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It’s more than just sex

by Thomas Mills | Jan 23, 2014 | Editor's Blog, Health Care, Women's Rights | 5 comments

It seems that when it comes to women, the GOP just can’t control themselves. This time, it’s Mike Huckabee. According to the Washington Post’s Aaron Blake, Huckabee said at a meeting of the Republican National Committee, “Democrats tell women ‘they are helpless...

Knitting

by Thomas Mills | Aug 14, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NCGOP, Women's Rights

First, it was cookies. Now, it’s knitting. Republicans are stuck with mid-20th century stereotypes about women. Pat McCrory infamously offered a plate of cookies as an olive branch to women protesting his signing of the abortion bill he promised not to sign. Then,...

One term

by Thomas Mills | Jul 30, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGov, Politics, Women's Rights | 8 comments

Yesterday, Pat McCrory signed into law the anti-abortion law that he pledged not to sign when he was a candidate. Yesterday, WRAL joined the News & Observer, The Charlotte Observer and several other news outlets in calling it what it was–a broken...

Wild Speculation

by Thomas Mills | Jul 20, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGOP, Politics, Women's Rights | 3 comments

The abortion bill that was holding everyone’s attention a week ago seems to have disappeared into the bowels of the Senate. Given what’s come out of that body in recent weeks, we should probably all be running for cover to hide from the stench. But I think there’s...

Same as it ever was

by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 11, 2013 | NC Politics, NCGov, Women's Rights | 1 comment

The governor deserves no praise for his comments on the abortion bill. For one, his so-called “threat” was laced with weasel words and obsequious courtesies. There’s nothing brave about that. More importantly, McCrory’s latest move is just another of the PR stunts...

Overreach

by Thomas Mills | Jul 3, 2013 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGOP, NCGov, US Senate, Women's Rights | 1 comment

Last night, the North Carolina Senate finally kicked the hornet’s nest. Under cover of darkness, they attached draconian legislation to restrict women’s access to health care to–get this–the anti-Shariah Law bill. No shit. As one friend tweeted, “The NC...