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How seriously should we take Sarah Palin as she makes all the early
exploratory moves of a presidential candidate? (See: the urgent speech
to the base in Tea Party land, the dangling of herself as ''willing'' to challenge Obama on Fox, the appearances on behalf of other candidates like Gov. Rick Perry, the assembling
of an experienced set of ...
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Reading Matt Labash's skewering of the enviro-guru Low Impact Man,
I snorted with laughter and overlooked the glints of climate-change
denialism peeking out among the jokes. For about a minute. Then I read
the piece again and launched a big e-mail argument with Matt, who is a
friend of mine. It is in this spirit that I recommend his new book, ...
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Last Sunday, Frances Kissling and Kate Michelman broke ranks with the
feminists who have been denouncing CBS for running Tim Tebow's TV ad
during the Super Bowl. Read their op-ed in the Washington Post.
It's a fascinating history of canny, well-crafted advertising by
pro-life groups, and Kissling and Michelman argue that the ...
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Hanna, that all sounds like such a sensible approach to sex ed. Get 13-year-olds to role play about how to wait. Tell 15- and 16-year-olds about waiting and also about
condoms. Pretty much what I'd want for my kids. Stripped of its
anti-birth-control and wait-for-marriage preaching, abstinence
education is absolutely nothing to quarrel with. ...
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This looks like a really bad idea: The Chicago Tribune
reports that in Indiana, two 12- and 13-year-old middle schoolers
caught in class sending nude photos of themselves to each other via
cell phone have been charged with child exploitation and possession of
child pornography. This is not what these statutes should be used for ... (Read the ...
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Ha, Amanda, I don't think there will be a slew of takers for your Wonder Woman wife.
Or rather for Dr. William Moulton Marston's. It sounds too much like
the unsettling, self-abnegating arrangement at the center of A.S.
Byatt's The Children's Book, not to mention Big Love.
Myself, I've actually switched from making the I-want-a-wife joke ...
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The Supreme Court just struck down campaign finance reform.
No modesty or narrow remedy here: This negates the main limits on
corporate and union spending in the 60 days before a general election
that Congress passed in 2002. The court overruled its own previous
decisions allowing that legislation to stand. It's a Kennedy opinion
and a 5-4 ...
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I'm with KJ about the main explanation for Scott Brown's win: Washington rage first, many rage second. But surely Hanna's revenge-of-the-angry-man theory explains why Drudge is swooning over Brown's presidential chances ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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Robert B. Parker, who died
yesterday at 77, wrote his Spenser detective series in two speeds. Fast for
the action sequences and for his friendship with Hawk, the bald, black hit man
who never fails him. Slow for Spenser’s food, his clothing, and his love for
Susan Silverman. It’s Hawk and Susan that I kept coming back for when I
devoured two ...
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I think you're right, Hanna, that the first woman president will
announce herself, thrillingly, as our very own bolt from the blue even
though we can't pick her out now. But that doesn't entirely settle the
lingering problem of sexism in the 2008 campaign
for me. What about the effect on more ordinary female candidates of the
flattening ...