"We see them as symptoms rather than causes"

So that justifies the silence?

Read Ms. Haglein's article; so does she but she's not silent about it.

"How do you account for the fact that European teenagers have more sex than ours but far fewer abortions and pregnancies?"

A: I do not know this to be fact, and

B: so, are you acknowledging that the rise in teen pregnancies and abortions are undesirable social pathologies that a society has a responsibility to resist?

"Instead, for today's situation, everybody has a horror story of Insurance plans and HMOs dragging their feet, denying services AFTER they were paid, changing their coverage in the middle of the year, and just plainly making life hell for those who are most vulnerable."

Assure me that a government run plan, from which I cannot opt out, is going to be any better and more cost effective.

Then why the silence from blue states concerning the decline of moral standards and the increase in these pathologies?

" In fact, it seems fully half of all chaste New England maidens going up the aisle in the 17th century gave birth within six months of their wedding day..."

I've seen this statistic cited before (but never a hard link to any credible source for it)
and always as a subtle reassurance that things aren't really as bad today as we imagine them to be. But, even if true, it contains within it evidence that, yes, things are worse today that in former times; in fact much worse.

Ms. Hagelin's larger point, which you seem to have glossed over, is that the difference between today's youth, as regards sexual matters, is not the practices themselves and/or their frequency, but the loss of a moral sense concerning those behaviors...

"cold-blooded good for nothing"

Barak Hussein Obama in the White House should trouble a rational mind.

the intellectual corruption of the voting population who put these types in power, knowing full well what they are like, cannot be underestimated.

It's not as if the trolls haunting TH are innocent, you know.

Don't be a simpleton.

If you hated the deficits run up during the Reagan and Bush years, why aren't you outraged at the deficits run up during the Obeyme years?

"Obama showed incredible restraint by not mentioning some things he could've pulled out of McCain's past, like the fact that his political career was launched by mob money."

The fact of the matter is that it wasn't integrity that restrained him but the knowledge that McCain knew where Obeyme got his money from.

would think that they are not solidifying their power as we post.

If they have gotten this far you can forget about 2012 being any sort of remedy.