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See what happens when you don't listen to Kansas state Rep. Pete "Women, you will be raped so plan for it!" DeGraaf ? You go walking in one of the poshest areas of the city at 6:30 AM and the inevitable rape (you're a woman who wears clothes and is out and about; enough said) catches you unprepared.

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Russia's Orthodox Church is seeking a more muscular role in society . What to do, what to do to achieve that goal? How about support proposed legislation aimed at infantilizing women of reproductive age and denying them proper medical care: MOSCOW – Russia's Orthodox Church teamed with Conservative parliamentarians Monday to push legislation that would radically restrict abortions in a nation struggling to cope with one of the world's lowest birthrates. The legislation would ban free abortions at government-run clinics and prohibit the sale of the morning-after pill without a prescription, said Yelena Mizulina, who heads a parliamentary committee on families, women and children. She added that abortion for a married woman would also require the permission of her spouse, while teenage girls would need their parents' consent. If the legislation is passed, a week's waiting period would also be introduced so women could consider their decision to terminate their pregn

With the recent arrest of a confessed terrorist we can all breath a sigh of relief, secure in the knowledge that our government takes the threat of terrorism against all its citizens seriously. Here are the facts of the case: A man named Bohamed Batta said he had been in New York with a gun last week, but was having “spiritual struggles” and was not “100 percent in sync with God” so he did not shoot anyone . Bohamed had a history of targeting Times Square buildings where people who disobeyed his religious beliefs could be found. Court documents said he was arrested in 2007 outside a Times Square building, telling officers that everyone in the building deserved to be executed and that police were failing in their jobs by not carrying out the executions. Bohamed received a disorderly conduct citation, according to court records . He told authorities he bought the .38 caliber gun in the New York area about two years after his arrest “to help end people who disobeyed his religious

The slow boiling of our liberties by our authoritarian overlords continues unabated: Civil libertarians want a federal judge to prevent cops from questioning and frisking passengers who are pulled from livery cars and taxis during an NYPD program aimed at preventing robberies. The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court Thursday, alleging police routinely victimize innocent passengers -- even after the drivers have told police they are not in any danger. Drivers who participate in TRIP -- Taxi/Livery Robbery Inspection Program -- affix a decal on their back windshield, an indication that they consent to having police stop them at random. The suit says police have every right to question the driver. It's the questioning of the passengers that raised flags for the NYCLU. "Nothing about the program, however, can or does authorize officers to detain, question, frisk or search passengers without independent suspicion of wrongdoing," the suit

Apparently, kosher cell phones (phones that block access to services frowned upon by ultra-Orthodox rabbis ) and photoshopped history .

Despite the drawback that facts don't play a role in abortion legislation, this is a good video from the Guttmacher Institute on abortion demographics: ( via )

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