New Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortions After Rape As 'Tampering With Evidence'
Women. Serving as voiceless repositories of forensic material since forever. Sigh.
The man was rushed by helicopter to a hospital in Cleveland. I sure hope that dude has private health insurance that he paid for. If it turns out that taxpayers had to foot the bill for a freaking helicopter flight to rescue the friend of some gun-toting conservative who decided to protest the socialist Obama administration by accidentally shooting a pal on Martin Luther King Day, that would be some kind of embarrassing, wouldn’t it?
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If the right people had been in charge of Nixon’s funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.
These are harsh words for a man only recently canonized by President Clinton and my old friend George McGovern — but I have written worse things about Nixon, many times, and the record will show that I kicked him repeatedly long before he went down. I beat him like a mad dog with mange every time I got a chance, and I am proud of it. He was scum.
Let there be no mistake in the history books about that. Richard Nixon was an evil man — evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency. Nobody trusted him — except maybe the Stalinist Chinese, and honest historians will remember him mainly as a rat who kept scrambling to get back on the ship.
He Was a Crook - Hunter S. Thompson - The Atlantic
Today would have been Richard M. Nixon’s 100th birthday, and today, one of the two major political parties in America is made in his bent image, rotten to the core and uninterested in that which it is elected to do: govern.
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What to get the plutocrat in your life this year? We’ve got a few ideas.
These lawmakers are trying to stop the United Nations from taking over your Internet.
I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.
The [Department of Defense] paid $100,000 to sponsor a strategy workshop in September featuring a session called ‘Did Jesus die for Klingons, too?’ on the theological threat to Christianity that the discovery of life on other planets might pose.
Your current Mother Jones homepage splash.
Make that two Romney-loving voting machine malfunctions in the Keystone State.
Between this, voter ID chaos, and possible unreported voter purges, are we reaching “Pennsylvania goddamn!” territory?
It’s not like you didn’t see this coming.
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The only jpeg you’ll need this week.
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"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it… These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect… And so my job is not to worry about those people—I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
Remember this. This happened. No matter how it was spun, it may very well have been Mitt Romney at his most honest, his most unguarded. It may very well be how he intends to govern as president.
Remember this.
The online interactive graphic novel of Election 2012, by the Guardian US. Kind of the coolest thing going right now.
Click the gif for a special message from Obama and Luther about the one event everyone will be talking about tomorrow: the release of Halo 4.
An all-new Key & Peele airs Wednesday at 10:30/9:30c.
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