Republican War On Workers Comes To Missouri

I have been meaning to write about this for some time now. A bill in the Missouri Senate would make it easier for employers to fire employees and make it harder for those employees to collect unemployment. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The bill by Republican Sen. Will Kraus, of Lee’s Summit, would include accidental [...]

I Weep For Missouri

The race for a congressional seat in Missouri just took another giant step in to the land of the insane. Republican candidate Ed Martin, who is challanging Russ Carnahan says the following audi o here on a local radio show:

Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself

Or by Republicans…

WTF Kind of Sick Bastards Live in Arizona?

I ask because of This: R.E. Wall, director of Prescott’s Downtown Mural Project, said he and other artists were subjected to slurs from motorists as they worked on the painting at one of the town’s most prominent intersections. “We consistently, for two months, had people shouting racial slander from their cars,” Wall said. “We had [...]

Christian Fail: Biblically Endorsed Euthanasia

Words fail me: Chalk another death up to animal rights insanity and to the ongoing failure of the West to take counsel on practical matters from the Scripture.

Private Healthcare Spending Accounts Being Ripped Off!

NPR has an interesting story on private healthcare spending accounts. Seems money is missing from thousands of accounts: Thousands of people are learning that money they squirreled away in health savings accounts is gone. Many thought the money was sitting safely in banks. But now it appears it was stolen. Federal investigators have released few [...]

Another Accidental Taser Death

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the individual was hiding in a crawlspace and refused to come out. He was bitten by a police dog then tasered and later died at a hospital. The medical examiner says weak heart muscles/irregular heart beat and toxic levels of methamphetamine contributed to the death, which absolutely, positively had [...]

Gays in the Military: The Sacred Band Of Thebes

There is a big kerfluffle over repealing DADT. Republicans are against it, even though the military is for it. One is amused at the split in opinion between the two groups. At any rate, the Wall Street Journal is against it. Says Mackubin Ownes:

Does Healthcare Reform Mean The Death Of SCHIP: Kill The Bill

You know SCHIP, it’s the State Children’s Health Insurance Program that Democrats were screaming bloody murder about not all that long ago. The Democrats were mad because Bush vetoed two bills that would expand the program. Screamed and hollared and whined about how children were going to suffer and now Democratic hypocrisy is coming home [...]

Culture of Life Hates Children

Back on my old blog I did a number of posts on the culture of life. I haven’t really done any at ScienceBlogs, however, today I feel the need to rant. Eschaton has been following a story of a DHS raid on a meat packing plnat in Colorado. The reason for the raids keeps changing. [...]

Culture of Life Hates Rape Victems

From here (follow the links) the culture of life in Wisconsin has introduced a bill to ban contraceptives and counselling for rape victems because it leads to promiscuity. This has got to be the most idiotic idea to come from the culture of life yet. With this bill, rape victims will no longer be able [...]

Green Knight and Judicial Activism Or Why Does the Culture of Life Hate Congress?

This post by The Green Knight on judicial activism is brilliant! Who’d have thunk the most conservative members of the Supreme Court are the ones who vote to overturn congressional laws the most!

The Culture of Life Hates Pregnant Women, Unborn Babies and Children

Lets start with this: The Bush administration lifted a moratorium imposed in 1998 by the Clinton administration on using human testing for pesticide approvals. Under the change, political appointees are refereeing on a case-by-case basis any ethical disputes over human testing. The tests include a 2002-04 study by University of California-San Diego in which chloropicrin, [...]

The Culture of Life has Confusing Rules

Liberal hunting permit Creek Running North has a post about the above picture. He also links to a excellent post on the same subject by Orcinus So, if I understand the rules correctly, Dick Durbin has to apologize for comparing torture at Gitmo to…well other folks who engage in torture. Yet the above kind of [...]

Culture of Life is for Racism

To follow up on a comment I made over at Dharma Buns below is a list of senators who did not sponsor the legislation to apologize to victems of lynching. From Preposterous Universe So, who are the Senators who bravely hold the pro-lynching position? Unfortunately it will probably be impossible to ever know for sure, [...]