Republican Endorsed by NRCC “Young Guns” and Dick Lugar Supports Planned Parenthood Funding

By: Joel Griffith (Diary)  |  May 11th at 12:50 AM  | 

The National Republican Congressional Committee supported Bob Dold’s 2010 campaign as one of its ostensibly conservative “Young Guns” candidates.   With this help from the NRCC, Bob Dold was elected to Congress. On May 9, less than two years after this inflow of funds from the Republican Party, Representative Bob Dold (R-IL) introduced legislation protecting funding of Planned Parenthood.  This stands in stark contrast to legislation | Read More »

National Science Foundation Funds Study on “That’s What She Said” Use

By: Joel Griffith (Diary)  |  July 26th at 10:47 AM  | 

Last year,  the federal government  funded  the National Science Foundation (NSF ) to the tune of $6.9 billion.  Each year, the NSF disburses much of this government funding in the form of grants.  These include graduate research fellowships.  According to the NSF, the grants “fund specific research proposals that have been judged the most promising by a rigorous and objective merit-review system.” The University of | Read More »