And they say Sarah Palin isn't a relevant trendsetter. Governor and ex-hilarious Presidential candidate Rick Perry— arguably the nuttiest nut in the legislative clusterfuck that is Texas — announced just minutes ago that he won't be running for another term at the helm of the Lone Star State after serving as governor…
Last Tuesday, one-woman filibuster machine Wendy Davis and her angry feminist army blocked the Texas GOP from voting on an evil omnibus anti-abortion bill. Success! Until the next day, when Governor Rick Perry, Grand Protector of Ladies From Themselves, announced a second special session so he could put the bill back…
Texas-based superhero Wendy Davis is having a moment in the national spotlight now, thanks to her 12-hour filibuster of Texas’ abortion bill. She’s so beloved that people even want to wear her sweet filibustering shoes, sort of the way kids put on Batman masks and chase their recidivist family pets around the living…
Every super hero needs an arch nemesis. Batman has the Joker, Wonder Woman has Cheetah; the badder the bad guy, the gooder the good guy looks. That's why we've got to hand it to Rick Perry — his cartoonish villainy made Wendy Davis look extra-heroic. But is Rick Perry too good at being a bad? Here's why I'm starting…
Today, Texas Governor/dangerous buffoon Rick Perry really outRicked himself when he chastised Texas Senator Wendy Davis for her marathon 12 hour pro choice filibuster, saying that because she had a child at age 19, she should have "learned from her own example."
Oh no he fucking did not.
Well, that was quick. Texas Governor Rick Perry has already called another special session of the state legislature in an attempt to resuscitate the draconian anti-abortion legislation that Wonder Woman State Senator Wendy Davis just filibustered for 13 hours.
While attempting to fall asleep at 3 AM this morning, unable to relinquish my phone and stop refreshing Twitter even though I was in bed with my eyes half-closed, I tried to calm myself down by imagining how I would describe the political drama going down in Texas to a young person a decade or two from now, or maybe…
According to Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the bill is dead. That means many things, but most (least?) importantly: GIF PARTY.
Texas Democrats are currently trying to kill a venomous omnibus anti-abortion bill that would basically end access to safe and legal abortion across the state by holding an intended 13-hour filibuster to stop the legislation from moving to Governor Rick Perry's desk — a crucial endeavor, since Perry seems to think…
Texas House Republicans used their majority to shut down discussion and give preliminary approval early this morning to an omnibus Senate bill that would ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy and close all but five of the abortion clinics in the state. There are no exceptions for victims of rape and incest…
Hundreds of Texans protesting a massive anti-abortion bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks and shutter all but five abortion clinics in the state refused to leave yesterday's House Committee hearing until 3:40 a.m. this morning, despite the chairman's pathetic protests that their testimony was "repetitive."…
If you don't know anything about American state politics, a good rule of thumb that governors with "Rick," "Scott," or "Jan Brewer" in their names tend to be real pieces of work* (*jerks). So it should come as no surprise that Rick Perry of Texas, one of the Rickiest Ricks who ever did Rick, used the signing of a…
Gay kids who want to "be prepared" alongside their straight peers got some big-time support during the Super Bowl yesterday: Barack Obama, honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America and real president of the United States, told CBS News in an interview that the Boy Scouts should lift its ban on the LGBTQ…
Texas Governor Rick Perry, erstwhile presidential candidate, amateur cat burglar, and all-around strange claymation of humanity, urged the Boy Scouts of America on Saturday to reconsider its decision to change its strict "no homo, bro" policy.
Ladies: Texas Governor Rick Perry is not your friend. Last month, he vowed to spend every single day of this year's legislative session fighting against reproductive choice, and it's so far so good thanks to the state's definitive decision to cut Planned Parenthood out of the state's health program for low-income…
On January 1st, Texas launched its revamped Women's Health Program. By revamped, we mean that the state-run system that is supposed to service Texas's 100,000 low-income women no longer includes satanic abortionplex Planned Parenthood, meaning that nearly half of those women will have to find a new doctor this year —…
A Waco, Texas federal district court will hear Texas explain tomorrow why the state deserves a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — aka, why the state deserves tons of $$$ for its women's health program even though it wants to cut out Planned Parenthood, the organization…
Brush off those anti-abortion bingo cards you set aside after last month's election, because Texas Governor Rick Perry just spewed out an alarming yet depressingly predictable bevy of buzzwords during a press conference organized by Texas Right to Life at a crisis pregnancy center today. (In Perry's dream Texas, CPCs…
Lone Star lawmakers only seem to be realizing that now that their 2011 decision to relocate $73,000 worth of funds from family planning services in order to stop the cash flow to Planned Parenthood might result in a skyrocketing birth rate and a back-asswards ripple effect on the state's finances, said The New York…
On October 30, the body of Bethany Deaton, the young wife of charismatic evangelical Christian prayer group leader Tyler Deaton, was found in the back of a van near her Grandview, Missouri home. The scene looked like a suicide — Bethany had a bag over her head, and a suicide note was found close by. But in the days…
