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What is our magical Congress up to these days? Yesterday, they had just voted on House Resolution 1113, “Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day.” That’s a very nice thing to do, celebrating the strategic “goals and ideals” of Hallmark this way. Then, however, some Republican asked to reconsider the vote, and 178 Republicans voted against it — including the bill’s sponsor. Was this just some procedural move, to delay the Democratic leadership’s agenda? The “cynics” might say that. In truth, House Republicans just hate your mothers for producing you. [Washington Post]

It’s Internet Safety Month and no one even called us?

Last month, it seems, Lisa Murkowski and some of her most pious friends in the Senate proposed a resolution declaring June “The Internet Is Raping Our Children Month,” and it passed without note, attracting the attention of no one but the developers of filtering software.

The text of the bill, sort of, is after the jump.

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