We’re not even a month into 2014 and it already feels like déjà vu all over again. Within a week’s time we’ve seen a veritable greatest hits of GOP base-stirring plays: the resurrection of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act in Congress (because that was so much fun in 2011); a bitter firestorm set…
The debate starts in just a few hours. You ready? Shame sheet: If he needs it, Salon has Joe Biden’s crib sheet of Paul Ryan’s shameful quotes. Five Alive: And if you need a crib sheet on Paul Ryan there are not one, but two Top 5 lists boiling down Paul Ryan’s craziest beliefs. Liar,…
In modern warfare, rape has become a tool of combat. From Bosnia to Afghanistan, attacking forces have used the brutality of rape to control those they wish to conquer or punish. And if that is the case, there is a silent war happening right here in our country where Native American women are more than…
When news broke yesterday about Paul Ryan’s new comments about rape, I was just finishing a new post for the Independent Voter Network about the Todd Akin news cycle and what it showed us about media bias (and our own biases). Wait. You didn’t hear about the new Paul Ryan rape comment? The one where…
The Romney campaign has gone all flibbidy-woo over Paul Ryan, making him the GOP vice presidential candidate. And, apparently, everyone in my generation (Hello, Gen Xers!) are going to be super happy about it. (Not.) I’m not sure who’s more happy about this nomination, my liberal friends or the conservatives who hate us. But one…
The Sin City Siren 