By Jay Sekulow
The left's outrage over the IRS turns to a plea to 'move on'
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Could government policy changes like a "Mr. Potter Tax" and college-debt forgiveness tied to childbearing rebuild America's traditional family culture? Or are "cultural headwinds" so great that the nation is unlikely to ever find its way back home?
Conservatives are always looking for their holy grail of social science: empirical proof that liberal policies do more harm than good. If Charles Murray was right in "Losing Ground" and welfare actually makes the poor worse off, the debate is over -- no one wants to do that.
The third annual National Marriage Week USA begins Tuesday amid a tumultuous state of the union.
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and in this case, the picture is a graph. Many graphs, in fact, but all of them depict the same pattern: Two lines start close together in the 1950s, diverge sharply over the decades and end with a gaping chasm between them today.
It's an old question: Why are the poor poor? In particular, why would some people choose not to work, or to spend what little money they have unwisely?
It's an old question: Why are the poor poor? In particular, why would some people choose not to work, or to spend what little money they have unwisely?
Will biochemists one day be able to redesign the human race? And if they could do it, would it be a good idea?
Will biochemists one day be able to redesign the human race? And if they could do it, would it be a good idea?
The 20th century could be seen as America's "adolescence," which would explain why there was so much public rebellion against so many traditional values, including religion, marriage and family, he said.
But the culture may finally be at its nadir, and ready to start growing up, "just as adolescents grow out of adolescence," he said. "I think that the yearning to see if the universe makes sense is not one that is easily extinguished in spirit."
