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Prof: U.S. liberals on slope to extinction WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. liberals face extinction if they don't start having enough babies to keep up with conservatives, a Syracuse University professor told ABC News. Professor Arthur Brooks said after studying numbers from the governmental General Social Survey, he found 100 unrelated liberal adults have 147 children, while 100 unrelated conservatives have 208 kids. Brooks said that makes a difference, as 80 percent of people with political opinions vote like their parents. In response, conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway told ABC liberals are creating their own fertility gap by their beliefs....

Liberal politics will prove fruitless as long as liberals refuse to multiply. The midterm election looms, and once again efforts begin afresh to increase voter participation. It has become standard wisdom in American politics that voter turnout is synonymous with good citizenship, justifying just about any scheme to get people to the polls. Arizona is even considering a voter lottery, in which all voters are automatically registered for a $1 million giveaway. Polling places and liquor stores in Arizona will now have something in common. On the political left, raising the youth vote is one of the most common goals....

The midterm election looms, and once again efforts begin afresh to increase voter participation. It has become standard wisdom in American politics that voter turnout is synonymous with good citizenship...--snip--Simply put, liberals have a big baby problem: They're not having enough of them, they haven't for a long time, and their pool of potential new voters is suffering as a result.

Princeton University student Christian Sahner yesterday stood next to a black and orange pro-life banner on the Mall, a striking symbol of what some say is a growing gap between the Roe v. Wade generation and today's young adults. "Our generation has grown up with abortion as a reality. It's become very personal to a lot of people," said Mr. Sahner, 21, one of about 40 pro-life students from Princeton who attended yesterday's 33rd annual March for Life in the District. "I think people are thinking about it, and the tide is changing to some extent." While Mr. Sahner and...

ABORTION cuts crime. That claim—first demonstrated by John Donohue, of Yale Law School, and Steven Levitt, of the University of Chicago, in an academic article in 2001*—is the kind of provocative and surprising conclusion that has made Mr Levitt's book, “Freakonomics”, such a runaway success this year. Unwanted children, the story goes, are more likely to become criminals in later life. Abortion, legalised throughout the United States by the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade ruling in 1973, prevents unwanted pregnancies from becoming unwanted children. Higher abortion rates from the 1970s onwards thus help to explain why crime rates fell in...

WHY ARE WE WINNING THE WAR ON CRIME? The U.S. violent crime rate is at a 30-year low, and experts have many theories to explain it, especially the drop in the 1990s. Among them: -The fastest-growing population segment is those over age 50, who commit few violent crimes. -A record 2 million-plus people are locked up in prison. -The crack market shrunk in the '90s. -About 100,000 police officers were added since the mid-'90s. -Improved tactics -- such as the "broken windows" theory of policing, which cracks down on petty crime -- have helped. -The nationwide legalization of abortion in...

Urban Perspectives | An old-time racist chestnut makes a toxic comeback By Acel Moore Talk-radio host, conservative Republican, and former education secretary (under Pesident Ronald Reagan) and drug czar (under George H.W. Bush) William Bennett's recent comments about crime and abortion reinforce my belief that many in white America are still in denial about race. In case you did not hear his comments, made last Wednesday on his syndicated radio show - appropriately called Bill Bennett's Morning in America - here's a taste: "If you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose, you could...

Is William Bennett, the former education secretary, a racist for arguing hypothetically that "aborting every black baby in this country" would reduce the crime rate, even though he added that such a thing would be "morally reprehensible?" Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) apparently thinks so, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) obviously thinks so, and the minority leader in the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), definitely thinks so. "What could possibly have possessed Secretary Bennett to say those words, especially at this time?" Pelosi wondered to CNN. "What could he possibly have been thinking?" Before I answer my own question, let's...

A controversial study linking a reduction in crime during the 1990s with legalized abortion two decades earlier has been published in one of the nation's foremost scholarly journals. The study, entitled The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime, was published in the May 7 edition of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which is edited by the Economics Department of Harvard University and calls itself "the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language." Authored by researchers John J. Donohue III and Steven D. Levitt, the study had been privately circulated since 1999, but had not been accepted for publication...

From Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner "So, how did Roe v. Wade trigger, a generation later, the greatest crime drop in recorded history? "As far as crime is concerned, it turns out that not all children are born equal. Not even close. "Decades of study have show that a child born into an adverse family environment is far more likely than other children to become a criminal. And the millions of women likely to have an abortion in the wake of Roe v. Wade--poor, unmarried and teenage mothers for whom illegal abortions had been too expensive...

Bill Bennett: Fewer black babies = less crime in America If Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman is serious about wooing African-American voters, he can throw all his energy into speaking to African-American groups and recruiting African-American candidates. Either that, or he could just ask Bill Bennett to shut up. Bennett, who served as secretary of education under Ronald Reagan before writing the beloved-by-the-right "Book of Virtues," explained on his radio show yesterday that America could reduce its crime rate by eliminating African-Americans. Media Matters has the audio. The gist of it: A caller to Bennett's radio show suggested that...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Friday criticized former Education Secretary William Bennett for remarks linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies. "The president believes the comments were not appropriate," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.Bennett, on his radio show, "Morning in America," was answering a caller's question when he took issue with the hypothesis put forth in a recent book that one reason crime is down is that abortion is up. "But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you...

Conservative Links Crime Rate and Abortion of Black Babies A conservative talk show host, William Bennett served in the Reagan administration as education secretary. WASHINGTON (Sept. 29) - Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and other Democrats on Thursday demanded that former Education Secretary William Bennett apologize for remarks on his radio program linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies.Bennett responded that the comments, made Wednesday on his "Morning in America" show, had been mischaracterized and that his point was that the idea of supporting abortion to reduce crime was "morally reprehensible." The author of "The Book of...

Friday, September 30, 2005 Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson will be a guest on Hannity & Colmes (Fox New Channel) tonight, Friday, September 30, at 6 p.m. PST / 9 p.m. EST. He will discuss the controversy over Bill Bennett's comments on race, abortion, and crime. Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is the author of the book SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America, which is due to come out in paperback on October 11. Due to the nature of live television times and dates are always subject to change.

Bill Bennett Interview on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes Regarding Race, Crime, Etc. Courtesy of Fox News Channel/9-29-2005 First, our top story tonight is the controversy surrounding radio talk show host Bill Bennett. Yesterday on his radio show, Mr. Bennett -- Dr. Bennett was quoted as saying. I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you cold abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down...that would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would...

WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday criticized former Education Secretary William Bennett for remarks linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies. "The president believes the comments were not appropriate," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. Bennett, on his radio show, "Morning in America," was answering a caller's question when he took issue with the hypothesis put forth in a recent book that one reason crime is down is that abortion is up. "But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you...

This morning while driving to work, Rick Robert's was going off on Bill Bennet for a statement he made either during his show or an interview. The clip he played was of Bennet saying (as best as I can remember): "If you really wanted to lower the crime rate - even though that would be horrendous and unthinkable, would be to abort all of the African Amercian babies." Robert's was saying how stupid this was and that Bennet had given all of the liberals/race baiters/etc. something to be critical of. However, Robert's did not play enough of the tape to...

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and other Democrats on Thursday demanded that former Education Secretary William Bennett apologize for remarks on his radio program linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies. Bennett responded that the comments, made Wednesday on his "Morning in America" show, had been mischaracterized and that his point was that the idea of supporting abortion to reduce crime was "morally reprehensible." The author of "The Book of Virtues," answering a caller's question, took issue with the hypothesis put forth in a recent book that one reason crime is down is that abortion is up....

Startling drop in crime rate in last 20 yrs. lies in ROE v. Wade...................

Towards the end of that decade, confounding the expectations of most analysts, the teenage murder rate fell by more than 50% in the space of five years; by 2000, the book notes, the overall murder rate was at its lowest for 35 years. Other kinds of crime fell too. Why? Some gave the credit to economic growth; others to gun control; still others to new methods of policing, or to greater reliance on imprisonment, or to increasing use of the death penalty, or to the ageing of the population. Mr Levitt goes carefully through these various explanations, checking them against...