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My Dearest Daughter: At some point over the last 18 years, I, like many other moms out there, started to worry about the sort of world I brought you into. This is your first week of college, and it’s also your first time away from home for an extended period of time. Your world is…
The Sisterhood’s Blair Thornburgh calls Rep. Todd Akin’s ill-considered words on abortion and rape “immature,” and she’s right about that. Unfortunately, this momentary villain of the political community is not alone in his ignorance and immaturity. Rather, his response resurrects an old Right-Wing canard: Anna North ran down some of the weirdest examples of this…
Perhaps it’s not shocking that Representative Todd Akin, the Republican Senate nominee from Missouri who’s backed by the Tea Party, opposes abortion even in the case of rape. More surprising is the backward and scrambling way he justifies his position. In an interview with a St. Louis television station, Mr. Akin presented a muddied “clarification”…
כאָטש זי מישט אַ מאָל אַרײַן רוסישע ווערטער איז איר ייִדיש פֿאַרבליבן אַ פֿליסיקע און מע קען בולט הערן איר „טאָטע־מאָמע לשון“
ריטשאַרד ראַבינאָװיץ באַשרײַבט קונציק זײַן משפּחהס דערפֿאַרונגען אינעם ראַם פֿון דער אַמעריקאַנער ייִדישער געשיכטע.