“A new study suggests if the United States wants to decrease unwanted pregnancy and STIs among teenagers, it should take a look at how parents in the Netherlands handle budding teenage sexuality: romantic sleepovers. (Video: HLN) The study, posted on Contexts.org, explains the Dutch approach to sexual education. “Dutch parents… …
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MS Has Most Teen Pregnancies, Abstinence-Only Education
“Even though the increased numbers of young women using effective forms of birth control have contributed to a steady decline in the teen birth rate over the past decade, Mississippi has retained the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the nation. At an event this week to address the issue …
Read More »GOP Congresswoman Flips Out On Lower Ranking Staffer
“Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) chewed out a House staffer after catching her riding on a “members only” elevator, according to an ITK tipster who was on the scene. But Foxx’s office is calling our lookout’s description of events in the elevator an “exaggeration.” Our spy hit the “members” button on …
Read More »Heritage Foundation – A History of Pandering to the Rich
The Heritage Foundation is wrong about tax increases sinking the nation into ruin. And they’ve been wrong for 20 years, which is pretty awful for a supposed think tank. Well, what could be causing this? Perhaps the wealthy donors pumping money in to them so their own interests can be …
Read More »Scum Village Banishment for the Anti-Social?
“In a move that sounds straight out of Orwell, Amsterdam allocated 1 million euros last week to a plan that would relocate trouble-making neighbors to camps on the outskirts of the city, the BBC reports. The “scum villages,” as critics have called them, would lie in isolated areas and provide …
Read More »Blackwater Renamed ‘Academi,’ Still No ‘Integrity’
“U.S. Special Operations Forces have a brand new home in Afghanistan. It’s owned and operated by the security company formerly known as Blackwater, thanks to a no-bid deal worth $22 million. You might think that Blackwater, now called Academi, was banished into some bureaucratic exile after its operatives in Afghanistan …
Read More »Ban on Gay Conversion Therapy Put on Hold
“The fate of the state’s new law banning gay-conversion therapy for underage Californians is uncertain after a federal judge said it may infringe on free-speech rights — and a second jurist disagreed. U.S. District Judge William Shubb said Monday the law, set to take effect Jan. 1, may inhibit the …
Read More »Pacquiao vs. Marquez 4 Fight Preview
Live results and coverage are here: http://www.sbnation.com/manny-pacquiao-juan-manuel-marquez-2012 Luke Thomas of SB Nation and MMA Fighting previews the fourth fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Márquez which will take place on December 8, 2012.
Read More »Adultery To Stop Corruption? The Mistress Industrial Complex
“Among the many notable features of the latest grainy sex tape circulating on the Chinese Internet — a video of former Chongqing official Lei Zhengfu atop his then-18-year-old mistress in 2007 — perhaps the most intriguing is the angle from which it was shot. Someone placed a rudimentary video camera, …
Read More »Christie: No Entitlements, But I Want 100% FEMA Reimbursement
” New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is asking the federal government to reimburse the state for 100 percent of emergency costs for at least 90 days after Superstorm Sandy swept ashore on October 29. In a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency dated November 30 and released on Monday, …
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