Andymatic

Category: 8. Religion and Government are Intertwined

  • The Empty Pulpit

    “This has been the signature failure of the Obama administration. Instead of standing on principle, Obama’s modus operandi has been to accede before the battle has really been joined. We have seen this repeatedly in the major issues of his presidency: the emasculation of the so-called “stimulus package”; the abandonment of the health care public […]

  • France's Ban on Muslim Veil's Will Imprison Women in Their Own Homes

    Commenter from Metafilter: Most importantly though, those of you supporting this law seem to think that the consequences will be thousands of liberated women and girls shopping, working, and enjoying themselves proudly barefaced, with all the other French women. What’s more likely is that thousands of women will now be sequestered at home, unable to […]

  • Fox News, I Think You Mean Stem Cells?

    HEADLINE: Cord Blood Cures Baby’s Grapefruit-Sized Tumor – FoxNews.com.

  • Inside Planned Parenthood

    Via Metafilter: I get feedback from our patients, and the common thread that people are surprised at the respect with which we treat them. Over and over, I hear how impressed people are that we’re friendly, we’re clean, we don’t make them feel like bad people for accessing (STI services, birth control, abortion services). I […]

  • Chris Hedges: It's the Educated vs the Idiots

    Chris Heges on Alternet: The most essential skill in political theater and the consumer culture is artifice. Those who are best at artifice succeed. Those who have not mastered the art of artifice fail. In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we do not seek or want honesty. […]

  • Sharron Angle: God Planned Your Rape

    ‘Manders asks her whether there is “any reason at all for an abortion,” and she answers: “Not in my book.” For clarity, he says: “So, in other words, rape and incest would not be something?” And Angle replies with this reasoning: “You know, I’m a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and […]

  • Rand Paul Won't Say How Old the Earth Is

    Paul, a Presbyterian layman, campaigned at a Christian Home Educators of Kentucky convention where he was peppered with questions about his religious beliefs, brushing aside one about the age of the earth that he later described as ridiculous. “I’m not running for minister,” Paul said later. “I’m more than willing to stand up and say I’m […]

  • Australian Senator: Maternity Leave Causes Abortions

    So happy to know they have crazy assholes down under: The outspoken Steve Fielding, from the conservative Family First Party, [presumably implying all opponents hate families] said women could attempt to cheat the centre-left Labor government’s plans for paid leave by deliberately conceiving a child they never intended to have.  “Drug addicts and welfare cheats can […]

  • Saudi Woman Beats Up 'Virtue' Cop

    Glimmers: A member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Saudi religious police known locally as the Hai’a, asked the couple to confirm their identities and relationship to one another, as it is a crime in Saudi Arabia for unmarried men and women to mix. For unknown reasons, the young […]

  • How Karl Rove Will Win Again

    He’s ready for another close-up. The Rove brand was tarnished in 2006, when Republicans lost control of both the House and Senate. His exit from the White House the following year was dogged by scandals, from the political firing of U.S. attorneys to the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. And with his longtime enemy […]