Aug 24, 2012 – WASHINGTON (BP) -- A federal appeals court again has dealt a setback to an effort to halt government funding of stem cell research … ESCR has yet to provide any treatments for human beings and has been plagued by tumors in lab animals. … They abided by the previous panel's ruling deferring to NIH's interpretation that "research" might be understood to exclude "the initial…

Aug 24, 2012 – During his time in the Illinois Senate, Obama voted against the Born Alive Act, a bill that requires doctors to give care to babies … amend BAIPA to include the exact same language that was added to the federal version to protect Roe v. … This means that, in essence, Obama voted to successfully amend the bill in a way that Obama has said would have enabled him to support…

Aug 24, 2012 – Todd Akin to rescind his ridiculous, ignorant-of-basic-biological-functions comments about rape and abortion, their party just voted … We can't let them continue to say one thing to the public while privately pushing to make it harder for women to control their own … And if we aren't able to give Democrats the resources they need to win in November, women in America stand to lose decades of progress…

Aug 24, 2012 – to conceive. … Testosterone levels vary widely among men and are known to change in response to events. … to confirm a judge who had once, long before, expressed views similar to Akin's.…

Aug 24, 2012 – To many Americans, that sounds a lot like an invitation to disaster. … In September 2009, in a blatant effort to show how committed he is to nuclear nonproliferation, Obama abruptly cancelled plans to deploy … A month later, the Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway, voted to give him the 2009 Peace Prize.…

Aug 24, 2012 – Although less than 40 percent of TSA workers voted in the runoff election between two unions seeking to represent them, all 44,000 … Unionizing these employees limits our government’s ability to deploy them as and where needed, thanks to mandatory union policies and … to work.…

Aug 23, 2012 – "Romney, Ryan, Akin and the GOP want to take women back to the dark ages," the Democrats add. Quite, I'm sure. … The best answer appears to be…eh. … But it’s a distraction that can work, and it’s up to the Romney campaign to shift the focus back to issues of more immediate consequence…

Aug 23, 2012 – If we're waiting for demographics to usher in same-sex marriage, we might have to wait awhile. … The fact is, in 30 states so far, citizens have voted to write into their constitutions that marriage is the union between one man … Rich Lowry points to the 70s-era Equal Rights Amendment which also was seen to be inevitable.…

Aug 23, 2012 – The poll shows President Obama's lead in Florida is down to just three points. Mr. … The new poll's Florida respondents voted for Obama over McCain by a nine-point margin.  … Eleven weeks to make the sale.…

Aug 23, 2012 – The Left has attempted to exploit the Todd Akin saga to toxify other Republicans, even those who have called for Akin to step down. … Thus infants who were not expected to survive could be killed or left unattended to die. … committee, voted down a bill to protect live-born survivors of abortion — even after the panel had amended the bill to contain verbatim…

Aug 23, 2012 – Todd Akin said that victims of "legitimate rape" don't get pregnant because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing … Just this morning, the Republican Party voted to include the "Human Life Amendment" in their platform, calling for a constitutional … to grave.…

Aug 23, 2012 – Four years ago, almost 10 million more women than men voted -- 70.4 million women compared with 60.7 million men, according to the … This is a vast natural resource that we need to be able to tap to grow our economy. … If Republicans want to win this fall, they will need to clearly communicate to women why their candidate is the best candidate to address…

Aug 22, 2012 – Isakson press secretary Marie Gordon said the senator "voted in favor of the in the committee because ratification would signal to … Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced an amendment to address that concern, but it was voted down. … Rubio voted against sending the CRPD to the full Senate, along with fellow Republicans Bob Corker of Tennessee, Jim DeMint of South…

Aug 22, 2012 – The conservatives -- those who opposed government programs to reduce inequality -- were significantly more likely to donate money to … "I expected to find that political liberals … would turn out to be the most privately charitable people," he says. … tends to evaporate.…

Aug 22, 2012 – Most campaigns try to use crucial issues to influence public opinion on the state of the race, but the Obama team hopes to use public … Of the 34 who went to the voters and made an attempt to return to the White House, 19 succeeded and 15 failed—hardly a record of all-but-assured … to select more of the same.…

Aug 22, 2012 – I wanted to like Paul Ryan. Before he was nationally known, Rep. Ryan visited me at ABC, and we went to lunch. He was terrific. … Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom"! If only more politicians thought that way. But then the housing bubble burst. Ryan voted for TARP. … "I voted for TARP because I believed we were going to fall into a deflationary spiral, the economy was going to collapse. ...…

Aug 21, 2012 – If you rely on Medicare, it will mean fewer places to get care, and less freedom to choose your own doctors.  … Those are cuts to current seniors.  … This comes as no surprise to Congressional Democrats, who repeatedly voted down Republican efforts to prevent the Medicare cuts from…

Aug 21, 2012 – Last week in Part 1, I began to list my Top 10 reasons not to re-elect President Obama. … He plans to initiate more than $500 billion in automatic cuts to the defense budget over a decade, starting next January. … And Bloomberg Businessweek recently reported that Obama's Democratic-controlled Senate voted to authorize another reduced Pentagon…

Aug 21, 2012 – 4 to 1 against him. … to be hurt. … They want to be together again. It does not rise ... to anything close to domestic violence."…

Aug 21, 2012 – You can pick any Democrat in Congress and Obama is still to their left. … Romney knew that he was going to be pilloried and abused as a Social Darwinist already: it must have occurred to him, why run from … If he had picked Rubio, they would have said Romney caved to conventional wisdom.…

Aug 21, 2012 – So to make that point  – in other words to make the point that liberals AREN’T really cheap- we need to cue the liberal social scientist … whose job it is to explain to us that the results of the study don’t really say what they say.  … [To approve the measure] would be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which…

Aug 20, 2012 – In the past year, it has been difficult for many conservatives and pro-Second Amendment advocates to accept the fact that Mitt … “He voted in 1999 against a proposal that would have established more stringent requirements for background checks on people buying … He voted last year for a gun-rights bill under which a permit to carry a concealed firearm in one state would be valid in almost every…

Aug 20, 2012 – When George Romney died, he left a large inheritance to his children, including Mitt, who donated his share to charity.  … He also voted to confirm Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, in spite of his documented tax problems.  … The basics: According to its own actuaries, Medicare is slated to become insolvent within 12 years. …

Aug 19, 2012 – In hopes of putting the matter behind him, Mirkarimi agreed to plead guilty to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment. … to the board of supervisors.      … Hur -- yes, Ben Hur -- voted against the mayor.…

Aug 19, 2012 – Romney will not be able to simply rely on such extreme dissatisfaction to drive swing voters into his camp. … In short, a bad economy has provided Romney the opportunity to upset Obama. Now, he has to seize it. … To do so, Romney must find a way to connect with working men and women of America, said Nichols.…