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America is a Nation Headed For a Fall (Must Read Op-ed)
Townhall.com ^ | February 6, 2016 | John Hawkins

Posted on 02/06/2016 4:55:29 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
Spiritual and moral decline has brought us to this point. Our political failings and endemic cultural and legal corruptions are only symptoms of that decline.

Until our nation turns back to God we will continue to devolve into the destruction of our own making.

81 posted on 02/06/2016 8:17:14 AM PST by Gritty (Syrians aren't Jews fleeing Nazi Holocaust but Nazis relocating from a bombed out Berlin-DGreenfield)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“What were the particular issues involved here?”

What significant issues do you agree with Pelosi, Schumer and Reid?

And do you think that we on the right are desperate for a candidate that will compromise with them?


82 posted on 02/06/2016 8:18:30 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Kaslin

. America.. Anglo-Saxon America is a Nation Headed For a Fall

o.k.,.. fixed it


83 posted on 02/06/2016 8:33:27 AM PST by Koracan
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To: Kaslin
Are wealthy, privileged black liberals being given enough Oscars by wealthy, privileged white liberals?

QUESTION OF THE DECADE!!!!

84 posted on 02/06/2016 9:17:51 AM PST by GOPJ (Stephanopoulos is moderating the Republican debate because Bill Clinton and David Axelrod were busy)
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To: grania
Our politicians are more crooked than the mob and less competent than the French military in WWII.

John Hawkins gets it. Great piece... should have been 5 separate columns... or a book... or two.

85 posted on 02/06/2016 9:23:01 AM PST by GOPJ (Stephanopoulos is moderating the Republican debate because Bill Clinton and David Axelrod were busy)
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To: Kaslin

“...When a nation is beset by problems too big or too difficult to solve...”

Sorry. Right out of the gate with BS...

The ONLY reason we have ‘problems’ is because of GOVT exceeding their legal, Constitutional boundaries, that the rest of D.C. and, more importantly, We the People, refuses to put back in their pen!


86 posted on 02/06/2016 9:26:10 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Senator_Blutarski

IMO, we will never, repeat, NEVER, be able to ‘fix’ inner-cities until the citizens of those cesspools wish to change their CULTURE.

IME, it’s a great disservice to lump Asians, Indians, etc. into the same pool when it is shown, time and time again, *they*, though resides of the same areas, don’t have the same/extent-of ‘problems’.


87 posted on 02/06/2016 9:34:01 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Windflier

“What are you so mad about?...”

There’s plantation living even in the GOP/(R)/(C). Woe be upon those that point out THEIR emperor has no clothes.


88 posted on 02/06/2016 9:37:26 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Kaslin

Excellent post. The author should also have mentioned the unionization of public employees and their subsequent domination of State and municipal governments, as well as the institutionalization of the environmental movement which, having essentially achieved its goals, now seeks primarily to preserve itself.


89 posted on 02/06/2016 9:39:47 AM PST by p. henry
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To: Kaslin; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; ..

Except for the massive debt, the same thing was happening in the 1970’s, only the violent crime rate was higher. The Reagan Presidency helped right things some. A Trump Presidency could do the same.


90 posted on 02/06/2016 9:45:30 AM PST by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gaits)
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To: Kaslin
Great op-ed, yes?

Yes. Super.

91 posted on 02/06/2016 10:11:59 AM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t buy the division of the campaigns of the Cold War (which was really WW III fought in slow-motion thanks to nuclear deterrence) into separate “wars” to make the U.S. look like a loser.

We won. The Soviet Union is no more. Communism has dwindled from a civilization-threatening inhuman ideology to a strange form of dynastic depostism (Cuba and the DRPK) or turned into fascism (China and Vietnam). Grenada was important — it proved the Bezhnev Doctrine false — but add to that SDI, complete with the faked telemetry that convinced the Soviet General Staff that it was much better than it actually was, throwing them into a panic so that business as usual didn’t continue and Gobrachev was picked as General Secretary of the CPUSSR with his reform ideas that proved Communism to be a hollow husk when they were implemented, and Reagan’s “stealth” victory in the Cold War was an absolute triumph.

And, a hearty thank you to all the WW III (Cold War) vets whether your particular campaign was a draw (Korea), a loss (Vietnam) or a win (Grenada, the Berlin airlift, covert ops in places we held against Communism, or work at home on SDI).


92 posted on 02/06/2016 11:21:06 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: YouGoTexasGirl

IF...


93 posted on 02/06/2016 12:01:31 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin

51 is gone.

what AD???


94 posted on 02/06/2016 12:02:11 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
If this happens, salt and light will spill over into secular spheres and have a beneficial influence.

WOODLAWN


95 posted on 02/06/2016 12:02:39 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: i_robot73
IMO, we will never, repeat, NEVER, be able to 'fix' inner-cities until ...


...the outer cities quit subsidizing more and more of what the inner cities produce.

COWBIRDS...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowbird

96 posted on 02/06/2016 12:05:45 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

woodlawn?


97 posted on 02/06/2016 2:13:54 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Amen.


98 posted on 02/06/2016 2:19:14 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Senator_Blutarski

Yes.

I see all kinds of brightness in young people’s eyes, but the intelligence has declined. They just don’t know.

And other countries have eclipsed us in R&D.

You can’t have it both ways: baseline monetary support for the poor and cutting edge industry.

This has me really low.


99 posted on 02/06/2016 2:34:01 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Bingo.

Ted really missed a golden opportunity to show some statesman-like leadership and bearing in this moment. Instead, he came off like a defensive, desperate, candidate. Didn’t do much to bolster the image he’s trying to project.

To be fair, Donald muffed the moment, as well, as did Carson. They’ve all got to get a grip and show some composure under fire. It’s kinda what the people are looking for in their next President.


100 posted on 02/06/2016 7:45:25 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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