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Rape is worse when it happens to men, reports the New York Times | Radfem Hub

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:26 AM EST ()

Recently, the New York Times reported that rape is worse when it happens to men than when it happens to women.“There is no arena in which rape takes place between men and women that it does not take place between men and men[.]“Like women, men who are raped feel vio …

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Obama Risks Alienating Republicans By Using Facts

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:17 AM EST ()

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In what some critics are calling the most radical tactic ever employed in a State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama risked alienating congressional Republicans last night by repeatedly using facts. Mr.

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Get Dead Fetuses Out of the Superbowl! - The Petition Site

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:46 AM EST ()

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It's generally agreed that images of bloody fetuses are not appropriate for prime time, but vehement pro-lifer Randall Terry has figured out a way to shove those gruesome images at Superbowl viewers. Terry has declared himself a presidential candidate, though he has about as m …

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Opponents protest signing of ACTA without adequate debate

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:07 AM EST (Ars Technica)

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Over the vocal protests of opponents, 22 European nations signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on Thursday.

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GOP Voter Fraud Claim Was Bogus

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 7:59 AM EST (politicsplus.org)

Seeded by McSpocky

In their ongoing attempt to steal the right to vote from students, workers, the disabled, and minorities, Republicans have been quick to make false allegations of voter fraud, despite conclusive evidence from a DOJ investigation that voter fraud accounts for less than one ten t …

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Orang-utan protects baby from gang

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:08 AM EST (National Nine News)

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A pregnant orang-utan protectively hugs her baby as a gang of bounty hunters surround the pair, hoping to cash in on a palm plantation's reward to get rid of the animals.

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Truthdigger of the Week: Stephen Colbert -

Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:28 PM EST (Truthdig)

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Though South Carolina’s foremost satirist no doubt has some ratings-driven motives for staging showy antics in his home state, there was, as per usual, an earnest impulse of civic service behind Colbert’s latest pranks on a political system that all too frequently v …

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Please, Don't Eat The Fetuses

Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:08 PM EST ()

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A Republican state senator from Oklahoma City introduced a bill Tuesday that would ban the use of aborted human fetuses in food, despite conceding that he's unaware of any company using such a practice. Freshman Sen.

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Michele Bachmann, Ann Coulter Named As Witnesses In Tea Party Lawsuit

Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:01 PM EST (The Huffington Post)

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Former Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has been named a witness for the defense in a lawsuit against Tea Party HD, a failed television network founded in 2010. Ann Coulter and Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips were also named as witnesses for the multim …

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This week in the War on Women: Public hangings, rape is a gift from God, and cream of fetus soup

Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:49 PM EST (Daily Kos)

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To laugh or cry? Sometimes, that is the question. This week, for example, Oklahoma Republican State Sen. Ralph Shortey is pushing a bill to ban the use of aborted human fetuses in food. Not that this is an actual problem, mind you; even Sen.

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