In a major campaign appearance, Senator Sam Brownback will receive the 2006 Pro-Life Leadership award from the National Pro-Life Action Center. The award will be presented at an event called “The National Memorial for the Unborn” and is related to the March for Life. My favorite part of the announcement?
WHAT: Prayer service [...]
Light posting today, but I wanted to throw in this quote from the Concord Moniter regarding Senator Sam Brownback’s comments about fetuses with Down’s Syndrome:
Hassan commented also on the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. She pointed specifically to a comment from Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, who opposes abortion, saying 80 to [...]
Sometime over the next few days The Anti Sam Brownback Blog will be moving to a new server (at the same host). If everything goes correctly you should not notice anything different. *Knock*Knock* on wood.
I just wanted to gove fair warning in the unlikely case things get a little crazy around here.
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In the January 16th 2006 edition of Business Week magazine, a Stanford scientist takes Brownback to task for his dark-ages stance on Stem Cell research:
As Stanford University professor Irving Weissman reflects on his lifelong quest to solve the mysteries of cancer, he bristles at the prospect that his work could be outlawed. A bill sponsored [...]
It is no secret that Senator Sam Brownback wants churches to be able to endorse candidates. However, currently that is against the law. The law has not stopped Ohio Pastor Rod Parsley and his World Harvest Church from brazenly supporting Kenneth Blackwell for governor. On October 15th 2005, Senator Brownback was a [...]
While I was not at the game, I heard from several friends that Senator Sam Brownback attended the KU Basketball game on Saturday. The KC Star confirmed the sighting. I wonder for whom he was cheering? If anyone out there has a photo of the senator at the KU game, I would [...]
For any of you who doubted Senator Sam Brownback endlessley pontificated during the Alito hearings, the statistcis are in. According to a blog named “Nihilist In Golf Pants”, during the Alito hearings Brownback spoke %68.1 of the time, leaving 31.9% of the time to let Alito himself answer the questions.
One caveat with these numbers. [...]
In a move sure to enrage Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, Washington DC has quietly passed a comprehensive domestic partnership ordinance. SF Bay Times reports:
The Domestic Partnership Equality Act of 2005 grants registered D.C. domestic partners an impressive range of benefits and obligations. The law grants full inheritance rights to registered partners and their children, [...]
Jesus’ General, everyone’s favorite satirist, made Brownback the subject of one of his letters. You should go read it all, but here is an excerpt:
Dear Sen. Brownback,
You’ve made a lot of progress in your fight to end discrimination against Blastocyst-American citizens. There is certainly less informal discrimination around today–I seldom hear anyone use slurs [...]