The latest controversy out of is the announcement that women will be allowed to serve closer to the front lines. Though the Pentagon’s new rules maintain the prohibition on women in direct combat roles, over 14,000 new assignments will open up to women, and that’s just the beginning. Placing women into combat roles has long […]
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Newt Gingrich won Tuesday’s CNN foreign policy debate. But will his stance on immigration sink his campaign? It’s probably bad news for Newt Gingrich that I thought he did well in last night’s debate. Taking a more moderate stance on a number of issues, the former House speaker risks losing his front-runner status in recent […]
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This is via Xeni Jardin at boing boing who writes: I thought I wouldn’t see a more dramatic video than the ones yesterday of the pepper-spraying of students by police at UC Davis. I was wrong. In the video above, UC Davis students, silent, with linked arms, confront Chancellor Katehi one day after the incident. It’s hard to […]
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Word on the street is Google Reader’s social functions, its funky community of shares and comments, and the archives of these interactions, will all be flushed down the memory hole tomorrow. I check my Reader every day and it’s always a minute or two before I realize that these people I’m following, these comment threads […]
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Aaron Carroll has an excellent piece up over at CNN on the truly startling, truly saddening facts about child poverty in America. Even though poverty is defined very strictly in this country – a single mom with one kid has to make less than $15,030 to be considered impoverished – a striking number of children […]
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