The State Department has a message for White House candidates wanting to expound on sensitive diplomatic issues: Shut up...

First it was Barack Obama's talk of dialogue with dictators and invading Pakistan to kill Islamist militants, then it was Hillary Rodham Clinton refusing to rule out the use of nuclear weapons to that end. Now, the Democratic front-runners have been joined by radical Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo, who threatened to bomb Muslim holy sites to stop terror attacks....

"To somehow suggest that an appropriate response to terrorism would be to attack sites that are holy and sacred to more than a billion people throughout the world is just absolutely crazy," he said, denouncing "any suggestion that the defense of the American homeland or the defense of American interests would ever justify attacking holy sites."

Amen....I shudder at the fact that Tom Tancredo actually got elected to Congress.

U.S. State Department cringes as presidential hopefuls muddy diplomatic waters - International Herald Tribune

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"Under legislation by Brownback and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) human cloning for all purposes, including medical research, would be outlawed."

If this happens...America could lose some of its great scientists. If scientists can't do the research they want to do/think needs to be done in one place, they will move to a place where they can do it. For example...I don't agree with cloning just to clone. But I do think that therapeutic cloning may be important, and its something that I may choose to do research in. If I can't do it in America, I will do it elsewhere.

Key Senator Bends on Cloning