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Birth control pills for little girls

Bookworm on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Children, Education, Parenting

I’m still irked about the middle school in Portland, Maine that had the bright idea to bypass parents and give birth control pills to little girls. My irritation goes beyond the fact that the school district is using a very small number of pregnancies and bad situations to usurp parents’ control over and relationship [...]

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Boys to Men

Bookworm on Oct 18 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Last night, Mr. Bookworm got around to watching a recent Frontline episode called “Cheney’s Law.”  Here’s how PBS describes the show:
For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to give the president virtually unlimited wartime power. Finally, in the aftermath of 9/11, the Justice Department and the White House made a [...]

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