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What does it take to get into Harvard Law School? According to its website, some 8000 applicants compete for 500 openings each year: those accepted have nearly perfect LSAT scores and a GPA of at least 3.8. This isn’t a recent increase in difficulty; acceptance into Harvard Law has always been difficult. In [...]

The Cat’s Out Of The Bag »

Okey dokey - so the big Veep selection is out, as you have surely heard by now: Joe Biden. Wow. All of this hoopla for HIM?? Frankly speaking, I am not a huge fan of his. Post 9/11, he found every opportunity to get his photo taken with President Bush in the Rose Garden. Oh, [...]

Obama and the Evangelicals, The Saga Continues »

The Seattle Times the other day published an article, “How Obama Is Courting The New Evangelicals,” by David Domke, a journalism professor at the University of Washington in Spokane. The article is in response to James Dobson’s recent commentaries about Obama and his pandering to Evangelicals, as well as Obama’s out-doing Bush on spending [...]

Has the Whole World Gone Mad? »

Does the practice of female genital mutilation concern you? What about child marriage? Stoning female adulterers to death? Well don’t bring it up to the UN Human Rights Council because such talk is forbidden there. What say you? You mean it is verboten to ask the UN Human Rights Council to intervene in these barbaric [...]