Slap Butt Day at a McMinnville, Oregon, Middle School turned ugly for two seventh-grade boys, according to Dennis Prager.
Our beloved country is flipping out. The effects of The Age of Stupidity ushered in during the ‘60s and ‘70s are omnipresent. It is highly doubtful that there is a living member of the World War II generation who could have imagined that seventh-graders would one day be brought in shackles into an American courtroom for playfully swatting a girl's buttocks. It is also true that there is no member of that generation who could ever have imagined something as low-life as a “slap butt day” in an American middle school. But that is another matter.
Progressives invest in failure, not in success, according to Thomas Sowell.
It is not just in Iraq that the political left has an investment in failure. Domestically as well as internationally, the left has long had a vested interest in poverty and social malaise.
Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves “progressives." What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.
Elvira Arellano, a convicted felon and illegal alien, thinks nothing is wrong with flouting American law, according to Debra Saunders.
Only the most overzealous activist would support the notion that national borders have no meaning or that a country should let foreigners break their laws, trade in fraudulent documents and violate deportation orders with impunity.
It's bad enough that so many non-citizens freely break this country's duly enacted laws. But when they feel that they can break our laws openly and without consequence, they have to go. Or all respect for the law will go.
Accountability in Government is the only way to credibility, according to Cal Thomas.
It is fine for Republicans to speak of tax cuts, which indisputably have contributed to record economic growth, but a parallel issue for Republicans in 2008 should be a focus on out-of-control spending. America's puritanical “waste not, want not” heritage might yet stir enough of us to oppose needless spending if tied to an appeal for more personal responsibility and accountability for one's life. Eliminating, or at least reducing, wasteful spending weakens the Democrats’ argument for tax increases. Even under Republican majority rule, including a Republican president, government has continued to grow. Only a break with that heretical Republicanism will restore credibility with voters who increasingly view the two parties as indistinguishable
Losing is winning when there are no consequences for bad judgment, according to Bill Murchison.
Hillary Clinton talks of a $1 billion federal fund to help families likely to find themselves sitting on the curb outside their former houses (or, much likelier, moving into apartments or rental houses).
Emergency relief -- food, shelter, clothes -- is one thing. Protection, as a matter of policy, from bad decisions (e.g., borrowing without the means to repay) penalizes good decisions. It says to citizens, don't bother to plan, to save, to reason things out, to act with discretion and judgment, because if you do blow it through carelessness or irrationality, along the government rescue wagon will come, bells jingling and dollars flying through the air.
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