Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues (Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bio-Ethical Issues)
Political Punch (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers has prepared an economic analysis of job creation if the federal government takes over the underutilized Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois for the purposes of housing detainees currently at Guantanamo Bay, as the Obama administration is strongly considering doing.
Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Jeff Jacoby: YOU’RE A sensible, principled conservative. You want America to be a land of boundless opportunity and freedom, where people are treated as individuals and judged on their merits. . . . But let someone mention “illegal immigrants,’’ and your principles fly out the window. So when Governor Deval Patrick recommends allowing young illegal immigrants – [...]
Power Line (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his confederates are gearing up for a media spectacle: A lawyer for one of five men facing trial for the Sept. 11 attacks says the men plan to plead not guilty and use the trial to express their political views. Attorney Scott Fenstermaker says his client Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and the others will not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but will tell the jury "why they...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday. The decision by the outspoken prelate, reported on The Providence Journal's Web site, significantly escalates a bitter...
The Turner Report (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
In a column issued last week, Fourth District Congressman Ike Skelton emphasized his support of the Patriot Act: The PATRIOT Act passed in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It was intended to enable law enforcement officials to track down and punish those responsible for the terrorist attacks and to protect against any similar strikes against our nation. In the years following...
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The Sri Lanka government will release 130,000 Tamil refugees from internment camps starting Dec. 1. Was the decision prompted by international pressure or domestic politics?
The Dustin Inman Society Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Gainesville Times US senators decry illegal immigrants’ citizenship ‘pathway’ By Ashley Fielding Nov. 21, 2009 Georgia’s U.S. senators are publicly criticizing recent comments made by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that legalizing millions of illegal immigrants would benefit the country’s struggling economy. Sens. Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss, both...
disinter (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rand Paul may be Ron Paul’s son, but he is definitely no Ron Paul. A recent press release reveals the truth about this neocon: Leading United States Senate candidate Rand Paul today criticized the Obama administration’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and try terrorism suspects in United States Civil Courts. [...] Dr. Paul believes [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gov. Chet Culver spent the first part of his speech on thank yous and federal-level issues, noting that Congress nears passage of historic health-care reform. But he soon turned to a list of accomplishments in Iowa: Expanding health care for children, lifting a ban on stem-cell research and helping veterans go [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell recalled a meeting in February with President Barack Obama in which he said he would no longer kick problems down the road. So the president and Congress will not kick issues like health-care reform and energy policy down the road any longer, Boswell said. The decorated Vietnam veteran [...]
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | yesterday
SAN DIEGO -- In the past, I've advised undocumented immigrants from Mexico to learn English, become legal, value education, refuse handouts, resist entitlement, and culturally assimilate. Now, given a disturbing trend tied to the wobbly U.S. economy -- one that turns the immigration equation upside down -- I have one more piece of advice: Consider going home. Let me explain. It's not because they shouldn't...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Congressman Steve King Friday said terrorists would get a foothold in the U.S. if Sept. 11 suspects or suspected terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay Cuba were tried in the United States, as Attorney General Eric Holder has signaled. Here is the key passage from the Iowa Republican’s comments during a [...]
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | yesterday
Time Magazine reports on The Fall of Greg Craig : Obama quietly killed the Gitmo plan in the second week of May; Craig never got a chance to argue the case to the President. "It was a political decision, to put it bluntly," says an aide. ...The White House realized it had to start over on a signature issue....First to go was the release of the pictures of detainee abuse. Days later, Obama...
The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
Good grief! — the New York Times has used the phrase "illegal immigrants"! In a headline! On the front page!! The story itself bears reading. Illegal immigrants facing kidney failure need regular dialysis treatments costing $50,000 a year. And so they turned to Grady [Memorial Hospital in Atlanta], a taxpayer-supported safety-net hospital that would provide dialysis to anyone in need,...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | yesterday
Giuliani makes Scozzafava look like Taki. But last time, Hoffman held to the line of Bush and the Club For Growth on immigration. And he held to the line of Bush and Palin on war, including the "War On Terror". Has he learned the lesson? Capitalism and its wars not only are not conservative, but nor do they deliver the votes. So perhaps, in the state that returned James L Buckley to the Senate...
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72jag | 02/27/2009
Are you willing to go to jail to protest the burning of coal ? Next week, on March 2, the first major U.S. protest on global warming is scheduled to take place. The protest is organized by Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network and is scheduled to target the Capitol Power Plant in downtown Washington D.C. Endorsing the protest are the outspoken critics of fossil fuels, Al Gore and James Hansen
72jag | 02/25/2009
Recent developments in the biofuel story have given no guarantee that a biofuel industry will be set up in time to help the building environmental crisis (in fact many new reports say biofuels are making it worse); nor will it be able support a new direction for America’s handling of oil rich nations any time soon. Any kind of fuel production affects many areas of our global society; in America, both
cclventures | 01/24/2009
Benefits Of Cord Blood Banking Copyright 2006 Alvin Toh If you are pregnant, you probably have received information about cord blood banking. This is an opportunity for you to bank your child’s umbilical cord blood. When cord blood is banked, it...
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