Jobs Numbers Have Different Messages For Minorities

Friday's unemployment report for January showed weak gains in service sector jobs, such as those in restaurants and nursing homes. Manufacturing was strong, however, but will those gains will help minorities, who were especially hard-hit by the Great Recession?

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/02/05/133520525/Jobs-Numbers-Have-Different-Messages-For-Minorities?ft=1&f=1014

Victor Davis Hanson Erick Erickson Chris Ruddy Jim DeMint

Different Meanings Of Democracy For West, Middle East

The chants, chaos and cries from the streets of Cairo and other cities in Egypt this week revive questions for historians and political scientists that politicians have to answer with practical policies. Host Scott Simon speaks with Dr. J. Rufus Fears, a historian and Classics scholar at the University of Oklahoma, about western concepts of democracy and the events now sweeping Egypt and the Middle East.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/02/05/133520533/Different-Meanings-Of-Democracy-For-West-Middle-East?ft=1&f=1003

LINDSEY GRAHAM JACK KEANE MARCO RUBIO Michelle Bachmann

How Long Moms Work Linked To Slight Increase In Kids' Weight

The link wasn't explained by other factors, including the amount of TV watched or the time of day moms worked. The weight gain was small, about a pound, and no reason for moms to feel guilty, the lead researcher says.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/02/04/133466178/how-long-moms-work-linked-to-slight-increase-in-kids-weight?ft=1&f=1057

Erick Erickson Chris Ruddy Jim DeMint Frank Luntz

Why The Former Planet Pluto Got Demoted

In 2006 the former ninth planet in the solar system, Pluto, got demoted to a mere Kuiper Belt object. The man who was in large part responsible for that demotion, Caltech planetary scientist Mike Brown, discusses the status of Pluto and why it doesn't qualify as a planet.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/02/04/133498152/why-the-former-planet-pluto-got-demoted?ft=1&f=1007

Huma Abedin Justin Amash Nick Ayers Jeremy Bash