Mystery of the Falling Teen Birth Rate
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 25th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Mystery of the Falling Teen Birth Rate
Sarah Kliff, Vox
The staff of TeenWise, a Minneapolis-based non-profit, crunched the numbers for its annual report on Minnesota teenagers’ sexual health. Their calculations seemed to show something unbelievable: the state’s teen birth rate had a double-digit decline between 2009 and 2010.That seemed impossible. Just three years earlier, in 2007, Minnesota’s teen birth rate had increased by 1.4 percent; nationally it had increased by 3 percent in 2006. How could the rate then fall so steeply and so quickly?
Experts’ Eyes Turn to Colorado
Juan Williams, The Hill
“Wow! You’d have to be high to re-elect a guy like that.”That is comedian Bill Maher’s take on Republican Rep. Mike Coffman’s campaign to win a fourth term in a suburban Denver district. Smoking marijuana is legal in Colorado but even stone-cold sober political analysts – from Charlie Cook to Larry Sabato – have called this race a toss-up, giving Coffman an even chance of winning.
Going for the Gold in New Jersey
Andrew Ferguson, Weekly Standard
“Welcome to our campaign headquarters,” Jeff Bell said to an out-of-town reporter the other evening, standing in the lobby of a convention hotel here, hard off the Interstate. He wasn’t kidding: This is indeed the headquarters of the Jeff Bell for U.S. Senate campaign, for the moment anyway. He could do worse. The lobby is airy and spacious, the bathrooms are clean and commodious, and the location can’t be beat.
Return Of The ‘Chickenhawk’ Smear
David Harsanyi, The Federalist
The Meltdown
Bret Stephens, Commentary
In July, after Germany trounced Brazil 7–1 in the semifinal match of the World Cup—including a first-half stretch in which the Brazilian soccer squad gave up an astonishing five goals in 19 minutes—a sports commentator wrote: “This was not a team losing. It was a dream dying.” These words could equally describe what has become of Barack Obama’s foreign policy since his second inauguration. The president, according to the infatuated view of his political aides and media flatterers, was supposed to be playing o jogo bonito, the beautiful game—ending…
