And, goodness knows, adolescents need all the brain function they can muster.
[C]hronic, heavy marijuana use during adolescence – a critical period of ongoing brain development – is associated with poorer performance on thinking tasks, including slower psychomotor speed and poorer complex attention, verbal memory and planning ability.
Recent studies also indicate that teenage girls have a [...]

Three activists with the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) are to be prosecuted for wearing t-shirts with a picture of a kangaroo wearing a judge’s robe in the Supreme Court building last May.  The activists were there to show support for SDP leader Chee Soon Juan, who was being sued for defamation by Singapore’s prime minister.
The [...]

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May (at right) went down to defeat in Central Nova, and it wasn’t even close. Conservative incumbent Peter MacKay took well over 18,000 votes (46.6 percent of the popular vote) compared to Ms May’s 12,600 (32.2%). This despite the fact that Stéphane Dion agreed not to nominate a Liberal [...]

So says Dr Robert George of Princeton University in his incisive discussion of Sen Barack Obama’s record on abortion and the arguments of the senator’s deluded pro-life supporters.
The entire article is a must-read; here’s a snippet from Dr George’s conclusion.
Barack Obama’s America is one in which being human just isn’t enough to warrant care and [...]