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The New York Times: “The ruling came as a shock to scientists at the National Institutes of Health and at universities across the country, which had viewed the Obama administration’s new policy and the grants provided under it as settled law. Scientists scrambled Monday evening to assess the ruling’s immediate impact on their work.”
Per the AP, "The USDA employee who was pushed out of her job during a racial firestorm last month is set to meet [today] with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to discuss coming back to work at the agency.”
"A senior US commander said yesterday that he could not predict when Afghanistan might take control of its own security and warned that NATO needs at least another year to recruit and train enough soldiers and police officers."
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bleh.
Now this may be the most articulate thing I've read on FR.
Quite possibly because you were able to read it and comprehend it in its' entirety.
I've already heard (Bill Press Show) that this decision was by an activist conservative judge. (Full decision here: https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2009cv1575-44)
As much as I am angry and frustrated by this decision, I don't think it's that simple. He may be a conservative judge, but his decision is relatively objective.
The judge found that the "Dickey-Wicker Amendment," adopted in 1996, prohibits federal funding of any research in which human embryos are destroyed. That would be during Clinton's administration.
The decision is less about the conservative "right to life" agenda than it is about Congressional intent in the 1996 law. It may be difficult to get the decision reversed under the circumstances.
Another legal setback for the former 'constitutional law instructor'.
Might be time for some of you on this board to dig up that Washington Post article from August, 2008. Though written as a puff piece, (it's amazing what you can do with the right wording), it boiled down to the fact that he did not teach the subject matter; instead, he engaged in a constant stream of electoral strategy, using his students as an unpaid focus group.
Ah, well-soon, he can add 'failed presidency' to his list of 'achievements'.
no Joe
Wow....never pass up an opportunity can you?
If you feel this is a failed presidency with the health care bill passed and the Wall Street bill passed, and with saving the world economy by couragsous use of stimulus and on and on, you are so filled with hate you can't see the foolishness of your statement.
History will condemn the lot of you naysayers. When we need cooperation, all we get is nonsense like what you just wrote here.
Unbelieveable
nojoe:
I'd say the prior administration's list of "accomplishments" was meager, unless you count unmitigated financial disaster as an accomplishment. Obama inherited the mess; it's not going to be cleaned up for years.
If stem cell research is going to face more setbacks, there should be more research done on harvesting stem cells from full term birth placenta's. I think the only objection for this method will come from politicians who won't be able to profit from dis-guarded placenta.