This Week In Quotes

by John Hawkins | October 10, 2014 6:32 am

It is beyond dispute that when the 14th Amendment was adopted 146 years ago, as a necessary post-Civil War era reform, it was not imagined to also mandate same-sex marriage, but that is what the Supreme Court is implying today. The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment. — Ted Cruz[1]

[I]f the Republicans wanna lose guys like me, and a whole bunch of still God-fearing Bible-believing people, go ahead and just abdicate on this issue, and go ahead and say abortion doesn’t matter either. — Mike Huckabee[2]

America’s air campaign against ISIS has been front-page news for weeks, but how much “there” is there? Not much, by historical standards. Since the campaign started on August 8, the U.S. has launched about 300 airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. By comparison, during the Libya campaign, U.S.-dominated NATO forces were launching over 100 offensive strikes per day, ultimately culminating in over 26,000 raids. And Libya was a limited effort—during the start of the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. launched over 116,000 airstrikes in a few weeks. — Walter Russell Mead[3]

Colleges should stick to academics and stop their infantilizing supervision of students’ dating lives, an authoritarian intrusion that borders on violation of civil liberties. Real crimes should be reported to the police, not to haphazard and ill-trained campus grievance committees. — Camille Paglia[4]

There is a feeling and I have a feeling that the leadership and the president have given up on the big issues facing this country whether it’s immigration or a budget deal or infrastructure funding or trade or energy. there is a sense that you can’t deal with that. This country needs that. They can’t give up.” — Leon Panetta[5]

U.S. economic growth has averaged just 1 percent annually since 2006, as the Great Recession has been followed by a weak recovery. And that anemic growth has dimmed prospects for young job seekers. The unemployment rate for men and women 20 to 24 years old is 11.4 percent, versus a low of 7.2 percent in 2007. And as a new White House report notes, workers who get their first jobs during a recession earn as much as 9 percent less per year than those who do not — and the effect lasts for as much as 15 years. — James Pethokoukis[6]

Multitasking results in poorer performance for individuals. It also hurts the performance of government agencies, and of government itself. — Glenn Reynolds[7]

Claims that the (wicked, wicked) “1 percent” saw their incomes go up by such and such an amount over the past decade or two ignore the fact that different people compose the 1 percent every year, and that 75 percent of the super-rich households in 1995 were in a lower income group by 2005. — Kevin Williamson[8]

But poor people are not poor because rich people are rich, nor vice versa. Very poor people are generally poor because they do not have jobs, and taking away Thurston Howell III’s second yacht is not going to secure work for them. Nobody has ever been able to satisfactorily answer the question for me: How would making Donald Trump less rich make anybody else better off? — Kevin Williamson[8]

A model of parenthood dominated by the mandate to satisfy the parents’ needs rather than those of the children will be forever defective. But it is, increasingly, the model we have. It’s a perverse consequence of the times in which we live: Cultural and economic pressures see to it that many young women spend their most fertile years trying desperately to avoid motherhood and then spend their least fertile years trying, with the same desperation, to conceive. It’s cruel. — Kevin Williamson[9]

Endnotes:
  1. Ted Cruz: http://hotair.com/archives/2014/10/06/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-same-sex-marriage-cases-making-it-legal-in-five-new-states/
  2. Mike Huckabee: http://washingtonexaminer.com/huckabee-threatens-to-leave-gop-over-gay-marraige/article/2554606
  3. Walter Russell Mead: http://www.the-american-interest.com/blog/2014/10/03/u-s-airstrikes-in-syria-may-actually-be-bolstering-isiss-position
  4. Camille Paglia: http://time.com/3444749/camille-paglia-the-modern-campus-cannot-comprehend-evil/
  5. Leon Panetta: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/10/07/Panetta-Obama-Has-Given-Up
  6. James Pethokoukis: http://theweek.com/article/index/269570/why-the-rise-of-cosplay-is-a-bad-sign-for-the-us-economy
  7. Glenn Reynolds: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/10/05/ebola-cdc-jobs-tasks-multitasking-thomas-duncan-column/16766801/
  8. Kevin Williamson: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/389125/gelded-age-kevin-d-williamson
  9. Kevin Williamson: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/389532/clash-progressive-pieties-kevin-d-williamson

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