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Oral and Anal Sex Acts Are Up Among Teens

There has been a “significant increase” in the proportion of teens and young adults engaging in such acts during the last decade, according to STD clinics in Baltimore.

Posted on May 10, 2006 READ MORE  | 475 READS


GOP Losses Are Democrats’ Gains

Although Republicans have been losing ground in polls for some time, poll numbers for Democrats haven’t been rising much at all—until now.

Posted on May 10, 2006 READ MORE  | 70 READS


John McCain, Former Maverick

Now the Arizona senator says it’s “an honor” to speak at the college of Jerry Falwell’s, the same man he once called an “agent of intolerance.”

Posted on May 10, 2006 READ MORE  | 14 READS


Colbert Points
Roger L. Wollenberg / Pool Photo via N.Y. Times

Did Media Miss Real Colbert Story?

Check out this fantastic review of Colbert’s performance, including this: “It was perhaps the first time in Bush’s tenure that the president was forced to sit and listen to any American cite the litany of criminal and corruption allegations that have piled up against his administration.”

Posted on May 10, 2006 READ MORE  | 23 READS


Senate Resolution: Sing Anthem in English

In lieu of having anything really important to do, the Senate just approved a resolution stating that the national anthem, the Pledge and citizenship oaths should be sung or spoken in English.

Posted on May 10, 2006 READ MORE  | 36 READS


John Kerry and Mary Cheney
Cheney: BBC / Kerry: scottcsmith.net

Kerry Fires Back at Mary Cheney’s Slur

After the vice president’s daughter called him a “son of a bitch” for mentioning her sexuality during a 2004 debate, John Kerry retorts that Mary Cheney “flacked for the most anti-gay administration in history.”
Amen.

Posted on May 10, 2006 READ MORE  | 51 READS


The Motherhood Manifesto
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The Motherhood Manifesto

The co-founder of MoveOn.org and another author argue that mothers need to fight against the wage gap and lack of professional support for moms in American society. (book excerpt)

Posted on May 10, 2006 READ MORE  | 27 READS


Census: Hispanic Baby Boom Driving Population

Hispanics account for 49 percent of the country’s growth from 2004 to 2005, and 70 percent of the growth in children younger than 5, according to a new census report.

Posted on May 10, 2006 READ MORE  | 48 READS


Ray McGovern
From Mother Jones

McGovern: Rumsfeld Drama Evoked Soviet Era

Ray McGovern, the CIA veteran who publicly challenged Donald Rumsfeld last week, tells Buzz Flash in an in-depth interview that the canned applause that accompanied Rumsfeld’s lies reminded McGovern of Cold War-era Russia.

Posted on May 10, 2006 READ MORE  | 40 READS


Michael 'Heckuva Job' Brown
From occoquan.com

Brown Poufed Hair As Katrina Hit, E-mails Say

Former FEMA director Michael “Heckuva Job” Brown told an aide he was “sitting in the chair, putting mousse in my hair” as he waited for a media interview immediately after the Aug. 29 disaster began. He also disputed that levees quickly broke—despite getting reports to that effect.

Posted on May 10, 2006 READ MORE  | 101 READS


Iranians Fault Rice’s Dismissal of Letter

An Iranian diplomat says that Condoleezza Rice squandered a potential “turning point” in U.S.-Iranian relations by her “hasty” rejection of a letter from the Iranian president to Bush. (Read the letter)

Posted on May 10, 2006 READ MORE  | 43 READS


Who Would Jesus Tax
From ThinkProgress

Conservatives Seek to Extend Tax Breaks for Rich

House and Senate conservatives have agreed to spend $70 billion to extend the 15% tax rate on capital gains and dividends until 2010.

Posted on May 9, 2006 READ MORE  | 48 READS


Cory Booker
From politicsnj.com

Rising Star Wins Newark Mayoral Race

The 37-year-old former Rhodes scholar, who is black, won in a landslide. (His last mayoral campaign was the focus of the Oscar-nominated “Street Fight.”)

 

Posted on May 9, 2006 READ MORE  | 30 READS


approval polls
From the N.Y. Times

Bush at New Low in N.Y. Times/CBS Poll

Bush’s 31% rating (which echoes a USA Today/Gallup poll) equals the low-water mark of his father’s presidency, and is the third-lowest approval rating of any president in the last 50 years.

Posted on May 9, 2006 READ MORE  | 25 READS


Birth Control Pill
via Feministing

‘The Pill’ Turns 46 Years Old

On May 9, 1960, the FDA approved Enovid, the first birth control pill, for clinical use. Many court cases, a sexual revolution and a fundamentalist backlash later, use of and access to contraceptives is still very much a hot-button issue in the U.S. Read a roundup of information and opinion relating to the release of an explosive report last week connecting a spike in unwanted pregnancies among the poor to decreased contraceptive use. (h/t: Feministing)

  • REPORT: A Tale of Two Americas for Women: The Contraception-Abortion Connection press release | PDF (Guttmacher Institute)
  • Timeline: The Pill (PBS)

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