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New California gay anti-bias law assailed
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week made it illegal for state-funded service providers, such as police and fire departments and universities, to discriminate against homosexuals, bisexuals and transgendered persons.
Aug 31, 2006
Topic: Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Legislation
How We Ended Welfare, Together
TEN years ago today I signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. By then I had long been committed to welfare reform.
Aug 22, 2006
Topic: Family, Citizenship, Legislation, National, Social Issues, Issues
A Decade After Welfare Overhaul, a Shift in Policy and Perception
Ten years after the overhaul of the welfare system, the implications are still rippling through policy and politics.
Aug 21, 2006
Topic: Family, Living, Finances, Citizenship, Legislation, National, Social Issues
Stem Cells: The Hope and the Hype
The stem cell debate is so politically loaded that it’s tough to tell who’s being straight about the real areas of progress and how breakthroughs can be achieved. TIME sorts it out
By NANCY GIBBS
Time Magazine, July 30, 2006
Aug 18, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Legislation, Issues
Beyond Gay Marriage
“Beyond Gay Marriage”
The stated goal of these prominent gay activists is no longer merely the freedom to live as they want.
by Ryan T. Anderson
08/15/2006 Weekly Standard (Daily)
Aug 15, 2006
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Human Rights, Legislation, National, Religious Liberty, Social Issues, Issues
Bush Signs Law to Save War Memorial Cross
President Bush sided with cross supporters who contend that it forms part of a secular war memorial on a hill in San Diego.
Aug 15, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Church and State, Legislation, National
Illinois Signs to Advise of Contraceptive Rights
A legislative oversight committee approved a rule proposed by Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich that would require that signs be posted in pharmacies that dispense birth control telling women about their right to buy contraceptives.
Aug 9, 2006
Topic: Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Human Rights, Legislation, Social Issues
Science’s stem-cell scam - Washington Times
July 22, 2006 Washington Times Commentary by Michael Fumento.
“Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) receive tremendous media attention, with oft-repeated claims they have the potential to cure virtually every disease known. Yet there are spoilsports, myself included, who point out ESCs have yet to even make it into a human clinical trial. This is even as alternatives — adult stem cells (ASCs) from numerous places in the body as well as umbilical cord blood and placenta — are curing diseases here and now and have been doing so for decades. And that makes ESC advocates very, very angry.”
Jul 22, 2006
Topic: Family, Living, Health, Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Legislation, Social Issues, Issues, Adoption
Homosexual paper: Democrats to combat marriage amendments with ‘5-point plan’
WASHINGTON (BP)—The Washington Blade, a homosexual newspaper, reported July 14 that the Democratic National Committee has devised “a five-point plan” to combat ballot initiatives to protect traditional marriage in state constitutions, although a DNC spokesman quoted by the Blade would neither confirm nor deny the report to Baptist Press.
Jul 14, 2006
Topic: Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Legislation, National, Social Issues
As Tax Rates Fall, Wealthy Pay More
by Bruce Bartlett
Published In Budget & Tax News by The Heartland Institute
(We found the first 3 paragraphs to be fascinating.)
Feb 1, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, National, Social Issues