Entries for November 2006
Who Replaces Hastings?
If you want to know whom Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi is considering to replace Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida as next term's chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, you need look no further than the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. It's the only group that supported Democrats in a big way in the November elections yet hasn't been rewarded with leadership posts.
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Unspooling 'Unschooling'
The Web is alive with unstructured structuralism. The latest wrinkle is "unschooling." Kids divine their own instructional curricula. If a 6-year-old wants to play with a box on top of her head for an hour, that is as qualitatively beneficial a learning experience as an hour of Latin, according to unschoolersperhaps even more beneficial.
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The Marriage Initiative and Unwed Parents
So it's official. America is becoming more like France in a way that few Americans would wish. Government health data revealed this week that 4 in 10 children were born out of wedlock last year. This figure was up slightly from 200, but way up from 1940, when, marriage expert and authorStephanie Koontz reports, the rate was 7.1 births per 1,000 unmarried women.
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Breastfeeding Protests: Nurse-Ins Begin
Breastfeeding moms held nurse-in protests at airports across the country this week, to show opposition to Delta Airlines' ejection of a breastfeeding mother, her husband, and her baby from one of its planes this fall. The protest comes six months after the federal government launched an ad campaign urging new mothers to breastfeed or raise children's risk factors for all manner of undesirable health consequences.
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Building a Base to Nowhere
The midterm elections take a decided turn to the left, and Sen. John McCain bolts right. Where is the logic here?
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Bush's Family-Planning Choice Thwarts the Electorate
What part of "yes" do you not understand?
Buried in the election news coverage last week was a poll by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania showing that Americans wantyes, wantcondom-inclusive, not abstinence-only, sex education for children in public schools.
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The Senate Women and the Middle Class
Last night the women of the U.S. Senate met for the first time. All 16 (14 present and two new members) were supposed to be in attendance. But Sens. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, and Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Texas Republican, were tied up on a military construction appropriation matter on the Senate floor and didn't make it. Sen.-elect Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, skipped freshman orientation entirely to make good on a promise to her family: She had pledged to take a family vacation as soon as the election was over to reward her kin for a year on the campaign trail. But the other 13 female senators were present and accounted for.
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About Bonnie Erbe
Bonnie Erbe has covered Washington politics since God was a baby. Because of that, and the fact that she's a native New Yorker, nothing much surprises her anymore. She has covered Congress, the Supreme Court, the Justice Department, and occasionally the White House for radio and television networks. She also hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe, and writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service. To the Contrary will allow you to lift the curtain of partisanship for a refreshingly non-partisan perspective on politics, the environment, religion, and issues that affect the lives of women, families, and communities of color.advertisement
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