Rubio borrows a stat from the godfather of welfare reform.
Politics
Blame the poor, “We tried generosity and it just doesn’t work” edition
Giving poor people money -- or in-kind benefits -- to help them survive is not a solution to poverty, it's a treatment for poverty. If we had more decency we'd do more of it.
Obstacles to healthcare aren’t cheap either
Giving away healthcare has a lot of costs, but figuring out who to deny shouldn't be one of them.
Homogamy tipping point update: between elections edition
A bona fide straw that breaks the camels back shape, an exponential trend.
A Simple, Legal Way to Help Stop Employment Discrimination
As a customer, client, business partner or job applicant at a firm, wouldn't you like to know if they have an underrepresentation problem?
What victory looks like, or not
Who will stand up for traditional religion now that the gays have won?
All opposed? (to family change)
The majority of people who think family change is a "bad thing" are born again Christians.
Can the marriage movement survive gay marriage?
Maggie Gallagher and David Blankenhorn play, "Who gets to keep their job?" -- with gender distinctions.
Pediatrics essay on child wellbeing in the homogamy debate
The medical journal Pediatrics has a nice, short essay on the child wellbeing argument over homogamous (same-sex) marriage. The authors, Jeremy R. Garrett and John D. Lantos, write: Our primary goal in this article has been to provoke or reinforce skepticism about the conceptual, empirical, and normative adequacy of opposition to same-sex marriage on the…
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The best they’ve got for DOMA?
The intellectual bullpen is getting a little thin on the anti-homogamy side.
Family Inequality 