Month: June 2011

A Bit Of Better News From Indiana

Planned Parenthood of Indiana’s motion in U.S. District Court to stop enforcement of the new Indiana law that denies Medicaid funding to the organization was successful today along with a similar ruling denying enforcement...

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Vargas Story Built on Foundation of DREAMs

Earlier this week, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas announced to the world that he is an undocumented immigrant. The full article is worth a read as it tells his story in a way that captures the complexity...

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Celebrity Death in My Backyard

The big news around here this week was the death of local celebrity and star of the Jackass movie franchise, Ryan Dunn. I have not seen any of the Jackass movies and generally disliked the television show because it made me...

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Stupid Republicans

With a new Gallup poll showing the public is already tired of our “support role” in Libya, the House Republicans are poised to issue a rebuke to the president and pass a bill that will cut off funds for drone...

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Newt Gingrich and Jim Crow Lite

Newt Gingrich thinks it was a mistake for Sarah Palin and Rudy Guiliani to mock Barack Obama’s experience as a community organizer because it made Obama’s radicalism seem trivial and “Obama is not a trivial...

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