Author: Justin Lane

GOP Sets Up 5th Committee to Investigate Planned Parenthood

The GOP cannot let go of the Planned Parenthood issue. It has now established its fifth committee to investigate the organization. As AllGov.com reports: House Republicans on Wednesday created a special committee whose job will be to take over the investigation. They say the new panel, an Energy and Commerce subcommittee, will replace the work of the other four. Congressional Republicans have searched futilely for evidence that Planned Parenthood is illegally selling fetal tissue ever since an anti-abortion group started releasing deceptively edited videos purporting to show that. Some members of Congress are highly critical of the continuing pressure on...

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ABC News Host has to School GOP Prez. Candidate that ISIS Doesn’t Have Planes

Bobby Jindal could not have put his foot further in his mouth Sunday than he did during his interview with ABC host Martha Raddatz. Raddatz called Jindal out for making up facts about ISIS. Jindal appeared incapable of explaining a plan to defeat ISIS and bring stability to the regions the group occupies. A plan for responding to and effectively dealing with ISIS is important for any would-be president. Jindal failed miserably. Raddatz reminded Jindal that his ideas had already been tried and failed or they had been exposed as completely unnecessary and ineffective for responding to the threat...

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Painkiller Overdoses Kill More People in Tenn. Each Year than Car Accidents or Guns

In Tennesse, overdosing on opioid painkillers has become an epidemic that the state cannot continue to ignore. Deaths from opioid overdoses are now greater than gun deaths and car accidents. As AllGov.com reports: Last year’s total of opioid overdoses was 1,263 up 97 over the total in 2013, according to The Tennessean. Opioids are found in prescription painkillers such as Hydrocodone and Oxycodone, nicknamed “hillbilly heroin.” “It’s an epidemic sweeping across the state, affecting people in both small towns and big circles,” wrote Holly Fletcher in The Tennessean. “I would like to think the rate of increase has slowed, but quite frankly...

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Father of Victim of Ore. Massacre: ‘President Obama was Genuine & Comforting: Not Political’

Conservatives are quick to claim that President Obama politicizes tragedy. When shootings occur and President Obama discusses the need to address gun reform, conservatives are tripping over themselves to dismiss such notions as Obama simply wanting to take away guns and exploiting an issue. When President Obama speaks with victims of such tragedy though, it’s clear he does not politicize things. Take the example of Eric Dietz, who recently spoke with President Obama. From his interview with People: “What do I tell the president?” he wondered aloud Friday morning, a couple of hours before Air Force One landed at the...

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Patient Calls Bristol Palin Idiot to Her Face

Bristol Palin recently wrote about an exchange she had with a patient at a dermatologist office where she works. The woman, seemingly without realizing she was speaking to Bristol, called her an idiot to her face. From Palin’s blog (errors appear as they do in the original): I took a patient back to an exam room, and set up for for a procedure dr was about to do. (I promise I really do work a normal job, and have for a while.) I was making small talk with the patient while filing out notes… She asked how long I had...

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