Comments on: Pat Buchanan-ism doesn’t solve fatherhood’s decline http://trueslant.com/markstricherz/2009/06/20/pat-buchanan-ism-doesnt-solve-fatherhoods-decline/ Politics, Culture, and the Church Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:56:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bill Stephney http://trueslant.com/markstricherz/2009/06/20/pat-buchanan-ism-doesnt-solve-fatherhoods-decline/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Bill Stephney Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:51:03 +0000 http://trueslant.com/markstricherz/?p=338#comment-108 Last week, an 11 year-old boy caught a bullet in the skull while taking pictures with his Little League team in Starrett City, BKLYN. I don't know about you, but I don't recall having to be concerned about sniper fire during our Little League parades in Hempstead, Long Island, back in the day. Last week, an 11 year-old boy caught a bullet in the skull while taking pictures with his Little League team in Starrett City, BKLYN. I don’t know about you, but I don’t recall having to be concerned about sniper fire during our Little League parades in Hempstead, Long Island, back in the day.

]]> By: Bill Stephney http://trueslant.com/markstricherz/2009/06/20/pat-buchanan-ism-doesnt-solve-fatherhoods-decline/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Bill Stephney Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:47:28 +0000 http://trueslant.com/markstricherz/?p=338#comment-107 "As a rule, social conservatives are good at analyzing social breakdown, but terrible at proposing alternatives to the same; they are like nothing so much as football coaches who assess the opponents’ weaknesses brilliantly but can never come up with a successful game plan." In the neighborhood of my youth, the response to this observation would have been: "Shout the truth, and shame the Devil!" What I found interesting the past few days, was how quiet conservatives seemed to be during the Father's Day weekend, while President Obama and other "perceived" liberals, were clear and present in the media about their views of fatherhood. “As a rule, social conservatives are good at analyzing social breakdown, but terrible at proposing alternatives to the same; they are like nothing so much as football coaches who assess the opponents’ weaknesses brilliantly but can never come up with a successful game plan.”

In the neighborhood of my youth, the response to this observation would have been: “Shout the truth, and shame the Devil!”

What I found interesting the past few days, was how quiet conservatives seemed to be during the Father’s Day weekend, while President Obama and other “perceived” liberals, were clear and present in the media about their views of fatherhood.

]]> By: Brian In NYC http://trueslant.com/markstricherz/2009/06/20/pat-buchanan-ism-doesnt-solve-fatherhoods-decline/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Brian In NYC Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:42:53 +0000 http://trueslant.com/markstricherz/?p=338#comment-106 Society is breaking down? How so? Society is breaking down? How so?

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