Anticipating unprecedented victories in the United States, gay rights groups in America are raising their profile at home and abroad.
Monthly Archives For July 2008
The GITMO Road Show
Against the patriotic backdrop of the Washington Monument, some tourists were uncomfortable with Amnesty International’s GITMO replica.
Modified Media Mea Culpa
Studies on the astounding degree of neglect for essential reportorial practices remains valid. I could see this trend with a vengeance as an intern in the Senate press gallery a quarter century ago.
Border Security Blues
Illegal or legal, Mark Krikorian fears the effects drastic immigration rates are having, both on legal citizens and the immigrants themselves.
Anti-Civil Liberties Union
In reality, the ACLU bears a closer resemblance to the insulated plutocrats it inveighs against than it does to any underdog that you can think of.
Stanford, Schatzberg, and Corcept Therapeutics
Stanford’s account of Dr. Schatzberg’s arm’s-length role in Stanford’s NIH-supported studies of RU 486 (mifepristone) for depression is questionable, if not disingenuous.
States of Denial
An AP story about the growing number of states walking away from federal abstinence funding is being hailed by some as a death knell for the abstinence movement.
Days of Silence
Same-sex marriage isn’t the only pro-gay policy making waves in California. Now school districts with bullying problems are forming alliances with gay rights organizations, often at the behest of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Another National Security Threat
One expert argues that more foreigners than U.S. students are graduating with degrees in technology from U.S. colleges, and this could endanger our competitiveness worldwide.
Nanny-State Anyone?
The August/September edition of Reason, a libertarian publication dedicated to Free Minds and Free Markets, ranks the 35 “worst nanny-state cities in America.”