HERE is opening day in 1960 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Notice the attire of the fans. People don’t dress this well to go to church today.

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HAPPY ACRES writes:

Listening to a giggling NPR announceress interviewing a breathless female freelance about terrorists burying kidnap victims in the desert, together enjoying the make-believe [that] they were intrepid James Bonds but in the tittering voices of a coffee klatsch…

…I had the heretical thought that women don’t belong in public life and we’ve made a monstrous mistake now almost impossible to undo.

“Tolerance is a virtue or a vice depending on the situation in which it is exercised. Most certainly we should be tolerant of customs, or ways of life, or opinions that differ from our own provided we believe them to be sincerely followed by men of wisdom and good will. But to be tolerant of evil is either laziness or cowardice.”

— Carleton Putnam, Race and Reason: A Yankee View; New Century Books.

ADAM writes:

When pregnancy is a paid service and a child is a product, then it’s only natural that if the “product” is delivered with physical imperfections, then the customer will return the “product” to the supplier.

I think it’s unfair that the Australian couple in this story is anonymous thus far. They should be exposed for their callous behavior.

THE effective unemployment rate among 18-29 year olds is 15.1 percent and the average college graduate has $30,000 in student debt. The unemployment rate is lower for women than for men.

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The elephant in the room is about this big.

IT seems too obvious to say, but the problem of campus sexual assault, so prevalent in the news this week, could be largely prevented without the intervention of the federal government or the police or campus sexual assault investigators and advisors and lawyers. The obvious solution is the elephant in the room that no one acknowledges.

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THE Associated Press reported yesterday:

Scores of Baltimore-area religious leaders held an interfaith prayer vigil for unaccompanied children who arrived in Maryland after fleeing violence in their home countries.

Dozens of religious leaders and supporters marched along Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Wednesday to draw attention to the influx of immigrant children into the United States, and specifically into Maryland and Baltimore. In the first seven months of 2014, 2,205 unaccompanied immigrant children have settled in Maryland. Most of those children have been reunited with family members or placed in the homes of sponsors.

What the story failed to mention is that these “religious leaders” included federal contractors who provide refugee services. (Continued)

This photo of Kassim Alhimidi, weeping over his wife’s body, appeared with the Times’s initial story on the murder of Shaima Alawadi. None of the subsequent stories featured a photo of him under arrest or in court.

HERE is a classic case of twisted reporting to make white Americans appear to be hateful, racist, bigots who have not been welcoming to the people of the world even though they have accepted, and been friendly to, nonwhite foreign immigrants everywhere.

In March, 2012, Shaima Alawadi was murdered in suburban El Cajon, California. Shortly before she was killed, according to her relatives, a note was found taped to the family’s front door that said: “This is my country. Go back to yours, terrorist.” A similar note was found next to the Iraqi Muslim woman’s body when she was discovered stabbed to death on her kitchen floor. The New York Times promptly ran a long piece on the murder that appeared on March 27, 2012 in the A-section of the newspaper. Two reporters worked on the story. Ian Lovett and Will Carless wrote:

Whatever the police eventually determine, the crime has shattered the sense of security for Iraqi immigrants in El Cajon, exposing cultural tensions and distrust that have often simmered just below the surface since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.

Hanif Mohebi, director of the San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that many Muslim women in the area were worried that Ms. Alawadi had been targeted because she wore a headscarf in public, as many observant Muslim women do.

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