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Neither party is defined by its lunatic fringe
Your recent editorial attempted to link Rep. Todd Akin's stupid and hopefully career-ending comments about rape with the GOP's overall philosophy on women's rights, even though the entire GOP leadership, including Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan, have...Tags: Politics, Elections, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Mitt Romney
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Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr.: Ignorance hardly unique
Rep. Todd Akin's fame - more accurately, his infamy - now reaches all the way to the Congo. There, Eve Ensler, the award-winning American author of ''The Vagina Monologues'' and herself a survivor of rape, wrote an open letter castigating last week's...Tags: Politics, Congo, John Ashcroft , Entertainment Events, Abortion
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The Goldwater legacy
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As the 2012 Republican National Convention gathers in Tampa, I find my thoughts going back nearly half a century to San Francisco in 1964. It was the first political convention I covered as a reporter, and it was the one at which Sen....Tags: Politics, Elections, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mitt Romney, Tampa
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Akin's ignorance hardly unique
Leonard PittsRep. Todd Akin's fame -- more accurately, his infamy -- now reaches all the way to the Congo. There, Eve Ensler, the award-winning American author of "The Vagina Monologues" and herself a survivor of rape, wrote an open letter castigating last week's...Tags: Politics, Congo, John Ashcroft , Abortion, Schindler's List (movie)
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Monday, August 27, 2012
5:30 - 9 a.m. Bill Leff in for Jonathon Brandmeier 7:35 a.m. She directed her first feature at 12. Bill Leff (in for Johnny B) chats with the young filmmaker during Hollywood on it's ear. 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Mike McConnell 10:05 a.m. Why can't... -
Is there a Republican Party war on women?
Is the Republican Party really pursuing a war on women? Well, yes and no to that question. Is it the official position of the Republican Party to strip away women's rights? No, with the caveat that if you are in favor of abortion rights then you're...Tags: Politics, Elections, U.S. Senate, Abortion, Voting
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DCCC launches Akin robocalls in 6th District
The campaign arm of House Democrats began running a series of automated phone calls in Maryland's 6th Congressional District on Monday as part of the its latest effort to tie Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett to controversial comments on rape made this month by...Tags: Politics, Elections, Annapolis, U.S. Senate, Roscoe G Bartlett
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Ignore distractions, focus on deficit
With Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri refusing to leave the race for the U.S. Senate seat, the distractions are guaranteed to keep coming ("Akin fights on, says he's 'standing on principle,'" Aug. 23). Despite his apologies and retraction, and despite...Tags: Judges, Politics, Public Finance, Elections, Medicare
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Tropical Storm Isaac's Slow Pace Makes it More Dangerous
CNNTAMPA, Fla. -- New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast faced the anniversary of devastating Hurricane Katrina by hunkering down for new storm amid "a high level of anxiety," as the Crescent City's mayor put it Monday. Forecasters project Tropical Storm...Tags: Politics, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Natural Disasters, Illegal Immigrants, Medicare
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Abortion ethics not so simple
Missouri Republican Rep. Todd Akin recently said some morally objectionable things about rape and abortion, but in his attempted apology he included a statement that can't be dismissed lightly by anyone interested in moral or legal justice: "I do not...
Tags: Values, Politics, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Ethics
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The politics of rape and abortion
In the 1988 presidential election, Republicans successfully hanged Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis with Willie Horton, a convicted murderer who committed a rape and assault after he was furloughed. Horton was free because Dukakis, as...
Tags: Politics, American Civil Liberties Union, Elections, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Sex Crimes
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Aug 21: Poll Results
WGN NewsMORNING NEWS POLL:Do you think child beauty pageants are too sexually exploitive? Yes: 96% No: 4% MIDDAY NEWS POLL: Should Rep. Todd Akin drop out of the Missouri Senate race because of his controversial comments on abortion? Yes: 68% No: 32% NEWS AT...Tags: Politics, Elections
Aug 25, 2012
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Aug 26, 2012
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Aug 27, 2012
|Column| Petoskey News
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|Story| Baltimore Sun
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Aug 28, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Aug 21, 2012
|Story| WGN-TV
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