[Mia T]

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[freedomfiter2]

Ultimately, it’s an issue of culture. The only people who can hurt us are ourselves, by losing our culture. If we give up our Judeo-Christian culture, we become just like the Europeans. The culture war is the whole ballgame. If we lose it, there isn’t another America to pull us out.


I couldn't have said it better. This is why I can't vote for Rudy.

[LonePalm]

Good Read

Thanks for not posting the usual graphics.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Global2010]

Bravo!
Either I really am as clueless as a ear flappin in the wind dog or this is the best "see the whole picture" article this old dog has ever read.

BUMP IT.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The restructuring of American business means we are coming to the end of the age of the employer and employee. With all this fracturing of businesses into different and smaller units, employers can’t guarantee jobs anymore because they don’t know what their companies will look like next year. Everyone is on their way to becoming an independent contractor. The new workforce contract will be, ‘Show up at the my office five days a week and do what I want you to do, but you handle your own insurance, benefits, health care and everything else.’

Somebody needs to repost this on the outsourcing threads. Newt Gingrich was saying this in 1990, but I guess nobody thought he was talking about their job.

Kind of a third-grade tone to a lot of this article, but I like it. Cuts through all of the think-tank nonsense and it's accessible to an "average" American reader, but it's still at a higher level than a Katie Couric broadcast. ;)

[Wonder Warthog]

Excellent article. And you posted it without the usual amount of bandwidth-eating graphical clutter.

[P-40]

we live in a world where a small number of people can kill a large number of people very quickly.

Sounds like what Albert Speer had to say in his memoirs...

[chilepepper]

excellent post and excellent article.

at first Meyer's style seems a little simple but then again it *does* seem like its targeted for CEOs, who are often fairly simple minded people whose success is often that they get to the essence of things and cut throught the BS...

i'd say Meyer nails the essential issues of the next decade or two pretty well.

[fullchroma]

Meyer is widely credited with being the first senior U.S. Government official to forecast the Soviet Union's collapse.

The man's vision remains very good, in my opinion.

[Tolik]

Very Interesting!

This ping list is not author-specific for articles I'd like to share. Some for the perfect moral clarity, some for provocative thoughts; or simply interesting articles I'd hate to miss myself. (I don't have to agree with the author all 100% to feel the need to share an article.) I will try not to abuse the ping list and not to annoy you too much, but on some days there is more of the good stuff that is worthy of attention. You can see the list of articles I pinged to lately  on  my page.
You are welcome in or out, just freepmail me (and note which PING list you are talking about). Besides this one, I keep 2 separate PING lists for my favorite authors Victor Davis Hanson and Orson Scott Card.  

[Edgerunner]

later bump

[subterfuge]

The world’s most effective birth control device is money...The quickest way to drop the birth rate is through rapid economic development.

Hmmm. No mention of the 2 million babies that are aborted each year in America, which to me seems to be the "most effective" and the "quickest."

[happygrl]

Excellent find.

And it is short and to the point.

[mo]

Mia...in the end it is all about taxes...when a country gets on the wrong side of the tax curve, Mom and Dad stop having children to maintain a basic lifestyle. When taxes go down, children go up. High taxes, you presume then the gov'mt will care for you in your old age since you've worked so hard for it...low taxes, 4-6 kids...some of them will care for you in your old age. Simple, 19th century home economics. Liberals consider the family unit an enemy of the state..and see taxes as a way to control it. You tax it you kill it...

[gonzo]

Interesting article, Mia. Thanks, sweetie ............ FRegards

[Global2010]

This is an informative long read.

My opine as one on the RC Ping list is Procreation in numbers as God wills to a Catholic couple is in need of full speed ahead.
Yes easy for my to say as I am out of the child/husband age years.

But after reading this article I can support more tax relief at the Govt. level for Bigger Catholic/Christian families.

Perhaps you may find fit to ping the Oregon Board/ping list to this article.

[Sp4c3]

Meyer omitted mention of the dismal and dangerous state of public education, especially in the U.S. and U.K. This is the most serious of our long-term problems, as it goes a long way to contributing to our failure to recognize or solve others.

[Toadman]

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