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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: Television Industry, Radio, Richard Mourdock, Reebok Ltd., Federal Communications Commission
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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: Sexual Assault, Social Media, Assault, U.S. Senate, Elections
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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: Republican Party, Minority Groups, Customs and Tradition, Richard Mourdock, Democratic Party
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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: Republican Party, Fox News Channel (tv network), Fiscal Cliff, Tea Party Movement, Karl Rove
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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: Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Parties and Movements
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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: Bill Clinton, Republican Party, Executive Branch, Mitt Romney, Richard Mourdock
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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: Republican Party, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, Abortion, Abortion Issue
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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: Republican Party, Abortion, Mitt Romney, Tea Party Movement, Richard Mourdock
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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: Martin O'Malley, Republican Party, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Executive Branch, Democratic Party
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Why Romney and Ryan are going down
Unemployment is still above 8 percent, job gains aren't even keeping up with population growth, the economy is barely moving forward. And yet, according to most polls, the Romney-Ryanticket is falling further and further behind. How can this be?...
Tags: Republican Party, Teaching and Learning, Voting, Government Health Care, Parties and Movements
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For women, reproductive rights are economic issues
Sensing, perhaps, that they are losing the public relations battle after Senate candidate Todd Akin's forehead-slapping views on "legitimate rape" and the female body's magical ability to guard against pregnancy, Republicans are trying now to focus on the...
Tags: Republican Party, 2012 Democratic National Convention, France, Abortion, Mitt Romney
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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: Republican Party, Abortion, Richard Mourdock, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Parties and Movements
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