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Yesterday the Black AIDS Institute issued a grim report that will surely be the subject of much discussion at next week’s International AIDS Conference. HIV-AIDS is affecting black gay men in the United States on a scale unseen among any other group in the developed world, said a report issued Wednesday ahead of the International AIDS Conference. So grave is …

Make that 83% of doctors that belong to a wingnut Obamacare repeal group.

They’re related, of course.

“We are outraged to see the Supreme Court ignoring the constitutional limits the Founders put in place to constrain the federal government’s power over us. Shame on them! With this decision they have given a blank check to the federal government, forever altering the constitutional concept of checks and balances that has been so crucial throughout our history. We wholeheartedly …

Shocker! The world’s happiest nations tend to be the most socialist. Who’d think that providing your citizens with health care and adequate housing would make them happy?

Suh-NAP!

Grammy watchers buzzed on Twitter after CBS ran a short teaser for an apparent contest to win a free colonoscopy. It’s a real thing and as the teaser implied, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are involved. Wait, does that make a colonoscopy less scary? If you are the grand prize winner, we will fly you and a companion to New York …

“I am hoping that they have called President Obama’s bluff here, because what’s the alternative now? Are they going to go in and start shutting down Catholic hospitals? Start shutting down Catholic schools? Start fining them inordinate amount of money? Start throwing priests in prison, pastors in prison, organizers and CEOs of Christian hospitals around the country in prison? They …

The Supreme Court today quashed a wingnut demand that Justice Elena Kagan recuse herself from the coming case to overturn Obamacare. Freedom Watch, a group led by Larry Klayman, asked the court for permission to file a brief on Kagan’s participation in the case. The court on Monday denied the request without comment, though it did note that Kagan did …

Embiggen for the details.

Think Progress notes a Williams Institute study which gave the above results. Women and minorities were the most frequently refused. The linked article also notes that three out of four HIV patients do not receive enough medication to “stay healthy and prevent the transmittal of the virus to others.”

Frothy couldn’t even draw more than a handful of elderly teabaggers at a South Carolina appearance on Saturday.