December 2007

The Concord Monitor Declares that Romney Must Be Stopped

by Cara December 23, 2007

It seems that New Hampshire paper The Concord Monitor agrees with my long-held belief that Mitt Romney is a douche. And the editorial board has pretty much made my morning. They broke with tradition today, and instead of providing an endorsement for a primary candidate, they gave Romney an anti-endorsement. You really ought to go [...]

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(A Few) Candidates on Choice

by Cara December 22, 2007

RH Reality check recently sent out a detailed and comprehensive questionnaire to all presidential candidates about their views on reproductive rights, from abortion to contraception and the right to parent. Only Senator Edwards and Senator Obama filled out the questionnaire, and Senator Dodd issued a statement (a mix-up meant that Kucinich did not receive the [...]

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What the Treatment of Jamie Lynn Spears Says About Us

by Cara December 22, 2007

So, here’s what I don’t want to be writing about: Jamie Lynn Spears. I wanted to avoid this whole mess all together. Jamie Lynn Spears is someone, until a few days ago, whose existence I was only vaguely aware of, and whose existence I didn’t really care about. Her pregnancy was and is of absolutely [...]

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Whenever I need a laugh, I just commit sexual assault

by Cara December 21, 2007

This story makes me want to throw something very heavy at the heads of those directly involved: two men were arrested for sexual assault after holding a woman down and cutting off her underwear in a bar. The most enraging part? The 39 and 40-year-old men who committed the assault called it a “joke.”

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British Legislators Aim to Outlaw Prostitution

by Cara December 21, 2007

Labour party parliament officials in Britain are currently working to outlaw prostitution. Harriet Harman, Labour’s deputy leader and minister for women, gave public backing to a ban on prostitution yesterday. Home Office minister Vernon Coaker and junior women’s minister Barbara Follett are to visit Sweden, where paying for sex is illegal, to see what the [...]

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New Orleans City Council Approves Demolition of Public Housing

by Cara December 20, 2007

Via Leigh (who has done the best job I’ve personally seen of covering this story), the New Orleans city council ruled today that the public housing will be demolished. Merry Fucking Christmas. To add insult to injury, police responded to protesters outside the meeting rather violently. Chemical spray and stun guns were used. For approximately [...]

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Anti-choice protester challenges buffer zone law

by Cara December 20, 2007

A woman who harasses women protests outside of abortion clinics has sued the city of Pittsburgh over its “buffer zone” laws that require protesters to not come within 8 feet of patients entering a clinic or within 15 feet of a clinic entrance. She claims that it violates her right to harass women seeking medical [...]

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A Time To Give

by Cara December 19, 2007

It’s the holiday season, and that means it’s time to be generous. Not everyone can afford to give monetary gifts — sadly, like myself this year — but I do know that many of you can. I also know that many of you will make donations before the end of the year. And I have [...]

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More Government Obsession With Calling Rape Anything Other Than “Rape”

by Cara December 19, 2007

I don’t know what the hell is in the water in Australia, lately (is there a chemical known to cause the blaming of child rape victims?), but Lauredhel has yet another frightening story about a judge declaring that the gang-rape of a child was not actually rape. Only this time, the child is a boy, [...]

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Rape: not just “experimentation” anymore, now also “disagreement.”

by Cara December 18, 2007

Via Samhita, just when you think that government officials couldn’t possibly apologize for rape anymore than they already do, you find out that the world is even shittier than you think. This goes far beyond “offensive remark of the week.” Date rape should be treated differently from attacks on women by strangers, John Redwood has [...]

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