http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/americas-21st-century-population-edge-babies-demographics-power-influence/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/americas-21st-century-population-edge-babies-demographics-power-influence/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 19:53:34 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134637 Wall Street Journal (via Google): Birth rates are dropping all over the world, often below replacement rates. But not in the U.S . . . Every other major modern nation and every developing country has low or falling birth rates. Japan and Poland see 1.3 children per woman, Brazil and China 1.9, Pakistan 3.6 (down from 6.6 three decades ago). American fertility rates are relatively high, at nearly 2.1. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/americas-21st-century-population-edge-babies-demographics-power-influence/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/public-sector-millionaires/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/public-sector-millionaires/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 15:57:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134558 Washington Times: Lavish governmental payrolls and gold-plated retirement packages are straining finances from coast to coast. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/public-sector-millionaires/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/rev-robert-a-sirico-video-defending-the-free-market-the-moral-case-for-a-free-economy/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/rev-robert-a-sirico-video-defending-the-free-market-the-moral-case-for-a-free-economy/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 13:28:57 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134396 Acton Institute Power Blog ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/rev-robert-a-sirico-video-defending-the-free-market-the-moral-case-for-a-free-economy/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/chinese-to-buy-us-movie-theater-chain-amc/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/chinese-to-buy-us-movie-theater-chain-amc/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 17:05:03 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134186 AP: A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China's biggest takeover of an American company to date. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/chinese-to-buy-us-movie-theater-chain-amc/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/americas-suffocation-the-cost-of-ever-increasing-federal-regulations/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/americas-suffocation-the-cost-of-ever-increasing-federal-regulations/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 16:31:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134182 NCPA Policy Digest: Federal regulations cost hundreds of billions -- perhaps trillions -- of dollars every year over and above the costs of the official federal outlays that dominate the policy debate. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/americas-suffocation-the-cost-of-ever-increasing-federal-regulations/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/18/sen-hatch-tax-code-at-fault-for-facebook-founder-renouncing-citizenship/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/18/sen-hatch-tax-code-at-fault-for-facebook-founder-renouncing-citizenship/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 16:28:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134073 The Hill: Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, on Thursday warned that wealthy expatriates seeking to renounce their American citizenship is a sign that the tax code needs to be fixed. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/18/sen-hatch-tax-code-at-fault-for-facebook-founder-renouncing-citizenship/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/rev-robert-sirico-defending-the-free-market-the-moral-case-for-a-free-economy/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/rev-robert-sirico-defending-the-free-market-the-moral-case-for-a-free-economy/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 22:42:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133909 Christian Newswire: "The choice between the free market and the nanny state is actually a false choice," says the Rev. Robert Sirico. Contrary to the conventional debate between those who defend opportunity and the free market versus those who defend the underprivileged and spreading the wealth around Father Sirico argues in "Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy" (Regnery 2012) that America doesn't have to choose one over the other and by choosing opportunity and the free market, the underprivileged will actually experience greater benefits than any state welfare or private charity could provide. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/rev-robert-sirico-defending-the-free-market-the-moral-case-for-a-free-economy/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/free-market-environmentalism-for-religious-leaders/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/free-market-environmentalism-for-religious-leaders/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 21:57:20 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133891 Acton Institute Power Blog (video included): Our friends at the Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment (FREE) in Bozeman, Mont., have put together another strong slate of summer programs for clergy, seminary professors and other religious leaders with the aim of deepening their understanding of environmental policy. In its description of the program, FREE notes that many in faith communities “see an inherent conflict between a market economy and environmental stewardship.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/free-market-environmentalism-for-religious-leaders/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/ap-avoiding-marriages-no-1-pitfall-money-troubles/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/ap-avoiding-marriages-no-1-pitfall-money-troubles/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 16:00:02 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133793 here. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/ap-avoiding-marriages-no-1-pitfall-money-troubles/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/the-economic-case-for-same-sex-marriage/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/the-economic-case-for-same-sex-marriage/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 19:01:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133722 Washington Post: For our grandparents’ generation, marriage was about separate roles, separate spheres and specialization. Gary Becker, an economist at the University of Chicago, won the Nobel Prize partly for describing the family as an economic institution -- a bit like a small firm that employs people with different skills to produce both income and a well-run household. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/the-economic-case-for-same-sex-marriage/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/obama-health-plan-will-squeeze-the-middle-class/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/obama-health-plan-will-squeeze-the-middle-class/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 15:42:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133667 NCPA Policy Digest: Many people currently get their health coverage from work, and they benefit from an implicit subsidy built into that workplace coverage that lets them spend pretax dollars through their employer to purchase health insurance. Depending on their tax rate, that subsidy helps offset some of the premium costs, says Scott Gottlieb, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Under the Obama plan, however, many of these families could instead find themselves buying their health insurance on the new state-based exchanges that get started in January 2014. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/obama-health-plan-will-squeeze-the-middle-class/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/pat-buchanan-as-the-boomers-head-for-the-barn/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/pat-buchanan-as-the-boomers-head-for-the-barn/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 15:26:05 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133660 Townhall: Only 63.6 percent of the U.S. working age population is now in the labor force, the lowest level since December 1981. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/pat-buchanan-as-the-boomers-head-for-the-barn/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/brady-and-demint-saying-no-to-state-bailouts/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/brady-and-demint-saying-no-to-state-bailouts/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 15:09:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133656 Wall Street Journal (via Google): Congress must make plain that American taxpayers will not protect states from the consequences of their policies. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/brady-and-demint-saying-no-to-state-bailouts/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/the-union-pension-bomb/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/the-union-pension-bomb/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 15:06:39 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133654 Wall Street Journal (via Google): Imagine the panic if investors discovered that many of the nation's biggest public companies had hidden liabilities so large as to make them worth a fraction of their value. That's something akin to the shock created by the recent Credit Suisse report on multi-employer pension plans. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/the-union-pension-bomb/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/us-trade-gap-widens-at-fastest-pace-in-10-months/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/us-trade-gap-widens-at-fastest-pace-in-10-months/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 15:33:00 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133392 AP: The U.S. trade deficit rose in March at the fastest rate in 10 months. A rise in consumer goods lifted imports to a record level, outpacing a solid gain in U.S. exports. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/us-trade-gap-widens-at-fastest-pace-in-10-months/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/infographic-money-and-marriage/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/infographic-money-and-marriage/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 19:39:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133326 CreditDonkey: Married people are happier by many measures, yet many marriages are unhappy or fail because couples bring to the partnership significant debt, including student loans and credit card balances, as well as self-deceptions and outright lies about money. Our new research infographic urges couples to take a clear-eyed look at their prospects for happiness if they are not honest with themselves and their partners about money. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/infographic-money-and-marriage/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/analysis-public-pension-fixes-face-stout-legal-challenges/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/analysis-public-pension-fixes-face-stout-legal-challenges/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 21:54:49 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133229 Reuters: San Jose is part of a broader legal and political struggle shaping up across the United States as cash-strapped state and local governments, Republican- and Democratic-led, try to rein in rising pension costs that are gobbling up big chunks of their budgets. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/analysis-public-pension-fixes-face-stout-legal-challenges/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/brian-tamanaha%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cfailing-law-schools%e2%80%9d/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/brian-tamanaha%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cfailing-law-schools%e2%80%9d/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 19:44:38 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133201 Volokh Conspiracy: Last week I had the pleasure of reading a pre-publication draft of Brian Tamanaha’s new book, Failing Law Schools, which has not yet been released but can be pre-ordered now. I found the book engrossing and its argument powerful. I read it in 2 days after receiving a copy, and I think it should be required reading for all legal academics. Brian’s basic argument is that law schools have been on an unsustainable path fueled by the ready availability of student loans, the cartel power of the ABA, and the influence of the U.S. News rankings, all of which have led schools to adopt policies that help law professors more than they serve students. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/brian-tamanaha%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cfailing-law-schools%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/americans-pay-more-in-taxes-than-for-food-clothing-and-shelter/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/americans-pay-more-in-taxes-than-for-food-clothing-and-shelter/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 15:04:54 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133134 NCPA Policy Digest: In 2012, Americans will pay approximately $4.041 trillion in taxes, which is $152 billion, or 3.9 percent, more than they will spend on housing, food and clothing. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/americans-pay-more-in-taxes-than-for-food-clothing-and-shelter/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/chinese-dissident-is-headache-for-communists-and-dependent-obama-administration/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/chinese-dissident-is-headache-for-communists-and-dependent-obama-administration/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 15:10:10 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132881 The Hill: Observers said the U.S. and China will both be looking for a way out of the diplomatic fight that allows both sides to save face . . . Willson said he expected the situation to quickly be resolved given the two nations' mutual dependence. The two countries are tied at the hip economically – China is America's second-largest trading partner and is the largest single holder of U.S. government debt – and China's support is needed to get anything done in the UN. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/04/chinese-dissident-is-headache-for-communists-and-dependent-obama-administration/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/never-forget-friedrich-hayeks-warning-about-government-tyranny/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/never-forget-friedrich-hayeks-warning-about-government-tyranny/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 17:29:46 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132804 Business Insider: “By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.” It’s hard to ignore Hayek’s prescient warning . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/03/never-forget-friedrich-hayeks-warning-about-government-tyranny/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/high-price-of-foreclosure-your-marriage/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/high-price-of-foreclosure-your-marriage/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 19:28:45 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132745 Huffington Post: Is there a correlation between divorce and foreclosure? Does foreclosure increase the likelihood of divorce, or does divorce increase the risk of foreclosure? The answer is both are probably true. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/high-price-of-foreclosure-your-marriage/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/monetary-policy-paul-krugman-you-want-to-go-back-150-years-ron-paul-you-want-bankrupt-roman-empire/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/monetary-policy-paul-krugman-you-want-to-go-back-150-years-ron-paul-you-want-bankrupt-roman-empire/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 15:29:10 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132550 The Hill (video): Krugman, meanwhile, described Paul as "living in the world that was 150 years ago." “History tells us that in fact a completely unmanaged economy is subject to extreme volatility, subject to extreme downturns. I know this legend that some people like that the Great Depression was somehow caused by the government or the Federal Reserve, but that's not true. The reality is it was a market economy run amok, which happens repeatedly," the Nobel Prize winning economist said. That prompted Paul to one-up Krugman, saying the Times columnist "wants to go back 1,000 years or 2,000 years just as the Romans and the Greeks and all other countries debased their currency." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/monetary-policy-paul-krugman-you-want-to-go-back-150-years-ron-paul-you-want-bankrupt-roman-empire/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/mcgurn-paul-ryans-cross-to-bear-the-house-budget-chairman-challenges-the-religious-left/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/mcgurn-paul-ryans-cross-to-bear-the-house-budget-chairman-challenges-the-religious-left/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 15:04:57 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132548 Wall Street Journal: Paul Ryan shocked the gentle souls at Georgetown University when he traveled up to their campus last Thursday and said: "We believe that Social Security legislation, now billed as a great victory for the poor and for the worker, is a great defeat for Christianity. It is an acceptance of the idea of force and compulsion." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/mcgurn-paul-ryans-cross-to-bear-the-house-budget-chairman-challenges-the-religious-left/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/what-really-kills-family-values/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/what-really-kills-family-values/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:33:38 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132507 CNN: But over the past few decades, we've lost sight of Roosevelt's words. It's time to rethink the notion of family values and remember, as the story of Willy Loman reminds us, that a strong family starts with a strong economy. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/what-really-kills-family-values/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/ron-paul-the-costs-of-war-military-mental-health-staff-increased-to-20590-amid-rising-suicide-epidemic/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/ron-paul-the-costs-of-war-military-mental-health-staff-increased-to-20590-amid-rising-suicide-epidemic/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:31:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132505 Paul.House.Gov: This month Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki announced the addition of some 1,900 mental health nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers to its existing workforce of 20,590 mental health staff in attempt to get a handle on the epidemic of suicides among combat veterans. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/ron-paul-the-costs-of-war-military-mental-health-staff-increased-to-20590-amid-rising-suicide-epidemic/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/an-extreme-disparity-how-retirement-benefits-may-sink-some-states/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/an-extreme-disparity-how-retirement-benefits-may-sink-some-states/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:08:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132499 Wall Street Journal: Indiana's debt for unfunded retiree health-care benefits, for example, amounts to just $81 per person. Neighboring Illinois's accumulated obligations for the same benefit average $3,399 per person. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/an-extreme-disparity-how-retirement-benefits-may-sink-some-states/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/demography-is-destiny/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/demography-is-destiny/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:51:30 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132318 Weekly Standard (4/23): As fertility falls, populations shrink. As populations shrink, economies will sputter. Western countries will struggle to support too many retirees without enough workers, and the rest of the world (particularly places such as China and Russia) will be challenged just to maintain order as societies change in unprecedented ways: Most people will have neither brothers, sisters, aunts, nor uncles, and there will be no such thing as an extended family. This forecast may sound apocalyptic, but it’s nearly conventional wisdom among the demographers and economists who study such things . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/demography-is-destiny/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/26/paul-ryan-v-georgetown-jesuits-on-debt-budgeting-social-welfare-and-subsidarity/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/26/paul-ryan-v-georgetown-jesuits-on-debt-budgeting-social-welfare-and-subsidarity/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:33:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132224 Faculty question Rep. Paul Ryan’s use of Catholic social teaching. Ryan has this article at the National Catholic Register: Applying Our Enduring Truths to Our Defining Challenge. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/26/paul-ryan-v-georgetown-jesuits-on-debt-budgeting-social-welfare-and-subsidarity/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/25/crippling-student-loan-debt-kills-economies/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/25/crippling-student-loan-debt-kills-economies/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:21:19 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132043 Townhall: From kindergarten to secondary school, our government has screwed up the process. Back in the 1950's our schools were considered the greatest in the world. But over time, as the federal government has stuck its finger in the pie, the upward trajectory of our educational system has declined. Our public schools are now second rate. The quicker we get government out of the educational market, the better off our entire society will be. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/25/crippling-student-loan-debt-kills-economies/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/thomas-messner-marriage-debate-moves-to-north-carolina/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/thomas-messner-marriage-debate-moves-to-north-carolina/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:37:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131902 Heritage Foundation: According to the Alliance Defense Fund, “Sixty-three million Americans have voted on marriage, and in 31 out of 31 states they have protected marriage as the union between one man and one woman.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/thomas-messner-marriage-debate-moves-to-north-carolina/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/competing-currencies-should-be-legalized-real-inflation-rate-is-higher-than-feds-report/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/competing-currencies-should-be-legalized-real-inflation-rate-is-higher-than-feds-report/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:12:42 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131891 Daily Campus: In fact, notes Williams, if the annual inflation rate were calculated using the same method with which it was calculated in 1980, it would currently be over 10 percent. Furthermore, I fear inflation may worsen dramatically in the next few years. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/competing-currencies-should-be-legalized-real-inflation-rate-is-higher-than-feds-report/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/public-unions-bankrupt-illinois/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/public-unions-bankrupt-illinois/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:06:30 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131889 Townhall: Illinois is bankrupt and corrupt politicians like governor Quinn, Speaker of the Illinois House, Mike Madigan, and all the union panderers in Chicago ruined the state by giving into "collective bargaining" demands from public unions. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/public-unions-bankrupt-illinois/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/libertarianism-conservatism-and-egalitarianism/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/libertarianism-conservatism-and-egalitarianism/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:57:20 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131887 Public Discourse: Libertarians and conservatives should not allow their differences to impede political cooperation against the common adversary: egalitarian liberalism. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/libertarianism-conservatism-and-egalitarianism/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/cathi-herrod-man-woman-nuptials-is-essential-to-a-free-society/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/cathi-herrod-man-woman-nuptials-is-essential-to-a-free-society/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:20:07 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131773 AZ Republic: And children raised in an environment with a married mom and dad have the best opportunity to succeed and learn personal responsibility, meaning they are less likely to grow up and depend on government programs. The link between strong families and a strong economy is inseparable -- you can't have one without the other. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/cathi-herrod-man-woman-nuptials-is-essential-to-a-free-society/feed/ 0