Friday, March 29, 2013

What Really Happened in Jerusalem. By Charles Krauthammer.

What really happened in Jerusalem. By Charles Krauthammer. Washington Post, March 28, 2013.

Republicans, Get Over the 2012 Loss—and Start Fighting Back. By Liz Cheney.

Republicans, Get Over the 2012 Loss—and Start Fighting Back. By Liz Cheney. Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2013. Also find it here.

Liz Cheney Is Even More Bonkers Than We Suspected. By Jonathan Chait. New York Magazine, March 29, 2013.

Encroaching Control (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction”). By Ronald Reagan. Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, March 30, 1961. Full Text and Audio. Internet Archive. Audio of full speech on YouTube. Audio excerpt on YouTube.

Reagan:

Our Founding Fathers, here in this country, brought about the only true revolution that has ever taken place in man’s history. Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another set of rulers. But only here did that little band of men so advanced beyond their time that the world has never seen their like since, evolve the idea that you and I have within ourselves the God-given right and the ability to determine our own destiny. But freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it and then hand it to them with the well-taught lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.






The Stunning Public Shift on Same-Sex Marriage. By Peter Wehner.

The Stunning Public Shift on Same-Sex Marriage. By Peter Wehner. Commentary, March 28, 2013.

What Difference Will Same-Sex Marraige Make? By Melissa Harris-Perry.

What Difference Will Same-Sex Marriage Make? By Melissa Harris-Perry. The Nation, March 27, 2013.

“Roe” Didn’t Incite the Culture Wars, and Neither Would a Supreme Court Ruling for Marriage Equality. By Jill Filipovic. The Nation, March 27, 2013.

We Didn’t Domesticate Dogs. They Domesticated Us. By Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods.

We Didn’t Domesticate Dogs. They Domesticated Us. By Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods. National Geographic News, March 3, 2013.

Study: Life is Harder for Young People Today than 40 Years Ago.

Life is harder today than 40 years ago . . . and it’s not just the twenty-somethings saying that, their parents agree. By Ruth Styles. Daily Mail, March 26, 2013.

Life harder today than it was 40 years ago? Video with Dr. Keith Ablow. America Live with Megyn Kelly. Fox News, March 29, 2013.