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Blair31 Wrote: Aug 06, 2012 1:51 PM

Obama wants to end welfare reform as we know it. Here's why he wants to turn TANF back into AFDC. Under TANF, which was Bill Clinton's signature achievement, mothers with young children were required to work. Under AFDC, they could game the system. A fifteen-year-old girl could meet an eighteen-, or nineteen-year-old, man, get herself knocked up, have his kid, and sit on her fanny at home, and collect a welfare check. Then she could repeat the process.

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Encouraging Failure

For the past ten days, Americans have watched in awe as Olympic athletes perform feats unimaginable to us mere mortals. These men and women have trained for years – some for decades – to compete at the highest possible level and represent their country.

While competing in the Olympics is an accomplishment in and of itself, true success in London is measured in medals. What patriotic fans want and what ferociously dedicated athletes strive for are medals, more specifically, gold medals.

The athletes’ hyper-competitive spirit is why many – both here and around the world – were shocked to...

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