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Special Edition DVD – coming Jan 25, 2011
On Wed, January 25, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” will debut a Special Edition DVD of the film. Sporting a crisp new wide screen transfer, the disc offers a host of extras which add richness and depth to the movie itself.
EXTRA FEATURES:
Audio Commentaries – with filmmakers Joe Winston and Laura Cohen, and author Thomas [...]
Gabrielle Giffords shooting and political violence
When Jared Loughner shot and very nearly killed Arizona Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords, the U.S. media had an overwhelming, immediate response: fiery right-wing anti-government rhetoric has finally prompted a political murder. Paul Krugman stated it most succinctly in the New York Times, two days after the shooting:
When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were [...]
Video: Sam Brownback as you’ve never seen him
The New York Times notes that, if elected – which seems virtually certain – Sam Brownback would become Kansas’ most conservative governor in decades.
While the governor’s office has flipped back and forth between moderate Republicans and Democrats, Mr. Brownback would be the first conservative to hold the office in at least a half century.
“At this [...]
“The Assassination of Dr. Tiller” special to air on MSNBC
On Monday, October 25, 9:00 PM Eastern Time, The Rachel Maddow Show will present an hour-long documentary special, “The Assassination of Dr, Tiller.”
The abortion doctor was slain in his church in Wichita on May 31, 2009. His murderer, Scott Roeder, has been convicted to life in prison without possibility of parole. Dr. Tiller’s status as one [...]
Operation Rescue is out of money, may shut down
“We’re so broke, we can’t even pay attention,” quipped Troy Newman, head of Operation Rescue, speaking to the Associated Press. The Pro-Life activist group based in Wichita, KS is apparently on the brink of shutting down, for lack of funds. He’s just sent out a desperate letter to supporters, adding that he’s working without pay. [...]
Kansas as a battleground state for abortion
Inevitably, the press has recognized that Kansas has an unusually combative culture when it comes to the abortion debate. The AP filed a story laying out the recent history. Here is an excerpt:
In part, it’s a power struggle — conservative Republicans, many of them evangelical Christian, battling over abortion and other hot-button social issues with [...]
Lake of Fire
Dr. Tiller’s murder has truly flayed open the national wounds over the abortion issue. Conversations on our Facebook page are fascinating but have become rather heated and our YouTube page is starting to resemble a bathroom stall at a truck stop. The act of killing a man who’s saved so many women’s lives and ended [...]
Controversial abortion doctor George Tiller shot to death in Wichita
Dr. Tiller was gunned down today as he was heading into church in Wichita.
Dr. George Tiller is one of the few doctors in the country willing to perform certain kinds of late-term abortions – women fly in from all over the world to see him. This alone would make him controversial, especially in a town [...]
Controversial Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller acquitted
Dr. George Tiller, whose Wichita abortion clinic is one of very few in the country which offers late-term abortions, was acquitted last Friday on various charges related to some abortions he had performed.
Perhaps nowhere in the country is abortion more hotly debated than in Wichita, Kansas. (Check out the comments on the Wichta Eagle article [...]