Despairing Republican friends have been asking me what I think we should do to rebuild the GOP and begin our certain and inevitable comeback. My answer disappoints them: “Build an ark.” I say this because I’ve made a career out of counting votes, and the numbers tell a clear story; the demographics of America are changing in a way that is deadly for the Republican Party as it exists today
Tag Archives: babies
Are we Having Babies All Wrong? A Q&A With Legendary Midwife Ina May Gaskin
Ina May Gaskin started delivering babies in 1970 while on a hippie cross-country trip known as “The Caravan.” She had no medical training, just a masters degree in English a gut feeling that women deserved kinder, gentler births. When the hundreds of Caravaners settled in Tennessee on “The Farm,” Gaskin and several other women began delivering the community’s babies at home and also opened one of the first, non-hospital birthing centers in the country.
Education: Nature v. Nurture
Few years ago a psychologist named Harold Manville Skeels, a professor at University of Iowa, was assigned by the State to advise the State orphanage.
HISTORICAL NOTES: Himmler’s Fountain
Among the top Nazis, Heinrich Himmler was the leading racial fanatic. As Reichsfuhrer and SS chief, he personally set up the Lebensborn program in 1935 to turn the German population into a superrace through selective breeding.
Arizona: GOP Bill May Target Illegal Immigrants’ Kids
Anchor babies isn’t a very endearing term, but in Arizona those are the words being used to tag children born in the U.S.
The "Get Your Man To Marry You" Plan
The Get-Your-Man-to-Marry-You Plan: Buying the Cow in the Age of Free MilkBy Lori Uscher-PinesSt. Martin’s Press; 196 pp
Alleged child trafficking ring smashed in China
Chinese authorities arrested dozens in an alleged child trafficking ring that sold at least 52 babies nationwide, state media said.
White House mum on Michelle Obama doll
The White House said it had no comment Monday in response to the upcoming release of a new Michelle Obama action-figure doll.
Report: More than 1M preemies die in first month annually
More than 1 million babies born prematurely die each year before they are a month old, the March of Dimes said Sunday in the first comprehensive global report on premature births. The organization suggested the situation could worsen if the rate of premature births increases.
Make way for more Duggars
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of Tonitown, Arkansas, who have 18 children and one grandchild on the way, are expecting a new addition to their household — baby No. 19 will arrive in the spring. “We are so thrilled,” says Michelle, 42