Simply answering the question of whether abortion should be permissible in cases of rape can get a candidate into enough trouble. Missouri Republican U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin found a creative way to really boost the negative reactions:
While explaining his position, Akin claimed that pregnancy only rarely results from “legitimate rape.”
Libertarian dreams of becoming a viable national party have never come close to being realized. But what about a state takeover?
Yeah, that Paul Ryan, what a radical! But let us define our terms:
It's been clear since the announcement of the Paul Ryan pick that the cosnervative wing of the Republican Party is ecstatic about it, the libertarian wing not so much. Andrew Napolitano, one of the most passionate libertarian voices on TV, explains why he's not thrilled about having a choice between "a president who has posed more of a danger to personal freedom than any in the past 150 years and a Republican team that wants to return to Bush-style big government."
As a rising star in Hungary’s far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of “buying up” the country, railed about the “Jewishness” of the political elite and claimed Jews were desecrating national symbols.
The always-predictable left is going absolutely nuts over Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan for the vice presidential slot. As she so often does, Maureen Dowd perfectly distills the hysteria and makes it her own:
I’d been wondering how long it would take Republicans to realize that Paul Ryan is their guy.
The U.S. population has reached a nerdy and delightful milestone.
Shortly after 2:29 p.m. on Tuesday, August 14, 2012, the U.S. population was exactly 314,159,265, or Pi (π) times 100 million, the U.S. Census Bureau reports.
If you've ever wondered what the hell a "pansexual" is, let Texas State Rep. Mary Gonzalez explain it to you, since she just came out as one:
Texas gun enthusiasts -- but I repeat myself -- might be dismayed by Gov. Rick Perry's apparent acceptance of state-level gun control:
Gary Harrington, the Oregon man convicted of collecting rainwater and snow runoff on his rural property surrendered Wednesday morning to begin serving his 30-day, jail sentence in Medford, Ore.
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