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You Can't Call a Pretty Girl Pretty; What Kind of Country Are We Becoming?

NewJAl Wrote: Jan 11, 2013 8:59 PM

Annoying as it may be, this girl may be a real brain, as well as being beautiful. And, on top of that, she may be a kind and decent, law-abiding citizen. Envy would expand, I suppose, in the deficient ones, or those that feel deficient, if all those virtues were added to what she looks like. It is their problem, not hers. We cannot conform our lives to the judgement of the immature. Neither Musburger nor the woman should apologize to anyone. Grownups know life is unfair and will always be so.

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You Can't Call a Pretty Girl Pretty; What Kind of Country Are We Becoming?

Before examining the ridiculous controversy stemming from Monday night’s college football championship broadcast, let us stipulate that there are more urgent and scary ways to describe the current changes in America.

We are becoming a culture of dependency. We are becoming a neo-socialist experiment. We are becoming a dumbed-down nation unappreciative of its founders. We are losing touch with the Constitution and the very concept of liberty.

I do not argue that today’s essay is our most pressing problem. But as scores of fine writers address the various angles of our republic’s dangle from a precarious thread, I thought I’d venture...

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