Monday, March 2, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
RWN: An Interview With Michael Medved - '...The other answer to the notion that we are in an irreversible moral decline is to take people on a little nostalgic journey back to the days of 1970s and the misrule of the one I refer to on my show as the "worthless one," Jimmy Carter. Everything about the Carter era was worse than what exists in America today -- the divorce rate, the crime rate, the economy, the standards of living, the music, hairstyles, clothing styles -- the 70s were a truly nightmarish era. ...The abortion rate has gone down every year for 15 years. We used to kill 1 out of 3 pregnancies. 1 out 3 pregnancies. Today, the number is 1 out of 4. That's still too high, but it's an improvement. The truth is, this belief, this lie that says that America's moral decline is irreversible, suggests to people, particularly young people that your choices mean nothing for the country's future -- and that to me is a pernicious, destructive, and dishonest message...'
