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Rage Within the Machine - Progressivism - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 02/22/10

Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:45 PM EST (Video: Q & O | The Daily Show | Comedy Central)

Seeded by McSpocky

A bearded Samantha Bee reports with her gun phone from an alternate universe free from progressivism.

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100,000 demand Clarence Thomas stay out of health care hearing

Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 8:51 PM EST (Articles » peoplesworld)

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Over 100,000 signatures demanding Justice Clarence Thomas recuse himself from upcoming March hearings on the Affordable Care Act were presented to the Supreme Court on Friday.

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Former Louisiana Gov. Roemer leaving GOP to try presidential campaign trail as an independent - The Washington Post

Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 8:14 PM EST (The Washington Post)

Seeded by AJ in Missouri

By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, February 22, 10:54 AM

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Virginia Will Not Require Invasive Vaginal Ultrasounds

Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:47 PM EST ()

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After an understandable uproar over a mandatory procedure that federal law would consider rape, Virginia legislators have opted to forgo the invasive and most definitely uncomfortable procedure for women seeking abortions.

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Right Wing Blogs in Massive Fail Mode Again

Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:24 PM EST (Little Green Footballs)

Seeded by proglib

How embarrassing for the entire right wing blogosphere. They worked so very hard to spin the Virginia uterus inspection bill, even denying that trans-vaginal ultrasounds were mandated at all.

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Former GOP Sen. Alan Simpson: We 'Won't Have A Prayer' With Rick Santorum

Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:29 PM EST (Mediaite)

Seeded by Carloz

Simpson, noting that he is now a “Romney-man,” attacked Santorum’s views on homosexuality in particular.

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GOP Reproductive Ideology: Ridicule Is The Only Weapon

Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:53 PM EST ()

Seeded by McSpocky

Between trans-vaginal ultrasound legislation and personhood initiatives, it is clear that the GOP is completely off the rails. One might think the train has stopped in the 18th century.

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After calling zero women witnesses for their contraceptive hearing, GOP bans Democratic hearing with female witnesses from C-SPAN

Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:08 PM EST (Daily Kos)

Seeded by Paul William Tenny (Clipped by austinrick)

At the now infamous no-girlz-allowed birth control policy hearing Rep. Darrell Issa held last week, the Democrats had one witness they wanted to speak in the first panel. Unbelievably (to the GOP), it was a woman.

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The Occupy Wall Street Bible Is Out, and It's Good

Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:41 PM EST (good.is)

Seeded by McSpocky

It’s probably no accident that the minimalist brown cover of Occupying Wall Street, the new title from OR Books about the now world-famous Manhattan movement, resembles the posters that, for a few months in 2011, came to define Zuccotti Park’s skyline.

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