Link: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/02/new.stem.cells/index.html#cnnSTCText

Thirteen new human embryonic stem cell lines have been approved for use in federally funded research -- the first to be approved under an executive order from President Obama -- the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday. ...read more

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/02/obama.world.reax/index.html#cnnSTCText

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to deploy 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. ...read more

Link: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20091202/NEWS0108/312030009/Gingrich+praises++pans+Obama

Link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Ending-terror-a-shared-goal-Obama/articleshow/5294285.cms

Link: http://jezebel.com/5417337/youre-a-good-man-barack-obama-afghanistan-war-meets-classic-animation

newVideoPlayer("/CharlieBrown_Obama_Jez.flv", 500, 375,""); Who says A Charlie Brown Christmas and Barack Obama's address on Afghanistan can't make beautiful policy together? In fact, who better than... ...read more

Link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hGwduchKaSGMdqEklWzmg3KRtYlQ

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6712583/Barack-Obama-Afghan-surge-is-a-war-with-an-end.html

Barack Obama ordered a major escalation of the war in Afghanistan but made clear that his appetite for the conflict was finite. ...read more

Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=axgmWSy1i6vU

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6712353/Barack-Obama-facing-backlash-over-Afghanistan-troop-surge.html

President Barack Obama faced an immediate backlash over his surge plan for Afghanistan, amid fears that setting out a timetable for withdrawal could aid the Taliban and unnerve allies. ...read more

Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/gc07/idUSTRE5B162220091202