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...office, Virginia’s attorney general seems to have determined that his state’s legal policies are not controversial enough. How else to explain his decision to send a letter to Virginia universities and colleges instructing them to ban protections on gay rights? In the document, Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II advised that, “The law and public policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia prohibit a college or university from including ‘sexual orientation,’ ‘gender identity,’ ‘gender expression...
...unions, which have long been a key Democratic constituency, issued such scathing assessments of Obama's education-reform blueprint that even some fellow party members were mystified. "It's like they didn't read the document," says Charles Barone, director of federal policy at Democrats for Education Reform. "Apparently their definition of a partnership is that they're the bully and you're the weakling on the playground...
...plans to launch a $1.3 million ad buy on Tuesday, which will include ads in at least 12 districts. Americans for Stable and Quality Care (ASQC), which is funded largely by the pharmaceutical industry, will run ads in as many as 44 House districts, according to an internal document. "Is it perfect? No. But it's the biggest advance in 45 years," runs the script of one ASQC ad. "Congress, the time is now to pass health reform...
...Holy Father needs to say something about this," Dirk Taenzler, head of the Federation of German Catholic Youth, told the daily Berliner Zeitung. The Vatican is expected to release a letter soon regarding similar abuse cases that hit Ireland in the past decade. It is not clear whether the document will mention either Germany in general or the Munich case in particular...
...search through the much vilified Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports shows that absolute certainty is notably absent. In the most recent document, for example, published in 2007, the authors write: "Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic GHG [that is, human-generated greenhouse gas] concentrations." (See pictures of the effects of global warming...