“MARRIAGE IS THE FOUNDATION OF SOCIETY.” These opening words of the 1996 federal welfare-reform law symbolize the prejudice in American society to the favor married persons and to the disadvantage of those who live alone or in unmarried cohabitation. “Bridefare” public policies express this prejudice, whether in the form of “defense of marriage” insistence [...]
The petty sniping-du-jour between the Obama and McCain campaigns focuses on Obama’s allegedly “close” relationship with Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian academic associated with the late Yassir Arafat of the Palestinian Liberation Army, defined by the U.S. government as a “terrorist” organization. The McCain campaign has made a big deal of an older story (from April [...]
John McCain has invested much of his campaign rhetoric on the claim that Barack Obama, by virtue of his policies on taxes and health care, is “trying to re-distribute wealth,” as McCain hopes thereby to capitalize on the tendency of people to want to decide for “themselves” how to spend their money, not put it in [...]
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