Kathleen Parker takes us through the moral ambiguities involved in single parenthood and reaches the correct conclusion that:
When we celebrate single motherhood, as we have since Murphy Brown made out-of-wedlock birth a glam option for busy women, we can hardly pucker in disapproval when the next generation doesn't know any better.
All you women who like the prison-tattoo look -- in Canada, at least, the likelihood of your honey being diseased (in body, if not in mind) has gone down.
I think I'll start handing out the Kurt Vonnegut Award (the Kurt) to the people who are the least serious about the war against Islamofascism. Today's winner, media division, goes to Chris Matthews, who thinks, among other things,
If we stop trying to figure out the other side, we've given up. The person on the other side is not evil. They just have a different perspective. The smartest people understand the enemy's point of view, because they understand what's driving them.
One of the aspects of a flu pandemic that hasn't been discussed much is the effect it would likely have on ordinary daily life. This story touches only on the quarantines that might be imposed on travelers coming into the country. But there would certainly be quarantines affecting citizens, too.
Would have been nice if this prediction had come true:
By the end of the twentieth century, the futurist Herman Kahn prophesied in 1967, Americans would enjoy thirteen weeks of vacation and a four-day work week. The challenge, it seemed, would be figuring out what to do with all our free time.
Well, we knew this was coming, didn't we?
Swiss Santa Clauses have been banned from sitting children on their laps because of the risk that they might be accused of paedophilia.
The only surprise is that it didn't happen sooner and it hasn't happened in this country. Yet.
Don't worry, white males, you can still be hired by Canada's Department of Public Works, as long as somebody gets "written permission" to do so.
"They are in effect cutting off a significant portion of the workforce from these opportunities," Macpherson tells the National Post. "It sounds like a pretty extreme measure that they're contemplating."
This is just what we want -- Chicago and Gary setting our foreign policy:
The efforts are being pushed by the D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies, which sponsored the prewar "Cities for Peace" campaign that helped rally 165 cities to oppose the 2003 invasion. Director John Cavanagh, pointing to polls that show growing public frustration with the Iraq war, said that "we're at a fascinating tipping point."
Even without the insane roadblocks created by No Child Left Behind, public educators face so many challenges in their efforts to pursue excellence. Let's hope no school in Fort Wayne ever settles for "adequate," as this school in North DeKalb County, Ga., seems to have done. (via boortz.com)
A nation has to control its borders, and we are not. Illegal immigration at the least threatens the cohesion of America and at worst our protection from terrorism. But ending our tradtion of birthright citizenship doesn't seem like the best solution to the problem. Our "melting pot" has already become too much of a salad bowl, and this could be the last straw.
