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August 2015

August 22, 2015
You've likely seen this in the news:  a Moroccan armed with an AK-47, a pistol,...
August 21, 2015
I've tried making chicken in the crock-pot (to be more correct, the slow cooker/crockery-cooker) many...
August 20, 2015
Here's the context that had me thinking about this: The AP US History battle is...
August 19, 2015
If you've been following any of the major conservative news sites or blogs (but not...
August 19, 2015
So I know I've said that I'm doubtful about prayers, and what difference they may...
August 18, 2015
Again from Tough Choices, pp. 145 - 146.  Still reading the book, but an interesting...
August 18, 2015
(image:  Scott Walker, from wikimedia commons, photo by Gage Skidmore) Scott Walker's released his "repeal...
August 17, 2015
From Tough Choices (FYI: written in 2006, well before HRC's Hard Choices), chronicling an experience...
August 17, 2015
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, here's the latest from the Chicago...
August 16, 2015
Back in May, I wrote about the plan in Illinois to require that all public...
August 15, 2015
From Under the Same Sky, by Joseph Kim, the memoir of life in North Korea...
August 14, 2015
(A guest post by my husband, er, Mike the Actuary) We hear it every day:...
August 14, 2015
To begin with:  a pet peeve.  Many years ago, I read a book called A...
August 11, 2015
August 09, 2015
St. Patrick St. Anthony Catholic Church in Grand Haven, Michigan. I sent my husband and...
August 07, 2015
Let's look at what the candidates have to say! Chris Christie is at chrischristie.com; his...
August 07, 2015
So, look, I'm overdue for a discussion of the current crop of GOP candidates (sorry,...
August 06, 2015
I'm seriously considering her.  Reports are, she trounced her fellow early-bird-special debaters.  (See here.)  I...
August 06, 2015
Illinois is, as I've said before, in terrible shape as far as state and local...
August 05, 2015
(In which I establish the fact that I'm center-right, not a full-blown rightie, and you...
August 05, 2015
Yeah, this is truly just a question. Imagine that progressives succeed in their vision of...
August 05, 2015
1) Is contraception "(medically-necessary) health care" or a wholly separate consumer-product category of drugs and devices,...
August 04, 2015
Just looked at the comments on my prior post on unplanned parenthood, and I ought...
August 03, 2015
Which came first:  the chicken or the egg?  (Apparently, the egg, insofar as we've learned...
August 02, 2015
(See disclaimer, below.) Title X is, of course, the program that funds contraception, as provided...
August 02, 2015
  (taken with my husband's iPhone, and still trying to get the hang of importing...
August 01, 2015
Subtitled, "Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women" There's a lot in this...

July 2015

July 30, 2015
Yes, I know, and odd juxtaposition, but bear with me. From the Walgreens annual report,...
July 30, 2015
This week's "from the library" book:  Against Football:  One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto by Steve Almond....
July 28, 2015
You'd think so.  According to various sources -- e.g., Fox News and Buzzfeed, where I...
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