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Texas GOP director tells women: Stop suing for equal rights and 'negotiate' like men

Texas Republican Party Executive Director Beth Cubriel argued on Monday that women should stop using laws like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help them achieve equal pay, and that they should become "better negotiators" like men instead.

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Pat Robertson: Woman's cancer is her own fault for not forgiving abusive father

Televangelist Pat Robertson told a woman on Tuesday that she had caused her own cancer by harboring ill feelings against her abusive father.

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Enraged radio host Mark Levin hangs up on atheist guest: 'You have no tolerance!'

Conservative radio host Mark Levin became enraged on Monday and hung up on an atheist caller who had suggested that presidential candidates should not have to believe in God.

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Fox News host Mike Huckabee: Abortion rights will lead to a Holocaust for old people

Fox News host Mike Huckabee warned last week that abortion rights could lead to a Nazi-style extermination of elderly people in the United States.

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Southern Baptist official: The words 'zygote' and 'embryo' oppress unborn persons

Words commonly used to refer to the developmental stages of an embryo -- and even the word embryo itself -- are used as a tool of oppression, according to the president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

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Ralph Reed: Making divorce harder for women is a 'better solution' than food stamps

Faith and Freedom Coalition founder Ralph Reed on Tuesday said that it was becoming too easy for women with children to get a divorce from their husbands.

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New York City proposes fix after judge rules sexual harassment laws don't protect interns

The New York City Council is considering new rules that would give interns the same rights to sue for sexual harassment as other employees.

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Awkward: GOP women's PAC leader says women too 'busy' to need equal pay laws

The leader of a recently-launched politically action committee aimed at female voters in Texas said this week that equal pay lays were not "practical" because women were "extremely busy."

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South Dakota GOP lawmaker: KKK business owners deserve right to ban blacks and gays

South Dakota state Sen. Phil Jensen (R) believes that a recently-killed bill that would have let companies discriminate against LGBT people should have also let businesses owners in the Ku Klux Klan refuse service to African-Americans.

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Wisc. lawmaker blocks cancer treatment bill after insurance lobbyist brother opposes it

Wisconsin state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R) -- whose brother works as a lobbyist -- last week blocked a bill that would have required health plans to cover chemotherapy drugs equally.

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Knife-wielding Florida man dressed as 'Rambo' shoots up bar with an Uzi

Patrons at a Florida bar said they were forced to apprehend a man after he attacked them with an assault-style rifle and hunting knives.

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Fox analyst: Obama buying pink clothes is a failure of the White House PR dept.

Fox News media analyst Lauren Ashburn on Sunday said that the White House public relations team had failed because President Barack Obama was seen buying pink sweaters for one his daughters.

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Bill Maher mocks GOP science deniers: 'How much do we really know about facts?'

HBO host Bill Maher said in a recent interview that the Republican Party had driven "the short bus to crazy town," and that the party had only truly earned the vote of the richest 1 percent of Americans.

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