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Santorum: Global Warming Is 'Political Science' Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Friday blasted rivals former Massachusetts Gov.

Santorum: Global Warming Is 'Political Science'

Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for their past support of legislation to combat global warming, saying that politicians shouldn't change "when the climate changes. " "When the climate changed about man-made global warming in this country and everybody rushed to say we need to do something now about this huge problem, I didn't change," the former Pennsylvania proudly declared at an event at the USS Alabama Battleship Park. "This climate science of man-made global warming is not climate science, it was political science. " "I didn't sit on a couch with anybody," Santorum added, referring to an ad Gingrich had made with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) calling for mandatory carbon caps. "I didn't go out and crow as Gov.

"We don't need somebody who changes when the climate changes," the candidate remarked. Rick Santorum and prenatal testing: I would have saved my son from his suffering. Photo courtesy of Emily Rapp.

Rick Santorum and prenatal testing: I would have saved my son from his suffering

This week my son turned blue, and for 30 terrifying seconds, stopped breathing. Called an "apnea seizure," this is one stage in the progression of Tay-Sachs, the genetic disease Ronan was born with and will die of, but not before he suffers from these and other kinds of seizures and is finally plunged into a completely vegetative state. Nearly two years old, he is already blind, paralyzed, and increasingly nonresponsive. I expect his death to happen this year, and this week's seizure only highlighted the fact that it could happen at any moment—while I'm at work, at the hair salon, at the grocery store. I love my son more than any person in the world and his life is of utmost value to me. Here's another set of truths for the moral and ethical mix: I was born with a physical deformity in the age before the evolution of advanced ultrasound technology that may have detected it.

Rick Santorum, I would like you to meet my child. Santorum Hypes Iran 'Threat' GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum warned North Dakota on Wednesday that it was in the cross-hairs of an Iranian attack.

Santorum Hypes Iran 'Threat'

Among the news about Iran that had Americans thinking about that country was an announcement that Iran is making its own nuclear fuel and using it for a reactor. Iran has a small medical research nuclear reactor, which produces nuclear isotopes for use in chemotherapy. The reactor requires uranium enriched to 19.75 percent to run. Iran announced on Wednesday that it had managed to enrich to that level , and is now installing the homemade fuel plates in the reactor. Santorum on the Defensive Over Gender Remarks. 3:19 a.m. | Updated The full version of this post is available here.

Santorum on the Defensive Over Gender Remarks

WASHINGTON — Only days after having to explain a comment about women and emotions in combat, Rick Santorum seemed to struggle a bit on Sunday to explain a remark in his 2005 book “It Takes a Family” that blamed “radical feminists” for undermining families and for trying to persuade women that they could find fulfillment only in the workplace. Asked on the ABC News program “This Week” about the book’s contentions, Mr. Santorum noted that his wife, Karen, had written that section — though only his name is on the cover and he does not list her in the acknowledgments as among those “who assisted me in the writing of this book.” He said that when Mrs. Santorum, a nurse and a lawyer, had quit working to raise the couple’s children, she felt that many people “looked down their nose at that decision.” “Sadly, the propaganda campaign launched in the 1960s has taken root,” Mr.

In the interview on Sunday, Mr. Mr. Mr. Rick Santorum — Iran Man. From Prop. 8 to birth control, Santorum leads the culture war. Proposition 8!

From Prop. 8 to birth control, Santorum leads the culture war

Catholics and birth control! Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood! Could Rick Santorum have asked for a better confluence of controversies? The man and the moment seem to have collided and the man is Santorum, not Mitt Romney. The 2012 election was supposed to be about jobs and the economy and, though that will still be central, the dynamic has shifted. Meanwhile, the culture war has gone hot: • The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that California Proposition 8’s gay marriage ban is unconstitutional and the issue is heading to the Supreme Court.