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Midweek Round-up: Lions and Tigers and Gays

April 8th, 2009 8:34 pm

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Harvard should let the ROTC back on campus, argue Daniel West and Joseph Kristol in the Wall Street Journal.

David Harsanyi thinks the Secretary of Education is ignoring the truth on vouchers.

Gay rights advocates feel the wind at their back.  Will Penn’s Lambda group do anything in Pennsylvania?

Meanwhile, the National Organization for Marriage is pushing back (in PA!).  Apparently, the gays are coming to get us (and our little dog, too).

Sen. Arlen Specter “just said no” to pot.  I guess the Bio Pond hadn’t been built yet when he was a Penn student.

A little late, but Catholic universities just aren’t what they used to be.

And Obama may be a “Christmas/Easter Christian,” but he still knows when to pass over the Matzoh to Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

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The Midwest: We’re Nicer than you

April 4th, 2009 10:37 pm

Gay Pride FlagIowa is pretty much one of the best states in the country.   The Iowa caucuses are a vital threshold politicians must pass, as failed presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani can attest. Iowans are among the best educated Americans (take that Sidwell) and also live in one of the safest states, which explains why we haven’t seen  CSI: Des Moines. Granted, this might be because the state’s population is barely over 3,000,000 people, less than half the population of New York City. Whatever.

The most recent event that puts Iowa even higher on the “cool” list is its recent declaration of marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples, placing it at an epic third on the list of states granting legal equality to all its citizens (Massachusetts and Connecticut are the other two). Read more…

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