By Nick Wing Tennessee state Rep. Stacey Campfield (R) introduced a bill this week seeking to make welfare benefits contingent upon the grades of a would-be recipient’s children. Campfield’s legislation, filed Thursday, would “require the reduction of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families… Read More ›
Health Care
How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement
By Libby Anne The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university’s Students for Life chapter. The fall of my junior year of college I cut my ties with the pro-life movement. Five years later… Read More ›
Richard Mourdock On Abortion: Pregnancy From Rape Is ‘Something God Intended’ [UPDATE]
by Michael McAuliff WASHINGTON — Indiana GOP U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock declared Tuesday night he opposes aborting pregnancies conceived in rape because “it is something that God intended to happen.” Debating Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) in their final Senate… Read More ›
Haiti: 7,565 cholera deaths as of October 4
MSPP has posted cholera statistics for October 1-4 on its Documentation page. In those four days, 749 new daily cases were reported, but the total-cases number rose by 765, to 598,742. Nine deaths were reported, but the total-deaths number rose… Read More ›
Phoenix Mayor Attempts To Live On A Food Stamp Budget: ‘I’m Tired, And It’s Hard To Focus’
By Travis Waldron When local activist groups challenged Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton to live on a food stamp budget for a week to mark Hunger Awareness Month, he took them up on the offer and found out just how hard… Read More ›
Video: Exposed – ‘Auschwitz-like’ US death camp hospital in Kabul
Senior US military officers blew the whistle on horrific conditions at the National Military Hospital in Kabul. They revealed some graphic images, showing severely neglected, starving patients at the hospital, which the US military sponsors and helps oversee. Witnesses describe… Read More ›
Mitt Romney paid for son’s surrogate ‘abortion contract’, right to kill fetus
By: Lou Colagiovanni Mitt Romney’s son, Tagg Romney, has been discovered to have engaged in a contract with a surrogate mother with the stipulations that if the child being carried was not up to the Romney’s specifications, that the Romney… Read More ›
The 5 countries the GOP would model U.S. abortion law on with its new anti-abortion platform
By Megan Carpentier Despite the tremendous pressure on the Republican party following Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) comments about “legitimate rape,” supposedly natural contraception and abortion, CNN reported last night that the Republican platform to be affirmed at the convention last… Read More ›
Akin rape theory rooted in Nazi death camp experiments
By David Edwards The theory behind Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) assertion earlier this week that women who are victims of “legitimate” rape would not get pregnant appears to be based on 1972 research that cites experiments done in Nazi concentration… Read More ›
80 Percent of Public Schools Have Contracts With Coke or Pepsi
Schools That Limit Junk Food and Soda on Campus Have Lower Obesity Rates By Tom Philpott Is your kid’s public school a Coke school or a Pepsi school? If you don’t know what I mean, consider yourself lucky. Starting in… Read More ›
Alexander Cockburn, Acerbic Writer and Critic, Dies at 71
By COLIN MOYNIHAN Alexander Cockburn, the mordant left-wing journalist and author who though born in Scotland thrived in the political and cultural battlegrounds of the United States, died on Saturday in Bad Salzhausen, Germany, where he had been receiving medical… Read More ›
Success at the Third Congress of the American Party of Labor (APL)
On Monday, the 25th of June, 2012, the American Party of Labor successfully concluded its Third Party Congress. The “Congress of the Flags,” as the Third Party Congress has been named, was held in Chicago, Illinois between 22 and 25… Read More ›
Chris Collins: ‘People Now Don’t Die From Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer’
By Elise Foley GOP congressional candidate Chris Collins knows health care is expensive these days, but he argues it’s for good reason: People are no longer dying from deadly forms of cancer. “People now don’t die from prostate cancer, breast… Read More ›
Homeless Students Top 1 Million, U.S. Says, Leaving Advocates ‘Horrified’
by Saki Knafo and Joy Resmovits Back in November of 2005, Diane Nilan had what she now concedes may have struck some people as a “crazy notion.” She’d been working as advocate for homeless families in Illinois, getting frustrated by… Read More ›
Game Over: Scans of Over 50 Ron Paul Newsletters
For a certain segment of the Ron Paul fanbase, no evidence of his disseminating hateful, paranoid material will ever be enough. Citing James Kirchick’s piece in The New Republic wasn’t sufficient, because Kirchick could have just been “making everything up.”… Read More ›
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