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Quick Takes
F-Cup Cookies from Japan: Bigger boobs in every bite
Most women who crave sweets worry that the calories will go straight to their hips. Now a Japanese candy maker…
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Law and Government
Man accused of writing racial slur on receipt sues restaurant, waitress
If you are skeptical at this point over stories alleging racism or other forms of intolerance, you are not to…
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Education
Parents of third-graders upset by teacher’s ‘pay to pee’ rule
An elementary school teacher in Vancouver, Wash., is in hot water after parents learned she was “selling” visits to the…
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Foreign Affairs
Obama sends troops to Africa to help search for abducted Nigerian girls
The abduction of some 300 schoolgirls by the terrorist group Boko Haram is a humanitarian tragedy. Of that there is…
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Law and Government
A timeline: What did Obama know about problems at the VA and when did he know it?
The president has spoken — at last. Following calls from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle for him to…
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Education
School that canceled honors night to avoid hurt feelings does a 180 after being ridiculed
A Rhode Island middle school that canceled its traditional honors night out of concerns that rewarding scholarship “excludes” non-scholars has…
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Economy
Dan Pfeiffer on how a president should govern when Congress won’t do its job
Dan Pfeiffer, former White House communications director and current senior advisor to the president, has an item at the Huffington Post that…
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Education
‘Trigger warnings’: What are they and why do colleges want them?
Warning: This literary work is rated R for strong sexual content, language, nudity, drug use, and violence throughout. Which work?…
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National Security
New and improved jihad, now with 4.9K virgins
Move over, Vince Shlomi and Ron Popeil. There is a new huckster in town. His name is Muhammad Ali Shanqiti,…
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Law and Government
On VA scandal, Obama then and now: Empty promises vs. grim reality
Here is candidate Barack Obama in August 2007, in a campaign speech to veterans that specifically addressed wait lists, denial of…
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Unyielding
CA mayor tells victims of bullying to ‘grow a pair,’ incurs townspeople’s wrath
Carson, Calif., made headlines recently when a member of its city council proposed legislation that would criminalize acts of bullying perpetrated…
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Education
10-year-old raped by 8-year-old in school bathroom
Our kids may be failing in their subjects at school, but a grisly report out of Oklahoma City suggests they…
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Email Featured
Obamacare’s penalties on hospital readmissions will kill off the sick and elderly
If you have an aging parent or other elderly relative who is currently hospitalized with chronic heart or lung disease,…
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Quick Takes
Video: O-Care worker did one week’s worth in 5 months
Who says the public sector can’t work as efficiently as the private sector? Just look at the U.S. Postal Service.…
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Media
Ezra Klein has some stern words for all you dang young’uns with your youthful idealism
According to his bio, Ezra Klein is 30. So why is he assuming the persona of a crotchety old geezer…
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Education
HBO’s John Oliver: Who gives sh*t if 42% don’t believe climate change is fact?
The sentiment could have come from the mouth of Barack Obama, who in his more unhinged moments thinks he has…
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Social Issues
Gays attack Nintendo for virtual reality game that excludes same-sex couples
Japanese videogame maker Nintendo, whose name translates roughly to “Leave luck to heaven,” is under attack here on earth for…
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Law and Government
Latinos on Obamacare seek treatment in Mexico; avoid long waits, higher costs
“At a 2009 press conference with the Mexican president and the Canadian prime minister,” wrote James Taranto in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, “a…
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Law and Government
CA city plan to criminalize bullying would charge children as young as 5
Police in Carson, Calif., had better practice using smaller words and giving violators of a putative new city ordinance a…
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Law and Government
Another mother of another teen shot and killed in home break-in blames homeowner
“Now, kids, remember: If you break into a private home and someone there is armed, you risk getting shot.” It’s…
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Economy
Sequestration didn’t cost 1.6 million government jobs, or even 1.6 jobs
Let’s accept the demonstrably false premise that sequestration and the government shutdown brought on by it in 2013 were entirely…
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Media
Duck Dynasty redux: HGTV cancels home-flipping series with anti-gay hosts
“Outing” — the one-time fashionable practice of revealing that a person is a homosexual — is back, this time as…
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Politics
Far from over, the climate change debate has never occurred (and probably shouldn’t)
“The dominant theme of the winter of 2013-14 was one of persistent cold and snowy conditions for a good part…
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