Planned Parenthood

LiveAction Releases New Audio Targeting Planned Parenthood

Melissa Jeltsen | February 10, 2011, 2:03PM

LiveAction, the anti-abortion group currently waging an all-out assault on Planned Parenthood, released a new audio file today. This one was allegedly recorded in a clinic in Washington, D.C.

In it, a woman pretending to manage an underage sex ring is heard asking about getting her workers STD testing and abortion services. This tape is the fourth release from the group this month.

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Topics: Lila Rose, LiveAction, Mike Pence, Planned Parenthood

Andy Schlafly

Rachel Maddow: 'The War On Brains Is Still Being Waged Every Day' (VIDEO)

Megan Carpentier | August 11, 2010, 9:39AM

Last night, Rachel Maddow picked up on TPMmuckraker's reporting that Conservapedia founder Andy Schlafly considers Einstein's Theory of Relativity -- which encompasses the famous equation E=mc² -- part of a liberal conspiracy. As she noted, Schlafly is in good company.

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Topics: Andy Schlafly, Conservapedia, James Inhofe, Joe Barton, Mike Pence, Rachel Maddow, Sharron Angle

Bryan Fischer

Top Social Conservative: Hitler Used Gay Soldiers Because They Had 'No Limits'

Zachary Roth | May 26, 2010, 11:16AM

A top official with a leading social conservative group recently laid out the view that Adolf Hitler deliberately recruited gays to be his "enforcers," because they had "no limits" to "the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict."

During a radio broadcast, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association explained:

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Topics: Adolf Hitler, American Family Association, Bryan Fischer, Donald Wildmon, Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Mike Pence, gay

Mark Souder

Pence: I Notified Ethics Committee After Learning Of Souder Affair

Justin Elliott | May 19, 2010, 4:40PM

Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), the No. 3 Republican in the House and an Indiana colleague of Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), informed the ethics committee that Souder was having an affair with a staffer after Souder informed him of the matter on Sunday, a Pence spokesman said today.

It's not clear why Pence went to the ethics committee about the affair.

Pence first heard about the Souder affair after a journalist approached him last Wednesday, he said at a press conference earlier today. Pence says he approached Souder on the House floor about the matter, and Souder told him about the affair.

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Topics: Ethics, Ethics Panel, John Boehner, Mark Souder, Mike Pence, Sex