In an epic fail of a joke, an Indiana deputy attorney is “no longer employed” by the state after tweeting that police should use live ammunition against the Wisconsin protesters. Mother Jones magazine reported Wednesday that Jeffrey Cox referred to the…

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Indiana Official Fired for Bad Joke

The South Dakota House of Representatives will soon vote on a bill that would expand the definition of justifiable homicide to include killing to protect the life of a fetus. The plain language of the bill would appear to legalize the murder of abortion providers for performing legal abortions on women who request them. Kate Sheppard explains in Mother Jones: read more

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South Dakota’s Legislative Attack on Abortion Providers

South Dakota’s House of Representatives is expected to vote soon on a bill that would legalize the killing of abortion providers. The bill, reported today in Mother Jones, would expand the state’s definition of “justifiable homicide” to include killings meant to protect the life of a fetus. This is not a hypothetical issue: according to Mother Jones, eight abortion providers have been assassinated in the United States since 1993, and 17 more have suffered assassination attempts. read more

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People for the American Way Condemns Abortion Provider Murder Bill

The most influential business lobby group in the United States has been linked to a scheme to deploy dirty tricks against its political opponents. Josh Harkinson reports for Mother Jones that prospective vendors for the Chamber of Commerce hatched a plan to frame and entrap critics of the Chamber. read more

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Chamber of Commerce Linked to Plot Against Bloggers, Unions

“The wranglers over creeds and dogmas are perhaps the most persistent of all agitators; the bedrock idea being that a wrong exists which must be found and exterminated.” — Eugene Debs “Get it straight, I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hell-raiser.” –Mother Jones I’m going to take issue here with the mainstream media commentariat (and even some on the left) about the issue of “civil discourse.” read more

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Dave Lindorff | Don’t Tone It Down, Amp It Up: In Praise of Incivility in Politics

It’s a Christmas-week miracle! The Senate, in a vote that astonished everyone, brought the Food Safety and Modernization Act back from the dead on Monday, as Siddhartha Mahanta reports in Mother Jones . The bill, which will enact tougher consumer protections against E. read more

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Egg Salad Surprise! Congress Votes to Clean Up Food Supply

The most recent round of United Nations-led climate change negotiations began this week in Cancun, and although international expectations are muted this year, the stakes are still high. As Mother Jones ‘ Kate Sheppard explains ,”The 2010 meeting could make or break the future of global negotiations.” read more

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If Cancun Climate Talks Falter, Blame the US

Anonymous millionaires just helped elect dozens of ultraconservative congressional candidates, by pumping millions of dollars into national Tea Party organizations. And guess what’s at the top of the legislative to-do list for those same Tea Party groups? Blocking campaign finance reform legislation. As Stephanie Mencimer explains for Mother Jones , one of the nation’s largest Tea Party organizations, the Tea Party Patriots, is already coming out guns-a-blazing against any lame duck effort to crack down on secret corporate spending in elections. read more

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Tea Party Vows to Block Campaign Finance Reform