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February 2016

February 01, 2016
For you data-lovers, there's a new report out, commissioned by JP Morgan Chase, "Detroit's Untapped...
February 01, 2016
You know the adage:  if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a...

January 2016

January 31, 2016
Question 1:  are women and girls required to wear a head-covering to attend prayers, or...
January 30, 2016
Looking for help please! I'm going to have another go at amigurimi, but my problem...
January 30, 2016
This, from Friday's Der Spiegel: "Grand Coalition agrees on a new Asylum Package," as well...
January 29, 2016
Getting tired of discussing abortion, so: Earlier today, in reaction to a Chris Christie statement...
January 29, 2016
Here's an article featured on Drudge yesterday:  "The world's first robot-run farm will harvest 30,000...
January 28, 2016
So what about early miscarriages? You've heard that before - and it's reappeared in comments...
January 28, 2016
That was a part of the failed 2006 immigration bill, helpfully summarized by Wikipedia, though...
January 27, 2016
The Declaration of Independence:  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are...
January 27, 2016
So remember when I wrote about Unfinished Business, by Ann-Marie Slaughter, and her notion that...
January 26, 2016
Per the UN, and also observed by the EU, and many European countries, it commemorates...
January 26, 2016
  Finally, three kids in, we're getting the hang of the Pinewood Derby.  This is...
January 26, 2016
From today's Chicago Tribune, "Nearly half of young black men in Chicago out of work,...
January 25, 2016
Let's start with this: The pro-abortion attitudes I cited back on Friday, and the demands that...
January 23, 2016
Earlier this month, President Obama announced executive actions on guns, and conservatives both decried his actions...
January 23, 2016
Ann Althouse talks about the new Bernie Sanders ad, in which he uses a montage...
January 22, 2016
I'd been meaning to write about this for a while. Two weeks ago, Slate.com published...
January 21, 2016
The Silversternacht attacks. Groping in swimming pools and at a "welcome party". Now an account in...
January 20, 2016
The teachers of the Detroit Public Schools staged a "sickout" today.  You know, the sort...
January 20, 2016
  The picture above comes from my husband's (business) trip to Singapore over the summer....
January 20, 2016
Yes, the Oscar nominations have been published, and it's again, a list of 20 actors...
January 19, 2016
That, by the way, is the hashtag coming into use in Germany for comments on...
January 19, 2016
That's the claim of this article in Inside Higher Ed, from last Thursday (yeah, I'd...
January 19, 2016
Republicans say it's Democrats' fault, given that they were, after all, the ones who ran...
January 18, 2016
Back in September, I made the prediction that, when voters lose their infatuation with Trump,...
January 17, 2016
in the comments, that is? I just can't do it.  The kids are off school...
January 17, 2016
One article after the next, in such places as National Review, repeats the message: Islam...
January 16, 2016
Did you know that the historical hatred of Muslims toward Jews did not have its...
January 16, 2016
syrergegensexismus.org The problem being that the "Arabs" or the "Muslims" arriving in Germany are diverse;...
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