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Let’s Reverse the Spread of the Social Diseases Already Blighting the Republican-Controlled American South

February 16th, 2012 | Add a Comment

There was a time during the mid-1980s when many of America’s Soviet scholars asked themselves how a man possessing the moral fiber, education and stellar capabilities of Mikhail Gorbachev could possibly have risen through the political ranks of a thoroughly corrupt and bankrupt Soviet socialist system. Today serious Americans should be asking themselves whether it is even remotely possible that a Republican Gorbachev could emerge from the socially diseased American South. If you look at our last Republican President from the South, George W. Bush, you will recognize the problem. During Bush’s eight years in office, America: (1) suffered the worst terrorist attack in the nation’s history, (2) heard false assertions about weapons of mass destruction and ties to al … Read entire article »

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Documenting the Social Pathologies Afflicting the American South

February 15th, 2012 | Add a Comment

Rank Among All 50 U.S States (from databases no older than 2003) PATHOLOGY 50th (worst) 49th 48th 47th 46th Most Executions in 2011 Texas Alabama Ohio Georgia Arizona Violent Crime (per/100k pop.) S. Carolina Tennessee Nevada Louisiana Florida Lowest Per Capita Income Mississippi W. Virginia Utah Kentucky Arkansas % Persons Below Poverty Level Mississippi Arkansas Louisiana Kentucky N. Mexico Highest Unemployment Rate Nevada California Rhode Island Mississippi Florida/N. Car. Most Mobile Homes (%) S. Carolina New Mexico Mississippi Alabama N. Carolina Fewest Labor Union Members (%) S. Carolina N. Carolina Arkansas* Virginia* Utah* Infant Mortality Rate Mississippi Louisiana Alabama Tennessee Arkansas % Most Out-of-Wedlock Births Mississippi N. Mexico Louisiana Delaware S. Carolina Most Single-Parent Households (%) Mississippi Louisiana N. Mexico S. Carolina Alabama Highest Obesity Rates Mississippi Alabama W. Virginia Tennessee Kentucky Lowest High School Grad Rate Nevada Mississippi Louisiana Georgia N. Mexico Highest Illiteracy Rates California New York Florida Texas Georgia/NJ Fewest BA or BS Degrees (%) West Virginia Arkansas Mississippi Kentucky Louisiana Lowest Life Expectancy Mississippi W. Virginia Alabama Louisiana Oklahoma % Traffic Fatalities/Miles Montana Louisiana W. Virginia S. Carolina Mississippi Per Capita Alcohol Consumption New Hampshire Nevada Delaware Wisconsin N. Dakota Highest Per Capita Smokers Kentucky W. Virginia Oklahoma Missouri Tennessee (* specific ranking not established)   Additional Data Found in: The South and America Since World War II, by James C. Cobb (Oxford University Press, 2011) In 1958, Melvin Tumin and associates found that, in Guilford County, North … Read entire article »

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Incompetent Journalists at the Philadelphia Inquirer Slandered Joe Paterno

February 9th, 2012 | Add a Comment

On Sunday, 5 February 2012, the Philadelphia Inquirer featured Michael Smerconish’s opinion piece about Joe Paterno; further demonstrating that the newspaper has been overrun by journalistic mediocrities, if not morons. The inordinate amount of pure rubbish about Paterno in the Inquirer has been astounding. Consider the column by Bob Ford, “Indictment of former Penn State coach on sex-abuse charges could bring down Paterno,” published in the Inquirer on 6 November 2011, one day after the Attorney General’s office issued the grand jury’s presentment indicting Jerry Sandusky, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz. Although its title says the indictment “could” bring down Paterno, Ford’s third paragraph actually asserts that “Paterno cannot and should not survive…” The outrage permeating Ford’s article indicates he uncritically accepted … Read entire article »

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