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is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it
steadily." --George
Washington
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The number of U.S. children victimized by abuse and neglect has dropped for the sixth straight year, but child fatalities linked to maltreatment increased by nearly 4 percent, according to the latest federal data.
According to the annual report released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services, the estimated number of victimized children in the 2012 fiscal year was 686,000, down from 688,000 in 2011 and 723,000 in 2007.
But the report found that fatalities attributable to child abuse and neglect increased from 1,580 in 2011 to 1,640 in 2012.
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By
Christopher S. Rugaber
Associated Press — The growing gap between the richest Americans and everyone else isn’t bad just for individuals.
It’s hurting the U.S. economy.
So says a majority of more than three dozen economists surveyed last week. Their concerns tap into a debate that has intensified as middleclass pay has stagnated while wealthier households have thrived.
A key source of the economists’ concern: Higher pay and outsize stock market gains are flowing mainly to affluent Americans. Yet these households spend less of their money than do low- and middle-income consumers who make up most of the population but whose pay is barely rising.
“What you want is a broader spending base,” said Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James, a financial advisory firm. “You want more people spending money.”
Associated Press — The growing gap between the richest Americans and everyone else isn’t bad just for individuals.
It’s hurting the U.S. economy.
So says a majority of more than three dozen economists surveyed last week. Their concerns tap into a debate that has intensified as middleclass pay has stagnated while wealthier households have thrived.
A key source of the economists’ concern: Higher pay and outsize stock market gains are flowing mainly to affluent Americans. Yet these households spend less of their money than do low- and middle-income consumers who make up most of the population but whose pay is barely rising.
“What you want is a broader spending base,” said Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James, a financial advisory firm. “You want more people spending money.”
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Probably no concept has more
currency in our politically correct culture than the notion of tolerance.
Unfortunately, one of America's noblest virtues has been so distorted it's
become a vice. There
is a
modern myth that holds that true tolerance consists of neutrality. It
is one of the most entrenched assumptions of a society committed to
relativism.
The
tolerant person occupies neutral ground, a place of complete impartiality where
each person is permitted to decide for himself. No judgments allowed. No
"forcing" personal views. Each takes a neutral posture towards
another's convictions.
This
approach is very popular with post-modernists, that breed of radical skeptics
whose ideas command unwarranted respect in the university today. Their
rallying cry, "There is no truth," is often followed by an appeal for
tolerance.
For
all their confident bluster, the relativists' appeal actually asserts two
truths, one rational and one moral. The first is the "truth"
that there is no truth. The second is the moral truth that
one ought to tolerate other people's viewpoints. Their stand, contradictory on at
least two counts, serves as a warning that the modern notion of tolerance is
seriously misguided.
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