Marriage Ban and War on Science

Bush to Support Same-Sex Marriage Ban:

"Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society," Bush said in his Saturday radio address. "Government, by recognizing and protecting marriage, serves the interests of all."

(via: CNN.com)

"The American War on Science"

From one of my favorite popular science magazines, Seed, comes this editorial by Christopher Mims exploring America's dependence on "foreign born" students' brainpower:

By most objective measures, the United States is the undisputed world leader in science and innovation, whether it's funding for research and development, the number of PhD students it graduates or its share of the world's patents. For the world's wealthiest nation, this is hardly a remarkable feat. What is remarkable is that the US accomplished this with a supply of domestic talent whose skills in math and science are, also according to most objective measures, merely mediocre.

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