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Eighth-grade assignment: Debate whether the Holocaust actually happened

Today's dispatch from the 'Department of What Were They Thinking.' Eighth grade students in Rialto, California were given an assignment to debate whether the Holocaust really happened.
by Bob Collins

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Where were the parents?

In an op-ed in today's Star Tribune Daniel Wolpert of Minneapolis defends the practice of judging the parents in news stories where a child has done wrong. Clearly, Wolpert is talking mostly about the parents of John LaDue of Waseca. He's the 17-year-old boy charged with a plot to set off bombs at schools in Waseca, then shoot kids trying to flee. Reportedly, he planned to kick off his day by killing his parents.
by Bob Collins

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‘Before they die’, kids wanted friend to get an arm

‘Before they die’, kids wanted friend to get an arm

The next time someone dismisses Twitter as just a place where you post about what you're having for lunch, tell them the story of Torri Biddle, 19, an Ohio woman who was born without an arm.
by Bob Collins

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The pink locker room’s time has passed, Iowa professor says

Is it time to turn the page on the University of Iowa's infamous pink visitors' locker room at Kinnick Stadium? Famed coach Hayden Fry had the locker room painted pink in 1979, and the university added pink urinals in a renovation in 2005.
by Bob Collins

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Enough with the Nazis

Enough with the Nazis

Since 2008, analogies to Nazis have permeated the American political discourse, pretty much neutering the true historical impact of the systematic extermination of a race.
by Bob Collins

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The best of today’s Supreme Court opinion on legislative prayer

Thousands of government bodies all over the United States -- including the Minnesota House and Senate -- open their meetings and sessions with a prayer. Today the U.S. Supreme Court gave the practice its blessing.
by Bob Collins

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A casket for all occasions

A casket for all occasions

How prepared do you want to be for what's coming? In New York Mills, Patrick Kilby is making a pretty decent living in the dying business. He simple pine boxes for caskets.
by Bob Collins

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After 58 years, man meets baby he found while hunting

Dave Hickman was hunting with his grandfather near Boston, Indiana back in 1955 when he heard a cooing sound. The teenager looked in some brush and found a baby. How and why she got there is anybody's guess, but their time together was short lived. The baby was turned over to a sheriff. Eventually, she was adopted by a couple, who moved away.
by Bob Collins

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Did a little honesty cost Target CEO his job?

Did a little honesty cost Target CEO his job?

There aren’t many companies with a bigger bunker mentality than Target, so it’s unlikely we’re ever going to get the story behind today’s announcement that president and CEO Gregg Steinhafel has left the company in the wake of last fall’s big data breach. Steinhafel has “resigned,” which is corporate speak for “he was fired” but…
by Bob Collins

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