CA Moves to Expand Rural Access to Safe Abortion Procedures

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Tuesday February 28, 2012 · 4:22 PM PST

2012/02/28 · 16:22

On the same day Virginia's senate passed a law a bill imposing further restrictions on a woman's right to safe and legal abortion, California began to move in the opposite direction when a bill was introduced in the CA Legislature allowing certain classes of qualified health professionals to perform nonsurgical versions of the procedure through the first trimester.

Shane Hensinger

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Sunday February 26, 2012 · 6:58 PM PST

2012/02/26 · 18:58

I haven't seen anything about this posted, so I thought I'd share with you the illuminating back-and-forth between CA Governor Jerry Brown, in DC for National Governor's Conference, and Washington Times reporter Kerry Picket, which took place today.

Shane Hensinger

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Friday February 03, 2012 · 12:43 AM PST

2012/02/03 · 00:43

Just a short diary because at this point there's nothing left to say but this - Malév, the Hungarian national airline, has gone out of business, with its website announcing the news, after 66 years flying.

Shane Hensinger

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Monday December 19, 2011 · 3:50 PM PST

2011/12/19 · 15:50

There have recently been several remarks by various GOP candidates on how United States military and foreign policy should be decided by the military - inferring that civilian control over the military in the United States is untenable with a strong, cohesive fighting force. The common refrain "listen to the generals" has been uttered by Romney, Gingrich and Bachmann at various points in the campaign.

Today the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs responded to the GOP. What he said is below:

Shane Hensinger

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Friday December 02, 2011 · 6:16 PM PST

2011/12/02 · 18:16

Remember the ads encouraging Israelis living abroad to return to the Israel? They were run by the Israeli Ministry of Immigrant Absorption and were designed to remind Israelis of the dangers of life in the United States - depicting, amongst other scenes:

The ad shows a young girl on her mother’s lap, video-chatting with her grandparents, who live in Israel and who are pictured with four candles burning brightly on a menorah behind them.
When the Jewish grandmother asks the child what holiday it is, she replies “Christmas!” instead of Hanukkah; the joy drains from the grandparents’ faces as they turn to each other in disappointment.

Shane Hensinger

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Monday November 21, 2011 · 7:12 PM PST

2011/11/21 · 19:12

In the raging aftermath of non-violent student protesters at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed a spotlight has been placed on the Chancellor of UC Davis: Linda Katehi, who has refused to resign from her position. Looking at her benefit package you understand why she wouldn't want to resign - benefits like this are unheard of outside CEOs and upper-level UC administrators.

Shane Hensinger

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Wednesday November 16, 2011 · 6:10 PM PST

2011/11/16 · 18:10

Grover Norquist, who has acted as a brake on any attempt to raise additional revenue and who opposes every single plank of the president's agenda, is apparently now attending a meeting of Democracy Alliance, an organization composed of wealthy, progressive donors to the Democratic party - in order to advise them on "movement building."

Shane Hensinger

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Friday November 04, 2011 · 12:44 PM PDT

2011/11/04 · 12:44

As Mississippi stands at the cusp of passing its "personhood" amendment, an amendment which would not only outlaw abortion but also in-vitro fertilization and some forms of birth control, we should ask ourselves how we've arrived at this point. How, in the years after Roe vs. Wade, we've allowed abortion rights to be whittled down to the point where for many women abortion, a right supposedly guaranteed under the Constitution - is a practical impossibility?

Shane Hensinger

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Thursday October 20, 2011 · 8:19 PM PDT

2011/10/20 · 20:19

Short diary but I just felt another earthquake - and this felt bigger than the last.

Shane Hensinger

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Friday September 30, 2011 · 5:30 PM PDT

2011/09/30 · 17:30

A sign of changing times - even in the South.

Shane Hensinger

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Saturday February 20, 2010 · 12:58 PM PST

2010/02/20 · 12:58

The conflict in Cyprus resulting in the Turkish invasion of the island in 1974 and stalemating in the subsequent partition and frozen dynamics which exist today, represents in many ways the latest conflict between the Greek and Turkish states or a "significant part of the larger Greco-Turkish issue with a thousand year history." Both the Greek-Turkish war of 1920 and the Lausanne Treaty of 1923 ensured that both Greece and Turkey have "unmixed" their populations to a degree quite remarkable considering the multiethnic nature of each state prior to these events. Cyprus is the last territory where large numbers of ethnic Cypriot Greeks and ethnic Cypriot Turks once lived together and where Greece and Turkey still have major roles to play in resolving (or prolonging) conflict between the two communities. A major, unresolved irritant in relations between the two states is Cyprus and the problems of that island have followed a path which closely parallels that of each respective community’s "benefactors" in Greece and Turkey.

Shane Hensinger

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Wednesday October 28, 2009 · 4:09 PM PDT

2009/10/28 · 16:09

This is a nice story which speaks volumes about the travails GLBT Palestinians face - exile from their homeland because of conservative attitudes towards homosexuality and exile from Israel because they're Palestinian.

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