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From last year, via Live Action : And here’s this from Live Action just today, ” The Numbers Don’t Lie: Planned Parenthood, Komen, & Breast Exams .”
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Imaginary Mammograms
Here’s wishing her a continued successful recovery and, I hope, a return to public service. At Arizona Republic , ” Giffords stepping down from Congress .” Also Memeorandum . FLASHBACK : ” Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot by Gunman at Townhall Event in Tucson — Progressives Blame Sarah Palin ‘Hit List’ .”
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to Resign From Congress
This is fascinating. From Charles Murray, at Wall Street Journal , ” The New American Divide ” (via Glenn Reynolds ): As I’ve argued in much of my previous work, I think that the reforms of the 1960s jump-started the deterioration. Changes in social policy during the 1960s made it economically more feasible to have a child without having a husband if you were a woman or to get along without a job if you were a man; safer to commit crimes without suffering consequences; and easier to let the government deal with problems in your community that you and your neighbors formerly had to take care of. But, for practical purposes, understanding why the new lower class got started isn’t especially important. Once the deterioration was under way, a self-reinforcing loop took hold as traditionally powerful social norms broke down. Because the process has become self-reinforcing, repealing the reforms of the 1960s (something that’s not going to happen) would change the trends slowly at best. Meanwhile, the formation of the new upper class has been driven by forces that are nobody’s fault and resist manipulation. The economic value of brains in the marketplace will continue to increase no matter what, and the most successful of each generation will tend to marry each other no matter what. As a result, the most successful Americans will continue to trend toward consolidation and isolation as a class. Changes in marginal tax rates on the wealthy won’t make a difference. Increasing scholarships for working-class children won’t make a difference. The only thing that can make a difference is the recognition among Americans of all classes that a problem of cultural inequality exists and that something has to be done about it. That “something” has nothing to do with new government programs or regulations. Public policy has certainly affected the culture, unfortunately, but unintended consequences have been as grimly inevitable for conservative social engineering as for liberal social engineering. The “something” that I have in mind has to be defined in terms of individual American families acting in their own interests and the interests of their children. RTWT. Plus, Murray’s new book is out January 31st, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 .
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Civic Decline Accelerates as Working Class Abandons Marriage and Religion and Upper Class Becomes More Isolated From the Mainstream
Recall what the president once said: “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” Well, here’s some Greek exceptionalism for you, at London’s Daily Mail , ” Children ‘dumped in streets by Greek parents who can’t afford to look after them any more’ .” Hundreds of children have been abandoned in the crisis of economic austerity. I would rather work my fingers to the bone before abandoning my kids somewhere, and I think most people I’ve ever met would do the same. HAT TIP : ” Larwyn’s Linx, Everything Is At Stake, All Right . Added : It could happen here, or it could happen again, I should say. Thinking further, I found this about the Great Depression: The Depression had a powerful impact on family life. It forced couples to delay marriage and drove the birthrate below the replacement level for the first time in American history. The divorce rate fell, for the simple reason that many couples could not afford to maintain separate households or pay legal fees. But rates of desertion soared. By 1940, 1.5 million married women were living apart from their husbands. More than 200,000 vagrant children wandered the country as a result of the breakup of their families. I would die before I abandoned my own family. And dumping children is un-American if you ask me. And I believe it’s people who’ve been coddled their entire lives, and who sponge off others and the state, who’d be the first to dump their kids on the side of the road. In other words, progressives. And if it comes it will be the result of the Obama administration’s profligacy and recklessness . He’s driving this country into the ditch. All the more reason to get rid of these people in November.
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Greek Exceptionalism: Parents Dump Children They Can ‘No Longer Afford’
What you need to know about the record, the values and the policies of the surging presidential hopeful.
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Who is Rick Santorum?
I saw this at Theo’s earlier, and now at SDA, ” Military Wives Choir: Wherever You Are “: And see Melanie Phillips, ” Military Wives’ single tunes into our highest ideals .”
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My Love Will Keep You Safe
I saw this at Theo’s earlier, and now at SDA, ” Military Wives Choir: Wherever You Are “: And see Melanie Phillips, ” Military Wives’ single tunes into our highest ideals .”
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My Love Will Keep You Safe
