The fertility gap. “Liberal politics will prove fruitless as long as liberals refuse to multiply,” writes Professor Arthur Brooks in the Wall Street Journal. “Simply put, liberals have a big baby problem: They’re not having enough of them, they haven’t for a long time, and their pool of potential new voters is suffering as a result.”
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) said Monday that the South African government must end its denial about the AIDS crisis, and he pledged to set an example for men in Africa by being tested for HIV in Kenya this week.
Fueling speculation regarding the identity of Bob Woodward’s source on Valerie Plame, the AP obtained an official State Department calendar that reports former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage holding a one-hour meeting marked “private appointment” with Woodward on June 13, 2003.
“I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born,” Bush suggested yesterday. “Uh, no, Mr. President. There have been quite a few, actually.” OpinionJournal counted at least 25 major-party presidential nominees have never carried their state of birth.
$8 an hour: California’s new minimum wage. “More than 1 million Californians” will get a 20 percent pay increase by 2008.
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) endorsed Proposition 87, a state ballot initiative that aims to cut California’s gasoline usage by 25 percent over 10 years. “Californians are fed up with the highest gas prices in history while big oil reaps unprecedented profits,” Feinstein said.
“Climatic changes could lead to more outbreaks of bubonic plague among human population,” finds a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
And finally: Bin Laden to Whitney Houston – “I Will Always Love You.” According to Kola Boof, a Sudanese poet who claims to have been one of bin Laden’s sex slaves, the terrorist mastermind said “he had a paramount desire for Houston and although he claimed music was evil, he spoke of someday spending vast amounts of money to go to America and try to arrange a meeting.”
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