For residents of Sandy Springs, Georgia procuring sex toys is not as easy as walking down to one's friendly neighborhood Walgreens and picking up a "personal massager" in the toiletries aisle. In fact, residents can't buy any type of sex toy unless they have a prescription for one. Now, a woman is suing the city over… » 5/17/14 12:26pm 5/17/14 12:26pm

Today, around 800 Moroccans took to the streets of Rabat, marching from the city center to parliament to calling for the constitutional guarantee of equal rights. The group mostly consisted of women and simply demanded the immediate application of a law already written and passed, but not yet implemented by the… » 4/13/14 5:01pm 4/13/14 5:01pm

Crisis pregnancy centers are faith-based clinics that masquerade as legitimate women's health centers but are really run by anti-abortion advocates who lure in low-income women with promises of free (and vague) medical care but don't actually provide them with or refer for abortions and contraception. They don't like… » 11/30/12 7:00pm 11/30/12 7:00pm

Last year, San Francisco became the first city in California to go after crisis pregnancy centers, faith-based non-profits that are often purposely vague about the services they offer in hopes of luring in pregnant women who expect to hear non-biased information about all of their options, but instead receive… » 10/04/12 4:15pm 10/04/12 4:15pm

The Supreme Court's about to hear a case that will determine whether or not network TV and broadcast radio can finally be freed from the shackles of decency requirements. Thanks in part to expletives uttered by the likes of Cher and Nicole Richie, networks may soon be held to the more lax standards of their cable… » 1/06/12 2:15pm 1/06/12 2:15pm

San Francisco's city government recently enacted a rule designed to combat so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" that are actually pro-life organizations in disguise. Under the new ordinance, the centers will be fined $500 each time they provide false or misleading information to patients. But some pro-life activists… » 11/18/11 1:00pm 11/18/11 1:00pm

High School sophomore Amy Myers is challenging Michele Bachmann to put her blathering about the Constitution to the test and debate her. » 5/13/11 3:40pm 5/13/11 3:40pm

Supreme Court Justice and noted champion of equality Antonin Scalia recently opined that the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law doesn't apply to women, or gay people. » 1/04/11 11:48am 1/04/11 11:48am

[Ngong, Kenya, August 4. Kenyan Masai women wait in a line to vote for the new constitution. Image via AP] » 8/04/10 3:55pm 8/04/10 3:55pm

"[T]he Constitution explicitly prohibit[s] the passage of "bills of attainder": legislation targeted to benefit or penalize an individual or group, most often by excluding it from government service." Lawyers, take your marks![Politico] » 9/21/09 11:20am 9/21/09 11:20am

The Tennessee attorney general has advised state legislators that their proposed Saggy Pants bill, which bans low-riding pants, may be unconstitutional, as it "arguably interferes with a liberty interest to dress as one chooses." [UPI] » 5/08/09 10:20am 5/08/09 10:20am

For a campaign that has whined about sexism in the media, it ends up being awfully ironic when you read how the dudely McCain advisers chose Palin because she would look good on magazine covers » 10/29/08 10:00am 10/29/08 10:00am or when the men in charge of the campaign try to pin Wardrobe-gate on the visible woman in the campaign. Luckily for us (and…

• Sarah Palin gave an interview to CNN's Drew Griffin, who only had to provide his viewers with misleading information on Troopergate and ACORN to get it. Try not to throw things against the screen when you watch it. [CNN, Huffington Post]
• By the way, although she said in that interview that she's excited to work on…
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It was mentioned earlier today » 10/07/08 3:30pm 10/07/08 3:30pm, but it probably bears repeating: there are some sad (and probably dangerous) racists who count themselves among John McCain's and Sarah Palin's supporters. From to there's a lot of ugly shit around this year that makes purple Band-Aids and flip-flops look like thoughtful political…