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Photo by Yogesh Mhatre Most of this report was researched and written by Weiping Li, Mera Szendro Bok, and edited by Sarah Myers. Netizens around the world took collective action with a mass Internet blackout on January 18 to protest the United States' Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act, which, in its [...]

Obama Proved Right On Stem Cells: Republican Candidates Would Have Criminalized Breakthrough Posted: 01/23/2012 4:40 pm (first posted on Huffington Post same day)   If any of the four Republicans currently threatening to become President had been in office today, America would have missed a chance to return vision to the blind. What do Romney, [...]

Attorneys for New York City have asked that Brooklyn federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis be removed from the case that-shall-never-end for bias against white firefighters. Garaufis appointed an independent monitor to oversee FDNY’s efforts to increase so-called diversity in the department, which the judge called “a stubborn bastion of white male privilege.” About four million of [...]

Anti-choice activists absolutely love to use metaphors about what abortion is like. Abortion is like the holocaust! Abortion is like genocide! Abortion is like slavery! I recently came across this quote to that effect. The author is talking about a new facility in Ohio where women would be able to both receive abortion care and [...]

…euphemistically known as “affirmative action.” When I first read about “What Happens After Enrollment: An Analysis of the Time Paths of Racial Difference in GPA and Major Choice (32 pages in PDF),” by Duke University economists Peter Arcidiacono and Esteban Aucejo and sociologist Ken Spenner, the results seemed intuitive to me. Students admitted with lesser [...]

Today’s New York Times reports in a front page story that the 72-minute film, The Third Jihad, was shown on continuous loop to New York City police officers during training sign-in, and the training medical and administrative orientation process. The film, produced by the Clarion Fund, was shown for a period between 3 months and [...]

Tens of thousands of Tunisians gathered just like the old days on the Habib Bourghuiba Avenue, Main Street of Tunisia’s capital. A year ago, on this same day and on this same street, Tunisians came united to shout “Dégage” (Leave), a key word of the Tunisian Revolution. Today, they come to celebrate the first anniversary [...]

The National Center for Science Education reported last week that so far this year, six separate anti-evolution bills have been introduced in state legislatures– one in Oklahoma, one in Indiana, two in New Hampshire and two in Missouri. Here are links to the bills:  Oklahoma SB 1742; Indiana SB 0089; New Hampshire HB1148 and HB1457; Missouri [...]

Yesterday was the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nation wide.  Rallies by abortion opponents were held in Lafayette Park across from the White House. (CNN) The U.S. Conference of of Catholic Bishops announced the National Prayer Vigil For Life scheduled for yesterday and today at the Basilica of the [...]

The purpose of obtaining a passport card is to be able to travel between land and sea borders to destinations such as Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. It is a legally issued document by United States agencies, which is not as expensive in comparison to passports. Every citizen of America has the right to obtain [...]