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Details of campaign targeting Maryland abortion provider announced

By | 07.05.11 | 11:53 am | More from The Florida Independent

Organizers for this year’s “Summer of Mercy 2.0″ have released the schedule for their nine-day event aimed at More…

Operation Rescue conducting massive research project to identify every abortionist in the country

By | 06.23.11 | 12:56 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Troy Newman, president of the radical anti-abortion rights group Operation Rescue has announced that the group will be conducting a “massive research project to identify every abortionist in the country.” Newman says he needs fellow anti-abortion advocates to contribute any information they can about abortion providers where they live.

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Operation Rescue seeks to expose the ‘abuses of the abortion-cartel’

By | 05.19.11 | 6:48 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Image by Matt MahurinLast week, radical anti-abortion right’s group Operation Rescue told Life News that the Texas Medical Board has continued to investigate the group’s claims that women’s health clinics providing abortions in Texas More…

Radical anti-choice group targeting new abortion provider, previously went after George Tiller

By | 05.17.11 | 3:57 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Yesterday, radical anti-abortion rights group Operation Rescue sent out a press release announcing its “Summer of Mercy 2.0” in Germantown, Maryland. #


The last “Summer More…

Iowa House bills surface that could protect killers of abortion doctors

By | 02.24.11 | 10:22 am | More from The Iowa Independent

Image by Matt MahurinTwo bills sponsored by Iowa House Republicans could have significant public safety consequences, and perhaps the most unnerving of those potential outcomes would be the justifiable use of deadly force against abortion or family planning providers.

When the two pieces of legislation are combined

Fox News Host Slanders Muslim Soldiers by Association With Ft. Hood Shooter

By | 11.06.09 | 12:49 pm

You might think that that commentary about a deranged lone gunman ought to await the facts, but you’re not going to get a job at Fox News with that attitude. Raw Story catches Fox’s Brian Kilmeade asking a guest, “Do you think it’s time for the military to have More…

Don’t Do al-Qaeda’s Work for It

By | 11.06.09 | 10:41 am

Adam Serwer has an absolutely sterling post about the dangers of assigning collective guilt to American Muslims for the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan:

In the past few months, we’ve seen a number of shootings performed by white men with right-wing fringe beliefs–but while an attempt to

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Hasan May Have Said ‘Allahu Akbar.’ And?

By | 11.06.09 | 9:29 am

Ft. Hood’s commander, Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, said today that there are unconfirmed reports that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shouted “God is great” in Arabic before opening fire yesterday at the Army base. Again: we will soon be able to hear Hasan’s motivations in his own words. Even More…

More Thoughts on Dr. Tiller’s Murder

By | 06.12.09 | 2:40 pm

Andrew Sullivan posts a must-read excerpt from a reader who considered — but ultimately didn’t have — a late-term abortion provided by Dr. George Tiller, who was murdered last week because he provided that critical medical service.

Here’s how the pregnant reader learned that her fetus had a likely More…

DOJ Abortion Violence Suits Cratered Under Bush

By | 06.12.09 | 6:00 am

The fatal shooting allegedly by a known white supremacist at the Holocaust Memorial Museum Wednesday in Washington is the second murder apparently motivated by a hateful ideology that’s come to national attention in the last two weeks. James W. von Brunn, the 88-year-old suspect and More…