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Scrapbook Vive la diff?rence! Cognitive differences between the sexes are not yet a state secret, though someday soon they may be. Anyone who cares to investigate can find out that they exist....
...Jack Reed and Chuck Hagel . . .” (David Broder, Washington Post, July 24, 2008...
...New slogan: “Your Source for Barbie Doll Rebuttals Since 1992...
...The fresh research adds to the debate about gender differences in aptitude for mathematics, including efforts to explain the relative scarcity of women among professors of science, math and engineering...
...Patrick Fitzgerald...
...There was sometimes an air of reunion, as a number of characters showed whom we well remember from the last impeachment—Wexler, Lofgren, Jerrold Nadler, Sheila Jackson Lee, Bob Barr (he was in the second group of witnesses...
...The 16 words...
...On Friday, July 25, to cite a glaring example, the New York Times ran an article on page A12 headlined, “Math Scores Show No Gap for Girls, Study Finds...
...Journalists, alas, cannot be added to this list...
...But it was just a fantasy until the 2006 election put some wind in their sails...
...As other institutions of higher learning tend to follow Harvard’s lead, we can say with confidence that the job of a university president these days is to stick to his fundraising and keep his yap shut...
...More boys scored extremely well—or extremely poorly—than girls...
...But the marks in the audience seemed to really believe...
...Well, there’s something to look forward to...
...THE SCRAPBOOK is happy to report that House Democrats were eager to string the poor suckers along...
...Only about 100 of them could fit in the main chamber...
...THE SCRAPBOOK can safely point this out because our appointment to the presidency of Harvard has not yet materialized...
...Then came the witnesses...
...The reporter explains: “Girls and boys have roughly the same average scores on state math tests, but boys more often excelled or failed, researchers reported...
...Vincent Bugliosi, for instance, claimed that it is already “beyond a reasonable doubt” that “under the law, [the Bush administration] are guilty of murder for the deaths of over 4,000 young American soldiers...
...When, three years ago, the actual president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers, alluded to cognitive difference as one possible explanation for disproportionately male engineering faculties at elite schools, he was set upon by a flock of academic Harpies from Harvard and MIT and dragged from his perch...
...The Times’s Tamar Lewin reports: “Three years after the president of Harvard, Lawrence H. Summers, got into trouble for questioning women’s ‘intrinsic aptitude’ for science and engineering—and 16 years after the talking Barbie doll proclaimed that ‘math class is tough’—a study paid for by the National Science Foundation has found that girls perform as well as boys on standardized math tests...
...No, the researchers, perhaps to their dismay, did not find that...
...Talking about ideas, especially ideas that are true but unacceptable to the Harpies, is what disc jockeys, standup comedians, and cab drivers are for...
...These are institutions that pride themselves on doing business at the 99th percentile level and above, not at the 50th percentile...
...It was a low blow by the Times reporter to pretend that Summers ever said otherwise...
...Conyers opened the hearing by invoking the administration’s perfidy: the lying to drag America into war, the politicization of the Justice Department, the warrantless wiretapping, the persecution of Valerie Plame...
...Rather, because of how their brains are wired, boys are overrepresented at the two extremes of the bell curve, among both the super geniuses and the super duds...
...Every dispute of the last eight years was excavated with fresh indignity: Yellow cake...
...Shame...
...John Conyers and the House Judiciary Committee, the National Impeachment Network implored House Democrats to “give us something so that we know Democracy is not dead...
...The many disputes between the Bush administration and Congress will not be moot if not resolved before the election in November or the inauguration in January,” he explained...
...two overflow rooms quickly filled to capacity...
...The researchers found that “boys’ scores were more variable than those of girls...
...Old slogan of the New York Times: “All the News That’s Fit to Print...
...And not just to President Bush...
...Monica Goodling...
...The Times continues: “The researchers looked at the average of the test scores of all students, the performance of the most gifted children and the ability to solve complex math problems...
...You can see why Harvard and MIT might end up with a few more men than women in the math faculty lounge...
...The reason males are overrepresented among the world’s chess and mathematical prodigies is not that little girls have been dressed in frilly aprons, steered towards the kitchen, and told that they may not become the next Fischer or Euler...
...They’re pros, of course, able to argue against impeachment or for it...
...In Minnesota, for example, 1.85% of white boys in the 11th grade hit the 99th percentile, compared with 0.9 % of girls— meaning there were more than twice as many boys among the top scorers than girls...
...Zoe Lofgren called Bush “the worst president our country has ever suffered...
...flipping the indignation on and off because they understand that it’s all just a role-playing exercise...
...Congress must continue the effort next year...
...But don’t let the ten dollar title fool you—it was a hearing about impeaching George W. Bush and Dick Cheney...
...even after they’ve left office...
...The rest were left in the hallway dyspeptically chanting “Shame...
...and “We want in...
...The left has been jonesing for impeachment for a long time...
...Do They Dare to Impeach...
...Robert Wexler added torture to the list and said that impeachment was vital in order to “take our country back...
...Since the Florida recount, actually...
...Sentences We Didn’t Finish ‘Obama prepares thoroughly for the big occasions...
...Hundreds of impeachment proponents clogged the hallways of the Rayburn building...
...As for the New York Times, it remains securely at the top of the heap in tendentious reporting...
...It’s still a fantasy, but now a much more elaborate one...
...Collectively, they claim 150,000 activist supporters...
...Miller may have been the favorite of the impeachment hordes because he maintained that Congress should continue pursuing Bush, Cheney, et al...
...The controversy has to do with the highly gifted, and here the Times is engaged in an ideological cover-up...
...The first group was a collection of impeachmentminded congressmen not lucky enough to sit on Conyers’s committee...
...The second panel of witnesses included one voice of sanity (WEEKLY STANDARD contributor Jeremy Rabkin) and then varying levels of . . . less sanity...
...And let’s not forget the over 100,000 innocent Iraqi men, women, children, and babies who have died horrible, violent deaths...
...The entire impeachment process is more than a little cruel and unfair...
...Dennis Kucinich made his case that Iraq should be the motivating principle behind impeachment...
...There are some 200 pro-impeachment groups, with monikers such as Montana Partners for Impeachment and Impeach for Peace...
...Brad Miller made a more procedural argument, claiming that it’s the refusal of Bush administration figures to testify before Congress that necessitates impeachment...
...They seem a tad more desperate than you might expect...
...In a July letter to Rep...
...He is almost always well briefed, and he was traveling in sharp company—with Sens...
...Certainly it’s true that the average girl is every bit as capable in math as the average boy...
...They found, in every category, that girls did as well as boys...
...they idolize her because she’s living proof you don’t have to look gross to be one of them...
...The committee staff had asked her to go outside and calm the activists...
...On July 25, Conyers’s Judiciary Committee held a hearing on “Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations...
...The same study was summarized on the same day in the Wall Street Journal, which did an honest job of it: “Boys’ Math Scores Hit Highs and Lows,” reads the headline...
...They did cheer when Dennis Kucinich’s hottie wife made an appearance...
...They increasingly see themselves as uniformed officers in the Department of Correct Thinking, enforcement division...
Vol. 13 • August 2008 • No. 44
