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March 2014

March 18, 2014
And, while there, remembered that I had neglected to look into the Republican primary for...
March 17, 2014
OK, I've never heard that expression, and I'm not really intentionally trying to coin a...
March 17, 2014
That's the page 4 article in the Chicago Tribune today:  "Colleges admissions offices mine data...
March 16, 2014
So last weekend I was in the mood to write about college sports, and my...
March 15, 2014
This was something that was an instapundit.com link a couple days ago: "Universities Try a...
March 15, 2014
So just catching up on the news over the weekend, including a report from multiple...
March 13, 2014
Putin is massing troops on the Ukrainian border??? I don't understand this. What happened to...
March 11, 2014
So what do you make of this new campaign?  According to the website, When a...
March 11, 2014
So this is a companion to what I wrote yesterday on big-time college athletics, and...
March 10, 2014
So the Old Testament reading at church on Sunday was Adam and Eve and the...
March 10, 2014
So I really shouldn't be talking about this, given my plan to write only what...
March 10, 2014
That the administration will extend the open enrollment period that's set to end on March...
March 09, 2014
Here's the background: my husband is a Boy Scout scoutmaster (well, assistant scoutmaster). They leadership...
March 08, 2014
So the football players at Northwestern are trying to get approval of a players' union,...
March 07, 2014
Things I am not writing about:1)  The lawsuit in which a girl is demanding parental...
March 06, 2014
Whoa.I've never been a big fan of the push to bring the Obama library to...
March 04, 2014
That's what Zeke Emmanuel says, in an article in The New Republic, which is itself...
March 04, 2014
That's one of Megan McArdle's big themes, as she blogs and especially in her new...
March 02, 2014
I'd been meaning to write about this for a while -- and, once again, I'm...
March 02, 2014
Found this classic quote from Salon by googling "the 80s called" + cold war: In an...

February 2014

February 28, 2014
So marginalrevolution.com linked to a Mother Jones article on the widely-trumpeted drop in obesity among...
February 28, 2014
That's the headline for Kathleen Parker's opinion piece today (in the Trib, but syndicated from...
February 28, 2014
In the paper today:  "Obama announces initiative for young black and Latino men": Obama announced...
February 27, 2014
OK, so I'm going to write this summary by memory as I've now misplaced the...
February 26, 2014
Seriously. I used to check them fairly often, as a generic news site, though I'd...
February 23, 2014
Third post in three days on these plans, as I try to figure out how...
February 22, 2014
So I blogged about the USA Retirement Fund proposal yesterday. And for more information, here's...
February 21, 2014
[updates added Feb. 21] OK, so this is a really cheesy name: "USA" stands for...
February 21, 2014
[Don't worry, I'll keep working on the "USA Retirement Fund" bill summary and commentary later!]I...
February 20, 2014
So for those who are keeping score -- well, the Illinois Republican Party is still...
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