Weekly Pulse: Sharron Angle Mocks Insurance for Autism; The Fight to Save Food Stamps

Thursday, September 16, 2010! Happy early Constitution Day, softcore porn for Christine O’Donnell, and Ohio’s corrupt incompetence.

Weekly Pulse: Anti-Masturbation Crusader Christine O’Donnell is Master of Her Domain

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010! The Chicago Heights fire department starts billing and Pastor Terry Jones’ protests draws protests.

Though Arizona’s SB 1070 went into effect without its most controversial provisions, the legislation’s stated intent—attrition through enforcement—is nevertheless gaining traction among anti-immigrant legislators across the nation. In the wake of the law’s enactment, other states are coming out in support of Arizona, some developing policy modeled after SB 1070. Others even hope to alter the U.S. constitution to deny “birthright citizenship” to children of undocumented immigrants.

TPM Poll Tracker has a helpful graph tracking President Obama’s approval rating for his handling of the BP Oil Disaster. Like the disaster itself, it’s been consistently getting worse as time goes on. We’ll see over the next several days if Obama’s recent visit to Louisiana and response afterwards will do anything to halt the worsening trend.

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger

This week’s health care news was full of mind-bending paradoxes: Prostate health is girly, abstinence-only education works through failure, “principled” libertarian Rand Paul would protect all-white lunch counters but ban private abortion clinics, and more.

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger

Fifty years ago, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first birth control pill. Needless to say, the repercussions of this medical and public policy breakthrough are still being felt today.

Positive reinforcement for MoveOn’s efforts to democratically engage members, and encouragement to build a much more democratic and decentralized structure.

You will be shocked, shocked to hear that a Blue Dog Democrat who made a career out of undermining his own party is sucker-punching them on his way out. Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana abruptly announced this week that he would not seek reelection in November. Bayh’s departure is ratcheting up insecurity in the Democratic caucus at the very moment they need to take decisive action to pass health care reform.