A week or so ago, Richard Mourdock said that when a girl or woman became pregnant, that was God’s will and she should have the baby. This article examines that statement not in terms of politics or sociology, but in terms of whether it’s at all an accurate interpretation of religion. It begins by recounting the story of a police chaplain interviewing a pregnant twelve-year-old [...]
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Jennifer Kesler
The bad news is, Anne Coulter actually tweeted this: I highly approve of Romney’s decision to be kind and gentle to the retard. But it’s Anne Coulter, and as some folks say in the South, what do you expect from a pig but a grunt? The good news is, people are ripping her a new one for it. They’re calling her on the ableism, the [...]
How have the Republicans not already choked to death on the proverbial foot they’ve jammed down their proverbial throat? Surely they’re up to the thigh now, and the whole thing’s beginning to look a little bit sexual. But no. They’ve done it again. “I struggled with it myself for a long time, and I realized that life is a gift from God, and I think [...]
Admit it – you knew it was coming, right? Let’s talk about this meme that’s stormed the internet ever since Mitt Romney announced obliquely, in response to how he felt about equal pay laws, that in filling his Massachusetts cabinet he sought out women candidates and compiled “binders full of women.” Since then, that phrase has haunted him just like the 47% remarks and his [...]
Mira Sorvino is a passionate advocate against human trafficking, which is a topic that’s just beginning to get discussed in media and now by the president himself. In the video she says: “It’s happening about three blocks from the White House on Avenue K, I believe. There’s a place that, at 9pm at night, you can find an underage person to have sex with. You [...]
I just throw up my hands at this point, and maybe my lunch, too. “Party bosses dictating who is allowed to advance through the party and make all the decisions—it’s just like 1776 in that way,” [she said]. She cited colonists who “rose up and said, ‘Not in my home, you don’t come and rape my daughters and my … wife. But that is where [...]
I’ve really got to get around to my series on Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It’s clear Mitt Romney is not only confused, but pretty much bass-ackwards on what entitlement is. A recording recently got leaked of Mitt Romney saying: 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 [...]
