pacino wrote:weak Reid:

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) warned President Barack Obama that he "might as well take a four-year vacation" if the Senate fails to pass real filibuster reform -- and the plan being unveiled Thursday by Senate leaders doesn't qualify, the veteran lawmaker said.

"It's a baby step. Really, it's a baby baby step," Harkin told reporters Thursday before heading into a caucus meeting on the filibuster plan.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had threatened action to change the rules, but the deal coming out Thursday only ends filibusters at the start of debates and not on the bills themselves or other steps along the way.

A group of lawmakers led by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) had hoped to re-institute the talking filibuster, in which a lawmaker who wanted to obstruct something would have to take to the floor to sustain an objection instead of literally phoning it in. Harkin also wanted to decrease the size of the majority needed to end filibusters in increments over an eight-day period.

Fox News caught up with Dick Cheney this past weekend at the Safari Club International convention for gun owners and manufacturers to find out what the former vice president had to say about the gun safety debate going on in Washington and across the country.

The former vice president, a staunch NRA ally, didn’t deviate significantly from the pro-gun talking points we’ve been hearing. He extolled the virtues of more guns in the classroom by way of armed officers, saying that approach was “probably a more effective deterrent than anything that Congress seems to be debating at the present time.”

Women who immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia were coerced into accepting injections of the birth control drug Depo-Provera before they were allowed into the country, a Ministry of Health official admitted Sunday. As a result the birth rate of the Ethiopian community in Israel has dropped 20 to 50 percent in the past 10 years, as Haaretz first reported in December.

"We said we won't have the shot. They told us, if you don't you won't go to Israel … and you won't get aid or medical care,” one woman told her interviewer. “We were afraid... We didn't have a choice. Without them and their aid we couldn't leave there [the transit camp]. So we accepted the injection. It was only with their permission that we were allowed to leave." The shots of Depo-Provera were continued once the women reached Israel.

Another woman told the interviewer that the women were informed that the injections were “inoculations,” and were warned against having large families.

In response to the documentary, the American Joint Distribution Committee, the Jewish organization that ran the family planning clinics in the immigrant transit camps, called the claims by the women “nonsense.”

Saudi's Labor Minister Adel Faqih initiated the order which demands shops must erect a "separation barrier, no shorter than 1.6 meters" Al Arabiya reported. The order was also verified by the head of Saudi Arabia's religious police, Abdullatif al-Sheikh, in charge of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
Gender segregation, known as khalwa, is strictly enforced throughout the Kingdom and applies even in public places such as beaches. According to Journomania violation of the gender segregation rules is punishable by law.
A law allowing Saudi women to work in lingerie shops and thus reduce Saudi female unemployment, was first passed in 2011, then extended to other retail establishments. Ironically though the Saudi Gazette reports many of the positions have been taken by foreign expatriate women concealed in veils, in violation of the regulations.

Werthless wrote:The only interesting part of Senate procedure is the talking filibuster. Bring it back!

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:

Werthless wrote:The only interesting part of Senate procedure is the talking filibuster. Bring it back!

Wasn't that a big part of Mr Smith Goes to Washington?

td11 wrote:Ari David @AriDavidUSA
The retard Gabby Giffords just stated the obvious which is that the time is now. Really? If it wasn't, what other time would now be?

Ari David ‏@AriDavidUSA
Liberals called Bush retarded and he wasn't. I call Giffords one and they go ape #$!&@! #HILARIOUS

pacino wrote:George Will's most recent column is about how Barack Obama being re-elected is going to lead to a conservative revival because no one actually wants what Obama ran on or did in his first term.

td11 wrote:thought the interactive map here is pretty cool: http://www.itep.org/whopays/

td11 wrote:Ari David @AriDavidUSA
The retard Gabby Giffords just stated the obvious which is that the time is now. Really? If it wasn't, what other time would now be?

Ari David ‏@AriDavidUSA
Liberals called Bush retarded and he wasn't. I call Giffords one and they go ape shit! #HILARIOUS