“As the data from the past decade clarify, there is no evidence that poverty causes crime but a great deal of evidence that crime causes poverty. By aligning themselves against the police, against commonsense tactics like stop and frisk, against metal detectors in public housing, against swift and certain punishment, and for a broad array of legal protections for accused criminals, liberals helped to aggrieve the lives of the poor and society as a whole.” WholePastCertainCausesPoorDealsPovertyCrimeEvidencePoliceProtectionDecadesCriminalsPunishmentDataBroadsMetalsAccusedTacticsHousingPublic HousingMetal DetectorsStop And Frisk Author:Mona Charen
“Liberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead, like poverty, crime, and homelessness, child abuse came to be viewed as evidence of a societal failure.” ChildrenCharacterParentMoralPovertyCrimeEvidenceDecidedAbuseWelfareExpertsFlawsChild AbuseHomelessnessCharacter Flaws Book:Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us
“The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace process" without regard to what its consequences might be....It was impossible for any peace plan to fail in their eyes, since lack of progress was nearly always interpreted as evidence that new talks were now "urgent".” BelieveMightEyeProcessProgressPlansImpossibleFailingArmsSolutionsEvidenceConsequenceRegardSakeNuclearNegotiationUrgentNuclear Arms Author:Mona Charen
