The Embarrassing American Parenting Fail
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 23rd, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
The Embarrassing American Parenting Fail
Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics
When it comes to public image, the millennial generation isn’t exactly knocking the cover off the ball. Just Google something like “Millennials are the worst” and you’ll see headlines labeling the 14-34 age demographic as “deluded narcissists,” “America’s worst generation,” and, somewhat hilariously, people whom Pizza Hut marketers apparently find “super boring.” The New York Times, meanwhile, recently took a higher road by couching its mild disdain in concern: “Can Millennials Stand a Chance in the Real…
In Iowa, Mike Huckabee Is Making Moves
Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — It was just another routine photo-op at a Republican field office Tuesday morning until Mike Huckabee decided to improvise. In a cheeky attempt to bring himself level with Cody Hoefert — the 7-foot-tall co-chairman of the Iowa Republican Party — Huckabee pulled up a chair and began to climb atop it. He didn’t have to complete the physical joke to get the laughs he was looking for from the group of gray-haired volunteers who had assembled for his appearance with Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst. “Golly!” the 5-11 Huckabee marveled….
Still in Denial on Ebola
Michael Gerson, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON — It is such a relief about that Ebola thing. The threat of an American outbreak turned out to be overhyped. A military operation is underway to help those poor Liberians. An Ebola czar (what is his name again?) has been appointed to coordinate the U.S. government response. The growth of the disease in Africa, by some reports, seems to have slowed. On to the next crisis. Except that this impression of control is an illusion, and a particularly dangerous one. The Ebola virus has multiplied in a medium of denial. There was the initial denial that a rural disease, causing isolated…
