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4/16/14

Kathleen Sebelius Might Be Running For Senator in Kansas

When Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius resigned last week, it was seen as an inevitable…

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A 10-Year-Old Girl Needs a New Set of Lungs. Ethical Firestorm Ensues.

Hello everyone, I am here to ruin your week by telling you the most tragic thing you’ve ever heard (there’s like, a…

Meagan Hatcher-Mays

6/05/13 7:00PM

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5/16/13

Worked Up About Teens and Plan B? Here's What the Kids Actually Think.

Lots of important adults — judges, doctors, the POTUS himself — have fervent opinions on whether the morning-after…

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Texas Women’s Health Fund to Lose Federal Funding Over Abortion Row

The dark clouds hanging over women's health clinics in Texas have just unleashed a torrential storm on the state's…

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Michele Bachmann Rides In on Her Crazy Horse to Warn Us That Obama Kills Babies

Have you felt a hole in your heart lately? Is it, by any chance, in the shape of Michele Bachmann? Her particular…

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Plan B Will Not Be Over The Counter After All

Despite recommendations from the FDA, Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius has decided not to allow…

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Government Will Start Collecting Health Data On LGBT People

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that her department will begin collecting data…

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Power Purple And Other Fashion From Recent Political History

How to address the 219-212 passage of a universal health-care reform bill that the President calls an answer to ‘the…

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The New, Looming Battle Over American Womens' Breast Health

The report made waves by advising against home screening for breast cancer and against annual mammograms:

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Elmo Called On To Deliver White House Briefing On Sneezing

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And The Health Care Band Played On

Over the weekend, Crystal Lee Sutton, labor activist and inspiration for the movie Norma Rae, died of cancer after…

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Onion Confirms What We Always Suspected About Backyard Camping

In the Onion, "Kathleen Sebelius" explains that 74% of camping kids fall victim to killer ghosts, wolves, or "Old…

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On Abortion, Right And Left Agree That Compromise Sucks

We haven't been that impressed with efforts to find "common ground" on abortion — and, funnily enough, neither is Foc…

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The Seven Sisters

"...the women of the administration are still waiting for their first girls' night out on the town," 'reports' US…

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100 Days Of Right Wing Wackos Would Make You Weary, Too

This week's New York Times Magazine cover story on Obama's first hundred days doesn't look exceptionally…

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President Plays Hoops; Wins Polls

Barack Obama shot some hoops with the women of the NCAA champion Huskies and won. (Pic at left is from early April.)…

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Larry Summers Sleeps While Credit Scores Drop

Renowned male supremacist Larry Summers just couldn't keep his eyes open during a meeting with credit card company…

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Kathleen Sebelius' Opponents Are Not Appeased

Despite having sold out about the pro-choice movement by signing Kansas' pre-abortion ultrasound bill, anti-abortion…

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Kathleen Sebelius And The Appeasement Strategy

Kansas Governor and Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius signed into law today a bill…

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Welcome To The Cabinet, Governor Sebelius

The New York Times is reporting that President Obama is set to formally announce Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as…

Hortense Smith

3/01/09 11:30AM

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