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What I Learned from Dr. Tiller RE: The Nebraska Abortion Ban

This piece by Julie Burkhart, Dr. Tiller's right-hand woman, was first published on RH Reality Check earlier today.What's happening in Nebraska right now isn't local. Abortion rights opponents are...

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It really is April Fool's Day when tradMed uses T Word to describe Dr. George...

This is a short diary, but in view of all the pooties and such I think it is just fine.I was shocked when I saw the T word - gasp! Terrorism! - on a headline by AP in Yahoo News"Atty: Kan. abortion...

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BREAKING: Scott Roeder sentenced to life, parole in 50 years

Sorry, no other information yet, as this just happened literally seconds ago, but I'm watching the sentencing hearing and Dr. Tiller's murderer got life with a chance of parole in 50 years.

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Dr. Tiller's Assassin Complains That Life Is Unfair

Aw, poor baby:The man who killed Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller has filed a petition complaining that his rights have been violated and asking to be released from custody. The man who carefully...

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Shahzad or Rudolph, U.S Citizens Have Miranda Rights

It's official: John McCain is now more addled than Glenn Beck.  While the Fox News host insisted to the dismay of his colleagues that Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad"has all the rights under...

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When a Lone Wolf Assassin is Not Nuts or Alone

Dr. George Tiller was serving as an usher at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas when Scott Roeder walked up to him and shot him in the head.The media at the time quickly adopted the...

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Not a Good Line to Cross

[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]As blogtopia has dutifully and fully noted—half the impetus to this day for liberal blogging is to offer an alternative to our awful American regressive media—it has...

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Death Threat: The Widening Gyre‏

One day, a Republican operative offers $100 to anyone who'll punch me in the nose.The next day, I get a death threat.After Fox News spewed its usual clownish hatred about me yesterday, my office...

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Morning Feature: The Party of Null, Part II - Theocracy over Democracy

When Scott Roeder argued that he was justified in killing Dr. George Tiller at a Wichita church, the defense was not his own invention. Claims that one's religion supersedes civil law - sometimes...

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Interview of Markos Moulitsas, Founder of DailyKos (Transcript)

Transcript of Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) interviewing Markos Moulitsas, Founder of DailyKos about his new book American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical...

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Federal grand jury probing Tiller murder

cross-posted at Talk2ActionA federal law enforcement official told the AP yesterday that a federal grand jury is investigating a possible broader conspiracy behind last year's murder of George...

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Cheryl Sullenger has to go

Yesterday, I mentioned that a federal grand jury is investigating whether there was a broader conspiracy behind last year's murder of George Tiller.  It's a near-certainty who one of the witnesses will...

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ACTION ALERT: Tell Operation Rescue that Cheryl Sullenger has to go

This weekend, we learned that that a federal grand jury is investigating whether there was a broader conspiracy behind last year's murder of George Tiller.  It's a near-certainty who one of the...

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Brian Kilmeade, Meet the Non-Muslim Terrorists

When Brian Kilmeade of Fox News declared Friday that "not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims," he revealed he knows little about terrorism and even less about recent American...

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Before There Were Late-Term Abortions...

...there were hydrocephalic babies. Except not all were still babies. Some were much older. One, whom I got to know well, was my age: 16.It was not uncommon for kids in my small town of Cambridge, MN,...

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I Luv Me a Gud Conspiracy Theory

What do we have to little of in America? Conspiracy theories!  Especially rightwingconservative theories.  Thank goodness gracious we have Glenn Beck on the job! With Socialististas fomenting a violent...

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The Coming War on Health Reform, Government Cheese, and how CPCs Incubate...

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger

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Oregon Plots Reveal Dual Terror Threats

This weekend, Americans learned of a new domestic terror threat in Oregon.  According to the FBI, Somali-born student Mohamed Osman Mohamud planned to detonate a bomb during the annual Christmas tree...

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Ann Coulter's Justifications for Murder

It is tragic that it took the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the murder and wounding of 18 others to bring home to most of us the horror of years of rightwing violence, threats...

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Republicans Push to Legalize Anti-Abortion Terrorism

During his 2004 campaign, Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn declared, "I favor the death penalty for abortionists." Four years later, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin famously refused to...

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'Pro-lifers' choose their next target

A sign at one of the many vigils honoring Dr. Tiller after he was murdered (Photo: Priya Deonarain/Creative Commons)  Two years ago, Dr. George Tiller was gunned down in his church in Wichita, Kansas....

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The Rachel Maddow Show - May 31, 2011

Randomly yelling at clouds & yelling at kids to get off my lawn kills the voice! ;D

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He Called Us Names!

[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]I was fairly surprised over the weekend at Balloon Juice to see one of their erstwhile bloggers state that people just want a president to fight over something—what...

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The first shot was fired a long time ago.

I just saw this video of Andrew Breitbart in djtyg's recommended diary. I think it needs to be shared widely.The part I wish to focus on is this:There are times where I'm not thinking as clearly as I...

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Christians Who Pray to God to Kill People Are Not Moral No Matter What they...

George Michael is a well known popular singer from England.  He's also gay.  In November, he came down with a serious case of pneumonia and was hospitalized in in intensive care unit in Austria....

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How does the religious right REALLY feel about the death of George Tiller?

Yesterday, I mentioned that Operation Rescue leader Troy Newman compared the decision to uphold the health care bill to 9-11 and the rise of Nazism.  As I've had some time to sit on it, I've come to...

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George Tiller's former clinic slated to reopen

After George Tiller was murdered by Scott Roeder in 2009, his family decided to close his Wichita clinic and get out of the abortion business--leaving Wichita without an abortion clinic.  Well, an...

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I knew George Tiller, he was Pro Life

"" kscliff Engineered Reality • 6 hours agoI also question the use of the term "Women's health and reproductive services" He was a "late term abortion provider" nothing more than...

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Anti-abortion zealots ask for Wichita clinic to be closed, citing possibility...

Apparently Dr. George Tiller existing'drew gun violence' The wonderful thing about being a mostly insane nutcase with no actual apparent values other than the urgent need to impose one's own religious...

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On the Murder of a Late-Term Abortionist

This was originally written (by me) June 10, 2009 after the assassination of Dr. George Tiller.There is something I want to ask the man who murdered George Tiller and all his celebrators and...

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Phillip Kline, former Kansas AG who persecuted Tiller and Planned Parenhood...

Phillip Kline, former Kansas attorney general and Johnson County district attorney was suspended from practicing law by the Kansas Supreme Court for misconduct in his investigation of abortion clinics...

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Open thread for night owls: Reflections on the 5th anniversary of the...

At RH Reality Check, Carole Joffe, a professor at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, writes Reflections on the Fifth Anniversary of the...

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A Pro-Choice Hero, a Man of Principle, a Doctor at Risk

I write this with truly mixed emotions. On the one hand, I celebrate a true American hero, a man who, at extreme risk and great personal sacrifice, performs abortions when and where no other doctor...

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Obama critics ignore 'Medieval Christian threat' to abortion providers

During his address at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Obama pointed to the history of the Crusades and American slavery as obvious examples of those who "committed terrible deeds...

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About That 'Atheist' Who Killed 3 Young Muslims In North Carolina…

On February 10, 2015, a 46-year old 'self proclaimed' atheist, took his gun, managed his way into his neighbor's home, and shot them to death. Craig Stephen Hicks killed three innocent young Muslim...

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O’Reilly claimed he was "just reporting" Tiller's Nickname -- Not Inciting it

O’Reilly's lack of remorse over George Tiller's murder, truly shows his duplicitous lack of character.His lack of Journalistic standards too. O’Reilly Responds To The Tiller Murder: ‘No Backpedaling...

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From the O'Reilly's "Greatest Hits" file

I'm sure there are many more than just these, given the amount of time the Corporate Media has pampered him, and his so-called career.Yet lest we forget, the extent of his weaselliness and unchecked...

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Breaking: Bomb Squad Called to Wichita Women's Center - 19YO in Custody

The South Wind Women's Center (Dr. George Tiller's clinic) was the scene of a disturbance reported short time ago. A nineteen year old man was detained after carrying a backpack with an improvised...

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Add your own 'WORD'—help create a unique thank you for Planned Parenthood...

Planned Parenthood has been viciously attacked, on many levels, by misogynistic Republican lawmakers and terrorizing religious extremists. The health organization’s doctors, nurses, and staff sometimes...

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Republican candidates must denounce anti-abortion terrorism now

In the wake of the slaughter in Paris, the 2016 Republican White House hopeful and their conservative allies have done a stellar job whipping up hysteria about the terrorist threat from ISIS.  But when...

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The 'Bundy Effect' is fueling an increase in right-wing terror

xEmbedded ContentFor months, conservatives have been warning Americans about the supposed "Ferguson Effect." Murder rates in cities like St. Louis, Chicago, and Baltimore are rising, they claim,...

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Remembering Dr Tiller: my abortion, a short story and a brief rant

I was one year and 2,500 miles away from an abusive marriage, with a 3 year old daughter and a brand-new MS degree. I wanted to finish grad school, raise my child, walk on the beach. My parents shunned...

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Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda. Did national Democrats do enough to support...

James Thompson lost last night. I want to discuss why national Democrats (DCCC, DNC, Senators, etc) were conspicuously absent from the KS-4 race. I think these are worth discussing, since the same...

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Dr. George Tiller was assassinated eight years ago today

On this morning eight years ago, while having breakfast, I got a phone call from a member of Dr. George Tiller’s family that he had been assassinated two hours before the call.  I was devastated, and...

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This Week in the War on Women, 05/28/17-06/03/17: Leader of the Free World...

Traditionally, the American President has been considered the leader of the free world. But ever since Trump was elected, that designation has been repeatedly questioned. Now with Trump pulling America...

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Hate-casters hope to revive their lost-cause Civil War

—I can’t believe I have to report on this in the 21st-century — especially after such a strong showing of “peace-loving patriotic citizens” in Boston yesterday. But Media Matters has documented a...

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Anti-Abortion Terrorist Who Bombed Clinics, Shot Dr. George Tiller, Released...

Rachelle “Shelley” Shannon, a convicted anti-abortion terrorist, was released from prison Tuesday. Shannon was convicted of firebombing abortion clinics in Oregon and two other states—a crime for which...

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This Week in the War on Women: Remembering Dr. George Tiller

Most of this diary will be my tribute to Dr. George Tiller, who was murdered 10 years ago, on May 31, 2009, originally published on the Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona blog. So I will begin...

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Wichita Doctor Killed After Years of Incendiary Rhetoric Against Him

The following is adapted from my forthcoming book, Words on Fire: The Power of Incendiary Language and How to Confront It, out in June and available for pre-order now.It was an ordinary Sunday at the...

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Kansas' Aug. 2 special election is a first test of abortion rights. We need...

On Aug. 2, Kansas will hold a special election to determine the future of abortion rights within the state. Kansas has managed to keep attempts at incredibly strict abortion laws locked away in the...

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