Hi Dean -
Since you are interested in this problem, I recommend to you a book from 1995 by Myron Magnet
The Dream and the Nightmare : the sixties legacy to the underclassHe is one of the editors of City Journal
http://www.city-journal.org/ Another of their editors, Theodore Dalrymple, has a number of terrific books from a British perspective, having worked as a doctor in inner-city clinics in Britains industrial cities for years. One of their writers, Heather MacDonald, wrote
The Burden of Bad Ideas which I think is very good.
>>>>All I meant was you can't expect anyone who is at all left of center to be very receptive to someone way right of center, any more than you can expect anyone who is at all right of center to be very receptive to someone way left of center. Is that better?
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>>>Ok, so how do you come to being non-partisan or unifye the two without trying different approaches if the current one is not working?
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>>You seem to be saying the other guys' approach isn't working and now it's time to try yours. Is that right or not? IAC it doesn't sound much like bipartisanship.
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>Is inner city kids gaining ground... last 25-30 years? What is happening to them?
>That's what Newt's video was about.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
