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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, [...]

Candidate Rick Perry released an 30-second ad today attacking what he called “Obama’s war on religion.” In the ad, he says: I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in [...]

Century Foundation senior fellow Richard Kahlenberg believes children from low-income homes learn better if surrounded by children from higher-income homes, one reason why he advocates socioeconomic preferences. More palatable than blatant racial preferences, socioeconomic preferences focus on family income levels. In a Chronicle of Higher Education blog post, Kahlenberg recounts the current “affirmative action” debate [...]

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 Blog from the Capital reports on (and provides a transcript of) the Q and A. Obama has not rescinded Executive Order 13279 issued in 2002 by President George [...]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the provisions of 10 USC 654 (which preclude those who are openly gay or lesbian from serving in the armed forces) are repealed 60 days after the President transmits to congressional defense committees a written certification signed by himself and by the Secretary of Defense and [...]

President Obama will visit India next month. The New York Times reported yesterday that Sikhs in the United States are distressed that tentative plans for him to include a stop at the Golden Temple in Amristar have been cancelled. It is reported that part of the reason for the cancellation is the Sikh tradition that [...]