[lepton]

LOL! I got sick of him in the last book in his "Ender's Game" series, when Ender sat around and cried all the time.

I didn't much care for ones after Enders Game about Ender either, but Enders Game itself, and the trilogy about Bean, were excellent.

[Molly Pitcher]

It is the most morally conservative portion of society that is most successful in raising children who believe in loyalty and oath-keeping and self-control and self-sacrifice.

YEP!!

And one of the ideas that gets me every time...NON-compassionate conservative that I'm supposed to be ...is how costly the cultural decline of the past decades has been for the so-called "underprivileged".

Drug use, alcoholism, illegitimate children create obstacles which are very hard to overcome in families already struggling.