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Odds & Ends: News/Humor
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in “Cheers & […]
News and Opinion
#Griswold50
Planned Parenthood @PPact: #Birthcontrol became legal 50 years ago today. See that and more in our 100-year birth control timeline! #Griswold50 Planned Parenthood: Our 5 favorite things about birth control Abortion should be safe and […]
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Primary 2016: Horse race polls, June 7, 2015
The nominating conventions, when the Democratic and Republican parties will pick their general election candidates, are more than 15 months away. This far out, polls are generally not worth wasting pixels on. But NPR readers […]
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President Obama: “The world noticed”
On Saturday, June 6, President Obama delivered a eulogy in honor of Beau Biden, the son of his friend and vice-president, Joe Biden. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Without love, life can be cold and it can be […]
Community
Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: June 7th through June 13th
Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]
Editors' Choice
Weekly Address: President Obama – Celebrating Immigrant Heritage Month
The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President recognized […]
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How did that turtle get there?
Yesterday, June 4th, was the 96th anniversary of the day that Congress passed the 19th Amendment, granting the right of women to vote, and sent it to the states for ratification. That act was an […]
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President Obama: “It’s never too late to say thank you”
On Tuesday, President Obama presented Medals of Honor, posthumously, to two soldiers from World War I , Private Henry Johnson, of Albany, New York, an African-American, and Sergeant William Shemin, of Bayonne, New Jersey, a […]
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Whose Choice
(Author’s note: I no longer have the citation to the report that gave me the “25% of rapes result in pregnancy” stats. I believe it was from a study done on college campuses so it […]
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SCOTUS Watch – Monday, June 1st
It’s June! Time for legal geeks to look to the Supreme Court for rulings on the cases argued this session before the court adjourns on June 30th for the summer. The calendar calls for orders […]