Oikophobia - WSJ.com
If you think it's offensive for a Muslim group to exploit the 9/11 atrocity, you're an anti-Muslim bigot and un-American to boot.
It is a claim so bizarre, so twisted, so utterly at odds with common sense that it's hard to believe anyone would assert it except as some sort of dark joke.
Yet for the past few weeks, it has been put forward, apparently in all seriousness, by those who fancy themselves America's best and brightest, from the mayor of New York all the way down to Peter Beinart.
Friday, February 10, 2012
U.S. extends travel warning to Mexico over violence
U.S. extends travel warning to Mexico over violence Reuters
Spreading drug violence, kidnappings and carjackings in Mexico have led the State Department to increase the number of places it says Americans should avoid for safety reasons for the second time in less than a year.
Spreading drug violence, kidnappings and carjackings in Mexico have led the State Department to increase the number of places it says Americans should avoid for safety reasons for the second time in less than a year.
Elderly told: go back to work and downsize
Elderly told: go back to work and downsize - Telegraph
Elderly people should be encouraged to go back to work and move into smaller homes, one of David Cameron’s key advisers said last night.
Elderly people should be encouraged to go back to work and move into smaller homes, one of David Cameron’s key advisers said last night.
US tribe sues breweries over alcoholism
US tribe sues breweries over alcoholism
The Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota said it is demanding $500 million in damages for the cost of health care, social services and child rehabilitation caused by chronic alcoholism on the reservation, which encompasses some of the nation's most impoverished counties
The Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota said it is demanding $500 million in damages for the cost of health care, social services and child rehabilitation caused by chronic alcoholism on the reservation, which encompasses some of the nation's most impoverished counties
Maths 'too hard for students and dons': Universities drop subject from science courses
Maths 'too hard for students and dons': Universities drop subject from science courses Mail Online
Universities are dropping maths from degree courses because students – and their lecturers – cannot cope with it, a report warns today.
Decades of substandard maths education in schools has led to a ‘crisis’ in England’s number skills, threatening the future of the economy, it says.
Universities are being forced to dumb down degree courses requiring the use of maths, including sciences, economics, psychology and social sciences.
Universities are dropping maths from degree courses because students – and their lecturers – cannot cope with it, a report warns today.
Decades of substandard maths education in schools has led to a ‘crisis’ in England’s number skills, threatening the future of the economy, it says.
Universities are being forced to dumb down degree courses requiring the use of maths, including sciences, economics, psychology and social sciences.
Disgusting: Planned Parenthood Executive Supports Gender Based Abortions
Disgusting: Planned Parenthood Executive Supports Gender Based Abortions - Katie Pavlich
“I wrestle with gender-based abortion more than any other reason [for having an abortion]...
From a macro perspective, I don’t think it is a good idea for us to be eliminating women.
But if you look at it at the individual level, which is what we do, I don’t have any right to say that one person’s reason is better or worse than another’s.”
“I wrestle with gender-based abortion more than any other reason [for having an abortion]...
From a macro perspective, I don’t think it is a good idea for us to be eliminating women.
But if you look at it at the individual level, which is what we do, I don’t have any right to say that one person’s reason is better or worse than another’s.”
If You Adopt Your Girlfriend, Is Having Sex with Her Now Incest?
The Volokh Conspiracy » If You Adopt Your Girlfriend, Is Having Sex with Her Now Incest?
The article’s abstract reports that, “For some time now adults — both heterosexual and homosexual — have been adopting their lovers and spouses all over the country for various reasons: to better guarantee the adoptee’s right to inherit directly from the adoptor; to keep collateral relatives from having standing to contest the adoptor’s estate plan; or to add a loved one to a class of trust beneficiaries (allowing the adoptee to inherit “through” the adoptor).”
And the article reports that about half the states “are subject to statutory or common laws that include the adopted parent/adult child relationship within the definition of incest.”
The article’s abstract reports that, “For some time now adults — both heterosexual and homosexual — have been adopting their lovers and spouses all over the country for various reasons: to better guarantee the adoptee’s right to inherit directly from the adoptor; to keep collateral relatives from having standing to contest the adoptor’s estate plan; or to add a loved one to a class of trust beneficiaries (allowing the adoptee to inherit “through” the adoptor).”
And the article reports that about half the states “are subject to statutory or common laws that include the adopted parent/adult child relationship within the definition of incest.”
Muskegon County Public Works Board spends slightly more to go local
Muskegon County Public Works Board spends slightly more to go local MLive.com
The board purchased a minivan from Preferred Chrysler of Norton Shores for $22,128, $565 more than a Grand Rapids dealer’s bid, on a 4-3 vote. Commissioners Scott Plummer, Ben Cross, Rillastine Wilkins and Fisher voted in favor of it, while Commissioners Jim Derezinski, Alan Jager and Marvin Engle voted against it.
The board also bought a three-quarter-ton four-wheel-drive truck with a plow from Great Lakes Ford in Muskegon Township for $26,970, $117 more than a bid form a dealer in Owosso. Plummer, Cross, Wilkins, Fisher and Engle supported that purchase, while Derezinski and Jager voted against it.
All, but Jager, voted to buy the crossover vehicle from K&M Dodge in Grand Rapids for $21,835, the low bid.
No sweat, it's other people's money!
The board purchased a minivan from Preferred Chrysler of Norton Shores for $22,128, $565 more than a Grand Rapids dealer’s bid, on a 4-3 vote. Commissioners Scott Plummer, Ben Cross, Rillastine Wilkins and Fisher voted in favor of it, while Commissioners Jim Derezinski, Alan Jager and Marvin Engle voted against it.
The board also bought a three-quarter-ton four-wheel-drive truck with a plow from Great Lakes Ford in Muskegon Township for $26,970, $117 more than a bid form a dealer in Owosso. Plummer, Cross, Wilkins, Fisher and Engle supported that purchase, while Derezinski and Jager voted against it.
All, but Jager, voted to buy the crossover vehicle from K&M Dodge in Grand Rapids for $21,835, the low bid.
No sweat, it's other people's money!
Report: MI students' proficiency down
Report: MI students' proficiency down WOOD TV8
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Gov. Rick Sndyer's budget, presented Thursday, set more money aside for schools.
And a recent study indicated that if students' demonstration of proficiency is any evidence, the money may be needed.
That is the lesson kids.
If you fail, we get more money.
Got it?
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Gov. Rick Sndyer's budget, presented Thursday, set more money aside for schools.
And a recent study indicated that if students' demonstration of proficiency is any evidence, the money may be needed.
That is the lesson kids.
If you fail, we get more money.
Got it?
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Muslim Brotherhood Demands Military Cede Power
Muslim Brotherhood Demands Military Cede Power - NYTimes.com
CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood demanded Thursday that Egypt’s military rulers cede control of the government, stepping closer to a long-anticipated confrontation between the ruling generals and the Islamist-dominated Parliament.
CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood demanded Thursday that Egypt’s military rulers cede control of the government, stepping closer to a long-anticipated confrontation between the ruling generals and the Islamist-dominated Parliament.
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