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Lawmaker admits not independently researching lobbyist’s claim that ectopic fetuses could be reimplanted in the uterus, blames medical journals

Ohio lawmakers introduced legislation that would see women and doctors charged with murder if they did not re-implant fetuses from ectopic pregnancies in women’s uteruses, a procedure that does not exist and is impossible.
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Trump wants you to elect Net Neutrality’s biggest hater to the Senate

To call Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn [R-TN] a shill for Big Cable is to insult honest, hardworking shills everywhere: she is so deep in hock to Verizon that she has toshill for new subscribers on weekends at a folding table on the sidewalk in front of the Grand Old Opry.
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Watch: Florida climate survivors travel to New Hampshire to confront Marco Rubio

Brant from Climate Truth writes, “A fishing boat captain, a restaurateur, and a Cuban refugee being displaced by rising seas in South Florida are setting off for New Hampshire next week to harangue Rubio for being shitty on climate change.”

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Florida mayors write to GOP presidential hopefuls demanding action on climate change

Open letters from the mayors of 15 Florida cities and towns to Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush urge both would-be presential candidates to acknowledge the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and to take urgent action to remediate it.
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Oklahoma’s repeat-offender Republican Creationist lawmakers take another run at science education

Every year, like clockwork, longstanding Oklahoma legislators in the state’s house and senate introduce bills that try to find a way around the prohibition on teaching Biblical Creationism in American public schools.
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Rush Limbaugh: water on Mars is a leftist conspiracy

Who needs the Onion? “Don’t know how long it’s going to take, but this news that there is flowing water on Mars is somehow going to find its way into a technique to advance the leftist agenda.”
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GOP Vice Chair of House Energy committee is a climate denier and creationist

Marsha Blackburn has represented Tennessee’s 7th district for more than a decade, on behalf of the Republican party, whose caucus has elevated her to the vice-chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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