Gawd, Politico is full of crap: He called for reducing abortions and seeking common ground on one of the nation’s most divisive issues — promises that led some on the right to think maybe, just maybe, Barack Obama was a different kind of Democrat. But no more. A series of decisions in th...

Of Obama's decision to reverse Bush's ban on federal funding for stem cell research, Yuval Levin has this to say: ...legitimate dispute underlies the stem cell debate. But that is not the ground on which the president made his case yesterday. He argued that to deny free rein to stem cell science is ...

I’m having some trouble roping around all this stem cell and healthcare nonsense from Barry the Black Jesus. Obama says, “Our government has forced what I believe is a false choice between sound science and moral values.” “It is about ensuring that scientific data is never di...

by John F. Di Leo Two truisms in American politics are hardly worth pointing out anymore – it’s become a given that the Democrats use Orwellian NuSpeak to obfuscate their actions, and that the "mainstream press" – the fifth columnists......

As you all know, President Obama lifted Bush’s longstanding restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research yesterday — a huge breakthrough for all those who believe this avenue could produce unprecedented treatments for many incurable diseases. Like diabetes. Among others,...

Reacting to Eric Cantor's moronic objection to President Obama's reversal of George Bush's executive order of stem cell research: CANTOR: [T]here’s a reason why this discussion is coming up this week. Why are we going and distracting ourselves from the economy? This is job number one; let&rsqu...

We've all seen in movies, learned in history classes, how superstition and religious intolerance got in the way of science in the Middle Ages, even during the Renaissance. It's hard to believe that we were just inhabiting a 21st century Dark Ages regarding stem cell research. True, it wasn't banned,...

A strange and confused chapter in the history of American medical research ended Monday morning, when President Obama signed an executive order ending a ban on federal funding for embryonic-stem-cell lines that were developed after August 9, 2001. The ban has been roundly denounced as hypocritical a...

George Bush was not exactly a philosopher-king. But one thing he reportedly did honestly struggle with was the executive order dealing with stem cell research. Not so Barack Obama . Today he was “excited� to sign the executive order which will reverse Bush's order and “vigorously� put the fe...

Let me tell you what today has been like, and we’re only a few hours into it. Those of you who don’t understand what a low-down, bitchy sinner I am may be surprised. Those of you who do know (or suspect) that I am a bitchy sinner will be gratified. I started the morning crabbing to my hu...