edited by: Lisa Mossie,
Pennsylvania Editor
Is having “friends with benefits” emotionally damaging?
Nope, says a study from the University of Minnesota. Researchers surveyed 1,311 young adults about their sexual history. The result: Casual encounters are not, as federal abstinence education teaches, likely to mess with your head.
To debunk that myth, the paper also points [...]
I have to tell you, I can’t put it off much longer: I have to go to the supermarket. Ugh.
I’m out of milk, vegetables, meat, bread, teabags and tomato soup. (I do have plenty of toilet paper, paper towels and allergy pills. Oh, and butter.) I need some stuff to [...]
Is it fair to judge a Congressional candidate by his campaign manager? Probably not. But that's me!Can we get him instead of Bernake?
One of the most senior figures in the financial world surprised a conference of high-level bankers yesterday when he criticised them for failing to grasp the magnitude of the financial crisis and belittled their suggested reforms.
Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the US [...]
I’ve been complaining about this for years. The standards of history and civics classes went way down when schools started hiring history teachers on the basis of coaching sports.
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I am being honored by the Zionist Organization of America on 13 December in Manhattan.
This honor is a humbling experience. I am overshadowed by Giants. Rabbi Boteach will give the d’Var Torah. Forty years ago Gary Erlbaum and I sat next to each other in law [...]
From the Toomey Campaign:
What a week! With the help of Team Toomey and many people like you across the state, Judge Joan Orie Melvin and 5 other Republican statewide judicial candidates were elected to the Pennsylvania courts on Tuesday. One other race is in a [...]
