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Showing videos filed under: nuns
Kate Clinton: Don't Mess With Nuns
March 31, 2010Kate Clinton signs up in solidarity with Catholic nuns: not only did they take on Bart Stupak and anti-health-care Republicans, they also aren't afraid of the Pope.The Census, Marie St. Cyr on Haiti, and Kate Clinton
March 30, 2010Rep. Michelle Bachmann has publicly stated that she will not fill out her census form completely, expressing concerns about the census being part of a larger effort at voter fraud led by, you guessed it, ACORN. Of course, there are other communities who have long had reasons to distrust government officials asking for their information.The F Word: Stupak vs. The Nuns
March 20, 2010Poor Bart Stupak. Apparently his life has become a living hell. That's according to a recent profile in The Hill. Ever since he started trying to hold health care reform for ransom over abortion, he's had to deal with critics. He's had to deal, for example, with receiving letters from religious leaders representing 59,000 Catholic nuns.States' Rights, Wafaa Bilal, and Budrus
March 19, 2010As the health care bill drags toward a finish line, conservative opponents of the bill are raising a specter with some long history--"States' Rights." They claim to be able to nullify the federal reform bill on the state level, but the argument for states' rights has been made before to prevent progressive action from being taken, particularly around racial equality
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