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Progress undone on rape
What we have here is a failure to communicate. Or at least, that's Rick Ross' story and he's sticking to it. The Miami rapper has ignited a prairie fire of controversy with a song called "U.O.E.N.O.," its title a phonetic spelling of an ebonic...
Tags: The Miami Herald, Richard Mourdock, Radio, Reebok Ltd., Ecstacy (drug)
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Tea party down but not out
Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to...
Tags: Richard Mourdock, Republican Party, Jim DeMint, FreedomWorks, Richard Lugar
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Baltimore duo's fight against 'rape culture' takes on Congress, Victoria's Secret
Rebecca Nagle and Hannah Brancato aren't interested in spilling Victoria's Secret. But the Baltimore-based artists and feminists do want the lingerie giant — and other cultural forces — to tell a different story about sex. Disturbed by...
Tags: Rape, Sexual Assault, Social Media, Charles Village, Twitter, Inc.
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How Republicans win in 2016
Last week's column was all about why certain of us (49 percent nationally) continue to identify with the party of individualism and free markets. This week, a related topic: what it will take to increase that 49 percent to 51 percent in 2016. First,...
Tags: Richard Mourdock, Republican Party, Immigration, Democratic Party, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
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Nothing unique in Akin's nonsense
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...
Tags: John Ashcroft , Republican Party, Schindler's List (movie), Planned Parenthood, Feminism
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Rape and the mind of God
Indiana's Richard Mourdock, Illinois' Joe Walsh and Missouri's Todd Akin aren't doctors. They are Republicans running for the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. But they appear to have special knowledge of how a woman's body works, not to...
Tags: Richard Mourdock, U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Tammy Duckworth, Abortion
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Presidential election or abortion referendum?
The platforms that the two political parties publish every four years are a lot like the warranties that come with washers or refrigerators: Nobody ever reads them, but if you do, you find that nothing in them actually applies. This year, though, the...
Tags: Republican Party, Pregnancy and Childbirth, John McCain, Paul Ryan, Tampa
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Women flex muscle at the polls
Congratulations, ladies. You kept the barbarians from the gate. On Tuesday, Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, who famously said that a woman's reproductive system shuts down during "legitimate rape" and prevents conception, lost by 15 points to incumbent Sen....
Tags: Richard Mourdock, Planned Parenthood, Democratic Party, Tammy Duckworth, Abortion
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A platform for the next Republican nominee
Monday-morning quarterbacking is typically the preferred sport of the losing party. And the post-election GOP is no exception. The chattering class is full of explanations for Mitt Romney's loss: The candidate was too wealthy to be empathetic, too...
Tags: Richard Mourdock, Republican Party, Allergies, Christianity, Executive Branch
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Presidential politics and abortion
Susan Reimer's column abut the Republican platform on abortion again shows her expertise in setting up a straw man and then knocking him down ("Presidential election or abortion referendum?" Aug. 27). The Republican platform comprises about 45 pages...Tags: Abortion, Abortion Issue, Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Parties and Movements
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October surprise: Learning what Republicans really think about rape
Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party usurper who took down Sen. Richard Lugar in the Republican primary, created the biggest political buzz last week by uttering the following sentence in a televised debate: "I think even when life...
Tags: Richard Mourdock, Republican Party, John McCain, Entertainment Events, Paul Ryan
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O'Malley bashes Republicans on jobs on CNN
Gov. Martin O'Malley returned to the national stage Sunday after a Democratic National Convention speech that received tepid reviews, facing off with Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt over job creation and women's issues on CNN. Questioned by CNN's Candy Crowley,...Tags: Regional Authority, Republican Party, Democratic Governors Association, Executive Branch, Democratic Party
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