Tag Archive 'Poverty'

Anger on the Left *UPDATED*

Bookworm on Apr 30 2008 | Filed under: Communism, Democrats, Leftist morality

My father was a very angry man. At whichever job he had, he was pretty darn certain that management was out to get him. At stores, he knew he was being cheated. My mother always attributed this anger, not to the poverty and dislocation of his youth (placed in an orphanage at [...]

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Root causes

Bookworm on Apr 17 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama

I wrote the following for American Thinker, and republish it here:
Root Causes
One of the hallmarks of the Left is its fervent belief that, if poor people behave badly, the fault is not theirs, but instead it lies with “root causes.” For example, a word search in the New York Times for “root causes and [...]

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