Woman Live Tweets Her Abortion

Angie Jackson wants other women know, “It’s not that bad…this nothing compared to childbirth,  compared to labor…to late stage pregnancy.  This is about choice.”

Last Thursday, Jackson visited a Planned Parenthood where her doctor gave her the first dose of RU-486, the abortion pill. (Note: The abortion pill is not the same as the morning-after pill.) She had to take four more pills — swallowing two and letting two others dissolve in her mouth—on Friday and Saturday.

She hasn’t taken to her various media platforms to show the graphic parts of her abortion. Instead, Jackson is chronicling how her …

Utah Bill Criminalizes Miscarriages

The Utah House and Senate passed a bill that could make it a crime for a woman to have a miscarriage.

The bill amends Utah’s criminal statute to allow the state go charge a woman with criminal homicide for inducing a miscarriage or obtaining an illegal abortion. The case on which the bill was based was one in which a 17-year-old girl who was seven months pregnant paid a man $150 to beat her in an attempt to cause a miscarriage. (She gave birth, but was originally charged with attempted murder)

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The bill does not affect legally obtained …

Teacher Calls Police On Student Who Refuses To Say Pledge Of Allegiance

The mother of a Montgomery County, MD, middle school student is demanding an apology from a teacher who called school police to escort her daughter out of class for refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance. The 13-year-old girl was mocked by other students and is too traumatized to return to class.

A school spokesman said Tuesday that the teacher’s actions were a clear violation of the school’s regulations, which are based on state law. The teacher, who also has not been identified by either side, will have to apologize to the student, spokesman Dana Tofig said.

The ACLU sent …

Miss Beverly Hills Lauren Ashley Says Bible Calls For Death To Gays

Lauren Ashley is representing Beverly Hills in the Miss California pageant, and she makes Carrie Prejean sound like Truman Capote.  Ashley defends her position by quoting the Bible.

“The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman. In Leviticus it says, ‘If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.’ The Bible is pretty black and white,” Ashley told Pop Tarts.

“I feel like God himself created mankind and he loves everyone, and …

Jeb Bush: Sarah Palin Needs To Develop Intellectual Curiosity

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, interviewed by right-wing website Newsmax.com, was asked if he thinks Sarah Palin is a viable presidential candidate.

He said that Palin’s success depends on her willingness to add a “depth of understanding of the complexity of life we’re living in today” to her rhetoric.

“That’s up to her,” he said. “I mean, I don’t know what her deal is, but my belief is in 2010 and 2012, public leaders need to have intellectual curiosity.”…

Bernie Sanders: Those Who Deny Climate Change Like Those Who Denied Nazism

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders says climate change skeptics remind him of those who denied the growing threat of Nazism and fascism in the 1920′s and 1930′s.

The climate change debate “reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s,” Sanders said during a Senate hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2011 budget…

He continued: “And during that period with Nazism and fascism growing — a real danger to the United States and Democratic countries all over the world — there were people in this Congress, in the British …

Americans Are Blaming Republicans For Lack Of Cooperation

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp poll shows that two-thirds of Americans believe Republicans are not cooperating sufficiently with President Obama.  But they think Democrats need to be pro-active in getting the GOP to cooperate.

Sixty-seven percent of respondents say the GOP is not doing enough to cooperate with the White House, up 6 points from last April.

Americans appear split on whether the president is doing enough to reach out to Republicans, with 52 percent saying Obama is not doing enough to cooperate with the GOP, while 47 percent say he is doing enough to reach across the political aisle.

Because …

Politico: Obama Plotting Reelection Bid

According to Mike Allen at Politico, President Obama’s advisers are laying the groundwork for his 2012 reelection campaign, which is likely to be run out of Chicago with deputy chief of staff Jim Messina (pictured left, with Obama and senior adviser David Axlerod) as campaign manager.

The planning for now consists entirely of private conversations, with Obama aides at all levels indulging occasionally in closed-door 2012 discussions while focusing ferociously on the midterm elections and health care reform, the Democratic sources said. “The gathering storm is the 2010 elections,” one top official said.

The Democratic National Committee recognizes that …

Busty Puppets Too Risque For Conservative Colorado Springs

The AP reports:

Puppet cleavage has been ruled out for advertising posters in Colorado Springs bus shelters.

Lamar Advertising rejected posters for a touring production of the Broadway show “Avenue Q” because they show the cleavage of a fuzzy pink puppet.

Lamar account executive Jeff Moore says the company takes a conservative approach in Colorado Springs. The city is known for its political conservatism, and some conservative Christian groups have headquarters in the city.…

Senator James Inhofe Wants Investigations Of Scientists About “The Greatest Scientific Scandal Of Our Generation”

Oklahoma climate change denier Senator James Inhofe wants scientists investigated and Al Gore to testify about what he is calling “The greatest scientific scandal of our generation.”

Senator Inhofe released a minority staff report from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, of which he is ranking member. Senator Inhofe is asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether there has been research misconduct or criminal actions by the scientists involved, including Dr. Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University and Dr. James Hansen of Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

And Inhofe wants Gore to testify …

On Tuesday’s Radio Show…

• Conservative critics of President Obama often call him a “liberal,” but does that label really apply? Hofstra Political Science Professor David Michael Green explains why it doesn’t.

• Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says high unemployment is to blame for an increase in domestic violence. Is he right?

• First, Republicans said there were too many pages in health care reform legislation, but now they say Obama’s proposal has too few. Alan analyzes the long and the short of it.

• Think you can survive the cut? It’s Sudden Death Radio!…