Does parenthood make you smarter? A Boston Globe article says: ...a new body of research -- so far still mostly in animals -- is fueling the idea that motherhood may actually rewire the brain, making mothers (and involved fathers) more ...
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At least until he cheers up, this is a pretty accurate nickname for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. (Based on the photo on the TMH's Bacon Bits blog, I think Senator Reid would be a natural to cast as Scrooge.) ...
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In her book It Takes a Village, Hillary Clinton used that African proverb to argue that a community is most important for proper child development.  Downplaying the importance of the family is never sound advice, especially when a recent hearing ...
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My sympathies go out to the thousands who journeyed to Washington or camped in front of the television for Minister Louis Farrakhan's recent "Millions More March." For the time and effort spectators put into the rally, there was little real ...
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As if the war in Iraq and the ever-present threat of a terrorist attack weren't enough to worry about, the Bush administration may have decided to resurrect one of the worst foreign-policy ideas to come along in decades: the Law ...
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Why did the Senators have to dim their lights to have a closed session? Did anyone keep a flashlight centered on Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd? ...
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Manny Miranda of the Third Branch Conference has this to say about President Bush's nomination of Samuel Alito: The nomination of Samuel A. Alito to service on the Supreme Court is consummately in keeping with President Bush's trust and mandate ...
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From Britain's Daily Telegraph: A mother spent two hours waiting with her sick baby on a hospital children's ward while the doctor they were due to see was passing in front of them on a unicycle. After Paula Dadswell complained, ...
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Law professor Horace Cooper, a member of The National Center's board of directors (and a founding member of Project 21), has a column on Rosa Parks posted at Townhall.com that I like a lot. An excerpt: But Rosa Parks was ...
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I read the papers this morning thinking that there is nothing more pathetic than journalists decrying the culture of leaking that goes on in Washington while playing the leak game themselves with zeal, but then I read this ...
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