In the Illinois legislature, Obama blocked the proposed Born Alive Infant Protection Act, a bill to protect infants who survive abortion. He promised supporters he would sign a "Freedom of Choice Act" to repeal all legislated restrictions on abortion, state and federal. Taking office, he opened the door to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research and , by executive order, repealed the Reagan-Bush prohibition against using tax dollars to fund agencies broad that perform abortions.
Barack Obama himself conceded the point in 1990 when, as president of Harvard Law Review, he wrote in defense of its affirmative action policy:
"As someone who has undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs during my academic career, and as someone who may have benefited from the Law Review's affirmative action policy when I was selected to join the Review last year, I have not personally felt stigmatized."
Most federal employees are ranked at a general schedule (GS) grade from 1 to 15, and each grade has 10 steps within it. Step raises are largely automatic, based on longevity, but merit can hasten a step pay raise or even move a worker up multiple steps. Not every worker gets a step raise every year, but the raises average about 2% per year for workers as a group.
The Obama inauguration symbolized the dilution and decline of a once-muscular Christianity that had guided American public life for two centuries. Obama's White House enlisted in a long and successful campaign to expel Christianity from the public square, diminish its presence in our public life, and reduce its role to that of just another religion. Cultural power in America long ago passed to an anti-Christian elite that rules the academy, Hollywood, and the arts. Secularism is now America's state religion and the people sense it.
The above quotations are from Suicide of a Superpower Will America Survive to 2025? by Pat Buchanan. Click here for other excerpts from Suicide of a Superpower Will America Survive to 2025? by Pat Buchanan. Click here for other excerpts by Barack Obama. Click here for a profile of Barack Obama.
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