Todd Akin – Again?

Berger's Beat
May 22, 2014

http://bergersbeat.com/todd-akin-again/

Florida GOP Congressman Charles Van Zant is under fire for claiming that standardized testing in schools is designed to recruit homosexuals. A prominent Dem said it: “The U.S.A. was the land of freedom – for heterosexuals.”. . .The ghost of ex-Congressman Todd Akin continues to haunt the GOP. On Tuesday, a Republican candidate for a Georgia senate seat lost in the primary, after he declared that Akin was “partly right” about his claim that women can’t get pregnant when they’re raped. . .The shopping strip along Manchester in Maplewood continues to prosper, with one business, The Book House, having recently expanded and a second one, Foundation Grounds, working on an expansion. . .Disney topper Bob Iger has been mentioned, along with Bob Costas, in the lineup of potential candidates for MLB commissioner. . .Where does the time go? Our town’s own stage and film star Kevin Kline has a son, Owen, who has just produced the film, “Jazzy for Joe”. . .The largest-ever child porn investigation in New York’s history netted 71 arrests this week. It began, the N.Y. Times reported, with Brian Finelli, a Catholic church official who taught abuse prevention in Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s New York City archdiocese. “Catholic church officials relentlessly brag about these abuse programs. But they are relatively new and untested with little or no independent evaluation,” says SNAP’s Barbara Dorris“. . .The Times’ listing of “What You Get for $1.7 million” – a 5,663 sq-ft house in Glendale, MO.