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Daily Round-Up: Ponzi Schemes, Santorum vs. Paul, and Moral Ambiguity

Pat Buchanan discusses Rick Perry’s calling Social Security a ‘ponzi-scheme’ during the GOP primary debates. Is grandma’s generation, which fought World War II, Korea and the Cold War, more alarmed by Rick Perry’s red-meat rhetoric than by President Obama’s refusal to address the entitlement crisis threatening the fiscal and financial future of the republic? In last […]

Pat Buchanan discusses Rick Perry’s calling Social Security a ‘ponzi-scheme’ during the GOP primary debates.
Is grandma’s generation, which fought World War II, Korea and the Cold War, more alarmed by Rick Perry’s red-meat rhetoric than by President Obama’s refusal to address the entitlement crisis threatening the fiscal and financial future of the republic?
In last night’s GOP debate, Rick Santorum argued that the ‘they hate us because we’re free’ narrative was the best route for explaining 9/11, provoking a rhetorical scuffle with Ron Paul. Paul insisted that U.S. interventions and occupations abroad are providing terrorists with incentive to attack — and his comments drew jeers from the audience.

Are young Americans morally crippled? Rod Dreher discusses ‘Moral Therapeutic Deism’, a kind of pseudo-Christianity that fails to incorporate traditional moral structures.
I want my kids to know in their bones the stories of our tradition, and they cannot get that simply from listening to their mother and me. They — we — need a community to achieve this, and not just any community.
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