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...just a fraction of our taxes in $5 mosquito nets and drug treatments that cost pennies apiece. Right now in Washington, Congress is deciding whether to provide $3.6 billion in global AIDS funding, including $600 million for the global health fund, thanks to Democrat Dick Durbin and Republican Rick Santorum. If this money is not approved, people across Africa will have to be taken off lifesaving medications. How mad is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Generation's Moon Shot | 11/1/2005 | See Source »

...interpretations of the Bible. Interracial intimacy was seen as unnatural. Blacks were put forth as filthy sub-humans who wanted to muddy white bloodlines and thus destroy the goodness of the white race. Race mixing was akin to bestiality. Sound familiar? "Defenders" of marriage, from Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to Justice Antonin Scalia to Pope Benedict, have tossed out arguments just like these in their quest to keep same-sex couples from the altar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Civil Rights and Gay Rights | 10/25/2005 | See Source »

After Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., compared homosexuality to incest, bigamy, and adultery, Savage embarked on a campaign to coin a new noun, “santorum,” to be defined as “the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the product of anal sex.” But some of Savage’s antics are less innocuous. In 2000, he penetrated the presidential campaign of the Republican Gary Bauer, an outspoken opponent of gay marriage. Savage wrote a column for the online magazine Salon that, after being diagnosed with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Arts Preview: Readings Listings | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...maintains nine different offices in her adopted state. Except for the three days each week the Senate is in session, Obama is almost religiously in Illinois, and his staff brags about the 34 town halls he has held in his home state. Clinton frequently joins Republicans like Rick Santorum, a darling of the religious right, to work on legislation on the rare issues where they agree. (One recent bill provides $90 million to research the effects of video games on the cognitive development of children.) Obama is now working with Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, one of the chamber?s most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama Steps (Carefully) Into the Spotlight | 9/28/2005 | See Source »

...skyboxes and elsewhere, there were plenty of Roberts supporters on hand to tell the press how wonderfully they thought he was performing. Members of the Senate Republican Conference staff, under Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum, decided early on in the hearing planning process that they wanted a noticeable showing by The Right in the room. "We went to (judiciary committee staff) and said we don't want the nomination hearing to be like the Christian thrown to the lions with all the Romans around the outside going thumbs up or thumbs down," says a Senate Republican staffer involved in the planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Above the Fray at the Roberts Hearing | 9/13/2005 | See Source »

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