March 2010
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How Healthcare Reform Will Affect You →
I could go on and on and on about this. It’s truly historic and truly amazing, and I am so proud of our country right now. The bill is far from perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction, and a step America needed to take.
(via newsweek)
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Passive-aggressive status updates are really the Nouveau Littérature — hallmarks of our generation to be sure.
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Excerpts from the new Texas history textbooks →
Study Questions: 1.) When the FDR Memorial opened in 1997 near the Tidal Basin in Washington, successful protests by liberal activist groups led to the removal of Roosevelt’s cigarette holder from his statue and also had his wife, Eleanor, depicted without her trademark fur coat. Explain other ways that liberal pressure groups distort history today. 2.) Discuss, based on your own life...
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Study: over 50 percent of LGBT youth regularly... →
An Iowa State University survey found over 50 percent of LGBT and allied youth are victims of regular cyberbullying.
In the online survey of 444 junior high, high school and college students between the ages of 11 and 22 — including 350 self-identified non-heterosexual subjects — 54 percent of the LGBT and allied youth reported being victims of cyberbullying in the 30 days prior to the...
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Origami paper fortune tellers: twisting destiny between our fingers. Holding hands against a chain link fence. I’m always out; you’re always in. Skinned knees and butterfly stitches: fly away and live with the clouds. Race the sun against a clear blue sky. Winner gets Venus, loser gets Mars. Either way, we’re among the stars. Passed notes in the back of class. Mark Y or N...