Opinions

I wanted to share some quotes from Tuesday's Wall Street Journal editorial page. I think these are absolutely fantastic.

REGARDING THE FOLEY DRAMA:
"Some of those liberal now shouting the loudest for Mr. Hastert's head are the same voices who tell us that the larger society must be tolerant of private lifestyle choices, and certainly must never leap to conclusions about gay men and young boys. Are those Democratic critics of Mr. Hastert saying that they now have more sympathy for the Boy Scouts' decision to ban gay scoutmasters? Where's Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on that one?"

REGARDING THE PREPONDERANCE OF LIBERAL PROFESSORS IN UNIVERSITIES:
The author in this article is basically writing that although the vast majority of professors at major universities are liberal there is no reason for Republican parents to fear that their kids will get brainwashed and become left-wingers when they go to school. The study he quotes is from the University of Michigan's National Election Studies.
"First, people who go to college are more likely to vote Republican than those who don't go to college. Adults 25 and under from Republican homes are, for example, 11 percentage points more likely to vote Republican if they attended college than if they didn't. And young adults from Democratic households are 11 percentage points less likely to vote Democrat if they've gone to college than if not.
Second, nearly everybody grows more likely to vote Republican as they age--but especially college graduates. It is no shock that the vast majority of people of all educational backgrounds from Republican homes vote Republican by age 40. It may come as more of a surprise that 40-year-olds with Democratic parents are far less likely to vote Democrat if they've gone to college than if they haven't. In fact, while three-quarters of the uneducated group still vote Democrat, the odds are only about 50-50 that the college graduates vote this way. and they've not all become skeptical political indepenants: Fully a third are registered Republicans."

In other words -- uneducated people vote for the Democrats, educated people vote for the Republicans. Makes perfect sense to me.

REGARDING THE U.S. POPULATION:
According to the Census Bureau the U.S. population will reach 300 million in the next few weeks. The author states that it is a great time to be an American because we are living longer, healthier, wealthier lives.
"Yet, skeptics will ask: What about the inevitable headaches of crowded classrooms, highways and all the other problems associated with ore people sharing a finite land area? In the short term, more people can mean more congestion. But anyone who has bothered to look out the window of a plane on a trip from the West to the East Coast knows that America remains a vast, unpeopled land. Texas alone is so large that we could put every U.S. family of four in the state and give them two acres to call their own--and the rest of the country would be deserted."

Can you tell I just LOVE that last part. Of course that isn't a realistic option. Although Texans are the friendliest people on Earth we don't want Californians or New Yorkers moving in to screw things up.