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Where Are the Women? (Video)
[Thursday, 02.16.2012] on Capitol Hill, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform assembled a panel to discuss the birth control mandate in President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. The panel consisted of eight male anti-choice, anti-contraception religious leaders and one female anti-choice witness. None had health credentials. . . .
California [Reactionary] Darrell Issa chaired the panel, and because [Reactionaries] hold a majority in the House, he was able to choreograph the entire proceedings. He thoughtfully assembled a diverse group of men who don’t necessarily have any real, fact-based reason to oppose birth control except for the fact that it made them feel icky. Invited to testify were five men. And no women. The whole thing was, to put it as succinctly as possible, depressing as fuck.
The Testimony Reactionary Chairman Issa’s All-Male, White-Wing Led Birth-Control Panel Doesn’t Want You to Hear
Rick Santorum’s Sugar-Daddy Super Pac Funder Foster Friess Says, ‘Gals’ Used To Put Bayer Aspirin Between Their Knees For Contraception
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Bill Moyers: Freedom of and From Religion
In politics, the concrete usually wins over the abstract [Because thinking is hard!]
. . . [M]ost people value [Christian privilege] as an abstract principle, they don’t make decisions based on abstractions. They tend to look at the concrete manifestations of those abstractions. . . . So while many people will say they support [Christian privilege], they are going to be angry if [women workers] access to their contraceptive services are taken away. The situation is similar to those older Tea [Bagee] supporters who say they support getting government out of health care as an abstract principle but will fight tooth and nail to retain their Medicare.
Reactionary Tea Bagee Governor Rick Scott Cost Florida Taxpayers $178 Million After 98% of Welfare Applicants Pass Drug Test
Graphic: MoveOn.org
Data: TheRoot.com
Anarchism Is Not What You Think It Is—And There’s a Whole Lot We Can Learn from It
On February 8, 1921 twenty thousand people, braving temperatures so low that musical instruments froze, marched in a funeral procession in the town of Dimitrov, a suburb of Moscow. They came to pay their respects to a man, Petr Kropotkin, and his philosophy, anarchism.
Some 90 years later few know of Kropotkin. And the word anarchism has been so stripped of substance that it has come to be equated with chaos and nihilism. This is regrettable, for both the man and the philosophy that he did so much to develop have much to teach us in 2012. . . .
The precipitating event that led Kropotkin to embrace anarchism was the publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species in 1859. . . .
He spent the rest of his life promoting that concept and the theory of social structure known as anarchism. To Americans anarchism is synonymous with a lack of order. But to Kropotkin anarchist societies don’t lack order but the order emerges from rules designed by those who feel their impact, rules that encourage humanly scaled production systems and maximize individual freedom and social cohesion.
Paul Krugman: Severe [Reactionary] Syndrome
How did American [reactionism] end up so detached from, indeed at odds with, facts and rationality? For it was not always thus. . . .
The point is that today’s dismal [White-Wing Party] field — is there anyone who doesn’t consider it dismal? — is no accident. Economic [reactionaries] played a cynical game, and now they’re facing the blowback, a party that suffers from “severe” [reactionism] in the worst way. . . .
These People Can Vote and Reproduce!




