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Immigration Movement Struggles to Regain Momentum Built in Spring Marches
For a moment, it sounded like one of the spirited crowds from this past spring. There, at the foot of the Capitol, flag-waving immigrants chanted and cheered and warned lawmakers in Congress to take notice. But this time, only a few thousand people protested, not the hundreds of thousands that organizers had expected at the rally here on Thursday.
Sep 11, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Immigration, Legislation, National, Social Issues
To Hold Senate, G.O.P. Bolsters Its Most Liberal
With a barrage of television advertisements and the mobilization of its get-out-the-vote machine, the national Republican Party has lined up in Rhode Island to beat back a conservative primary challenge to the most liberal Republican in the Senate, Lincoln Chafee. The outcome on Tuesday could help determine whether Democrats have a shot at taking back the Senate.
Sep 11, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, National
ON RADIO: An Absurd Invitation
On today’s broadcast, Dr. Land comments on the absurdity of the National Cathedral’s invitation to former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. He’s been asked to speak at the cathedral on how Abrahamic faiths can promote peace, despite his abysmal human rights record. Hear all this and your phone calls on today’s For Faith and Family.
* Former Iranian President to Speak at the National Cathedral – uscirf.govSep 6, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Church and State, Human Rights, Persecution, Religious Liberty, War
Sounding retreat
Urban legend has it that populations of wild rodents known as lemmings periodically commit mass suicide by throwing themselves off cliffs. In fact, these critters do no such thing. It remains to be seen, however, whether American voters will this fall do the functional equivalent of the lemming leap: electing politicians who seductively promise retreat from a strategy of forward defense, thus imperiling large numbers of our countrymen abroad and possibly at home.
Sep 5, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Legislation, National
G.O.P. Sets Aside Work on Immigration
As they prepare for a critical pre-election legislative stretch, Congressional Republican leaders have all but abandoned a broad overhaul of immigration laws and instead will concentrate on national security issues they believe play to their political strength.
Sep 5, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, Immigration, Legislation, National
Democrats Push for Own Religious Voice
David Wilhelm once drew hisses when he suggested that Christians could be Republicans or Democrats. Years later, Wilhelm is spreading that message again, and he’s hoping for a better response this time.
Sep 4, 2006
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, National, Religious Liberty
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
Embryos preserved in stem-cell creation
Scientists yesterday reported that they have devised a way to create human embryonic stem cells that does not harm embryos. Cell extraction was criticized on moral grounds by Richard M. Doerflinger, deputy director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. “It is widely believed that one cell of a very early embryo may separate and become a new embryo, an identical twin,” he said yesterday.
Aug 24, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Social Issues, Science, Issues
In New Method for Stem Cells, Viable Embryos
Biologists have developed a technique for establishing colonies of human embryonic stem cells from an early human embryo without destroying it. This method, if confirmed in other laboratories, would seem to remove the principal objection to the research.
Aug 24, 2006
Topic: Life, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Social Issues, Science, Issues
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