10-Year-Old Gives Birth in Southern Spain [via the AP via NPR] Authorities in Spain are considering whether a 10-year-old in Spain should be permitted to keep her newborn baby. An official from Andalusia said the father is also a minor and that mother and baby are in good health. “Under Spanish law, having consensual sex [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tea Party’
Morning Briefing: 3 November 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Cambridge University, Common Cold, Constitution, Linguistics, Medicine, Microbiology, Spain, Tea Party, Thomas Jefferson on November 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Delaware Dispatch: Senate Candidate Steeped in Tea Party Dough
Posted in Politics, tagged Chris Coons, Christine O'Donnell, Delaware, Delaware Dispatch, Mike Castle, Senate, Tea Party on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Tea Party Express, one of the major national Tea Party groups, will soon launch a $250,000 media campaign for Christine O’Donnell, a Tea Party candidate challenging longtime Congressman Mike Castle for the Delaware Republican senate nomination this fall. The primary is September 14, just two weeks away, meaning that money will likely have some [...]
Democrats, the Tea Party and a Massive Rise in Attack Ads
Posted in Politics, tagged Democrats, Republicans, Tea Party on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The economy is in rough shape, even by the most optimistic of interpretations. Many industries (coughnewspaperscough) are collapsing beneath us. But there’s one industry, albeit small and seasonal, that seems to be soaring: political attack ads. According to the Associated Press, state and federal candidates have spent $395 million on attack ads already, far more [...]
Morning Briefing: 24 August 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged DC, Ebonics, Fresh Air, Linguistics, Mario Batali, Tea Party on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts [via The Smoking Gun] Do you speak Ebonics, “a nonstandard variant of English spoken largely by African Americans”? The Department of Justice wants you! Documents obtained by The Smoking Gun indicate the Drug Enforcement Agency is seeking to hire nine Ebonics experts for its Atlanta operation, where they will presumably [...]
