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Sidwell Friends School gets a juicy scandal

From London to Edinburgh in double the time of a stagecoach - in electric car

Girls and women who have Asperger’s syndrome

Obama, Plan B, Fear of Promiscuity, Sex and the Single Teen

The mysterious epidemic of worker disabilty

Gun policy and law enforcement: Survey Results

What Does Obama Think He’s Doing On Guns?

Bendectin, and silicone boobs

Watergate redux: Mitch McConnell seeks FBI investigation

Wash U. in St. Louis earns FIRE’s “Speech Code of the Month” Dishonor

When, if ever, is it right to use recent horrific crimes to push for political changes you wanted anyway?

Gabby Giffords and husband own firearms

Sultan:

Conservatism never wins. It loses. It comes to be associated with slick empty men and women who smile a lot and lie a lot. And that in the long run is far more devastating than the occasional senate candidate who says something horrible or idiotic. Candidates like Mitt Romney are more damaging than a hundred Todd Akins because they fix the image of a soulless party that cares about nothing and no one.

It is better to have the public think that the Republican Party stands for horrible and divisive things than to think that it stands for nothing. There are people who will vote for horrible things... but who will vote for nothing except in opposition to the something that the other party is selling?

The Navy's new Laser Gun

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Girls and women who have Asperger’s syndrome

That was very interesting - I have a niece who has this particular syndrome. She displays a lot of those tom boy symptoms leading her to think she was a lesbian for a while (how a 10 year old gets an idea like that, I have no idea), but apparently not. Now fourteen, she's not a girly girl by any stretch, but she's definitely not a lesbian. It's an interesting syndrome with many facets.

Obama, Plan B, Fear of Promiscuity, Sex and the Single Teen

Does it seem odd to you that a seven year old boy can be suspended from school for chewing his Pop Tart into the shape of a gun, but his twelve year old sister can buy a morning after pill without consequence?

There's something wrong with that.

Sidwell Friends School gets a juicy scandal

If somebody submitted this as a script to a day time soap opera, they wouldn't accept it because it's unrealistic to think that the rich and powerful would act like normal human beings.

Gabby Giffords and husband own firearms

Of course they do - and Mayor Bloomberg loves french fries with salt and large cheeseburgers. Makes sense doesn't it?

#1 Tom Francis on 2013-04-10 08:08 (Reply)

On the contrary, the pedestrian behavior of the rich and powerful is the common fodder for soap operas. The efforts to keep it out of the public eye is what makes it so juicy.

But it is good the see the "right" people are back in charge of the DC social scene. When I was transferred there in late 1999, the Post routinely ran laments about the dotcom nouveau riche from AOL, Worldcom, etc. were mucking up the boards and committees with their personal cash that the high government officials and others couldn't compete with. Well, that was put to rest it seems.

#1.1 JKB on 2013-04-10 10:38 (Reply)

Giving back electricity. Wouldn't that be like siphoning gasoline from my car and pouring it back into the station's storage tank?

#2 SgtBob (Link) on 2013-04-10 08:32 (Reply)

re sultan:

There was also this in American Thinker the other day:

"At a meeting of the Ripon Society held in Washington, D.C.'s exclusive Capitol Hill Club on Tuesday, new Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Mike Shields effectively declared war on the conservative grassroots. In a strong attack, Shields coined a new derogatory term, "the professional right," to refer to groups that have publicly criticized the recent RNC "Autopsy" report.

"It's a term I'll be using often in the coming months," he told the crowd of about 40 Ripon Society members, RNC insiders, and Capitol Hill staffers. But Reagan biographer Craig Shirley, who was not one of those in attendance at the meeting, was quick to note that Shields's new term had already backfired. "As opposed to what, unprofessional Republicans?" he shot back.

Two days after Shields insulted the "professional right," the party's grassroots supporters who are keeping the Republican Party above water, I received an email from the RNC begging for more money. Guess how much I sent them?"

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/jobs.html

Alienating voters. A strong suit of the GOP.

#3 feeblemind on 2013-04-10 09:35 (Reply)

My daughter was in elementary school with a girl who had Asperger's. She acted very much the way the article described. She liked playing on her own, enjoyed the company of her stuffed animals, and really didn't care to interact with other girls very much at all. In fact, she was very attached to her stuffed animals.

She moved away after 2nd grade. I always hoped she found her way in the world. She was a good kid who never hurt a fly.

#4 MissT on 2013-04-10 11:19 (Reply)

Re: Wash U. in St. Louis earns FIRE’s “Speech Code of the Month” Dishonor

QUOTE:

Specifically, WUSTL’s Residence Life Policies and Procedures define “harassment” as:

any behavior or conduct that is injurious, or potentially injurious to a person’s physical, emotional, or psychological well-being, as determined at the sole discretion of the University. Such behavior is subject to disciplinary action.

MF should adopt a speech code like this. all this Global Warmerin' (c)(tm)(r) talk is potentially injurious to my emotional well being.

#5 wirraway on 2013-04-10 11:48 (Reply)

But as a wingnut, you are a non-person in the eyes of lib-dominated university administrators. As such, if your feelings are hurt, it is only an indication in the eyes of the lib university administration officials that things are moving in the right direction.

:)

#5.1 Gringo on 2013-04-10 12:46 (Reply)

Re: The Navy's new Laser Gun

the navy must start reissuing cutlasses, for when the lightsaber's batteries fail.

#6 wirraway on 2013-04-10 11:58 (Reply)

Plan B: Kids can't have aspirin or ibu or Tylenol in school, or do much of anything without parental consent , but Plan B and condoms are perfectly OK.

Benghazi Barry + Guns = Politics!

Bendectin : Lawsuits uber Alles!

WUSTL: I'm DAMNED upset by their speech! (Where's my money?)

Philpott: "It is vitriolic, illogical depersonalisation to ascribe the grotesqueness of one wild, unique crime to tens of thousands of people on benefits. When any section of society is demonised on irrational grounds we have to take that seriously, so I will complain to the Press Complaints Commission, and I hope you will too." Demonised on 'irrational' grounds? I think not.

And wirraway, there ain't much scarier that a guy with a sharp cutlass in his hand, up close and personal.

#7 Sam L. on 2013-04-10 12:58 (Reply)

I really enjoyed reading the article about the Sidwell Friends scandal, but it is hard to keep the players straight. It would be so much easier if their names were Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, Mr. Brown and Mrs. Brown.

#8 Park Slope Pubby on 2013-04-10 13:04 (Reply)

As if the media (NBC and ABC) weren't caught editing the tapes of the Martin/Zimmerman confrontation, now Mother Jones is rewriting the tapes of Mitch McConnell's meeting with his campaign staff.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/04/10/Mother-Jones-Rewrites-Transcript-McConnell-Tape

Where in J-school 101 is this behavior designated legal? I hope McConnell takes action BIG time to stop this propaganda machine that has become the MSM.

#9 jma on 2013-04-10 19:22 (Reply)

re the bricks and mortar of the MSM: Where's Sacco & Venzetti now that we really need 'em?

#9.1 buddy larsen on 2013-04-11 11:47 (Reply)

Time to see my barber. Thanks.

#10 Erik from Seattle on 2013-04-11 22:31 (Reply)

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