Girl Power! and Other Federal Idiocy

Girl Power! and Boy Talk, two national programs ostensibly designed to discourage substance abuse among U.S. children, should be eliminated. The first relies on propaganda rather than scientific data to boost girls' self-esteem and academic performance, even though the evidence shows that boys...

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