Our Endorsements: SNL's Moon President

* SNL takes on the Newt Gingrich moon colony.

* Joe Mande: Twitter's political prankster, from Politico.

* The Many Loves of Mitt Romney, from Vice.com

* From The Onion, a congressman is sad to learn that a lobbyist isn't really his friend.

* An Osama bin Laden zombie movie is coming out, provided it gets enough funding.

Tags: Abortion, BuzzFeed, Daily Links, House of Representatives, Lobbyists, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Osama bin Laden, Planned Parenthood, Saturday Night Live, The Onion, Twitter, Washington DC

Mississippi Votes on 'Personhood' of Fetuses, Pregnant Women

Faced with a 10.6% unemployment rate and a nation-leading rate of impoverishment that places more than one out of every five Mississippians below the poverty line, conservative activists from the Magnolia State have been desperately trying to find where the missing jobs have gone. And if tomorrow's closely contested ballot initiative is any guide, we have our answer: the jobs have been hiding in Mississippians' uteri and Fallopian tubes, or else why all the legislative attention paid to other people's ladyparts amid continuing economic trouble?

It looks like the race to watch in Mississippi on Tuesday night will be the state's proposed 'Personhood Amendment,' which would make the state's laws regarding abortion and birth control the strictest of any state in the country.  Right now it looks like it could go either way, with 45% of voters supporting the amendment and 44% opposed.

Men (48-42), whites (54-37), and Republicans (65-28) support the proposal.  But women (42-46), African Americans (26-59), Democrats (23-61), and independents (35-51) oppose it.

One wonders what kind of radical activists are leading the opposition to defining as a "person…every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the equivalent thereof?" Is it the usual suspects of Planned Parenthood and NARAL, with their whiny insistence that women are "persons" too? Personally, I suspect ACORN…

But the Mississippi Medical Association opposes "Personhood" because, doctors say, it would bring unprecedented government interference with their work. Infertility specialist Randall Hines says the amendment is based on flawed science.

"Only about 20 percent of fertilized eggs, actually, go on to become children," Hines said in an interview. "I think to suggest that legal rights should be given to every fertilized egg is a mistake."

Sure, that this initiative potentially endangers the lives of women facing difficult pregnancies, punishes rape victims, and perhaps undermines the autonomy of all women are all serious concerns. But I think Dr. Hines glosses over a host of other issues. For example, Mitt Romney's support of both fetal and corporate personhood raises additional questions: Can a fetus marry Exxon Mobil? What if it's a gay fetus? …What if it's a gay corporation?

Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images News/Getty Images

Tags: Abortion, Health, Health Care, Mississippi, Mitt Romney, Planned Parenthood

Tworld News: Week of April 19, 2011

Here's the best news-related tweets of the week that you won't wanna Passover.

Ha! I knew the government wasn't going to shut down! Nice try you Red Commie Soviet bastards!

Donald Trump still maybe sorta definitely not kind of running for President.

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Tags: Abortion, Alcohol, Ayn Rand, Babies, Donald Trump, France, Guns, House of Representatives, Islam, Jon Kyl, Michele Bachmann, Movies, Planned Parenthood, Primaries, Religion, Republicans, Taxes, Texas, Twitter, Tworld News

#NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement Still Going Strong

Who would have thought that Sen. Jon Kyl had it in him to create such an infectious Internet meme?! Well, to be fair, Stephen Colbert probably deserves a little bit of the credit, since he was the one who introduced the #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement hashtag.

But he never could have done it without Kyl's brilliant defense for having the amazingly false claim that abortions account for over 90 percent of Planned Parenthood's activities. So, credit where credit is due. Hats off to Sen. Kyl. His meme is still meme-ing itself across the memernet at an amazing speed. Even congressional Democrats have started playing along in their own lame way.

Here's a few of our favorites culled from the (literally thousands) currently on Twitter…

Video of Stephen paying homage to Sen. Kyl's innovation, as well as some more of our favorite #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement tweets after the jump.

The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30/10:30c.

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Tags: Abortion, Arizona, Jon Kyl, Planned Parenthood, Senate, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, Twitter

Obviously, This Stuff Stephen Colbert Is Saying About Sen. Jon Kyl on Twitter Is #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement

On last night's Report, Stephen came to the defense of Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) whom people have been making some fun of recently simply because he made up ridiculous statistics about Planned Parenthood and tried to pass them off as truth on the the Senate floor. Take a look…

So, get that through your heads people. Sen. Kyl's remark about 90 percent of Planned Parenthood's resources going toward aborting babies…

"was not intended to be a factual statement but rather to illustrate that Planned Parenthood, an organization that receives millions in taxpayer dollars, does subsidize abortions," Kyl's staff says in a statement.

Exactly! All kinds of things can be not intended to be a factual statement. Probably enough to fill up a whole hashtag on Twitter. Speaking of which…

Also speaking of which, all of these.

The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30/10:30c.

Tags: Abortion, Arizona, Fox, Jon Kyl, Planned Parenthood, Senate, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, Twitter, Video