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What Florida's Sex Survey Should Have Asked Women

By Terrence McCoy Mon., Nov. 26 2012 at 6:51 AM

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State hits women with bogus questions about their sex lives

Ensconced in some Tallahassee conference room, how state officials must have pictured it: An anonymous Florida woman receives a questionnaire in the mail and gets comfortable -- gets intimate -- perhaps sloshing some red into a glass, laying down an Erykah Badu track, and pulling out her pen to spill all of her sex secrets to some suit hundreds of miles away.

At no time, apparently, were our feckless bureaucrats at this health department conference room like, 'Whoa, maybe we shouldn't send this, because THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN."

Instead, what did: Around 1,300 women in South Florida recently opened an offensive and crude letter asking them, more or less, if they like condoms when having sex -- and then paid them off with a $10 CVS gift card for their tales.

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Koch Industries PAC Donates to Adam Hasner and Connie Mack

By Lisa Rab Mon., Jun. 18 2012 at 6:09 AM

Categories: A Congress of Fools, Politics

Taking money from oil barons.

Remember 2010, when the Medicare scooter-riding lunatic fringe of the Republican Party swept to power? Two years later, the people who gave you Allen West and Michele Bachman have stopped making daily headlines, but their influence is still strong.

Billionaire oil barons Charles and David Koch, the sugar daddies behind the Tea Party, continue doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to congressional candidates throughout the country.

Federal Election Commission records show that Adam Hasner, the former state House Majority Leader running for the District 22

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Daniel Webster, Orlando Congressman, Invokes "Liberty" in Death Blow to Very Useful Survey

By Stefan Kamph Tue., May 29 2012 at 9:50 AM

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I was checking out at Publix a few days ago when a man came up behind me in the express lane, put down his sandwich, and started muttering about whether they would screen him for putting terrorist weapons in the sandwich and how there is "no freedom left in this country," etc. I bristled at hearing a political rant while doing something so democratically neutral and gloriously capitalist as buying food to eat.

He said something about how the U.S. government killed 38 of his family members. Anyway, that guy has some company talking about "freedom" or "liberty" and mongering fear: Many U.S. congressmen didn't get the message that this talking point has started to ring hollow and remind people of being terrified of terrorists and willing to run off to war.

The latest person to twist "liberty" to his own purpose: Daniel Webster, R-Florida (and not as smart of a Republican as this guy). The guy who beat progressive Alan Grayson in 2010. His cause? Slashing a census survey that gives us valuable information about the population used in formulating (and, yes, lowering) taxes.