Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.
Mona CharenThough liberals have portrayed themselves throughout the past several decades as champions of the homeless, they are actually guilty of having created and perpetuated their condition.
Mona CharenLiberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead, like poverty, crime, and homelessness, child abuse came to be viewed as evidence of a societal failure.
Mona CharenOne might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable.
Mona CharenHomelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas.
Mona CharenThe proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace process" without regard to what its consequences might be....It was impossible for any peace plan to fail in their eyes, since lack of progress was nearly always interpreted as evidence that new talks were now "urgent".
Mona Charen