After complaints from everyone, including the mailman.
The current bill involves some quietly coercive (and racist) provisions that no one wants to mention.
Part of the funding for the Senate's health care bill will come from a 5 percent tax on cosmetic surgery, on procedures overwhelmingly obtained by women.
"Certainly not in my kid's face."
It's all they can talk about in the right-wing media.
Women's rights advocates have been holding their collective breath as the Senate hammered out its bill. So far, so good.
Nor, obviously, hate crimes themselves.
An independent study predicts that the Stupak amendment could end insurance coverage of abortions -- for everyone -- in the long-run.
Horrifying.
A techie hired by a group of radical clerics who went to the capitol to denounce homosexuals decided not to risk the bad karma.
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