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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
Romney golden to GOP in blue state
LOS ANGELES — California Republicans believe a handsome, blue-state Republican such as Mitt Romney would turn the presidential map upside down in 2008, appealing to the voters on both coasts who normally back Democrats in national elections.
Aug 21, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National, Issues
Sex Ring Broken Up, Officials Say
Law enforcement officials announced the arrest of 31 people who were involved in running an international prostitution ring that operated at least 19 brothels in the Northeast.Officials said they also took 67 young Korean women into protective custody, all of whom they believe were brought to the United States illegally and forced to work as prostitutes, victims of human trafficking.
Aug 17, 2006
Topic: Family, Abuse, Sexual Purity, Citizenship, Human Rights, National, Social Issues, 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
Some Scientists See Shift in Stem Cell Hopes
Stem cell research, which scientists say has been slowed by government policy, may yield better drugs before cell therapies are found.
Aug 15, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Human Rights, National, Social Issues, Science
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
Gore isn’t quite as green as he’s led the world to believe
Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a “carbon-neutral lifestyle.” To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. “Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb,” warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. “We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin.” But if Al Gore is the world’s role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.
Aug 10, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National, Social Issues, Science, Environment
Gays expand battlefield
After a decade of fighting for same-sex “marriage,” some homosexual activists are breaking their silence to say it’s time to fight for benefits for all kinds of relationships.
Aug 9, 2006
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, National, Social Issues
Chaplains help carry spiritual load of war
They look like the other soldiers, but the Army’s airborne chaplains are noncombatants who carry camo-covered Bibles instead of weapons when it’s time to leap from aircraft onto the battlefield.
Aug 9, 2006
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, National, Social Issues, War