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HOW PRESIDENT OBAMA CELEBRATED THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PASSAGE OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITY ACT By Don C. Reed On Monday, July 26, I was up in Sacramento, going door to door visiting legislators’ offices, working to gain their support for the renewal of the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act of 1999.  [...]

TODAY! Spinal Cord Injury Trials go Forward with Embryonic Stem Cells— as the Law Which Funded the Research Fights for Existence  By Don C. Reed  Today, July 30th, 2010, the biomedical company Geron announced the FDA go-ahead for the world’s first human trials with embryonic stem cells*.  The research behind this ground-breaking event was paid [...]

Ashraf Khalil: A bad month for media freedom in the Middle East The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship

By Oiwan Lam According to the report at tech.163 on 13 of October 2010, the head of Baidu Tieba, an automatically generated forum through keyword search, Shu Xun said that the forum on average deleted 1 million posts every day. The report said: During a speech at the “2010 China Internet Marketing Business Summit” yesterday [...]

President Barack Obama will sign an order allowing scientists to use federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, which goes against the Bust administration. Bill Plante reports. Stem Cell Research Pros and Cons

If you believe in freedom of expression or if have ever expressed a view contrary to the status quo, you should care a whole bunch because you too could face legal action.  It’s called a SLAPP suit – Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation -  an abuse of the legal system by the rich and powerful, [...]

Don Jason is an apostate who left his position as volunteer staff in 1996 quite suddenly, before it could be discovered that he had been stealing from his wife and his church. Jason revealed these facts himself, several months later, when Church officials offered him a chance to come clean about his transgressions and still [...]

It is time to come out of the closet ladies and gentlemen, I am a list person.  And not simply in the to do list, or the grocery list sort of way, no, I’m the type of person who will write something down simply to cross it off as it has already been completed. With [...]

          Arizona’s new law compels law enforcement officers to make inquiry into the immigration status of a person who law enforcement has "reasonable suspicion . . . is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States".   Many on the radio and on the web suggest that this provision only applies [...]

Earlier this year, California legislators introduced AB 2047, a bill that would effectively reintroduce racial preferences in college admissions by authorizing the University of California and California State University to consider race, ethnicity, sex, national origin, and “other relevant factors” in undergraduate and graduate admissions. In 1996, California voters barred their government from racial discrimination [...]