Here's what a Republican Victory Could Look Like

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Thursday January 24, 2008 · 8:15 PM PST

2008/01/24 · 20:15

Overturning Roe v. Wade.
Restricting marriage to straight couples.
Displaying the Ten Commandments in public parks.

Those are three stated goals of Focus on the Family. They want a Republican in the White House, since the next president will almost certainly appoint one or more justices to the Supreme Court.

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Friday December 14, 2007 · 4:43 PM PST

2007/12/14 · 16:43

This is a diary about garden seed catalogs, sustainable agriculture, and good old-fashioned liberal activists.

Some gardeners take seed catalogs very seriously. In 1958 Katharine S. White wrote "A Romp in the Catalogues," which began:

For gardeners, this is the season of lists and callow hopefulness; hundreds of thousands of bewitched readers are poring over their catalogues, making lists for their seed and plant orders, and dreaming their dreams.

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Monday December 03, 2007 · 9:48 AM PST

2007/12/03 · 09:48

I don’t believe this!

Bush was just on CNN now (no link yet). He says that he has seen credible evidence that Scout Finch, brownsox, and smintheus are connected to a violent radicalization movement. Bush claimed they are "adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of advancing political or social change." So he announced that he's nullifying their positions and is appointing his own front-pagers.

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Friday May 05, 2006 · 3:43 PM PDT

2006/05/05 · 15:43

I emailed Santorum about the Enzi bill and got the following response. Naturally he brushes aside all concerns about the bill.

I'm not an expert on any of this stuff (this bill, health insurance, etc.). I'd like others' opinions on what he says. Read More

Should We "Smite This Diary"?

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Sunday April 02, 2006 · 11:04 AM PDT

2006/04/02 · 11:04

If I were a troll and wanted to disrupt Daily Kos, I wouldn't bog down individual diaries with comments that could be troll-rated onto the hidden list. I wouldn't waste my time arguing with libruls.

If I really wanted to disrupt Daily Kos, I would clog the Recent Diary list with useless unsubstantial diaries. At present (as far as I know) there is no way to delete a diary unless the diarist deletes it.

If I were a troll, I would get together with a half-dozen trollish friends, set up 3 or 4 user-names apiece, wait around for a week, then start posting diaries.

* our diaries would be short (why waste our time)
* our diaries might not be obvious right-wing propaganda (why reveal ourselves and be banned)
* just for added fun, our diaries might have those irritatingly ambiguous titles (e.g. "Can you believe this?") that would disclose nothing of their contents, requiring people to open them.

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Lap-Dancing to be Outlawed in KY? (Poll!)

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Tuesday March 21, 2006 · 7:42 PM PST

2006/03/21 · 19:42

Another hilarious CitizenLink Alert from Focus on the Family: Kentucky Senate Bill 250:

New Bill Would End Lap Dances
[The bill] offers two overarching statewide regulations for sexually oriented businesses, has passed the Kentucky Senate and is now in the House Judiciary Committee.
The bill will bolster local regulations on sexually oriented businesses by placing a ban on total nudity and requiring that seminude employees keep a six-foot distance from patrons.

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Tuesday March 14, 2006 · 4:17 PM PST

2006/03/14 · 16:17

Tomorrow the PA House State Government Committee is going to vote on HB 2381, which proposes an amendment to the state constitution limiting marriage to one man and one woman. So today I called most of that committee and asked them to vote against it.

There have been several diaries about this already. FISG has had several diaries, such as here and here, which have a variety of links to all kinds of information, and late last week I had a diary (here) that includes the phone numbers of everyone on the Government Committee.

Even if the measure passes tomorrow, it won't be the end of the story. The bill would then just go to Step 2 in the process. But I'd like to see my state kill this idiocy in committee. Slap it down here and now. Read More

PA Alert: Anti-Gay Marriage Bill Vote

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Thursday March 09, 2006 · 4:32 PM PST

2006/03/09 · 16:32

Just got a email alert from the ACLU of PA. The PA House State Government Committee is voting next Wednesday (the 15th) on HB 2381, which would add an amendment to the state constitution saying marriage is only between one man and one woman, yadda yadda yadda.

It would be wonderful if we could kill the bill in committee.

The ACLU of PA has all manner of helpful information here. Read More

Dobson on Rape and Abortion

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Tuesday March 07, 2006 · 11:38 AM PST

2006/03/07 · 11:38

What does Focus on the Family say about rape and abortion? (Yeah, it's a rhetorical question--honestly, does anyone even need to ask?)

But if you do wonder what they say, go to their site and search for RAPE. It calls up dozens of pages on ABORTION. Read More

CWA: Abortion Rights increase Maternal Mortality?

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Tuesday February 28, 2006 · 8:16 AM PST

2006/02/28 · 08:16

An investigation by the Concerned Women for America (CWA) has come to a stunning conclusion: A United Nations report says that there is a direct correspondence between abortion rights and higher rates of maternal mortality.

"Pro-abortion activists frequently argue that abortion reduces the maternal mortality rate worldwide. However, a newly published United Nations (U.N.) report refutes this claim. . . . The data shows that those countries where abortions are performed most freely also have higher rates of maternal death."

If true, this would be stunning news. Luckily, I was able to arrange a brief interview with Wendy Wright, the president of Concerned Women for America, and I asked her about the findings.

***NOTE: This interview never happened. This diary is snark. Leave now if it's going to make you get all snitty. Read More

Narnia vs. Brokeback Mountain

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Friday December 16, 2005 · 6:12 AM PST

2005/12/16 · 06:12

A fascinating article appeared this week on the website of the Concerned Women for America, "Narnia Gets Lion's Share of Box Office, While Critics Hail 'Gay Cowboy' Flick." It was written by Benjamin Frichtl, a student at Patrick Henry College and a CWA intern. He's also a hard man to get in touch with, but after several tries, I managed to get Mr. Frichtl on the phone for a brief interview.

[ n.b., this interview took place only in of my liberal and thoroughly demented imagination. The quotes, however, are taken directly from the very real article.] Read More

Cliff's Notes for the Worst of the Republicans

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Sunday December 11, 2005 · 7:41 AM PST

2005/12/11 · 07:41

I keep seeing dKos polls in which 75% or so of Kosmopolitans do not know much or anything about the Republican Study Committee (RSC), which is disturbing.

The Republican Study Committee is made up of the most conservative members of the House of Representatives. There are over 100 members.

RSC members have proposed legislation that would allow churches to make political endorsements.

And it is RSC members who have proposed an Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

More about that and the Cliff's Notes they wrote for themselves below: Read More

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