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Researchers have isolated a single stem cell capable of regenerating the entire blood system. Last year this research team reported isolating the more specialized progenitor cells that lie downstream… This is a content summary only. Visit our website for full links, other content, and more! Thanks! Stem Cell Research

Liberty Counsel announced today that it has filed a lawsuit in New York asking a state court to declare the state’s Marriage Equality Act void and to declare void any same-sex marriages that have taken place under the Act. (See prior posting.) The complaint (full text) in New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms v. New York [...]

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man charged with terror attacks in Norway Friday on government buildings in Oslo and on a youth camp on the island of Utoya, published in advance online a 1500 page document titled 2083–A Declaration of Independence. Here is the full text of the document which the Wall Street Journal describes as [...]

Rohan Jayasekera: Even in the midst of horror, speculation can still have a place The Free Speech Blog: Official blog of Index on Censorship

According to The Nation, Pakistan’s Senate yesterday condemned the U.S. embassy’s hosting last month of Islamabad’s first ever LGBT Pride Celebration.  A U.S. Embassy press release said that more than 75 people attended the event, including Mission Officers, U.S. military representatives, foreign diplomats, and leaders of Pakistani LGBT advocacy groups.  The Charge d’Affaires told attendees [...]

At a Town Hall meeting at the University of Maryland this morning, President Obama was asked specifically about his administration’s position on religion-based hiring by faith-based groups receiving federal grant moneys. Blog from the Capital reports on (and provides a transcript of) the Q and A. Obama has not rescinded Executive Order 13279 issued in 2002 by President George [...]

Under the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010, the provisions of 10 USC 654 (which preclude those who are openly gay or lesbian from serving in the armed forces) are repealed 60 days after the President transmits to congressional defense committees a written certification signed by himself and by the Secretary of Defense and [...]

The headline in The Sacramento Bee this morning read “Why raise taxes when officials squander our money?” And prominently mentioned was the California stem cell research agency and the 0,000 salary of its new chairman. The opinion piece was written by Dan Walters, The Bee’s longtime time political columnist, whose articles are reprinted in many [...]

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Tell that to the “coloreds” who had to go through a different door because they were black. Racial preferences opponents and perhaps a few fence-sitters are stunned by the Sixth Circuit panel’s decision to overturn Michigan’s voter-approved law requiring racial neutrality in government employment, contacting, and education. The way people have opposed such a simple [...]