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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 15, 2012

  Pres. Barack Obama’s commencement speech yesterday to the Barnard College 2012 graduating class, a private women’s liberal arts college linked to his Columbia University and to his half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, wasn’t breathed in deeply, like life-giving oxygen, by all who heard it. At least one young woman, Ayèlet Pearl who is a junior at [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 13, 2012

  Dogs and cats are helping college students cope with the many stresses of academia life. And with the realization that more than half all American college graduates are unemployed or underemployed, they’re going to need plenty of pet therapy. Resident therapy dogs are even being used at Harvard and Yale. Puppy Power! Just don’t [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | May 11, 2012

  In this round of the “Food Police, It’s All for the Children, Dammit!” battle in Massachusetts, chalk up 1 for common sense, and for liberal zealots and the tyrannical Nanny State Food Police, zip. I wrote earlier this week about the imminent ban at Massachusetts schools on bake sales, and the plans to also [...]

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