Bless The Children

It should come as no surprise that the rate of mass shootings at schools and in other public places is increasing. The surge has nothing to do with guns, which have been widely available in the U.S. for years. Gun control laws have been increasing. Instead, there is a direct correlation between the increase in violence and the gradual degradation of morals, ethics and parenting. We are cultivating mental illness in our society. (Rachel Alexander, Townhall, 12/15/2012)

Excellent article that we would have liked to write. By all means, let's have a national discussion on gun control. Such discussion which should also include an examination of the role of the degradation of American culture in these horrific events. Violent video games, violence in movies, decriminalization of marijuana, abortion on demand, decline (and even mockery) of religion, ubiquitous pornography, deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, quick and easy divorce, ready acceptance of illegitimacy, glorification of single parenthood, etc. What is clear is that all of these things are more prevalent today than they were twenty years ago, even as gun control laws have gotten more stringent. So if there are more of these mass shootings now notwithstanding tighter gun laws, doesn't it make sense to ask if culture plays a role? It is also worth noting that many of the things we list are items that evolve from or fit squarely with the Liberal agenda. Hollywood loves to shout that the NRA has blood on its hands, all the while feeding our children a steady diet of violence.


Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and families of the Newtown violence.



The unions’ frenzy against this freedom is as understandable as their desire to abolish the right of secret ballots in unionization elections: Freedom is not the unions’ friend. After Colorado required public-employees unions in 2001 to have annual votes reauthorizing the collection of dues, membership in the Colorado Association of Public Employees declined 70 percent. After Indiana’s government stopped in 2005 collecting dues from unionized public employees, the number of dues-paying members plummeted 90 percent. In Utah, automatic dues deductions for political activities were ended in 2001; made voluntary, payments from teachers declined 90 percent. After a similar measure in Washington state in 1992, the percentage of teachers making contributions fell from 82 to 11. The Democratic Party’s desperate opposition to the liberation of workers from compulsory membership in unions is because unions are conveyor belts moving coerced dues money into the party. (George Will, Washington Post, 12/14/2012)

So in Colorado 70%, in Indiana 90%, in Utah 90%, and Washington 71%; representing the decline in union dues payers. Unions have a problem - a big problem - not with Republican politicians, but with their own members.