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Fast Times at Eighth Avenue High
By Matthew ContinettiYou are an accomplished adult, at the top of your field, working in the heart of the greatest city in the world. Important people answer your emails and phone calls. Yet there is one person in the office who bugs you, whose demeanor you find obnoxious. You want to take a stand, to let this individual know his behavior is uncalled for, imperious, despotic even. And so you do the only thing a mature and levelheaded man in your position can do: You refuse to sit with him at lunch.

House Bill Would Cut Funding to Backers of Israeli Boycotts
By Adam KredoA new bipartisan bill introduced Thursday in the House would strip all federal funds from any U.S. academic institution that decides to boycott Israel, according to a copy of the newly filed legislation obtained by the Free Beacon.


Photos Debunk Key Anti-Fracking Claim
By Lachlan MarkayNewly released photos of a flaming water well have renewed skepticism of claims by environmental activists and federal regulators that hydraulic fracturing made drinking water supplies in Parker County, Texas, flammable.



Hobby Lobby Speaks Out
By Andrew EvansThe president of Hobby Lobby discussed his company’s ongoing lawsuit against the Obama administration regarding the contraceptive mandate, which goes before the Supreme Court March 25 for oral arguments.



DC Mayoral Candidate’s Business to Host Venezuelan Government’s Pro-Chavez Event
By Lachlan MarkayThe government of Venezuela will celebrate the legacy of its late socialist president Hugo Chavez this month at a coffee shop owned by a radical Washington, D.C., mayoral candidate who has said Israel controls U.S. foreign policy.


These Naval Academy Grads Get to Choose Their Own Assignments
By Bill McMorrisOn this cold Thursday in Annapolis, Md., 243 Naval Academy students, who will become surface warfare officers when they graduate in May, packed tightly into an auditorium, surrounded by admirals, captains, family, and friends. They were there for ship selection night.

Always Flatter, Never Challenge, Your Audience
By Sonny BunchAndrew Ferguson has a pretty entertaining takedown of the remarkably dreadful political cartoonist Herbert Block in this week’s issue of the Weekly Standard. Andy was driven to write it by the appearance of a hagiographic documentary heaping praise on the remarkably predictable, utterly boring cartoonist.


Not-So-Small Problems

By David RutzObamacare’s insurance cancellations, website glitches, flawed rollout, “834″ issues and job losses can all be explained away as only hurting a few folks out there.