* Round up of recent Republican attempts to strip women's basic constitutional rights with focus on Texas:

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* A bomb attack in a city where the bulk of the Syrian refugees are in Turkey has killed 46 people. There is finger pointing at Assad and nine people have been arrested, but there's a whole lot of politics involved which means people are skeptical about nearly everything except the fact of the bombing and the tragedy of the deaths. I'm not ( Read more... )

* Congratulations to Rhode Island for passing Marriage Equality ( Read more... )

* As I wrote this, the French were expecting direct conflict with the rebels in Mali within hours.

* The House passed Hurricane Sandy Relief today with 179 Republicans voting against it.

* Richard Engel discussed the rumors of chemical weapons in Syria:

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* I've been a plague watcher all my life. You'd think the disease I'm most horrified by would be a hemorrhagic, like ebola, but it's not. It's rabies. It will likely always be rabies. Rabies is as close to zombies as real world diseases get. Even with modern medicine, if you are not treated early, before the symptoms are noticeable, you die ( Read more... )