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Republican voters, struggling to decide which candidate will best handle the myriad problems facing America under the Obama regime — problems that include a stagnant economy, a collapsing Europe, a boiling Middle East, etc. — were treated to a New Hampshire debate that focused on . . . birth control.  A post-debate NYT op-ed establishes [...]

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I’m a very literal person, which means that, for the most part, I like to spell things out, and have them spelled out to me.  Certainly that’s been my approach when discussing boys and sex with my daughter. I haven’t danced around the fact that boys want sex.  There’s nothing wrong with that.  It’s their [...]

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Those who are pushing for universal health care here in America might want to take just a second to contemplate what Britain’s National Health Service (“NHS”) is doing in the area of teen sex.  Because Britain has the highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe, which no doubt is quite costly to the NHS, you might [...]

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In my Friday Open Thread, I promised that I’d blog about Zac Efron.  First off, let me clear the air here and explain that I haven’t developed some pathetic “middle-aged woman/teenage boy” obsession with him (although he does bear an uncanny resemblance, girlish hair and all, to the teen idols of my youth).  What makes [...]

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Last year, my daughter had her first exposure to sex ed, and I have to say I thought the school district approached it perfectly, focusing on the biology of sex.  About half the kids in the class were just hitting puberty, and they had lots of questions, which the course answered with sensible science.  At [...]

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The McCain campaign is giving substantive responses to the attacks the Obama campaign is leveling against it: TO:                 Interested Parties RE:                Empty Words And Insults Cannot Cover A Weak Record DATE:            September 15, 2008 Over the last few days, the Obama campaign has watched their poll numbers falter and decided to lash out with personal [...]

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I’m having a very hard time finding out what the sex ed curriculum is in Alaska schools.  Although Palin advocates abstinence, what are the public schools teaching?  It appears from the article that they’re teaching full sex ed, with an emphasis on the virtues of abstinence. A couple of things.  First, that’s exactly the same [...]

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Soccer Dad, who has a wonderful blog here, sent me a nice email agreeing with the points I made in my Biology will have its way post. He added an anecdote about Planned Parenthood: “The archdiocese of Baltimore announced that it would pay for counseling for women who had undergone abortions. Planned Parenthood objected. It [...]

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