By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, March 31 2011
On March 29, Indiana Representative Eric Turner (R) introduced HB 1210, a bill that would make all abortions illegal after 20 weeks. Dismayed, Rep. Gail Riecken (D) offered an amendment that would exempt “women who became pregnant due to rape or incest for whom pregnancy threatens their life or could cause serious and irreversible physical harm” from being forced to carry to term. That’s when Rep. Turner claimed that women would use Riecken’s proposed amendment as a “giant loophole.”
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abortion | Democrats | Indiana | Radical Right | Republicans | Shocking | videos | war on women
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, March 31 2011
Betcha your permanent marker can’t do this.
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Climate | Global | Inspiring | Shocking | videos
By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, March 31 2011
Yep, you read right. Since 2001, the U.S. has spent upwards of $1260 billion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan | Charts | Iraq | Shocking | War
By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, March 30 2011
Why are lobbyists pushing for a wave of uranium mining that would destroy the Grand Canyon?
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Climate | Corporate Influence | Grand Canyon | Inspiring | videos
By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, March 30 2011
Come April 15, everybody ponies up their fair share, right? Not so much. Thanks to corporate tax cuts and loopholes, these big companies will be rollin’ in the green instead of paying Uncle Sam.
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Bernie Sanders | Corporate Influence | Economic Fairness | Graphics | Shocking
By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, March 30 2011
What’s the best way to avoid paying taxes? Become a huge company and take advantage of loopholes and offshore accounts. These 10 famous tax-dodgers all did.
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By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, March 30 2011
Opposite in every single way to current President Barack Obama—in fact, “Karab Amabo” is only one letter off from actually being “Barack Obama” spelled backward—this fat, white, small-eared idiot is the GOP’s 2012 candidate dream come true.
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2012 Elections | Barack Obama | Bill Maher | Hilarious | Republicans | videos
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, March 29 2011
When a Republican feels compelled to flip-flop his or her way out of agreeing with a Democrat, he or she follows three ridiculously simple steps.
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Global | Hilarious | Libya | Newt Gingrich | Rachel Maddow | Republicans | Shocking
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, March 29 2011
So they can avoid talking about real news, like GE’s massive tax evasion, of course.
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Barack Obama | Corporate Influence | Daily Show | Economic Fairness | Hilarious | Jeff Immelt | Jon Stewart | Shocking | videos
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, March 29 2011
Yes, it is that simple, explains WaPo blogger Ezra Klein. No one has to do a thing—the Bush Tax Cuts are already scheduled to expire in 2012.
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Bush tax cuts | Charts | Economic Fairness | Ezra Klein | Inspiring | Shocking