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Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed a bill today that will defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business. The new law would defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business and other companies in the state that kill babies in abortions. Abortion businesses in Missouri can no longer receive Medicaid funding thanks to a bill signed by Gov. Mike Parson today. HB 2634 passed by large margins in the House and the Senate following the release of a video where Planned Parenthood was allegedly caught attempting to traffick a child out of state. Although Missouri is one of the pro-life states where babies are...

Government agencies spent $8 million to put 12 primates on treadmills in Texas and paid $30,000 in fines for a host of federal violations, including performing a necropsy on a baboon that was still alive. The Southwest National Primate Research Center, in San Antonio, received grants from the National Institutes of Health to run the study. Over the past decade, the facility collected nearly $70 million from various federal agencies. During the same period, the center was slapped with more than $30,000 in penalties for abuse. The U.S. Department of Agriculture identified 14 violations of the Animal Welfare Act at...

Planned Parenthood Gets $363M in Tax Funds, Does More Abortions Washington, DC -- The Planned Parenthood Federation of America finally released its 2008-2009 Annual report detailing its financial figures. The report shows it received more government funding, which has translated into more abortions. http://LifeNews.com/nat-6936

College Board Announces Increased College Readiness by: Bethany Stotts, February 20, 2008 On Thursday, February 14, the College Board released its annual Advanced Placement exam findings, announcing that the number of high-school test-takers gaining a score of 3 or more on AP tests has risen 3.5% nationwide over the last five years. The CB board celebrated these increases because rising scores not only indicate that more high-school graduates are prepared to succeed in college (15.2% nationwide), but because studies have shown that AP test-takers are more likely to understand key subjects such as math and physics, making America more competitive...

"ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS The Military Power of the People's Republic of China" ....

It's time again to grade the governor. Wednesday will mark one year in office for Arnold Schwarzenegger — one full year of learning on the job. How's he progressing? There is only one fair way to go about this: Split the grade in two. • One grade for politics. Give him a solid A. • A second grade for policy. He gets a generous C. A tougher grader would have given the guy a D in policy — or categorize it as substance, all that serious stuff a governor is supposed to do to solve state problems. The one problem...