Anti-Abortion Group Has Chicago Sign Targeting Blacks, Invoking Obama

“Every 21 minutes, our next possible LEADER is ABORTED” reads a Chicago sign by a group that had another billboard in New York that was taken down after African-Americans objected.  That one read, “The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb.”

“Our future leaders are being aborted at an alarming rate,” Life Always Board Member Reverend Derek McCoy said in a statement. “These are babies who could grow to be the future Presidents of the United States, or the next Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington or Maya Angelou.”

The group’s New York billboard, which read “The most dangerous …

Wisconsin Judge Again Blocks Anti-Union Wisconsin Law; Attorney General Says It’s In Effect

Judge Maryann Sumi has blocked Wisconsin from putting into effect an anti-collective bargaining measure. This is the second time she’s enjoined the law from being enacted, but Wisconsin Republicans published the law last week in a way that circumvented the original order.

Sumi noted her original restraining order issued earlier this month was clear in saying that the state should not proceed with implementing the law. The Walker administration did so after the bill was published Friday by a state agency not included in Sumi’s earlier temporary restraining order.

“Apparently that language was either misunderstood or ignored, but what I …

Gary Johnson To Announce For President April 21 In New Hampshire

Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson will make his run for president official April 21 in New Hampshire.

Fox News reported last week that Johnson would skip the usual exploratory phase and make the announcement in late April before heading straight to New Hampshire. The Johnson insider tells Fox the date will be the 21st in the Granite State.…

On Tuesday’s Radio Show…

• “Hypocrisy”? Alan responds to conservative reaction to President Obama’s speech on Libya.

• “We’re all in this together”: Highlights from today’s hearings on protecting the rights of Muslims.

• Social Security Reform: Alan exposes the GOP’s true agenda.
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Rick Santorum Says Abortion Is To Blame For Social Security Woes

During a radio interview in New Hampshire, Republican hopeful and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum says Social Security would be in better shape if it weren’t for abortion.

He says the system has design flaws, but the reason it is in big trouble is that there aren’t enough workers to support retirees. He blamed that on what he called the nation’s abortion culture. He says that culture, coupled with policies that do not support families, deny America what it needs — more people.

Yes, we’d have all these additional people paying into Social Security. If only they could get …

Sarah Palin Misstates Cost Of Libya Intervention

The Pentagon estimates the cost of the Libyan mission as $600 million a week. Sarah Palin claimed it’s costing that per day.

PALIN: Yes, that’s — that’s a good question. And that’s the $600 million dollar-a-day question that is being asked now because that’s the cost incurred by Americans as we support the no-fly zone, which, of course, the no-fly zone, the intervention or enactment is turning into more than that.

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Gingrich Fears “Secular” “Islamist” America

by Sally Kohn
Sally Kohn is a community organizer and progressive political commentator. She is the Founder and Chief Education Officer of the Movement Vision Lab

In the department of “Huh?”, hours after declaring on Sunday that he expects to extend the anticipation of his expected announcement to run for president, Newt Gingrich said he’s worried that the United States could become “a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists.”  Come again?

Gingrich, who has recently been caught flip-flopping over the span of several days on issues like Libya and his marital fidelity, managed to …

What Happens In Wisconsin When A Professor Criticizes A Republican Governor

by Stuart Shapiro

Just over a week ago, William Cronon, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, and the President-Elect of the American Historical Association, wrote an op-ed lambasting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for breaking with a long Wisconsin tradition of openness and transparency.  Days later, a Republican request for Professor Cronon’s emails came to the University of Wisconsin.  There are many reasons to be disturbed by this.  Paul Krugman touches on a few:

If this action strikes you as no big deal, you’re missing the point. The hard right — which these days is more or less synonymous with …

Obama Makes Clear In Speech He Is Not George W. Bush And Libya Is Not Iraq

by toma

In Monday night’s address detailing his rationale for committing the American military to fight Qaddafi’s forces in Libya, President Obama took pains to draw distinctions between his current and George W. Bush’s 2003 decision-making, which launched the disastrous War in Iraq. First, the president tried to make the case that his response to events showed no Bush-era impulsivity. Rather, it’s been sober and measured:

…we evacuated our embassy and all Americans who sought our assistance. Then we took a series of swift steps in a matter of days to answer Qaddafi’s aggression. We froze more than $33 billion …

Donald Trump Raises Questions About His Own Birth Certificate

Donald Trump, who has ramped up his birther rhetoric over the past week, decided he would prove just how easy it is to do what he wants President Obama to do, and released his “birth certificate.” But it turns out his “birth certificate” is not official. What Trump released was something issued by the hospital where he was born, but is not the official City of New York birth certificate, prompting The Smoking Gun to ask what he is trying to hide.

Except the document is not an official New York City birth certificate, but rather a document generated …

Obama On Libya: “We Have Intervened To Stop A Massacre”

President Obama said that it was in the interest of both the world and the Untied States to intervene in Libya to prevent the slaughter of its people. Why Libya, though, if it’s not a direct threat to the United States?

There will be times, though, when our safety is not directly threatened, but our interests and values are. Sometimes, the course of history poses challenges that threaten our common humanity and common security – responding to natural disasters, for example; or preventing genocide and keeping the peace; ensuring regional security, and maintaining the flow of commerce. These may not …