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100,000 Missing Women – Part 2

November 29 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, Social Engineering

WSJ 11/28/2015 By Geeta Anand And Jaeyeon Woo Somvir Sain, 38, a driver for a politician in Haryana, a north Indian state with one of the country’s highest sex ratios, has been looking for a wife for 12 years, but in vain. Neither he nor his three brothers have found brides, he says. He has even traveled to several nearby poorer states... Read more

100,000 Missing Women – Part 3

November 29 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, Social Engineering

My wife suggested the following book as another good resource. Half the sky : turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2009. 362.8309 Kri =========== WSJ 11/28/2015 By Geeta Anand And Jaeyeon Woo For many decades, South Korea’s demographic trajectory was similarly grim. A military dictatorship that ruled from 1961... Read more

Radical Parents, Despotic Children

November 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correct, Social Engineering, The Left

Will probably get worse before, or if, it gets better. ============ Bret Stephens – WSJ 11/24/2015 “Liberal Parents, Radical Children,” was the title of a 1975 book by Midge Decter, which tried to make sense of how a generation of munificent parents raised that self-obsessed, politically spastic generation known as the Baby Boomers. The book was a case study in the tragedy of... Read more

Book Review: ‘A Conflict of Principles’ by Carl Cohen

March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Obama, Social Engineering, US Constitution

A phlosophy professor’s belief in colorblind law led him to oppose the university’s use of affirmative action in admissions decisions. Why bother with facts? ============ By Terry Eastland March 5, 2015 7:10 p.m. ET In his famous dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court decision that upheld racial segregation, Justice John Marshall Harlan declared: “Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates... Read more

Federalism and ObamaCare

March 7 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCare, Social Engineering, The Left, US Constitution

Politically convenient… =========== March 4, 2015 7:03 p.m. ET A closely divided Supreme Court heard arguments in the challenge to ObamaCare’s illegal subsidies on Wednesday, and the session spun off in an unexpected and provocative direction: To wit, several Justices suggested that the Affordable Care Act as drafted would unconstitutionally coerce the states. King v. Burwell turns on the statute’s plain text limiting health... Read more

Here Come the Child-Care Cops

December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Losing Freedom, Social Engineering

At the White House’s early-childhood-education summit on Dec. 10, President Obama highlighted two new federal competitive-grants programs: the Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships, aimed to increase the availability of high-quality infant and toddler care, and the Preschool Development Grants, which are meant to expand preschool programs in disadvantaged communities. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Education Secretary... Read more

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