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DOMA

Republican Party Stubbornly Opposes Same-Sex Marriage

by Ned Flaherty ● 4:50 PM April 13, 2013
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Republicans unanimously confirmed their total opposition to marriage equality after religious extremists threatened to launch a third political party.

News

Breaking: House Passes Senate’s Violence Against Women Act, Sends To Obama

by David Badash ● 12:43 PM February 28, 2013
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After months of stalling and obstruction, the House minutes ago finally declared defeat and voted to accept the Senate’s broader version of the Violence Against Women Act, passing it 286 – 138.

Marriage

Boehner’s BLAG Claiming ‘Direct Injury On The House’ If DOMA Ruled Unconstitutional

by David Badash ● 1:25 PM February 25, 2013
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Speaker of the House John Boehner’s BLAG last week claimed that if the Supreme Court rules DOMA unconstitutional, it will have caused “a direct injury on the House.”

News

Marco Rubio Leads Charge Of 22 GOP Male Senators To Block Violence Against Women Act, Loses

by David Badash ● 3:40 PM February 12, 2013
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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio led a charge of twenty-two male Republican senators trying to block the long-expired Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), but lost the fight.

Farce

Eric Cantor, Comedian.

by David Badash ● 12:10 PM February 12, 2013
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Analysis

India to USA: “I Am Somebody and I Don’t Deserve to be Raped”

by Tanya Domi ● 11:53 AM January 6, 2013
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From New Delhi, India to Steubenville, Ohio, the planet is experiencing an epidemic of violence against women and girls that is intolerable and must be confronted

News

Bachmann Introduces 1st Bill In New Congress: Not Sandy Relief Or VAWA, But Obamacare Repeal

by David Badash ● 8:32 AM January 4, 2013
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Bachmann introduced the first bill into the new 113th Congress and it wasn’t the Violence Against Women Act, or a bill to fund relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy.

DOMA

House GOP: No Time For Sandy Relief Or Women’s Violence Bill, But Time To Fund DOMA Defense

by David Badash ● 1:30 PM January 3, 2013
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The House Republican leadership did have time — for the first time ever — to write funding for their anti-gay war, defending DOMA, into the official House Rules.

News

Boehner, Cantor Kill Decades-Old Violence Against Women Act

by David Badash ● 8:41 AM January 3, 2013
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Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) allowed the decades-old Violence Against Women Act to die yesterday when — like the Hurricane Sandy victims aid bill — they refused to bring the bill to the floor for a vote.

Economics

The U.S. House of Representatives Dodges the Fiscal Cliff

by Tanya Domi ● 12:09 AM January 2, 2013

After a very long day in American political history, the House of Representatives, led by a majority of Democrats, passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act, avoiding the fiscal cliff

Economics

UPDATE: House Republicans Reconsider Amendment for Spending Cuts; Expect to Vote on Senate Bill Tonight

by Tanya Domi ● 4:37 PM January 1, 2013

House Republicans who strongly opposed the Senate compromise on the fiscal cliff want $300 billion in spending cuts but don’t have 218 votes, so will most likely take up a vote on the Senate bill tonight

Marriage

Boehner, Demanding Spending Cuts, Increases Budget To Protect Gay Marriage Ban

by David Badash ● 6:25 PM December 13, 2012
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John Boehner secretly allowed the raising of the budget to pay his hand-picked outside counsel who is fighting attempts to overturn DOMA.

News

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough: Uninformed, Ignorant, Or Just A Big Cantor Fan?

by David Badash ● 4:15 PM November 26, 2012
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Eric Cantor was on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” and told host Joe Scarborough several falsehoods — which Scarborough, as a journalist, has a duty to know are falsehoods.

Discrimination

The Only States That Don’t Want To Secede Are The Ones With Gay Marriage

by David Badash ● 8:53 AM November 14, 2012
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The only states that have not asked Obama to allow them to secede from the United States of America are the ones that have made same-sex marriage legal.

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