Finally Some Good News for Reproductive Freedom

Pharmacists can’t refuse Plan B pill, appeals court says Pharmacists are obliged to dispense the Plan B pill, even if they are personally opposed to the “morning after” contraceptive on religious grounds, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. In a case that could affect policy across the western U.S., a supermarket pharmacy owner in Olympia, [...]

Obama Losing Support of Independents

Whoa! Yesterday Rasmussen Reports had Obama’s “Presidential Approval Index” at -5. Today it’s -8! What’s going on? The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 30% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama [...]

Blue Dog health care thoughts

I was thrilled when I read this on Congressman Dennis Moore’s (KS-3) website – because that’s how low my expectations are: . . . there are approximately 47 million Americans without health insurance and that is unacceptable to me – as it should be to you. We must look for solutions. We must listen to [...]

Thursday Morning News Links (with a little help from my friend Katiebird)

News from the Boston Area Good morning, Conflucians! It’s another gray day in New England, but at least the Red Sox are still in first place. Kansas City Royals play Red Sox this weekend. José Guillen returned to the lineup — but as the designated hitter — and could spend time this weekend battling the [...]

Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Red Tent Feminists and PF Flyers

Ruth Bader-Ginsburg knows what it’s like to be the only woman in the room and she tells us all about it in a piece in the NYTimes today on The Place of Women on the Court.   I’d advise reading the whole thing in the July 12 edition of the New York Times Magazine.  The link [...]

Moving toward a “public plan” inch by painful inch and we STILL don’t know what we’ll have when it’s done!

[UPDATE: Reid to Republicans: Nevermind] My head is reeling  – DID Obama slap-down Rahm Emanuel? — I don’t think so: “I am pleased by the progress we’re making on health care reform and still believe, as I’ve said before, that one of the best ways to bring down costs, provide more choices, and assure quality [...]

Wednesday Morning News

Continuing our collaboration from yesterday, BostonBoomer has made an incredible contribution to today’s list of links!  This time though we’re mixing them up. Is the U.S. Attorney case still going on? Who knew? Rove deposed in US attorney probe Rove’s deposition began at 10 a.m. and ended around 6:30 p.m, with several breaks, Conyers said [...]

You can call him Senator Al

He’s an occasionally tasteless, egomaniac who declared the 80′s “The Al Franken Decade”, dedicated to him, Al Franken.  But Al Franken got me and millions of others through the darkest nights of the Bush Administration in 2004.  His Sundance Channel rebroadcast of his Air America show was one of my DVR must sees.  Every night.  [...]

Palinpalooza 2009

This year’s Palinpalooza crammed more crazy into one weekend than I thought possible.  I’m still recuperating from all the fun I had, but here are a few of the things I learned: 1. Sarah Palin resigned because she was about to get busted by the F.B.I. 2. The F.B.I. isn’t investigating Sarah Palin. 3. Sarah [...]

Tuesday – Looking for News in all the Wrong Places

OBVIOUSLY the biggest news is the funeral/carnival for the Most Important Man who Ever Lived. This post is not about that. Dakinikat, who would normally be submitting this post, is ill and won’t be posting for a few days.  So as a special treat this post is a group project. . . . StateOfDisbelief Top [...]