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Source: TPM
By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published AUGUST 7, 2014, 10:53 AM EDT
Now that the House has approved a lawsuit against President Obama and impeachment cries have increased, a few conservative groups have put together "National Impeach Obama Week."
The groups are organizing protests during the week of August 23 to call for Obama's impeachment, according to a blog post by activist Robert Ogden on the conservative blogging site, Western Journalism.
"Gerald Ford said after the Nixon was forced to resign under threat of impeachment that an 'impeachable offense' is whatever the Congress will vote for at a given time. We are not here to argue about what is impeachable, but to demand that this lawless, subversive and anti-American president be removed from office," the organizers wrote on the Impeach Obama Week website.
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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/impeach-obama-week
Cliven Bundy: Divine Inspiration Has Told Me To Disarm The Feds
BAIZA GARCIA Published AUGUST 7, 2014, 10:34 AM EDT
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy said during a radio interview on Wednesday that God has told him that the federal government needs to be disarmed.
Bundy appeared on Salt Lake City radio station KUER and elaborated on comments he made recently at a meeting of the Independent American Party in St. George, Utah.
The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Bundy said he still feels strongly about the need for sheriffs throughout the nation to take away weapons from federal law enforcement, and he said he believes God has told him as much.
"I have no idea what God wants done, but he did inspire me to have the sheriffs across the United States take away these weapons, disarm these bureaucracies, and he also gave me a little inspiration on what would happen if they didn’t do that," Bundy said, according to the Tribune. "It was indicated that 'this is our chance, America, to straighten this problem up. If we don’t solve this problem this way, we will face these same guns in a civil war.'"
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cliven-bundy-divine-inspiration-disarm
Tea Party Senate Hopeful Is Another Voice In Obama Impeachment Chorus
By DYLAN SCOTT Published AUGUST 7, 2014, 9:51 AM EDT
Alaska GOP senate hopeful and tea party favorite Joe Miller has become yet another Republican voice urging President Barack Obama's impeachment.
The Alaska Dispatch News reported that Miller called for House Republicans to seek impeachment at a Chamber of Commerce candidate forum on Wednesday.
“I think we all agree that Obama’s out of control,” Miller said.
Miller, who upended the Alaska Senate race in 2010 when he beat incumbent Lisa Murkowski (R) for the GOP nomination but then lost the general election to Murkowski's write-in campaign, joined the impeachment caucus late last month. It appears that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin inspired him.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joe-miller-obama-impeachment
MI Christian’s antigay rant caught on video: ‘F*cking f*ggot — you should be put to death!’
By David Ferguson
Thursday, August 7, 2014 8:53 EDT
A video recorded by a gay man in Delta Township, Michigan shows one man’s violent, antigay rant, and reveals the kind of religiously motivated harassment many LGBT people face every day of their lives.
WILX.com reported that on Tuesday evening, Isaiah Tweedie and his friends were leaving a restaurant when fellow patron Victor Sadet followed them outside and launched a fusillade of taunts and verbal abuse at the group and at Tweedie in particular.
Tweedie took out his camera phone and began to film.
“Say it, again,” he said to Sadet.
“I said, ‘fucking faggot.’ You want a picture? Take a picture,” said Sadet, advancing on the group.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/07/mi-christians-antigay-rant-caught-on-video-fcking-fggot-you-should-be-put-to-death/
GOP wimps suddenly fear social issues: How tables turned on religious right
Once upon a time, it was the right that ran on reproductive health issues. Here's why they're running scared nowKATIE MCDONOUGH
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doesn’t want to talk about equal marriage, at least not so much anymore. ”I don’t think the Republican Party is fighting it,” Walker said last month when asked about the issue. ”I’m not saying it’s not important, but Republicans haven’t been talking about this. We’ve been talking about economic and fiscal issues. It’s those on the left that are pushing it.” Now it’s totally weird for a guy who is on the record as being pretty into his state’s ban on equal marriage and is currently defending it in court to say he’s done fighting the changing tides, but it’s also the new GOP line at a moment when they are falling increasingly out of step with the public on everything from LGBTQ rights to contraception.
As John Harwood pointed out on Tuesday in the New York Times, Democrats have been hammering Republicans hard on these issues, which has left many conservatives scrambling to deflect questions or clarify their records — particularly when it comes to reproductive rights:
Representative Cory Gardner, a Republican in a tight Senate race in Colorado, proposed the same thing after the Supreme Court’s decision on the Hobby Lobby case exempted some private businesses from covering certain contraceptives in health insurance plans. He was shielding himself from attacks by Senator Mark Udall, a Democrat, who has spent months slamming Mr. Gardner’s “radical agenda” on abortion and family planning.
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http://www.salon.com/2014/08/07/gop_wimps_suddenly_fear_social_issues_how_tables_turned_on_religious_right/
Tea Party’s last chance: Can it topple Lamar Alexander today?
Sen. Lamar Alexander is expected to beat his primary challenger today. But here's why you shouldn't ignore it
JIM NEWELL
Sen. Lamar Alexander’s head would fit in perfectly on the Tea Party wall — really tie the whole room together. He represents all things vague and specific that the right deplores. He is 74 years old. Tea Partyers, who themselves are very old, despise old legislators. They see them as too comfortably ensconced in the Beltway establishment, and so forth, and would prefer that they be replaced with 40-something whackadoodle radio host types who pledge to go to Washington and literally pick fistfights all day.
Lamar Alexander has been in politics for a long time. This correlates with the aforementioned fact that he is old. He is a former two-term governor of Tennessee, Cabinet member under the George H.W. Bush administration, and two-time presidential candidate. Oh, and of course now he wants a third term as United States senator. This sort of accumulation of experience and seniority that might better allow him to serve the interests of Tennessee, to some, means that he’s calcified and must go.
And then, of course, there was The Vote. Lamar Alexander was one of 14 amnesty-loving traitor Republicans to vote for the Gang of Eight’s comprehensive immigration reform legislation last year. Other senators like Mitch McConnell, Thad Cochran and Pat Roberts didn’t vote for it, but still faced Tea Party challengers who accused them of probably secretly loving amnesty anyway. And Lamar Alexander actually voted for it — a pretty “gutsy” decision considering he knew he had an election coming up.
Alexander’s primary is today, on a Thursday, for some reason. His main challenger is a state representative named Joe Carr, a constitutional conservative type who loves guns and hates amnesty and so forth. He’s running a next-gen race (as in one that’s maybe illegal) in which a super PAC supporting him is more or less masquerading as his official campaign.
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http://www.salon.com/2014/08/07/tea_partys_last_chance_can_it_topple_lamar_alexander_today/
Rep. Mo Brooks: GOP Outreach To Hispanics Is Just 'Race-Baiting'
ByAHA GARCIA Published AUGUST 6, 2014, 6:36 PM EDT
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said during a radio interview on Wednesday that his party's efforts to court Hispanic voters amount to "race-baiting."
The Huffington Post reported that the comments came in response to a passage from the Republican National Committee's Growth and Opportunity Book 2013, that was read aloud by the National Journal's Ron Fournier, who was also a guest on the show.
"If Hispanic Americans hear that the GOP doesn't want them in the United States, they won't pay attention to our next sentence. It doesn't matter what we say about education, jobs or the economy; if Hispanics think that we do not want them here, they will close their ears to our policies," Fournier quoted from the report, while appearing on "The Dale Jackson Show" on WAPI.
Brooks responded by saying "Americans shouldn't be divided by race" and that targeting Hispanic voters would be "race-baiting."
"That argument, is playing hand in glove with the Democratic race-baiting strategy, and it has to come to a stop," he said. "I'm one of those who thinks that it doesn't make any difference if you're Hispanic, or you're white, or you're Asian, or you're black, people throughout America want to do what's in the best interest of America."
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mo-brooks-hispanics-race-baiting
Why Aren’t More Americans Atheists?
Turns out it has nothing to do with science. And everything to do with politics.
By NICK SPENCER
August 05, 2014
Many expressed surprise recently when, in one of its periodic surveys of Americans’ views of other faiths, the Pew Research Center found that atheists fare poorly—fully 40 percent of those polled described their views toward atheists as “cold.” Jews, Catholics, Evangelicals, Buddhists, Hindus, Mormons—all are viewed more favorably than nonbelievers. Only around 2 percent of Americans identify themselves as atheists, according to Pew, even though religious observance, measured by things like church attendance and daily prayer, has been trending downward for decades.
You might think that America would be fertile ground for the rise of atheism. After all, the United States is the most scientifically advanced society in human existence, and as far as atheism has a history—and it is an oddly uncharted one—it is popularly believed to be of slow, steady scientific advance.
Once upon a time, so the story goes, people believed that the world was young and flat, that God made everything including people in a few, frantically busy days, and that earthquakes and thunderstorms were examples of his furious rage, which you ignored at your peril. Into this sorry state of affairs, emerged a thing called “science” and, despite the best efforts of ignorant, self-serving clerics who wished to keep the people in utmost darkness, “science” proved that none of the above was true. Gradually, wonderfully, the human race matured, with every confident scientific step forward pushing our infantile, crumbling ideas of the divine closer to oblivion. “Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as the strangled snakes besides that of Hercules,” as Thomas Huxley, the English biologist known as “Darwin’s bulldog,” memorably put it.
The problem with this particular creation myth is that whilst it is true enough to be believable, it is not true enough to be true. “Science”—if we can treat that collection of disparate disciplines as one single, coherent enterprise—did have something to do with the growth of atheism in the West, but very much less than most imagine. Those three great moments of scientific progress—the Copernican revolution in the 16th century, the scientific revolution in the 17th and the Darwinian in the 19th—were hardly atheistic at all. Copernicus was a priest; Francis Bacon, the father of modern science, devout; and Charles Darwin incredulous that anyone could imagine evolution demanded godlessness. “It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist & an evolutionist,” he wrote in 1879.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/why-arent-more-americans-atheists-109732.html#ixzz39eFjzWav
The GOP's mixed message to minorities
Party chairman courts blacks and Latinos as House Republicans find new ways to alienate themAugust 6, 2014 6:00AM ET
by Jill Lawrence
The cognitive dissonance of the Republican Party is something to behold.
Consider that national party chairman Reince Priebus was launching a Hispanic Advisory Council in Virginia on the same day that House Republicans passed bills to speed up deportations of unaccompanied Central American children and young people brought without papers to the United States years ago.
Consider as well that as Priebus was reaching out to black Americans at the National Urban League and the National Association of Black Journalists last week, House Republicans voted to sue the country’s first black president for alleged abuse of executive authority. Some in the GOP hope — and others fear — that the lawsuit is a prelude to impeachment.
The autopsy Priebus commissioned after Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election to Barack Obama was unsparing in its message: The party desperately needed to build relations with minorities and back comprehensive immigration reform that offers “positive solutions” (PDF) responsive to the concerns of Latino, Asian and black communities. Priebus is trying to follow that script. But as last week’s behavior demonstrates, the House is determined to thwart him — and the party’s future — by moving in the opposite direction.
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http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/8/gop-immigration-racepoliticslatinos.html
No, New York Post, Feminism Is Not Imploding
By Amanda MarcotteNaomi Schaefer Riley of the New York Post is excited, because she believes that feminism is finally, finally on its last legs. Her piece arguing this, titled “Scenes From the Feminist Implosion,” starts from a strange premise. Riley references a recent New Yorker article by Michelle Goldberg, in which Goldberg chronicles an academic debate between transgender people and a small cadre of self-described “radical feminists” who oppose transgenderism. Riley uses this academic debate to argue that “modern feminism is in crisis” and about to collapse. But there's no real reason to think that Goldberg's story, which chronicles a fight that is basically unknown to the larger public, has any impact at all on what most people think about when they think “feminism.”
Riley writes that you need “look no further” than Goldberg’s piece to see that this obscure battle between two academic feminist factions suggests an impending feminist implosion. Readers who actually bothered to read Goldberg’s piece, however, would get a very different impression. “The dispute began more than forty years ago, at the height of the second-wave feminist movement,” Goldberg writes. If the fight between transgender activists and radical feminists was going to destroy feminism, surely it would have done so long ago. If anything, this debate has only become more marginalized and academic since the '70s. Even Riley admits “the RadFem women are apparently in the minority” and that the transgender activists are winning.
Riley writes that you need “look no further” than Goldberg’s piece to see that this obscure battle between two academic feminist factions suggests an impending feminist implosion. Readers who actually bothered to read Goldberg’s piece, however, would get a very different impression. “The dispute began more than forty years ago, at the height of the second-wave feminist movement,” Goldberg writes. If the fight between transgender activists and radical feminists was going to destroy feminism, surely it would have done so long ago. If anything, this debate has only become more marginalized and academic since the '70s. Even Riley admits “the RadFem women are apparently in the minority” and that the transgender activists are winning. Advertisement
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/08/06/the_new_york_post_says_feminism_is_imploding_is_wrong.html?
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