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Unread and Unsubscribing
By George F. Will

What’s Holding Black Kids Back?
Bill Cosby is right: the problem is the parents.
by Kay S. Hymowitz

Heralds of a Brighter Black Future
More and more, African-American iconoclasts reject victimology and embrace American possibility.
by Heather MacDonald

Whoppers and the End of an Epidemic
By John Luik

WSJ
The Hotel Industry Begins to Wake Up To a Bedbug Problem
With Pesticides Out of Favor, Critters Show Up More; A 1920s Cure: Gasoline

Did Benedict XVI Take a Page Out of MacIntyre's Book?
By Nathan Smith

Human Events
Q & A with Brian Anderson, Author of South Park Conservatives

Why Jon Stewart Is All the Rage
by Harry Stein

Why the Liberals Can't Keep Air America From Spiraling In
By Brian C. Anderson

Should Felons Vote?
The push to let convicts vote is wrong on fact and on principle.
by Edward Feser

Can We Make Boys and Girls Alike?
Even if the differences are cultural, rather than biological, they are ineradicable.
by Stanley Kurtz

Hillary skipping Iowa?
by Robert Novak

Let Cookie Monster be Cookie Monster
by Jonah Goldberg
The producers of 'Sesame Street' have decided that Cookie Monster is gay.

The Bolton Dirtfest
by Rich Lowry
Whatever else you think of him, John Bolton is a serious person.

The new pope: A rottweiler or a good German shepherd?
by Ross Mackenzie
Comes now the disharmonious chorus to sing of the elevation of German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to the papacy as Benedict XVI.

'Good sex for teens': The war against abstinence
by Robert Rector
According to a Zogby poll, more than 90 percent of them say that society should teach kids to abstain from sex until they have, at least, finished high school.

How to Win the Social Security Debate
by Ed Crane

Time
An Inside Look at How Ratzinger Became Benedict XVI

The Borking of Bolton
by William Kristol

A Social Security Quagmire?
Here's an exit strategy for Bush.
by Fred Barnes

Father's Day Comes Early
The National Fatherhood Initiative is working to get the word out about the benefits of dads.
by Rachel DiCarlo

Blogs Will Change Your Business
Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up...or catch you later

NY Times Magazine
Absolutely, Power Corrupts
When the Oakland A's drafted Mark Teahen and Steve Stanley, the team was looking for guys who were great at getting on base. So why, after two years in the minors doing just that, with five home runs between them, were Teahen and Stanley (all 5 feet 7 inches, 155 pounds of him) trying to make it as sluggers?

W. Post Magazine
Girls' Night Logged Online
Ditto, anyone? Women over 40 are the biggest players of games on the Internet.

Do as We Say, Not as We Dow
Why is Peter Kann still running Dow Jones?
By Daniel Gross

NY Sun
Next Crisis at U.N. May Involve Ties Of Volcker, Strong

In China's streets
Jubilate Deo
by David Warren

Books vs. Goons
Powerful writing stumps ayatollahs and sets free vibrating broomsticks
By Salman Rushdie

Bono baptism: New book creates convert, fosters respect
“Celebrity is ridiculous.” Bono says. “It’s silly, but it’s a kind of currency, and you have to spend it wisely.”
by Sam McManis

What's the big idea, Bono?
By Larry Aydlette

Disarming album title aside, U2's a force to be reckoned with
By Gene Stout

Table set, but Griffey falters
The situation was hauntingly familiar: Ken Griffey Jr. at the plate with a chance to turn around the game with one swing.

Losing their zip on reality
by Peter Gammons

LA Times
Dykstra faces allegations of steroid use, baseball gambling

What Can Protestants Expect From The New Pope?
by Michael Horeton