If you’re a human woman who regularly bathes and wears makeup, you are, as a result, slathering yourself in approximately 168 chemicals a day. Do you care? I’m not sure if I do. I mean, throw a couple more hundred chemicals in there and who knows? Maybe we’ll all become Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or whatever their…
California Senator Barbara Boxer announced earlier this week that she won't seek reelection in 2016, via a weird video featuring her grandson and some freestylin'. In a statement, Vice President Joe Biden bid her farewell in the most Bidenish way possible, that is, by reminiscing about their "passionate" political…
Earlier this month, fighters of the Islamic State (IS) kidnapped around 300 women as part of their siege on the Yazidi community. Now the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is claiming to have confirmed that at least 27 Yazidi women have been sold to the jihadist fighters for around $1000 each. Everything continues…
Over the weekend, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), appearing on CNN's State of the Union, remarked that Russian president Vladimir Putin needed to "man up." What Feinstein meant, of course, is that Putin needs to grow up because manning up is the last thing that this bear-wrestling, gun-shooting shirtless horse…
Torture is very serious business. And with the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation of a secret report that claims the CIA engaged in torture practices during George W. Bush's presidency—and lied to Congress and the public about it, it has become even more serious.
Grab some popcorn and get ready to yell at your computer screen, because things got HEATED today at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the proposed assault weapons ban authored by Dianne Feinstein, the senior Senator from California.
A large group of Senators — Republican and Democrat — are peeved at the Obama administration because it's not prosecuting enough adult, apparently consensual, pornography. The Justice Department says that's because it's applying its limited resources to fighting the exploitation of children, which isn't good enough…
Two of the ten wealthiest lawmakers are women: Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Jane Harman. You've come a long way, baby! Wait, it's their husbands' money? Oh. But hey, John Kerry tops the list because of his wife.
Senator Dianne Feinstein asked Kagan whether she believes the constitution requires any abortion-related statute to protect the woman's health. Kagan replied that "putting [late-term] procedure[s] aside...the continuing holdings of the court" protect the woman's life and health. [RHRC]
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schulz disputed on Meet The Press yesterday that this is a "Year Of The Woman." It was a rare pronouncement — in part because it came from a female elected official on a Sunday show.
Last night, Jon Stewart got the chance to weigh in on last week's landmark Supreme Court decision. What we can expect: That E-Trade baby getting awfully worked up about Dianne Feinstein's reproductive rights policies.
It's Seersucker Day on the Hill! Yes, it's that extra-special day when lawmakers on both side of the aisle are neither red nor blue, but striped and wrinkly. The movement was started by, of all people, super-scowly Republican senator Trent Lott 11 years ago to (ah, there are those Republican values!) pay homage to…
