion Rights Group Gives U.S. a ‘D’
NARAL Pro-Choice America marks anniversary of Roe v. Wade by saying much more needs to be done
Wendy Davis Announces Bid For Texas Governor’s Seat
The Democrat who rose to national fame after her 11-hour filibuster in June faces a tough uphill battle
Rick Perry Says Former Teen Mother Wendy Davis “Hasn’t Learned From Her Own Example”
Texas Governor Rick Perry addressed his state’s impending anti-abortion legislation–and the woman who successfully filibustered it Tuesday night–at the National Right to Life Convention this morning in Dallas.
Obama Recommits to Abortion Deception
The Obama campaign is out with a new campaign ad Thursday, tripling down on its false claim that Mitt Romney wants to outlaw all abortion, even in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother.
The Obama Campaign Claims Ownership of Truth
Honestly, the Obama campaign has a new message. “We’re going to have an honest conversation,” said campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt on Monday in Charlotte, N.C. Senior strategist Stephanie Cutter elaborated with a knock on …
Hobgoblin Alert: Behind Barack Obama’s False Abortion Ad
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” –H.L. Mencken
If you live in a swing state, your nation sends its apologies. Perhaps you can just break your television. No grown man or woman should be subjected …
How Florida Is Leading U.S. Politics Back to the Culture Wars
They don’t call economics the dismal science for nothing, which helps explain why U.S. politics is riveted once more by social issues. After being locked for three years in a torture chamber of financial disaster, our elected …
The Komen Controversy: Planned Parenthood Claims a New Kind of Victory in the Culture War
When the history of Facebook-enabled activism is written, the backlash against the Susan G. Komen foundation’s decision to end grants to Planned Parenthood clinics will fall somewhere behind the Arab Spring and ahead of the …
Hecklers and Hostile Crowds Stymie Santorum in New Hampshire
Hollis, New Hampshire
It was a scene fit for a front-runner: an overflow crowd spilling out the doors of a Rockwellian barn on Saturday afternoon, kids perched in the rafters, an American flag tacked to one wall. The only …
High Stakes in Ohio, Mississippi and Virginia as Voters Head to the Polls
The narrative arc you’re likely to hear on this Tuesday in early November is that today begins the yearlong countdown to the 2012 presidential contest. But Tuesday’s slate of off-year elections and ballot measures is laden with …
Herman Cain Somehow Misses 40 Years of Abortion Debate
I have to spend some time unpacking Herman Cain’s description of his position on abortion because it’s a good illustration of why straight-talkin’, complicated-problem-solvin’ politicians succeed only in movies. In real life, it turns out that candidates who think they have a simple position that appeals to everyone don’t actually …
Rick Perry’s Retreat From Federalism
Texas Governor Rick Perry is not just any federalist. He is the grand poobah of federalists, an alpha-dog federalist, a federalist other federalists dare not challenge. His call for state sovereignty and a limited federal …