Who wants to be a millionaire? This abortionist did. Carol Everett did it for the money. Learn how she marketed abortion. She was indeed Pro-Abortion.
The Margaret Sanger Art Contest (not to be confused with The Margaret Sanger Award). Parody Pictures of Margaret Sanger speaking to the KKK. The pictures mock the actual event. Oddly ProChoicers are confused by these contest winners. They are, well, just like real life.
http://margaretsanger.blogspot.com/
NON-PREGNANT WOMAN PAYS FOR ABORTION! Carol Everett, a former abortionist reveals how the abortion business actually uses ultrasounds. To abort babies-that aren't there.
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Managers maximize strengths and minimize weaknesses. paraphrase Peter Drucker
We are so strangely made; the memories that could make us happy pass away; it is the memories that break our hearts that abide, Mark Twain in Joan of Arc.
A person who is excited can never throw straight, Mark Twain in Joan of Arc.
"But, the greatest of all her gifts, she has the seeing eye." ... He said the common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise...to... select its subordinates with an infallible judgment, Mark Twain of Joan of Arc.
80 percent of success in life is showing up, Woody Allen.
If you are lost -- "climb, conserve, and confess." -- U.S. Navy SNJ Flight Manual
"If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy." -- Gen. George Marshall
Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded, "The victors."
Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the president and do wonders for your performance, Donald Rumsfeld's Rules: Advice on Government, Business & Life
From INC. magazine, February 2012, "Transformational" leaders are the most effective. Four Components:
First, learn to act like a leader; to manage your image...
Second, be inspirational... Be optimistic; no one is going to follow a pessimistic leader.
Third, know the people you are leading.
Fourth, Make them think. Make them take responsibility--but always with the positive support.
If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti, racecar driver.
On Subsidiarity Pope Pius XI said, "It is a fundamental principle of social philosophy, fixed and unchangeable, that one should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and/or industry."
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical, Yogi Berra
Stories (not ideas, not features, not benefits) are what spread from person to person, Seth Godin, All Marketers are Liars--Story Tellers
In 2003 Pharmaceutical companies spent more on marketing and sales than they did on research and development. When it comes time to invest, it's pretty clear that spreading the ideas behind the medicine is more important than inventing the medicine itselt, Seth Godin, All Marketers are Liars--Story Tellers
America's competitive advantage is in marketing and innovation, paraphrased Peter Drucker.
A worldview is not who you are. It's what you believe. It's your biases. A worldview is not forever. It's what the consumer believes right now. Seth Godin, All Marketers are Liars--Story Tellers
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The best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold (a religion, a candidate, a widget, a service) is being purchased because it creates an emotional want, not because it feels a simple need.The best stories offer:
A shortcut
a miracle
money
social success
safety
ego
fun
pleasure
belongingSeth Godin, All Marketers are Liars--Story Tellers
Booby traps at the Pentagon: Charmaine and Jack Yoest introduce you to the Pentagon's babes in arms. What do they want? An "open dialogue" on breastfeeding. (Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services)
Originally published in The Women's Quarterly; January 01, 2002;
Pentagon attack
ON SEPTEMBER 10TH, [2001] the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, the group most responsible for promoting women in combat, gathered in Pentagon Conference Room 5C1042. This civilian advisory committee, whose members have the protocol status of three-star generals, monitors the concerns of women in uniform. And what was the topic on the eve of the worst attack in U.S. history?
After briefings from representatives of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard, DACOWITS, as the committee is known, issued a formal request for more information on what they deemed a matter of paramount military significance: breast-feeding.
As the terrorists prepared to hit the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon itself, our military leaders were directed "to engage in open dialogue" on lactation tactics.
The Defense Advisory Committee on Women celebrated its fiftieth anniversary last April. At the birthday party, President Bush's deputy secretary of defense, Paul Wolfowitz, a man well regarded for his level-headed and conservative approach to military issues, lauded DACOWITS in his address as an outstanding organization" and told the...
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]]> assembly of earnest women that he "looked forward to [their] advice."DACOWITS was established by then-secretary of defense, General George C. Marshall, with a mission of advising the secretary on how to cruit, retain, and best use women in the armed services. The committee is composed of thirty to forty civilians appointed by the secretary of defense and is responsible for visiting military installations to talk to women in uniform and to formulate recommendations.
The latest round of appointments to the committee was announced in the final days of the Clinton administration on December 21, 2000, by then-Secretary William Cohen. Cohen's eight appointees, who serve three-year terms, had their appointments ratified in January 2001--after President Bush's inauguration--by a Clinton holdover in the Defense Department cleverly using Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's new autopen, according to the Center for Military Readiness, which is led by former DACOWITS member Elaine Donnelly.
One of these Cohen legacies, Silvana Rubino-Hallman, wrote her doctoral dissertation on women in combat. She concluded that combat is a "male-defined environment" and that women are excluded because "representational practices" have constructed a "reality" defined by "discursive practices" that understand the concept of "warrior" to be implicitly male. Look for a future DACOWITS recommendation: Examine discursive practices as they relate to warrior conceptualization. Institute and enforce gender-neutral usage of warrior terminology.
CHAIRMAN OF DACOWITS is Vickie McCall, a real estate agent and former Utah alcohol and beverage control commissioner. She told U.S. Air Forces in Europe News Service, "You have to understand. We don't report facts, we report perception." Huh?
The DACOWITS recommendations from the last ten years read like an act from The Vagina Monologus. sexual harassment directives as a constant refrain; lobbying for increased child care services; and, most critically, a persistent drumbeat for expanded combat roles for women. A recommendation from 1991 chastised the Marine Corps for continuing to use the slogan: "A few good men." The previous year featured a suggestion that the secretary of the Air Force develop a maternity coat as a uniform option.
Suggested new recruiting slogan: "A gynecologist on every aircraft carrier!" (See the Spring 2001 recommendations where "comprehensive gynecological care immediately follows "creating opportunities for shipboard experience and warfare qualifications.") Apparently DACOWITS never got word that Newt Gingrich was pilloried for positing a possible connection between field conditions and female infection. Fall 2000 recommendations recognized the need to "ascertain what treatment of gynecological infections is available" and an instruction to the services to "ensure an adequate supply of hygiene products during deployment."
How can military leadership resolve the cognitive dissonance shown by gender activists who present themselves as saber-swinging "women warriors" -- understood discursively or otherwise--but require an Equality Management Subcommittee to protect them from gender discrimination perpetuated by boorish buccaneers who engage in sexist behavior" and make "crude and offensive remarks"? And when DACOWITS follows a recommendation to expand opportunities for women in combat with a recommendation that the secretary of defense start collecting data on "all violence against military women," should we assume that excludes violence they might encounter in combat?
While the debate over whether differences between men and women are biologically determined or socially constructed continues in the civilian world, the women of DACOWITS seem grudgingly reconciled to the idea that women are different. Their recommendations include a call for implementation of height, weight, and body fat standards that acknowledge gender differences. In a surprisingly girlish fashion they call for "taking into account differences in body fat distribution" and plead with the Army to discontinue noting in the records when "the solder" has run afoul of regulation 600-9--the Army Weight Control Program.
YET DESPITE THEIR WILLINGNESS to recognize that women differ from men in size, strength, health needs, and family demands, DACOWITS and its supporters refuse to acknowledge that those differences might be, in any way, detrimental to the imperative of military readiness. They typically substitute desire and commitment for competence as qualifying factors in an arena where performance failure is unforgiving and often fatal. When McCall was asked by a reporter about the possibility of women serving in special forces units, she replied: "Women are as patriotic as their brothers."
This highlights what has become the primary item on the DACOWITS agenda: combat for women. Indeed, heading the recommendations for 2001 were DACWOITS' top three combat-oriented objectives: placement of women on submarines, opening Multiple Launch Rocket Systems to women, and the deployment of mixed-gender Special Operations Forces rotary wing aviation crews.
In fact DACOWITS has been largely responsible for shoving women ever closer to combat. Their recommendations have pushed combat for women year after year. Although they operate only in an advisory capacity, their very existence, and persistence, have created a political gravitational pull in their direction that appears nearly irresistible. A window into how the pressure is applied and the system works: During the fall of 1993 and spring of the next year, DACOWITS called for the Army to open the Airborne's elite Pathfinder (first on the ground in the combat zone) training to women; when the army complied DACOWITS issued a "Statement of Appreciation."
Their biggest coup to date, however, came when DACOWITS issued a "recommendation" in 1993 that the secretary of defense "open combat aviation to women immediately."
How high did you say? One week later, Secretary Les Aspin ordered all of the service secretaries to begin integrating women into combat aircraft units. One year later, Aspin went further and narrowed the definition of "combat" so that women were no longer barred from serving in areas where "risk of capture" existed and are now excluded only from units that are clearly designed for direct land combat.
The Center for Military Readiness is reporting that even this barrier is being breached. An Army official, Lt. Col. Margaret Flott, head of the Women in the Army office, and liaison to DACOWITS, has tried to ensure that women train to serve in new Interim Brigade Combat Teams, which are light infantry "full spectrum combat forces" that the Army is developing. DACOWITS sees the military as simply another workplace plagued with garden-variety office politics, but offering unusual career opportunities. Feminists often argue that having women in combat is a necessary prerequisite to having a woman as president. The DACOWITS goal, McCall mused to reporter Shane Montgomery, is "to assure that the future that we want for our sons is also available for our daughters." Similarly, she commented to Kathleen Rhem of the American Forces Press Service, that "we have a military that gives women opportunities that they would not have in other countries."
DACOWITS partisans have approached the military as if it were a good ole boy law firm, or even an all-male country club. Retired Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, herself an alleged victim of sexual harassment by a fellow general, began a speech to West Point cadets in 1997 by declaring, "This is not your father's army anymore." Indeed, women now comprise 15 percent of the United States military force.
Still, the battlefield is not exactly an OSHA-friendly environment. The reality of an exploding hand grenade or mortar round cannot be discursively redefined; death doesn't care about gender.
ON THE ARMY Physical Fitness Test, only about 3 percent of women score the same as the average male. One component of unit cohesion is the sure knowledge of every soldier that he will be cared for if wounded, and he will be carried home on someone's back if necessary. Elite unit tradition is that not even your dead body is left behind. This instills cohesion, camaraderie, and courage. But can male soldiers expect women to carry them to safety if injured? That kind of doubt itself impairs unit cohesion.
In the Summer 2001 issue of Parameters, the Army's War College quarterly, which is a peer-reviewed journal, Majors Kim Field and John Nagl argued that the discrepancy between male and female physical capabilities should not be an impediment to women serving in combat. They advance a "modest proposal": Set a high standard for combat qualifications and open it to all comers.
Elegant in its simplicity, their proposal ignores the political realities of a DACOWITS-ruled world. All of the services today use gender-normed physical fitness standards; even so, women still suffer injuries at a much higher rate than men and, in the wake of basic training, have a 50 percent first-year attrition rate, compared to the men's 30 percent. It costs $10,000 to recruit a soldier, so the attrition rate hurts. The report to Congress issued by the Blair Commission on Military Training and Gender-Related Issues noted that Army recruits are "required" to complete five of seven throws of a hand grenade. The last two throws must be of live grenades. However, if the recruits do not throw the practice grenades adequately, they may be excused from the live throws. Would that it were so in real combat.
Nevertheless, there are some women who could pass the physical standards under Field and Nagl's system. That is, of course, as long as they are not in need of those jazzy DACOWITS-inspired military-issue maternity uniforms. Field and Nagl, discounting this argument, report that at any one time, less than 1 percent of the Army is pregnant. However, they include in a footnote annual pregnancy rates for the various services from the Non-Deployable Personnel Report that range from 3 percent of Marine Corps officers, and 5 percent of Air Force officers, to as high as 12 percent of both officers and enlisted women in the Army, and 13.4 percent of Navy enlisted women. The Field/Nagl proposal would include a mandatory "birth control regime" as part of routine predeployment "immunizations."
It is this constant threat of sexual activity that has inspired the "no talk, no touch" doctrine the military now uses in basic training to attempt to contain sexual activity and eliminate sexual harassment. Feminists want women to experience the battlefield bond, yet expect that connection to be bounded and constrained by regulations about permissible contact.
Anna Simons, an anthropologist who teaches at the Naval Postgraduate School, argues that sexual tension is an immutable dynamic between men and women, and offers an alternative to Field and Nagl's view in the same issue of Parameters. Simons, the wife of a former Green Beret, reports that "women automatically alter the chemistry in all-male groups." As she acutely notes, the biggest factor women-in-combat advocates choose to ignore is that if there is one unifying experience all heterosexual men share, it is "a graphic fascination with women." Putting the object of that intense interest in their midst and then saying, "Don't touch!" is an approach doomed to failure.
Simons argues lust is a grave threat but that "love may actually be worse. Love rearranges loyalty The good of the group shrinks to two." Or, in some cases, only one: Love bears all things; love risks all things--for the good of the loved one. All things that is, except the loved one's life. But in combat, that's precisely what's on the line.
In the end, among the well-worn statistics about strength, and the debates about sex, the issue comes down to this: Is there something intrinsically different about women that is worth protecting from combat? Not just for women themselves, but for the greater good of American society? Simons argues that it isn't just women's presence on the battlefield that is the problem, it is the lack of their absence that is so mortally wounding to our ideals. Combat involves cold-blooded killing, an act that threatens the soldier's humanity "When absent," argues Simons, "what [women] evoke includes home, family, the future, and everything that's worth fighting for--nonviolence especially."
As this article is being written, the news from Afghanistan includes more American casualties, a painful reminder that the military is neither a law firm nor a country club to be integrated. By missing this distinction, DACOWITS should be dishonorably discharged because of military necessity.
Charmaine Yoest is a Bradley Fellow at the University of Virginia in the Department of Government, and Jack Yoest, a former Army captain in the Armored Cavalry, is a management consultant.
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By Elbert Hubbard
In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion. When war broke out between Spain & the United States, it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents. Garcia was somewhere in the mountain vastness of Cuba- no one knew where. No mail nor telegraph message could reach him. The President must secure his cooperation, and quickly.
What to do!
Some one said to the President, "There's a fellow by the name of Rowan will find Garcia for you, if anybody can."
Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be delivered to Garcia. How "the fellow by the name of Rowan" took the letter, sealed it up in an oil-skin pouch, strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat, disappeared into the jungle, & in three weeks came out on the other side of the Island, having traversed a hostile country on foot, and delivered his letter to Garcia, are things I have no special desire now to tell in detail.
The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing- "Carry a message to Garcia!"
General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias.
No man, who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but has been well nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man- the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it. Slip-shod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference, & half-hearted work seem the rule; and no man succeeds, unless by hook or crook, or threat, he forces or bribes other men to assist him; or mayhap, God in His goodness performs a miracle, & sends him an Angel of Light for an assistant. You, reader, put this matter to a test: You are sitting now in your office- six clerks are within call.
Summon any one and make this request: "Please look in the encyclopedia and make a brief memorandum for me concerning the life of Correggio".
Will the clerk quietly say, "Yes, sir," and go do the task?
On your life, he will not. He will look at you out of a fishy eye and ask one or more of the following questions:
Who was he?
Which encyclopedia?
Where is the encyclopedia?
Was I hired for that?
Don't you mean Bismarck?
What's the matter with Charlie doing it?
Is he dead?
Is there any hurry?
Shan't I bring you the book and let you look it up yourself?
What do you want to know for?
And I will lay you ten to one that after you have answered the questions, and explained how to find the information, and why you want it, the clerk will go off and get one of the other clerks to help him try to find Garcia- and then come back and tell you there is no such man. Of course I may lose my bet, but according to the Law of Average, I will not.
Now if you are wise you will not bother to explain to your "assistant" that Correggio is indexed under the C's, not in the K's, but you will smile sweetly and say, "Never mind," and go look it up yourself.
And this incapacity for independent action, this moral stupidity, this infirmity of the will, this unwillingness to cheerfully catch hold and lift, are the things that put pure Socialism so far into the future. If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all? A first-mate with knotted club seems necessary; and the dread of getting "the bounce" Saturday night, holds many a worker to his place.
Advertise for a stenographer, and nine out of ten who apply, can neither spell nor punctuate- and do not think it necessary to.
Can such a one write a letter to Garcia?
"You see that bookkeeper," said the foreman to me in a large factory.
"Yes, what about him?"
"Well he's a fine accountant, but if I'd send him up town on an errand, he might accomplish the errand all right, and on the other hand, might stop at four saloons on the way, and when he got to Main Street, would forget what he had been sent for."
Can such a man be entrusted to carry a message to Garcia?
We have recently been hearing much maudlin sympathy expressed for the "downtrodden denizen of the sweat-shop" and the "homeless wanderer searching for honest employment," & with it all often go many hard words for the men in power.
Nothing is said about the employer who grows old before his time in a vain attempt to get frowsy ne'er-do-wells to do intelligent work; and his long patient striving with "help" that does nothing but loaf when his back is turned. In every store and factory there is a constant weeding-out process going on. The employer is constantly sending away "help" that have shown their incapacity to further the interests of the business, and others are being taken on. No matter how good times are, this sorting continues, only if times are hard and work is scarce, the sorting is done finer- but out and forever out, the incompetent and unworthy go.
It is the survival of the fittest. Self-interest prompts every employer to keep the best- those who can carry a message to Garcia.
I know one man of really brilliant parts who has not the ability to manage a business of his own, and yet who is absolutely worthless to any one else, because he carries with him constantly the insane suspicion that his employer is oppressing, or intending to oppress him. He cannot give orders; and he will not receive them. Should a message be given him to take to Garcia, his answer would probably be, "Take it yourself."
Tonight this man walks the streets looking for work, the wind whistling through his threadbare coat. No one who knows him dare employ him, for he is a regular fire-brand of discontent. He is impervious to reason, and the only thing that can impress him is the toe of a thick-soled No. 9 boot.
Of course I know that one so morally deformed is no less to be pitied than a physical cripple; but in our pitying, let us drop a tear, too, for the men who are striving to carry on a great enterprise, whose working hours are not limited by the whistle, and whose hair is fast turning white through the struggle to hold in line dowdy indifference, slip-shod imbecility, and the heartless ingratitude, which, but for their enterprise, would be both hungry & homeless.
Have I put the matter too strongly? Possibly I have; but when all the world has gone a-slumming I wish to speak a word of sympathy for the man who succeeds- the man who, against great odds has directed the efforts of others, and having succeeded, finds there's nothing in it: nothing but bare board and clothes.
I have carried a dinner pail & worked for day's wages, and I have also been an employer of labor, and I know there is something to be said on both sides. There is no excellence, per se, in poverty; rags are no recommendation; & all employers are not rapacious and high-handed, any more than all poor men are virtuous.
My heart goes out to the man who does his work when the "boss" is away, as well as when he is at home. And the man who, when given a letter for Garcia, quietly take the missive, without asking any idiotic questions, and with no lurking intention of chucking it into the nearest sewer, or of doing aught else but deliver it, never gets "laid off," nor has to go on a strike for higher wages.
Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted; his kind is so rare that no employer can afford to let him go. He is wanted in every city, town and village- in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed, and needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia.
THE END-
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We've got to get ready: Packing, scheduling work, care for the kids.
And most important--reading the books of the speakers.
We are just now finishing up Jonah's book, Liberal Fascism, published by Doubleday.
We should have read it earlier but didn't.
Because we were mistaken--I judged his book by its cover. The yellow smiley face with a Hitler mustache appeared to be just another polemic by just another smart conservative.
Jonah should have looked to the cover art of another very good book for tips, Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex, and Title IX, by Jessica Gavora. His wife.
Jonah Goldberg and Jessica GavoraI expected a light, breezy book. Nope. I started it and couldn't put it down.
The Alert Reader knows that Your Business Blogger(R) teaches graduate students at The Catholic University of American and undergrads at the Northern Virginia Community College. But while reading Jonah's book I was constantly a-yelling every five minutes to Charmaine, "Did you know...? Did you know...?" some fact from Liberal Fascism. Usually, she didn't. And she has a Ph.D. in government (political science) from UVA. That's how deep liberals (the fascists) have buried the simple truth.
We got the e-book for our iPad; sorry no page numbers. Word search your copy if you doubt.
Jonah credits George Carlin "Smiley-Face Fascism" for the juxtaposed title-image.
(This even sounds like Carlin. In the movie Dogma, Carlin as a Catholic cardinal, announces a new marketing campaign featuring Jesus as a goof-ball statue, the "Buddy Christ.")
Jonah's quotes will be bold(ed).
"American Liberalism is a totalitarian political religion...where truly no child is left behind."
Goldberg published this book in 2007 and he describes how fascist governments work. One indicator, for example, is by appropriating large businesses.
How on earth did he know that president Obama would be taking over General Motors a few years later?
Introduction, "Everything you know about Fascism is wrong." (Which is how another speaker on the NRO Cruise, Ramesh Ponnuru, begins The Party of Death, Everything you know about Roe vs Wade is a lie...)
Goldberg wisely leads off by attempting to define Fascism. Hard for anyone to do but in broad brush-strokes. Jonah starts by drawing an outline with the French Revolution with Robespierre and then Napoleon as the first modern dictators leading the first Fascist movement: "totalitarianism, terrorist, nationalistic, conspiratorial, populist..." "Some fifty thousand people ultimately died in the Terror, many in political show trials that Simon Schama describes as the "founding charter of totalitarian justice.""
Leave it to the French to be first in something in the modern era.
"It was Rousseau who originally sanctified the sovereign will of the masses while dismissing the mechanics of democracy as corrupting and profane."
Goldberg continues at the beginning of the last century, where, "Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism."
Fascism is a "Form of populist ultra-nationalism."
Jonah quotes Emilio Gentile, "New regime, destroying democracy."
"Wilson was the first president to speak disparagingly of the Constitution..."No doubt," [Wilson] wrote, taking dead aim at the Declaration of Independence, "a lot of nonsense has been talked about the inalienable rights of the individual, and a great deal that was mere vague sentimental and pleasing speculation has been put forward as fundamental principle..." Wilson, of course, was merely one voice in the progressive chorus of the age."
"Adolf Hitler was indisputably to Wilson's left." Italics in original.
"American progressives were obsessed with the "racial heath" of the nation, supposedly endangered by mounting waves of immigration as well as overpopulation by native-born Americans...Leading progressives intellectuals saw eugenics as an important... tool in the quest for the the holy grail of "social control.""
"Hitler "studied" American eugenics while in prison..."
"[HG] Wells call[ed] for an "enlightened Nazism"...a keen eugenicist and particularly supportive of the extermination of unfit and darker races."
HG Wells was also a lover of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood.
"John Maynard Keynes, the founding father of liberal economics...declared eugenics "the most important...genuine branch of sociology..." Italics in original.
"In 1927 [Oliver Wendell] Holmes wrote, "I...delivered an opinion upholding the constitutionality of a state law for sterilizing imbeciles...and felt that I was getting near the first principle of real reform." [Italics in the original]...referring to...the notorious case of Buck v. Bell."
Why should a civilized society not perform human experimentation on embryos? "Who is troubled by euthanasia, abortion, and playing God in the laboratory?" Goldberg continues,Good dogma is the most powerful inhibiting influence against bad ideas and the only guarantor that men will acto on good ones. A conservative nation that seriously wondered if destroying a blostocyst is murder would not wonder at all whether it is murder to kill an eight-and-half-month old fetus, let alone a "defective" infant.
"How, exactly, is this substantively different from Margaret Sanger's [policies]...after the Holocaust discredited eugenics per se, neither the eugenicists nor their ideas disappeared...Indeed...Planned Parenthood is today more eugenic than Sanger intended. Sanger, after all despised abortions [so she wrote publicly, but in private letters Sanger often expressed different opinions]...as "barbaric" abortion resulted in "an outrageous slaughter" and "the killing of babies"..."
"Revealing enough, roughly 80 percent of Planned Parenthood's abortion centers are in or near minority communities."
"Peter Singer [not 'Sanger'] widely hailed as the most important living philosopher and the world's leading ethicist. Professor Singer, who teaches at Princeton, argues that unwanted or disabled babies should be killed in the name of "compassion." He also argues that the elderly and other drags on society should be put down when their lives are no longer worth living."
"Singer doesn't hide behind code words...[see his] essay..."Killing Babies Isn't Always Wrong"...his views are popular or respected in many academic circles..."
But maybe not at The Catholic University of America. Thank goodness.
"The sociologist Andrew Hacker decries "white logic," ...argue[s that] blacks...under perform academically because the subject matter in our schools represents white-supremacist thinking. Black children reject schoolwork because academic success amounts to "acting white."
"To forgive something by saying "it's a black thing" is philosophically no different from saying "it's an Aryan thing." The moral context matters a great deal. But the excuse is identical."
"Without the standards of the Enlightenment, we are in a Nietzschean world where power decides important questions rather than reason. This is exactly how the left appears to want it."
Progressives run a-muck? Sinclair Lewis says of The Jungle on the Chicago meat packing industry, "The Federal inspection of meat was, historically, established at the packers' request," Sinclair wrote in 1906. "It is maintained and paid for by the people of the United States for the benefit of the packers." The historian Gabriel Kolko concurs..."
"[Marian Wright] Edelman [of The Children's Defense Fund] greatest influence has been in welfare policy, and there her ideas have proven to be spectacularly wrong..."When you talked about poor people or black people you faced a shrinking audience," she has said. "I got the idea that children might be a very effective way to broaden the base for change." Indeed, Edelman...can be blamed for the saccharine omnipresence of "the children" in American political rhetoric."
"Hitler banned religious charity, crippling the churches role as a counterweight to the state. Clergy were put on government salary, hence subjected to state authority. "The parsons will be made to dig their own graves," Hitler cackled. "They will betray their God to us. They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable little jobs and incomes.""
In Germany "In 1935 mandatory prayer in school was abolished, and in 1938 carols and Nativity plays were banned entirely."
Goldberg brings us up todate, "Gloria Steinem is rhapsodic about the superior political and spiritual qualities of "pre-Christian" and "matriarchal" paganism."
"We joke a lot about "health fascists" these days...This is... nothing new. Herbert Hoover, Woodrow Wilson's food administrator, required children to sign a loyalty pledge to the state that they wouldn't eat between meals."
"Hitler loathed cigarettes, believing they were the "wrath of the Red Man against the White Man, vengeance for having been given hard liquor.""
The Nazis used the slogan "Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz" -- "the common good supersedes the private good" -- to justify policing individual health for the sake of the body politic."
How then can we communicate with Liberals?
The problem is, we now live in a world conditioned by the progressive outlook. People understand things in progressives terms. Even if you are skeptical about such notions, you cannot convince others of the rightness of your own positions if you do not speak the lingua franca.
To wit: "If you believe that abortion is evil, you will not convince someone who rejects moral categories like good and evil."
"[Pat] Buchanan calls himself a "paleoconservative," but in truth he's a neo-progressive. During the 2000 election he denounced free marketeers and flat taxers, saying that they spent too much time with "the boys down at the yacht basin." He came out in favor of capping executive pay..."
This would explain Buchanan's continued employment at CNN.
"Already it is becoming difficult to question the pagan assumptions behind environmentalism without seeming like a crackpot. My hunch is it will only get harder. Liberals and leftists for the most part seem incapable of dealing with jihadism-- a quintessentially fascist political religion --or fear of violating the rules of multicultural political correctness."
"Liberals are right because they "care," we are told, ..[and] therefore control the argument without either explaining where they want to end up or having to account for where they've been. They've succeeded where the fascist intellectuals ultimately failed, making passion and activism the measure of political virtue, and motives more important that facts."
Liberal Fascism is well research and documented. Over 20 percent of the volume is in footnotes and appendices-making good, additional reading for policy wonks. For example, "Christine Rosen, Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement..."
"58. Peter Singer, "Killing Babies Isn't Always Wrong," Spectator, Sept. 16, 1995, pp 20-22." More on Singer.
"35. Competition to get into veterinary school is tougher than it is to get into medical school. Why? Because Congress stays out of it (and because they haven't allowed the trial lawyers to get into it). And because the government leaves the vets alone, the vets leave the government alone."
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]]>In the United States, his column appears in newspapers from The Washington Times to The Philadelphia Bulletin to The Orange County Register in California, as well as in Investors' Business Daily. Mark also writes for The New Criterion, and serves as National Review's Happy Warrior. In Canada, he is a contributing editor to Maclean's, the Dominion's oldest and biggest-selling news weekly. Mark also appears in The Jerusalem Post, the Middle East's leading English-language daily; The Australian, Australia's national newspaper; Investigate and Hawke's Bay Today in New Zealand; and more occasionally in The Wall Street Journal and (translated into Italian) Il Foglio, but even when he's not in them he thinks they're worth reading. Mark also chips in at The Corner and appears each week on The Hugh Hewitt Radio Show.
Ralph Reed
Ralph Reed is chairman and CEO of Century Strategies, a public relations and public affairs firm. He has advised numerous Fortune 500 companies and served as a senior advisor to the George W. Bush presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004.
The Wall Street Journal called Reed "perhaps the finest political operative of his generation." He was named one of the top 10 political newsmakers in the nation by Newsweek, one of the 20 most influential leaders of his generation by Life magazine, and one of the 50 future leaders of America by Time magazine. As executive director of the Christian Coalition (1989-1997), he built one of nation's most effective grass roots organizations and played a pivotal role in the election of the first Republican Congress in 40 years. Under his leadership, the Christian Coalition grew from 2,000 members to more than 2 million members and supporters in 3,000 local chapters, with a budget of $27 million.
He is a sought-after political commentator on television whose columns have appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author and editor of three best-selling books. He served as executive director, College Republican National Committee (1982-1984), and as youth co-chairman of the re-election campaign of President Ronald Reagan.
Andrew Klavan
Award winning author, screenwriter and media commentator Andrew Klavan is the author of such internationally bestselling novels as True Crime, filmed by Clint Eastwood, and Don't Say A Word, filmed starring Michael Douglas. Andrew has been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award five times and has won twice. His books have been translated around the world. His latest novel for adults, The Identity Man, has been praised by Nelson Demille as "fast paced, intelligent and thought-provoking; a great read!" Television and radio host Glenn Beck says "Andrew Klavan never disappointsb&one of the best illustrations of the power of redemption that I've ever read." His last novel Empire of Lies was about media bias in the age of terror, and topped Amazon.com's thriller list. Andrew has also published a series of thrillers for young adults, The Homelanders, which follows a patriotic teenager's battle against jihadists. The books have been optioned to be made into movies by Summit Entertainment, the team behind the mega-successful Twilight film series.
Andrew is a contributing editor to City Journal, the magazine of the Manhattan Institute. His essays and op-eds on politics, religion, movies and literature have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Washington Post, the LA Times, and elsewhere. Andrew is a frequent media guest on television and radio stations from coast to coast, where he is known for his quick wit, humor and commentary on politics and entertainment.
Mona Charen
Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and political analyst living in the Washington, D.C. area.
Charen began her career at National Review where she served as editorial assistant. On her first tax return at the age of 22, Charen listed her occupation as "pundit," explaining later "You have to think big."
In 1984, Charen joined the White House staff, serving first as Nancy Reagan's speechwriter and later as associate director of the Office of Public Liaison. In the latter post, she lectured widely on the administration's Central America policy. Later in her White House career, she worked in the public-affairs office helping to craft the president's overall communications strategy.
In 1986, Charen left the White House to join the presidential quest of then-Congressman Jack Kemp as a speechwriter.
Charen launched her syndicated column in 1987 and it has become one of the fastest-growing columns in the industry. It is featured in more than 200 papers including the Boston Globe, the Baltimore Sun, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, and the Washington Times. She spent six years as a regular commentator on CNN's Capital Gang and Capital Gang Sunday, and has served as a judge of the Pulitzer Prizes. She is the author of two bestsellers Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First (2003), and Do-Gooders: How Liberals Harm Those They Claim to Help - and the Rest of Us (2005).
John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire is a contributing editor to National Review Online and National Review, for which he writes a monthly column, "The Straggler." He is the author of several books, including Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, (1996), which the New York Times cited as a "Notable Book of the Year, Prime Obsession (2004), which won the Euler Book Prize from the Mathematical Association of America, and his 2009 political work, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism.
Bernard Lewis
Over a 70-year career, Bernard Lewis emerged as one of the most influential postwar historians of Islam and the Middle East. His elegant syntheses have made Islamic history accessible to a broad public in Europe, America and elsewhere. His work on the pre-modern Muslim world conveyed both its splendid richness and its self-absorption. His studies in modern history rendered intelligible the inner dialogues of Muslim peoples in their encounter with the values and power of the West. While Lewis' work demonstrated a remarkable capacity for empathy across time and place, he has stood firm against the political correctness that has come to dominate much of the historiography of the Middle East.
While Lewis possesses all the tools of Orientalist scholarship with its emphasis on philology, culture, and religion, (his work displays an astonishing mastery of many languages), he is a historian by training and discipline. He was one of the first to apply new approaches in economic and social history to the Islamic world. In the 1970s he predicted the resurgence of radical, political Islam, and in 1990's of the new religiously defined terrorism.
He studied at the Universities of London and Paris, specializing in the history of Islam. During the Second World War, Lewis served in British Intelligence. After the war he returned to the University of London and in 1949, at the age of 33, was appointed to the new chair in Middle Eastern history. In 1974 Lewis accepted a joint position at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, retiring in 1986 at age 70. This marked the beginning of the most prolific period in his career, during which he completed more than a dozen books, explaining Islam and Muslim society to a general audience. In 2002 and 2003 he had two best sellers: What Went Wrong: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East; Western Impact and the Middle Eastern Response and The Crisis of Islam: Holy War & Unholy Terror. His books have been translated into 30 languages.
Victor Davis Hanson
Hanson is the author of hundreds of articles, book reviews, scholarly papers, and newspaper editorials on matters ranging from ancient Greek, agrarian and military history to foreign affairs, domestic politics, and contemporary culture. He has written or edited 17 books, including Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece (1983; paperback ed. University of California Press, 1998); The Western Way of War (Alfred Knopf, 1989; 2d paperback ed. University of California Press, 2000); Hoplites: The Ancient Greek Battle Experience (Routledge, 1991; paperback., 1992); The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization (Free Press, 1995; 2nd paperback ed., University of California Press, 2000); Fields without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea (Free Press, 1996; paperback, Touchstone, 1997; The Bay Area Book reviewers Non-fiction winner for 1996); The Land Was Everything, Letters from an American Farmer (Free Press, 2000; a Los Angeles Times Notable book of the year); The Wars of the Ancient Greeks (Cassell, 1999; paperback, 2001); The Soul of Battle (Free Press, 1999, paperback, Anchor/Vintage, 2000); Carnage and Culture (Doubleday, 2001; Anchor/Vintage, 2002; a New York Times bestseller); An Autumn of War (Anchor/Vintage, 2002); Mexifornia: A State of Becoming (Encounter, 2003), Ripples of Battle (Doubleday, 2003), and Between War and Peace (Random House, 2004).
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, was published by Random House in October 2005. It was named one of the New York Times Notable 100 Books of 2006. Hanson coauthored, with John Heath, Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom (Free Press, 1998; paperback, Encounter Press, 2000); with Bruce Thornton and John Heath, Bonfire of the Humanities (ISI Books, 2001); and with Heather MacDonald, and Steven Malanga, The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's (Ivan Dee 2007). He is currently editing Makers of Ancient Strategy for Princeton University Press.
Hanson has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Post, National Review, Washington Times, Commentary, The Washington Post, Claremont Review of Books, American Heritage, New Criterion, Policy Review, Wilson Quarterly, Weekly Standard, Daily Telegraph, and has been interviewed often on National Public Radio, PBS Newshour, Fox News, CNN, and C-Span's Book TV and In-Depth. He serves on the editorial board of the Military History Quarterly, and City Journal.
Since 2001, Hanson has written a weekly column for National Review Online, and in 2004, began his weekly syndicated column for Tribune Media Services. In 2006, he also began thrice-weekly blog for Pajamas Media, Works and Days.
Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarty is Co-Chair, Center for Law and Counterterrorism, will discuss "A New Legal Framework for National Security" on January 26, 2010. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor and a Contributing Editor with National Review Online. He co-chairs the Center for Law and Counterterrorism, where he also serves as a senior fellow.
Following the September 11 attacks, Mr. McCarthy supervised the U.S. Attorney's Anti-Terrorism Command Post in New York City. From 1999 through 2003, he was the Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District's satellite office, responsible for federal law enforcement in six counties north of New York City.
Mr. McCarthy is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Attorney General's Exceptional Service Award (1996) and Distinguished Service Award (1988). He has served as a Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and as an Associate Independent Counsel in the investigation of a former cabinet official.
He has also been an Adjunct Professor of Law both at the Fordham University School of Law and at New York Law School. He writes extensively on a variety of legal, social and political issues for National Review and Commentary, among other publications, as well as providing commentary for various television and radio broadcasts.
Jim Geraghty
Jim Geraghty is a conservative activist and regular contributor to National Review Online and National Review. In addition to writing columns for National Review, Geraghty also blogs for National Review Online and is a former reporter for States News Service.
During the 2004 US Presidential election, Geraghty was often critical of Democratic Party presidential candidate John Kerry. At the time his weblog used the name "The Kerry Spot". It was later renamed "TKS". Geraghty reported on the Killian documents and Rathergate stories on a daily basis on behalf of National Review and was critical of CBS and Dan Rather. Geraghty was one of the self described Pajamahadeen.
Starting in March 2005, Geraghty posted to TKS from Turkey, where he lived as an expatriate. In January 2007, he moved from TKS to a new blog, originally named "The Hillary Spot" but since renamed to "The Campaign Spot".
Geraghty's book, Voting to Kill: How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership (Touchstone, September 2006, ISBN 0743290429) argues that national security and safety in the face of terrorist threats is the key issue in U.S. politics.
Geragthy frequently mentions his maxim "All statements from Barack Obama come with an expiration date. All of them." This recurring theme in his writing is sometimes known as "Geraghty's Rule."
On March 25, 2010, after Congressman who had supported health care reform received death threats, Geraghty tweeted "BREAKING: Nation founded by men willing to shoot people over tax rates recoils in horror at threats to lawmakers"
Bob Costa
Robert Costa is a political reporter for National Review based in Washington. He was the inaugural William F. Buckley Jr. fellow at the National Review Institute. His journalism experience includes a fellowship at the Wall Street Journal and internships at PBS and ABC News.
Costa earned a master's degree in politics from the University of Cambridge in 2009, where his research focused on Winston Churchill. At Cambridge, he was an active member of the Cambridge Union, president of the Queens' College Politics Society, and deputy editor of the Cambridge Student. Costa graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in American studies. As an undergraduate, he directed Notre Dame's student television network and won the James E. Murphy award for exceptional journalism.
Costa hails from Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
James Lileks
James Lileks was born in Fargo North Dakota, the son of Norman Rockwell and Betty Crocker. He attended the University of Minnesota for seven years, attending class for five; at the Minnesota Daily he started writing a column that has continued in the Twin Cities market for thirty years.
After college he used his English Major to find employment as a convenience store clerk, but soon left the world of actual labor for a series of jobs spent typing fiction in small, cloth-covered cubicles. He has been a columnist for City Pages, the Pioneer Press, Newhouse News Service and is presently a columnist for the Star-Tribune, where he also runs the buzz.mn blog.
He has published eight books - two novels, two collections, and four retro snarkfests based on his pop-culture history project, The Institute of Official Cheer. The Institute, a blog called "the Bleat" and many other time-wasting diversions can be found at www.lileks.com. He is married with one child and one dog and lives in Minneapolis under the southeast approach to the airport.
Michael Walsh
Michael Walsh was for 16 years the classical music critic for Time Magazine and has also worked for the San Francisco Examiner and the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. He is the author of eleven books, including five works of non-fiction as well as the novels Exchange Alley, As Time Goes By (the authorized sequel to the movie Casablanca), and And All the Saints, a winner of the 2004 American Book Awards for fiction. His thriller, Hostile Intent, was published in September by Pinnacle Books and hit the New York Times bestseller lists and shot to No. 1 on Kindle. The sequel, Early Warning, was published in Sept., 2010. With Gail Parent, he is the co-writer of the hit Disney Channel 2002 Original Movie, Cadet Kelly, at the time the highest-rated show in the history of the network.
Mr. Walsh is also Vice President of the board of directors of the Wende Museum in Los Angeles, which is devoted to East German and Cold War scholarship.
As "David Kahane," he is a columnist for National Review Online and the author of Rules for Radical Conservatives, published in Sept., 2010, by Ballantine Books.
Kevin Williamson
Kevin D. Williamson is deputy managing editor of National Review and writes NRO's Exchequer blog on debt and deficits. He is the theater critic for The New Criterion and his book on socialism will be published early next year. He is a native of Lubbock, Texas, and lives in New York City.
Kathryn Lopez
Kathryn Jean Lopez is the editor of National Review Online and the author of a nationally syndicated column of conservative political and social commentary for Newspaper Enterprise Association. She is a frequent guest on radio and television programs, including on CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, NPR, BBC and C-SPAN. A graduate of the Catholic University of America, Miss Lopez is a weekly guest on the nationally syndicated "Hugh Hewitt Show" and a regular commentator and correspondent for Vatican Radio.
Jay Nordlinger
Jay Nordlinger is a senior editor of National Review. He writes about a variety of subjects, including politics, foreign affairs, and the arts. He is music critic for The New Criterion, as well as for NR. He was music critic for the New York Sun during the six years of its existence (2002-08). For National Review Online, he writes a column called "Impromptus." He has won awards for his work on human rights, in particular. Some 100 pieces are gathered in Here, There & Everywhere: Collected Writings of Jay Nordlinger. A native Michigander, Nordlinger lives in New York.
Ramesh Ponnuru
Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor for National Review and a columnist for Time. Ponnuru grew up in Kansas City and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton's history department.
Ponnuru has published articles in numerous newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Newsday, and the New York Post. He has also written for First Things, Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, Reason, and other publications. He has appeared on numerous television news programs. He is the author of The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life. He is also the author of the monograph The Mystery of Japanese Growth (American Enterprise Institute/Centre for Policy Studies). He has been a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London and a media fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Rich Lowry
Richard Lowry graduated in 1990 from the University of Virginia, where he studied English and history. He edited there a conservative monthly magazine called the Virginia Advocate. He went on to work as a research assistant for Charles Krauthammer, then as a reporter for a local paper in northern Virginia.
He joined National Review in 1992, after finishing second in an NR young writers contest. He became NR's Articles Editor before moving to Washington in the summer of 1994 to cover Congress.
He was named editor of National Review in 1997. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and a variety of other publications. He is a syndicated columnist and a commentator for the Fox News Channel. His book, Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years, was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in New York City.
Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Goldberg was the founding editor of National Review Online and is currently editor-at-large of NRO. He is a Pulitzer-nominated columnist for The Los Angeles Times.
Mr. Goldberg is currently a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC.
His column is carried by the Chicago Tribune, New York Post, Dallas Morning News and scores of other papers. His first book, Liberal Fascism, was a #1 New York Times and Amazon bestseller and was selected as the #1 history book of 2008 by Amazon readers. He is a member of the Board of Contributors to USA Today and previously served as a columnist for the Times of London, Brill's Content and the American Enterprise. His writings have appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Commentary, The New Yorker, Food and Wine and numerous other publications. He is currently a Fox News Contributor. He lives in Washington DC with his wife, Jessica Gavora, daughter, dog (Cosmo), cat (Gracie), and a rotating line-up of fish and snails that do not seem to live long enough to warrant permanent status in his biography.
Deroy Murdock
Deroy Murdock is an American conservative syndicated columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service and a contributing editor with National Review Online. Deroy Murdock's columns appear in The New York Post, The Boston Herald, The Washington Times, The Orange County Register and many other newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad.
John Yoo
John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, where he has taught since 1993. From 2001-03, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-96, where he advised on constitutional issues and judicial nominations.
Professor Yoo received his B.A., summa cum laude, in American history from Harvard University. In law school, he was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Circuit. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1993, and then clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. He has received the Bator Award for excellence in legal scholarship and teaching from the Federalist Society.
Charles Kesler
Charles R. Kesler is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, editor of the Claremont Review of Books, and professor of government at Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Kesler also teaches in the Claremont Institute's Publius Fellows Program and Lincoln Fellows Program.
Dr. Kesler is editor of Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding, and co-editor of Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought. He has written extensively on American constitutionalism and political thought, and his edition of The Federalist Papers is the best-selling edition in the country.
Dr. Kesler contributes regularly to the opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. His articles on contemporary politics have also appeared in The Washington Times, Policy Review, National Review, and The Weekly Standard, among other journals.
Sally Pipes
Sally C. Pipes is Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies, president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank. Prior to becoming president in 1991, she was assistant director of the Fraser Institute, based in Vancouver, Canada.
Ms. Pipes addresses national and international audiences on health care issues. She has been interviewed on ABC's 20/20 with John Stossel; CNN's Lou Dobbs Show; Fox News "Glenn Beck Show;" NBC's "Nightly News with Brian Williams"; Fox Business Network; "The O'Reilly Factor," Fox News "Your World With Neil Cavuto", "The Today Show;" "Kudlow & Company on CNBC, MSNBC, "Dateline;" "Politically Incorrect;" "The Dennis Miller Show;" and other prominent programs.
She has written regular columns for the Examiner newspapers, Chief Executive and Investor's Business Daily. Her health care opinion pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Financial Times of London, The Hill, RealClearPolitics, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, U.S. News and World Report, the Boston Globe, and the San Diego Union-Tribune, to name a few. Ms. Pipes' views on health care also appeared in a special report of the world's 30 leading health care experts published by Forbes.com entitled, "Solutions: Health Care" and in Steve Forbes latest book How Capitalism Can Save Us. She was widely quoted in Shape Magazine and in the New York Times Sunday Magazine in an article by Princeton's Peter Singer on how Obama will ration your care.
James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson is one of the leading contemporary criminologists in the United States.
Wilson, who has taught at several major universities during his academic career, has also written on economics and politics during his lengthy career. Wilson is the author or co-author of fourteen books, including Moral Judgment and the Moral Sense American Government, Bureaucracy, Thinking About Crime, Varieties of Police Behavior, Political Organizations and Crime and Human Nature with Richard J. Herrnstein. In addition Wilson has edited or contributed to books on urban problems, government regulation of business, and the prevention of delinquency among children. Many of his writings on morality and human character have been collected in On Character: Essays by James Q. Wilson.
During his career Wilson has served on a number of national commissions concerned with public policy. He was chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime in 1966, Chairman of the National Advisory Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention in 1972-1973, a member of the Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime in 1981, a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1985 to 1991, and a member of the board of directors of the Police Foundation from 1971 to 1993.
Wilson has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. In 1990 the American Political Science Association presented him with the James Madison Award for a career of distinguished scholarship, and in 1991 and 1992 he served as the association's president. In 1994 he received the John Gaus Award for exemplary scholarship in the fields of political science and public administration.
Tony Blankley
For seven years, Tony Blankley served as press secretary to then Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich. In that role, Tony Blankley not only helped create messages which shook the country, Tony Blankley also helped create policy. Tony Blankley's knack for appetizing soundbites (which Tony Blankley calls his "poor-man's poetry") and sound political strategy made Tony Blankley one of Washington's premiere sources of ideas and insights.
Working for the most renowned Speaker in decades, Blankley became one of the leading spokesmen for the Contract with America. Prior to Tony Blankley's career on Capitol Hill, Blankley served President Reagan as a speechwriter and senior policy analyst.
After leaving Gingrich's office in February 1997, Blankley joined the staff of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s George magazine. As a contributing editor, Blankley's monthly column "Between the Lines" featured his inside-the-beltway insights. Blankley also appears regularly on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, as well as CNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, Rivera Live, The News with Brian Williams and MSNBC. In June 1999, Blankley joined The Washington Times as a weekly political columnist. In June 2002, Tony Blankley was named editorial page editor.
The same depth of knowledge and sharp wit that kept reporters turning to Tony Blankley during his time on Capitol Hill have made Blankley one of today's leading media commentators. Tony Blankley's opinions and analysis of political events have been featured on the front pages of The New York Times, USA Today, and other major publications, and Tony Blankley was a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
Blankley has quickly become a favorite speaker of corporate and association audiences around the country. Tony Blankley uses his background in both the executive and congressional branches to design speeches which provide insight into today's headlines, and the issues that will fill tomorrow's.
In addition to being a popular speaker, Blankley is an accomplished debater. Clients have paired him with the likes of Bill Press and Bob Beckel, among other noted Democratic pundits, to create a uniquely informative and provocative program. Whether delivering a keynote or debating, Blankley gives his audience more than just analysis. Focusing on the personalities and stories which make politics interesting, Tony Blankley helps audiences remember the information long after they leave the event.
Elliott Abrams
Elliott Abrams is Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. He served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor in the Administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House.
Mr. Abrams joined the Bush Administration in June, 2001 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the NSC for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Organizations. From December 2002 to February 2005, he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs. He served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy from February 2005 to January 2009, and in that capacity supervised both the Near East and North African Affairs, and the Democracy, Human Rights, and International Organizations directorates of the NSC.
His articles and book reviews have appeared in Commentary, The Weekly Standard, The National Interest, The Public Interest, and National Review. He is the author of three books, Undue Process, Security and Sacrifice, and Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America, and the editor of three more, Close Calls: Intervention, Terrorism, Missile Defense and "Just War" Today; Honor Among Nations: Intangible Interests and Foreign Policy; and The Influence of Faith: Religion and American Foreign Policy. He has appeared on Meet The Press, Face The Nation, Nightline, and most major television news programs.
John O' Sullivan
John O'Sullivan is editor-in-chief of United Press International. He was Editor of National Review from 1988 to 1997 and in 1998 was named Editor-at-Large. His previous posts have included special adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, associate editor of the London Times, assistant editor of the London Daily Telegraph, and editor of Policy Review.
O'Sullivan was born in Great Britain in 1942. He was educated at London University where he received a B.A. (Hons.) and a Diploma of Social Studies. He stood for Parliament as a Conservative in the 1970 general election for Gateshead West.
He is the founder and co-chairman of the New Atlantic Initiative, an international bipartisan effort dedicated to reinvigorating and expanding the Atlantic community of democracies. The NAI was formally launched at the Congress of Prague in May 1996.
O'Sullivan has published articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Policy Review, The National Interest, The New Criterion, the Times Literary Supplement, The American Spectator, The Spectator (London), Quadrant, and other journals.
He is on the Executive Advisory Board of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation, the Advisory Council of the Social Affairs Unit in London, and the Honorary Board of the Civic Institute in Prague. He was made a Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in the 1991 New Year's Honors List. He lectures on British and American politics.
Kevin Hassett
Kevin A. Hassett is resident scholar and director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. His research interests include tax policy, the U.S. economy, the stock market, and investments.
Before joining AEI, Hassett was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University. He was an economic adviser to the George W. Bush campaign (2004) and the chief economic adviser to Senator John McCain during the 2000 presidential primaries. Previously, he was also a policy consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury (former Bush and Clinton administrations). Hassett is a weekly columnist for Bloomberg and his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly, USA Today, Washington Post, and others. He has also appeared on the Today show, the CBS Morning Show, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Hardball, Moneyline, and Power Lunch.
Cal Thomas
Cal Thomas is America's most widely syndicated op-ed columnist, appearing in more than 600 national newspapers. Thomas is the author of more than 10 books, including, "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America" co-authored with Bob Beckel.
Thomas is FOX News political contributor who joined FOX News in 1997. He also appears as a panelist on "FOX News Watch."
Thomas is a 40-year veteran of broadcast and print journalism. He has worked for NBC News in Washington, D.C. and hosted his own program on CBNC that was nominated for a Cable ACE Award in 1995. Thomas is a graduate of American University.
Dinesh D'Souza
Dinesh D'Souza's new book What's So Great About Christianity is published by Regnery. It is the comprehensive answer to a spate of atheist books denouncing theism in general and Christianity in particular.
D'Souza has been called one of the "top young public-policy makers in the country" by Investor's Business Daily. The New York Times Magazine named him one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. The World Affairs Council lists him as one of the nation's 500 leading authorities on international issues. Newsweek cited him as one of the country's most prominent Asian Americans.
A former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, D'Souza also served as John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1983.
Mr. D'Souza's books have had a major influence on public opinion and public policy. His 1991 book Illiberal Education was the first study to publicize the phenomenon of political correctness. The book was widely acclaimed and became a New York Times bestseller for 15 weeks. It has been listed as one of the most influential books of the 1990's.
In 1995 D'Souza published The End of Racism, which became one of the most controversial books of the time and a national bestseller. D"Souza's 1997 book Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader was the first book to make the case for Reagan's intellectual and political importance. In 2000, D'Souza published The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno Affluence, which explores the social and moral implications of wealth.
In 2002 he published his New York Times bestseller What's So Great About America , which was critically acclaimed for its thoughtful patriotism. His 2003 book Letters to a Young Conservative has become a handbook for a new generation of young conservatives inspired by D'Souza's style and ideas. The Enemy at Home: published in 2006, stirred up a furious debate both on the left and the right; even so, it became a national bestseller and will be published in paperback, January 2008, with a new Afterword by the author responding to his critics.
D'Souza's articles have appeared in virtually every major magazine and newspaper, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, New Republic, and National Review. He has appeared on numerous television programs, including the Today Show, Nightline, The News Hour, O'Reilly Factor, Moneyline, and Hannity and Colmes.
John J. Miller
John J. Miller is director of the Herbert H. Dow II Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He joined that staff of National Review in 1998 and is currently its national correspondent. He has written five books, including The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football and a novel, The First Assassin. The Chronicle of Higher Education has called him “one of the best literary journalists in the country.
S.E. Cupp
S.E. Cupp is author of the new book "Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity," which comes out April 27th (Simon & Schuster). She is also co-author of "Why You're Wrong About The Right," which was published by Simon & Schuster in June of 2008. S.E. is a political columnist and culture critic. She has a regular online column at the New York Daily News, a regular feature at The Daily Caller, and is a contributor to Politico's "Arena." A political commentator who has appeared on FOXNews, MSNBC, CNN, CSPAN, Al Harra and others, S.E. is a regular guest on "Hannity," "Larry King Live," "Fox & Friends," "Geraldo," and "Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld." She has been heard on dozens of radio shows, including The Dennis Miller Show, The Mancow Show, The Curtis Sliwa Show, Bubba the Love Sponge, Andrew Wilkow, The Alan Colmes Show and others.
Tracie Sharp
Tracie Sharp is president of State Policy Network, the capacity building service organization of free market, state-focused public policy think tanks. SPN has over 130 members, including 58 state think tanks representing all 50 states. Ms. Sharp has been an active leader in the state-focused think tank movement since 1988, serving on the SPN board of directors since its founding in 1992 and hired as president in August 1999.
Ms. Sharp is a trustee to the Roe Foundation of Greenville, S.C. She also serves as trustee to the Special Hope Foundation, a family foundation supporting innovative projects to assist the causes of the physically, emotionally, and developmentally disabled.
Prior to assuming leadership of State Policy Network, Ms. Sharp was executive director and one of the founders of Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon's state-focused, market-oriented think tank. During her tenure (1991-1999), Cascade became the leading free market voice in the state, thriving on nationally-recognized public policy research, most notably in the areas of k-12 education reform and social security privatization.
Rob Long
Rob Long is a writer and producer in Hollywood. He began his career writing on TV's long-running "Cheers," and served as co-executive producer in its final season. During his time on the series, "Cheers" received two Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe awards. His most recent television series were "George and Leo," starring Bob Newhart and Judd Hirsh, "Love & Money," on CBS, and "Men, Women & Dogs," on the WB Network - all three of which he created with his writing partner, Dan Staley. Their production company, Staley/Long Productions, was based at Paramount Studios from 1993 to 2001, and is currently based at Touchstone Television.
He is a contributing editor of National Review, and Newsweek International and writes occasionally for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. His weekly radio commentary, "Martini Shot," is broadcast on the Los Angeles public radio station KCRW, and is distributed nationally.
His first book, Conversations with My Agent, chronicled his early career in television. It was published in the UK by Faber & Faber, in the US by Dutton, and in France by Actes Sud. His second book, Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke, was published in November 2005 by Bloomsbury.
John H. Sununu
John H. Sununu was born in Havana, Cuba. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his bachelor's degree in 1961, a master's degree in 1962, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 1966. He was a mechanical engineering professor at Tufts University from 1966 to 1968 and associate dean of the College of Engineering until 1973. From 1963 until his election as governor, he served as president of JHS Engineering Company and Thermal Research Inc. He represented Salem in the New Hampshire State Legislature from 1973-1974. He became New Hampshire's 75th Chief Executive on January 6, 1983, and served three consecutive terms.
On January 21, 1989, Governor Sununu was commissioned Chief of Staff to President George H. W. Bush, serving in the White House until March 1, 1992. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineers' Committee on Public Engineering Policy and has served as a member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality Advisory Committee. Sununu chaired the National Governors Association, the Coalition of Northeastern Governors, and the Republican Governors Association. From 1992 until 1998, he co-hosted CNN's nightly Crossfire program, a news/public affairs discussion program. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Charmaine Yoest
Dr. Charmaine Yoest is President & CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL), the first national pro-life organization in the nation, whose legal strategists have been involved in every pro-life case before the United States Supreme Court since Roe v. Wade.
Dr. Yoest began her career in the White House during the Reagan Administration and recently served as a Senior Advisor to the 2008 Huckabee for President Campaign. She is also the co-author of Mother in the Middle, an examination of childcare policy, published by HarperCollins. A regular political commentator, Dr. Yoest has appeared on all of the major networks and cable outlets. In print, Dr. Yoest is quoted regularly and has been published widely.
Previously, Dr. Yoest served as the Project Director of the Family, Gender and Tenure Project at the University of Virginia, a nationwide study funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She was also a recipient of Mellon, Olin, Bradley, and Kohler Fellowships. She also served as a Vice President at the Family Research Council, one of the largest pro-family public policy organizations in the country. Dr. Yoest has a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Virginia.
Fred Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompson is an American politician, actor, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, and radio host. He served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1994 through 2003.
Thompson served as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board at the United States Department of State, was a member of the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence.
As an actor, Thompson has appeared in a large number of movies and television shows. He has frequently portrayed governmental figures. In the final months of his U.S. Senate term in 2002, Thompson joined the cast of the long-running NBC television series Law & Order, playing Manhattan District Attorney Arthur Branch.
In May 2007 he took a break from acting in order to run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. In 2009 he returned to acting and is co-starring with Brian Dennehy in the movie Alleged, about the Scopes Monkey Trial.
John R. Bolton
John R. Bolton, a diplomat and a lawyer, has spent many years in public service. From August 2005 to December 2006, he served as the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations. From 2001 to 2005, he was under secretary of state for arms control and international security. At AEI, Ambassador Bolton's area of research is U.S. foreign and national security policy.
Roman Genn
Genn was born in Moscow, in 1972 at the height of the Cold War. He quickly sized up the political realities of his country and so, at age 5, he began to collaborate with the communist regime by drawing propaganda posters for his kindergarten class, including "THANK YOU, COMRADE BREZHNEV, FOR OUR HAPPY CHILDHOOD".
This work earned him extra food, cool toys and soft toilet paper.
In his early teens, ungrateful for his free education and Soviet health care, a greedy and unpatriotic Genn began to draw a series of reactionary caricatures critical of the government and the Soviet system. At first, these attempts were merely an adolescent ploy for cheap popularity and a way to look cool in front of girls. Later, however, when he attempted to sell these works on the streets of Moscow, many unpleasant encounters with police officials ensued. Reprimands were handed out by the administration of the Moscow Art College, which had been foolish enough to admit him. It was time to leave the Motherland, and through the kindness of strangers Genn landed in Los Angeles in 1991, where he lives and prospers.
Since accomplishing the American dream (owning a car wash or body shop) was out of Genn's league, he had to stoop to selling his caricatures to, among others, the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, New York Daily News, International Herald Tribune, Newsday, Newsweek, Harper/Collins, Penguin Group (USA), Saatchi & Saatchi, TV Guide, Barron's, The American Lawyer, and many other publications.
Genn is a contributing editor of The National Review, and one of his more scandalous Clinton-era covers generated protests on the streets of New York and Washington D.C., as well as a New York Times article and a CNN Crossfire "debate" on the subject of freedom of speech in cartoons and caricatures. Genn proudly accepts the title of "The attack dog that Buckley unleashed upon humanity" given to him by the great David Levine of the New York Review of Books.
Sent to Moscow by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Newsday to cover the Russian Presidential election of 1996 Genn had to be bailed out by his sponsors after the Moscow police realized he was back in their jurisdiction.
In the years 2000-2002 the Los AngelesTimes published Genn's bi-weekly feature, "The Gallery by Roman Genn," where he turned his pen on unsuspecting citizens of this great metropolis.
The Ethnic Grievance Industry regularly brings Genn's modest renderings to the attention of News Networks and TV shows, such as ABC's Nightline, CBS' 60 minutes, CNN's Crossfire, NBC's Dateline, among the others.
Genn's caricatures have been featured in several personal, as well as many group exhibitions. In 2006 James Gray Gallery had the first showing of his oil paintings "Sic transit Gloria Mundi", which paid homage to the genius of old white men, the only group that stoically withstood abuse and humiliation from Genn's poisonous pencil.
]]>Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Abortion
THE CLAIM
Reproductive rights (i.e. "abortion" rights) for women is like civil-rights for blacks and other minorities. To try to deny women reproductive rights is the same as trying to deny African-Americans civil-rights. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great advocate of women's reproductive rights, and for this he was awarded Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger Award on May 5th, 1966.
THE TRUTH
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. certainly believed in birth-control, but all the evidence available shows he was staunchly against abortion.
One researcher writes:
"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stridently denounced abortion as a form of genocide in many speeches." (Lifelines, Winter 1997, p.14 online)
Dr. King did in fact receive the Margaret Sanger Award in 1966. But it is also a fact that in 1966, Planned Parenthood was still (at least publicly) anti-abortion. They were still using a pamphlet they wrote and published in 1963 titled Is Birth Control Abortion?. The pamphlet read:
"Is birth control abortion? Definitely not. An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun. It is dangerous to your life and health. It may make you sterile so that when you want a child you cannot have it. Birth control merely post-pones the beginning of life." (Is Birth Control Abortion, Planned Parenthood pamphlet, Aug. 1963, p.1)
Planned Parenthood was anti-abortion until the early 1970s because of two reasons:
1) Some of its members and directors were anti-abortion.
2) PP did not wish to hurt their campaign to promote and legalize birth-control by advocating legalized abortion.
In 1966, and before, Planned Parenthood was publicly against abortion, but for birth-control. So was Dr. King; so it shouldn't be surprising that he accepted an award from them.
Dr. King did not know (as most people even today don't know) that Margaret Sanger was a racist, elitist, and eugenicist. She knew that if he hopes for a controlled black population were to be realized then PP would have to enlist the help of black ministers. She knew that black ministers were very well respected in their communities. She once wrote:
"The mass of Negroes, particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among Whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit.***
"The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." (Black Pro-Lifers March, Protest Racist Nature of Planned Parenthood and Abortion, p.1 online)
Planned Parenthood used Dr. King in order to promote birth-control; a practice he would have vehemently agreed with. But today, pro-Choice advocates use the memory of Dr. King to promote abortion; a practice which he vehemently disagreed with.
Another researcher has written:
"Some people against abortion: Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, His Holiness the Dalai Lama (the leader of Tibetan Buddhism), feminist Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cody Stanton,...and Alice Paul (author of the original Equal Rights Amendment)." (Sacred Heart Catholic Essays: Abortion, p.1 online, emphasis added)
Author Tanya L. Green wrote:
"Blacks in the civil rights movement first charged the abortion industry with genocide in the 1960s." (The New Civil Rights Movement, p.2 online)
On January 17, 2000, Martin Luther King Jr.s niece, Alveda King, spoke at a pro-life meeting at Faneuil Hall of Boston University. She said:
"What would Martin Luther King say if he saw the skulls of babies at the bottom of abortion pits? If Martin Luther King's dream is to live, our babies must live. We have been fueled by the fires of women's rights. What about the rights of the baby who is artificially breached. We can't sit idly by and allow legal murder." (Martin Luther King's Niece Supports Right To Life, Boston University Daily Free Press, 18 January 2000, p.1)
Alveda King's father was A.D. King; Martin's brother, and a civil-rights leader in his own right. He died in 1969.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
DR. RALPH DAVID ABERNATHY
In 1957 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as the umbrella organization for the civil-rights movement in the South. The co-founder of Dr. Ralph David Abernathy. When Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, Dr. Abernathy became President of the SCLC. Dr. Abernathy also became a founder and Vice President of the American Freedom Coalition:
"Among the values promoted by AFC are a strong national defense, opposition to abortion and pornography,...." (A Promise for the Future, American Freedom Coalition pamphlet, Sept. 1987, p.1)
Dr. Abernathy continued to preach against abortion until his death.
REV. JESSE JACKSON
The only associate of Dr. King that has become a pro-Choice advocate is the Rev. Jesse Jackson. But this was not always so. From the 1960s until about 1980 Rev. Jackson was a staunch pro-Life advocate. Father Richard A. Donnelly writes:
"The most well-known religious leader who has parted from the pro-life stand of his leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is the Rev. Jesse Jackson." (Current News, p.3 online)
In many speeches Rev. Jackson gave during the late 1960s and 1970s he always likened abortion to slavery and genocide. Rev. Jackson was a featured speaker at the 1977 pro-Life "March on Washington", where he told the tens of thousands who had gathered the following:
"There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of [a] higher order than the right to life,...that was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside your right to be concerned.
What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and hat kind of a society will we have 20 years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth." (Abortion Flip-Flops, p.2 online)
Steven Hayward writes:
"And then there was the prominent Democrat who said of abortion in 1973 that it is 'too nice a word for something cold, like murder.' That author of these words was the Rev. Jesse Jackson." (Who Are The Extremists?, p.3 online)
In a letter to Congress Rev. Jackson once wrote:
"As a matter of conscience I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.***
...in the abortion debate, one of the crucial questions is when does life begin. Anything growing is living. Therefore human life begins when the sperm and egg join." (American Life League Newsroom, 17 Jan 01, p.1 online)
Pro-Life advocate and President of the American Life League, Judie Brown, has written:
"As Jackson implied, a human person exists from fertilization/conception. Jackson's remarkable admissions are facts that cannot be changed with time, no matter how many politicians abandon this truth for the sake of political gain." (ibid.)
Why did Rev. Jackson turn from a pro-Life advocate to a pro-Choice advocate? Some have speculated it had to do with his bids to become President of the U.S. Some claim that the Democratic Party hierarchy informed Jackson in 1983 that they would oppose his bid to be nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate if he did not take "the Party-line" (i.e. become pro-choice). Rev. Jackson ran for the Democratic nomination in 1984 and 1988. He lost both bids.
Rev. Jesse Jackson
DICK GREGORY
Another civil-rights leader and King associate was Dick Gregory; comedian, actor, author, and Presidential-candidate. Gregory had authored a number of books on racism in America. In 1968 he ran for President under the Peace and Freedom Party; which called for equal rights and an immediate end to the Vietnam war.
In 1971, Gregory told Ebony magazine the following:
"Government family programs designed for poor Blacks which emphasize birth control and abortion with the intent of limiting the Black population is genocide. The deliberate killing of Black babies by abortion is genocide--perhaps the most overt of all." (Ebony magazine, October, 1971)
Decades later Gregory said:
"I fully support the right to life of every human being, from conception until natural death. In addition, I unequivocally endorse a total human life amendment to the U.S. Constitution, that would promote the value and dignity of every human life." (Statements of Black Americans On Abortion, p.1 online)
FANNIE LOU HAMMER
One of the best-known civil-rights activists in the 1960s was Fannie Lou Hammer. She was born in 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi, the granddaughter of slaves and the youngest of 20 children. On August 31 1962 she and 17 other black Mississippians took a bus to the courthouse in Indianola, the county seat, to register to vote. Police stopped the bus, and because, they said, the bus was "the wrong color", they arrested Fannie and the 17 others. After being released from jail her white landlord told her to get off her land.
Her offense?
She had tried to vote.
Ten days later 16 bullets were fired into the home where she was staying.
Mrs. Hamer began working on welfare and voter registration programs for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
On June 3, 1963, Fannie and other civil-rights workers were arrested in Winona, Mississippi. Their crime was, again, trying to register to vote. While in Montgomery County jail she was stripped and beaten severely; with injuries that would last her until her death in 1977.
In 1964 civil-rights groups created the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP); because the Mississippi Democratic Party had only white delegates; even though the state was 51% black. Fannie appeared at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and her testimony on the injustices in Mississippi, and the Mississippi Democratic Party (which did not allow black delegates) was aired on all three television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC). The Democratic Party then agreed to seat two delegates of the MFDP in their delegation. Most historians believe that the public exposure of her plight on national television led President Johnson to sign the Voting Rights Bill the next year; giving millions of African-Americans (especially in the South) the right to vote for the first time since the late 1870s.
Journalist Mary Galbraith writes:
"During the Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi sharecropper Fannie Lou Hammer helped change the nation's attitudes on democracy and the right to vote.***
The word of Hamer and other men and women who pioneered the voting rights of minorities eventually resulted in the seating of an integrated delegation from Mississippi at the Democratic National Convention. Hamer went on to work with the National Council of Negro Women helping organize relief and aid for the poor and furthering the political processes in her community."(Inspiring others goal of Outreach Committee, p.2 online)
Fannie has said:
"The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amount to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder." (Similar Principles, p.6 online)
Today, feminists and civil-rights activists all over the world portray Fannie as a hero. There is even a play about her which is presented at many meetings of Feminists and civil-rights workers around the world. No mention is made of her pro-Life stance.
Fannie Lou Hammer (1917-1977)
CONCLUSION
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not a champion of "reproductive rights", but rather a man who believed in the human rights of all people; including the Unborn. Most (if not all) African-American civil-rights leaders in his day agreed with him.
Organizational Behavior (Lecture), MGT 311, Syllabus, Fall Semester 2011
Credit Hours 3
Enrollment Requirements: MGT323 or 423; Junior status or above
Time and Location of class meetings:
MGT 311-01 (3070)
Aug 29 to Dec 17, 2011
Mondays 1:10 to 3:40PM
McMahon 201
Instructor contact information:
Professor John Wesley Yoest, Jr.
Cell phone 202.215.2434
Yoest@CUA.edu
JackYoest@gmail.com
Offices Hours Tuesdays at 3:30 p.m. or by appointment.
Course Description
Organizational Behavior (OB) is the study of individuals and groups in organizations and is also concerned with the behavior of organizations as whole systems.
This class considers each of these dimensions and their interrelations relevant to the functioning, performance, viability and vitality of human enterprises.
Specific topics addressed include the history of management and organization concepts; perception, attitudes and individual differences; motivation; communication; group dynamics; work teams and intergroup relations including managing collaboration and conflict; leadership, power and decision making; the organizational environment; organization structure and design; organizational culture and effectiveness; organization development and change; and OB research methods.
Instructional Methods, Lecture and Discussion
Required Texts (Two)
1. Primer on Organizational Behavior, Author: Bowditch, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporate, Edition: 7th, Year Published: 2008, Price: 102.25 USD, ISBN 9780470086957
2. Classics of Organizational Behavior, Author: Natemeyer, Publisher: Waveland Press, Incorporated, Edition: 4th, Year Published: 2011, Price: 49.95 USD, ISBN 9781577667032
Course Goals
Overview of human behavior in work organizations. Theoretical, empirical and applications issues examined from individual, interpersonal, group and organizational perspectives. Including an overview and history of the field, perceptions, attitudes, learning processes, personality, motivation, stress, performance appraisal, group dynamics, leadership, communication, decision making, job design, organizational structure and design, organizational change and development.
Goals for Student Learning
This Primer on Organizational Behavior, places attention on information technology in the workplace and how it's reshaping organizations and the management practices within them. The class will cover early management thought, workplace incivility, social justice, conformity in groups, virtual teams, team conflict, leader-member relations, and organizational change.
The Alert Student should learn all the terms and concepts needed to understand OB and its application in modern organizations, and to comprehend practitioner and scholarly publications.
Course Requirements
Quizzes at Random; short answer
Examinations; Multiple choice, short answer
Case Studies; turned in, oral presentation
Class Participation; reviewed below
Expectations and policies
Academic honesty: Academic honesty is expected of all CUA students. Faculty are required to initiate the imposition of sanctions when they find violations of academic honesty, such as plagiarism, improper use of a student's own work, cheating, and fabrication.
The following sanctions are presented in the University procedures related to Student Academic Dishonesty.
The presumed sanction for undergraduate students for academic dishonesty will be failure for the course. There may be circumstances, however, where, perhaps because of an undergraduate student's past record, a more serious sanction, such as suspension or expulsion, would be appropriate. In the context of graduate studies, the expectations for academic honesty are greater, and therefore the presumed sanction for dishonesty is likely to be more severe, e.g., expulsion. In the more unusual case, mitigating circumstances may exist that would warrant a lesser sanction than the presumed sanction.
(From http://policies.cua.edu/academicundergrad/integrityprocedures.cfm).
Please review the complete texts of the University policy and procedures regarding Student Academic Dishonesty, including requirements for appeals, at http://policies.cua.edu/academicundergrad/integrity.cfm.
Cell Phone
Don't. Cell phone or PDA usage including texting and e-mailing is not allowed in class. Do not open a laptop in class. If you anticipate an emergency call, please inform Your Business Professor at the beginning of class and excuse yourself from the classroom to take the call.
Attendance
Punctuality is the courtesy of kings. All students are expected to attend every class on time. Attendance will be recorded for each class. The best tactic to earn class participation points is to show up. If for some reason you will not be in class, please notify Your Business Professor 24 hours ahead of time.
Campus Resources for student support:
Library: Information 5070
Hours 5077
Writing Center 111 OB 4286
Counseling Center 127 OB 5765
Accommodations for students with disabilities: Any student who feels s/he may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact the instructor privately to discuss specific needs. Please contact Disability Support Services (at 202 319-5211, room 207 Pryzbyla Center) to coordinate reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. To read about the services and policies, please visit the website: http://disabilitysupport.cua.edu.
Assessment
Your final grade will be calculated as follows:
Grade Point Allocation:
3 Tests and the Final Exam: 10 points each; 40 points total
Two Case Studies: 25 points each
Class Participation/Pop quizzes 10 points total
Total = 100 points/percent
Course Grading System:
Test #1 10%
Test #2 10%
Test #3 10%
Final Exam 10%
1st Case 25%
2nd Case 25%
Class Participation 10%
Case Study: Two case studies will be solved in writing (Typed, 12 pt type, double-spaced with a cover sheet) 800 words in length and returned to the instructor on -- or before -- the date due. The Alert Student will be prepared to deliver a five-minute oral presentation to the class.
See How to Write a Business Case Study. http://www.yoest.com/2009/10/23/how-to-write-a-business-case-study/
Case Study points grading scale:
5 Topic
7 Content
5 Supporting statements
3 Grammar
3 Appearance/delivery
2 Follow directions
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25 total
Additional information and public speaking helps. http://www.yoest.com/2008/07/31/current-event-presentation-helps/
The Final Exam is comprehensive and will cover material from the entire semester. The Final will be a take-home, open-book and notes exam. All Exams are the individual work and intellectual property of the student with no contact with other individuals permitted.
The Alert Student will expect a quiz in every class.
There is no make up for quizzes or exams-unless approved by the Instructor.
If an assignment is accepted late, a letter-grade grade penalty or at least a 10 percent reduction will be imposed
Class Participation is a subjective measure at the discretion of the Instructor. This is like a job interview: No show; no offer.
Class attendance is mandatory for a number of reasons:
1) Examinations will contain course lecture material that is not in the assigned reading;2) Your Business Professor asks a lot of questions. It is convenient to attend so that the student might answer;
3) A variety of in-class activities are not available for make-up;
4) The Class Participation portion of the course grade is based upon the significance and quality of the student's contribution to the discussion and activities
If the Student fears any difficulty with participating in class please see Your Business Professor.
Reports of grades in courses are available at the end of each term on http://cardinalstation.cua.edu.
When Your Business Professor says "Tomorrow" he means the next class meeting - not the next day.
It is normal and customary to wait for any late Professor for 20 minutes.
Draft Your Own Reference Letter. http://www.yoest.com/2011/04/22/how-to-write-a-letter-of-recommendation-or-an-endorsement-from-a-third-party/
See Job Search Tips. http://www.yoest.com/2009/03/30/looking-for-a-job-pass-this-test/
There will only be 14 class sessions.
COURSE OUTLINE
1. August 29
Introduction and Expectations
Chapter 1. Management And Organizational Behavior.
September 5 No Class
2. September 12
Chapter 2. Perception, Attitudes, And Individual Differences.
Chapter 3. Motivation.
Chapter 4. Communication.
3. September 19
Chapter 5. Group Dynamics.
Chapter 6. Work Teams And Intergroup Relations: Managing Collaboration And Conflict.
Chapter 7. Leadership, Power, And The Manager.
4. September 26
Test #1
5. October 3
First Case Study
October 10 No Class
6. October 17
Chapter 8. Macro-Organizational Behavior: The Organization's Environment.
Chapter 9. Organization Structure And Design.
Chapter 10. Organizational Culture And Effectiveness.
Chapter 11. Organization Development And Change.
7. October 24
Test #2
8. October 31
Section I: ORIGINS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
1. The Principles of Scientific Management (Frederick Winslow Taylor)
2. The Giving of Orders (Mark Parker Follett)
3. The Hawthorne Experiments (Fritz J. Roethlisberger)
4. Overcoming Resistance to Change (Lester Coch and John R. P. French, Jr.)
5. The Human Side of Enterprise (Douglas M. McGregor)
Section II: MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE
1. A Theory of Human Motivation (Abraham H. Maslow)
2. Achievement Motivation (David C. McClelland)
3. One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? (Frederick Herzberg)
4. Existence, Relatedness, and Growth Model (Clayton P. Alderfer)
5. Expectancy Theory (John P. Campbell, Marvin D. Dunnette, Edward E. Lawler, III, and Karl E. Weick Jr.)
6. On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B (Steven Kerr)
7. Goal Setting--A Motivational Technique That Works (Gary P. Latham and Edwin A. Locke)
9. November 7
Section III: INTERPERSONAL AND GROUP BEHAVIOR
1. Cosmopolitans and Locals (Alvin W. Gouldner)
2. Assets and Liabilities in Group Decision Making (Norman R. F. Maier)
3. Origins of Group Dynamics (Dorwin Cartwright and Alvin Zander)
4. Group and Intergroup Relationships (Edgar H. Schein)
5. Groupthink (Irving L. Janis)
6. Transactional Analysis (Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward)
7. The Johari Window (Jay Hall)
8. The Abilene Paradox: The Management of Agreement (Jerry B. Harvey)
9. Stages of Group Development (Bruce W. Tuckman and Mary Ann C. Jensen)
10. Self-Directed Work Teams (Ralph Stayer)
10. November 14
Test #3
11. November 21
Section IV: LEADERSHIP
1. The Managerial Grid (Robert Blake and Jane Mouton)
2. How to Choose a Leadership Pattern (Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H. Schmidt)
3. Leadership Decision Making (Victor H. Vroom and Arthur G. Jago)
4. One Minute Management (Kenneth H. Blanchard)
5. Fundamental Leadership Practices (James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner)
6. Management and Leadership (John P. Kotter)
7. Servant Leadership (Robert K. Greenleaf)
8. Situational Leadership (Paul Hersey)
9. Crucibles of Leadership (Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas)
Section V: POWER AND INFLUENCE
1. Is It Better to Be Loved of Feared? (Niccolo Machiavelli)
2. The Bases of Social Power (John R. P. French, Jr. and Bertram Raven)
3. Position Power and Personal Power (Amitai Etzioni)
4. Who Gets Power--and How They Hold on to It (Gerald R. Salancik and Jeffrey Pfeffer)
5. The Power of Leadership (James MacGregor Burns)
6. Situational Leadership and Power (Paul Hersey and Walter E. Natemeyer)
Section VI: ORGANIZATIONS, WORK PROCESSES, AND PEOPLE
1. Bureaucracy (Max Weber)
2. The Individual and the Organization (Chris Argyris)
3. Mechanistic and Organic Systems (Tom Burns and G. M. Stalker)
4. Management Systems 1-4 (Rensis Likert)
5. Management by Objectives (George S. Odiorne)
6. Differentiation and Integration (Paul R. Lawrence and Jay W. Lorsch)
7. What's Missing in MBO? (Paul Hersey and Kenneth H. Blanchard)
8. Reengineering Work Processes (Michael Hammer and James Champy)
12) November 28
Section VII: INCREASING LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
1. Skills of an Effective Administrator (Robert L. Katz)
2. Leadership Effectiveness Can Be Learned (Peter F. Drucker)
3. Organization Development (Wendell French)
4. In Search of Excellence (Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman)
5. The Learning Organization (Peter M. Senge)
6. Competing for the Future (Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad)
7. Emotional Intelligence (Daniel Goleman)
8. The Level 5 Leader (Jim Collins)
9. Feedforward (Marshall Goldsmith)
13. December 5
2nd Case Study
14. December 12, 2011 In-class exam and take home
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Mr. Yoest is an adjunct professor of management in the Science, Technology and Business Division of the Northern Virginia Community College. Mr. Yoest also teaches graduate business students at The Catholic University of America. He is also the president of Management Training of DC, LLC.
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]]>Organizational Behavior, MGT 311, Syllabus Fall 2011, The Catholic University of America
Following and linked are the two books for MGT 311 Organizational Behavior for the Fall 2011.
1) A Primer on Organizational Behavior, 7th Edition
James L. Bowditch (Boston College), Anthony F. Buono (Bentley College)
November 2007, ©2008
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP000080.html
2) Classics of Organizational Behavior Fourth Edition
Walter E. Natemeyer and Paul Hersey
http://www.waveland.com/Titles/Natemeyer-Hersey.htm
MGT 311-01
(3070)
Aug 29, 2011-
Dec 17, 2011
Mo 1:10PM - 3:40PM
McMahon 201
Organizational Behavior (Lecture)
Chapter 1. Management And Organizational Behavior.
Learning About Organizational Behavior.
Ethics and Organizational Behavior.
A Historical Framework for the Study of Management and OB.
Early Management.
Classical Management.
Neoclassical Management and Organization Theory.
Modern Management and Organization Theory.
Societal Change and Organizational Behavior.
OB and Advanced Information and Manufacturing Technologies.
The Quality Movement.
Discontent, Cynicism, and Fear in the Workplace.
Sociodemographic Diversity in the Workplace.
Fads and Foibles in Management.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Chapter 2. Perception, Attitudes, And Individual Differences.
Basic Internal Perceptual Organizing Patterns.
Gestalt Psychology.
External Factors in Perception.
Social and Interpersonal Perception.
Schemas and Scripts.
Perceptual Distortion.
Attribution Theory.
Perception and Individual Differences.
Personality.
Self-Concept.
Perception, Individual Differences, and Decision Making.
Attitudes and Attitude Formation.
Attitude Formation.
Attitude Change.
Emotional Intelligence.
Conclusion: The Social Context of Judgment and Choice.
Notes.
Chapter 3. Motivation.
Managerial Assumptions about Human Nature.
Static-Content Theories of Motivation.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Alderfer's ERG Theory.
McClelland's Theory of Socially Acquired Needs.
Needs and Goal Orientation.
Herzberg's Motivator-Hygiene Theory.
Managerial Application: Work Design and Job Enrichment.
Process Theories of Motivation.
Expectancy Theory.
Path-Goal Theory of Motivation.
Goal-Setting Theory.
Managerial Application: Management by Objectives.
Environmentally Based Theories of Motivation.
Operant Conditioning and Reinforcement Theory.
Managerial Application: Organizational Behavior Modification.
Punishment and Discipline.
Social Comparison Theory.
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Rewards and Motivation.
Managerial Application: Gainsharing.
Motivation and the Psychological Contract.
Organizational Commitment and the Psychological Contract.
Choosing an Appropriate Motivational Model.
Contrasting Motivation and Learning.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Chapter 4. Communication.
The Communication Process.
Interpersonal Communication.
Communication Modes.
Barriers to Effective Communication.
Improving Interpersonal Communication.
Organizational Communication.
Knowledge Management.
Communication Networks
Organizational Symbols and Rituals.
In-House Publications.
Communication Roles.
Media Richness and Communication Effectiveness.
Envisioning and Communicating Organizational Change.
Ethics in Organizational Communication.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Chapter 5. Group Dynamics.
Types of Groups.
Primary and Secondary Groups.
Formal and Informal Groups.
Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Groups.
Interacting and Nominal Groups.
Permanent and Temporary Groups.
Basic Attributes of Groups.
Individual and Group Status.
Roles.
Norms.
Cohesiveness.
Group (Organizational) Commitment.
Groupthink.
Choice-Shift (Risky-Shift) Phenomenon.
Social Loafing.
Group Process and Development.
Group Development.
Group and Organizational Socialization.
Observation of Group Process.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Chapter 6. Work Teams And Intergroup Relations: Managing Collaboration And Conflict.
Work Teams.
Managing Teams.
Teams and Social Identity Theory.
Trust Building and Teamwork.
Teams in Action.
Virtual Teams.
Team Conflict.
Intergroup Relations.
Group Interdependence.
Intergroup Conflict.
Conclusion: Implications for Managers.
Notes.
Chapter 7. Leadership, Power, And The Manager.
Leadership and Power.
Power and Authority.
Types of Power.
The Need for Power in Managerial Performance.
Theories of Leadership.
Trait Theory.
Behavioral and Functional Theories.
Contingency Theories.
Attribution Theory.
Leader-Member Relations.
Leadership and Management.
Mintzberg's Managerial Role Set.
The Role of the General Manager.
Implications for Management and Leadership.
Substitutes for Leadership as Supervision.
Transformational Leadership and Organizational Change.
Gender, Power, and Leadership.
Leadership: A Synthesis.
Notes..
Chapter 8. Macro-Organizational Behavior: The Organization's Environment.
Organizational Environment.
Defining Organizational Environment.
Environmental Change and Uncertainty.
Organization-Environment Relations.
Controlling the Environment.
The International Environment.
Globalization and Organizational Behavior.
Transferability of Management Practices.
Societal Culture and Management.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Chapter 9. Organization Structure And Design.
Organizational Structure.
Complexity.
Formalization.
Centralization.
Key Organization Structure Challenges.
Determinants of Structure.
Organization Design.
Simple Structure.
The Functional Organization.
The Divisionalized Form.
Adhocracy.
Market-Based, Network Organizational Forms.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Chapter 10. Organizational Culture And Effectiveness.
Organizational Culture.
Uniqueness of Organizational Cultures.
Objective and Subjective Organizational Culture.
Organizational Subcultures.
Summary.
Diagnosing Organizational Culture.
Culture Change in Organizations.
Culture as Sustained Competitive Advantage.
Ethical Considerations and Organizational Culture.
Organizational Climate.
Organizational Effectiveness.
One-Dimensional Views of Effectiveness.
Competing Values and Organizational Effectiveness.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Chapter 11. Organization Development And Change.
Organization Development.
Laboratory Training.
Survey Research and Feedback.
Sociotechnical Systems.
The Nature of Organization Development.
Intervention Strategies and Change.
Managing Organizational Change.
Changemakers.
Approaches to Organizational Change.
Enabling Large-Scale Organizational Change.
Interventions and Organizational Politics.
Resistance, Support, and Coping with Change.
Organizational Downsizing, Retrenchment, and Resizing.
Conclusion.
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP000080.html
Section I: ORIGINS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
1. The Principles of Scientific Management (Frederick Winslow Taylor)
2. The Giving of Orders (Mark Parker Follett)
3. The Hawthorne Experiments (Fritz J. Roethlisberger)
4. Overcoming Resistance to Change (Lester Coch and John R. P. French, Jr.)
5. The Human Side of Enterprise (Douglas M. McGregor)
Section II: MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE
1. A Theory of Human Motivation (Abraham H. Maslow)
2. Achievement Motivation (David C. McClelland)
3. One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? (Frederick Herzberg)
4. Existence, Relatedness, and Growth Model (Clayton P. Alderfer)
5. Expectancy Theory (John P. Campbell, Marvin D. Dunnette, Edward E. Lawler, III, and Karl E. Weick Jr.)
6. On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B (Steven Kerr)
7. Goal Setting--A Motivational Technique That Works (Gary P. Latham and Edwin A. Locke)
Section III: INTERPERSONAL AND GROUP BEHAVIOR
1. Cosmopolitans and Locals (Alvin W. Gouldner)
2. Assets and Liabilities in Group Decision Making (Norman R. F. Maier)
3. Origins of Group Dynamics (Dorwin Cartwright and Alvin Zander)
4. Group and Intergroup Relationships (Edgar H. Schein)
5. Groupthink (Irving L. Janis)
6. Transactional Analysis (Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward)
7. The Johari Window (Jay Hall)
8. The Abilene Paradox: The Management of Agreement (Jerry B. Harvey)
9. Stages of Group Development (Bruce W. Tuckman and Mary Ann C. Jensen)
10. Self-Directed Work Teams (Ralph Stayer)
Section IV: LEADERSHIP
1. The Managerial Grid (Robert Blake and Jane Mouton)
2. How to Choose a Leadership Pattern (Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H. Schmidt)
3. Leadership Decision Making (Victor H. Vroom and Arthur G. Jago)
4. One Minute Management (Kenneth H. Blanchard)
5. Fundamental Leadership Practices (James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner)
6. Management and Leadership (John P. Kotter)
7. Servant Leadership (Robert K. Greenleaf)
8. Situational Leadership (Paul Hersey)
9. Crucibles of Leadership (Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas)
Section V: POWER AND INFLUENCE
1. Is It Better to Be Loved of Feared? (Niccolo Machiavelli)
2. The Bases of Social Power (John R. P. French, Jr. and Bertram Raven)
3. Position Power and Personal Power (Amitai Etzioni)
4. Who Gets Power--and How They Hold on to It (Gerald R. Salancik and Jeffrey Pfeffer)
5. The Power of Leadership (James MacGregor Burns)
6. Situational Leadership and Power (Paul Hersey and Walter E. Natemeyer)
Section V: ORGANIZATIONS, WORK PROCESSES, AND PEOPLE
1. Bureaucracy (Max Weber)
2. The Individual and the Organization (Chris Argyris)
3. Mechanistic and Organic Systems (Tom Burns and G. M. Stalker)
4. Management Systems 1-4 (Rensis Likert)
5. Management by Objectives (George S. Odiorne)
6. Differentiation and Integration (Paul R. Lawrence and Jay W. Lorsch)
7. What's Missing in MBO? (Paul Hersey and Kenneth H. Blanchard)
8. Reengineering Work Processes (Michael Hammer and James Champy)
Section VII: INCREASING LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
1. Skills of an Effective Administrator (Robert L. Katz)
2. Leadership Effectiveness Can Be Learned (Peter F. Drucker)
3. Organization Development (Wendell French)
4. In Search of Excellence (Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman)
5. The Learning Organization (Peter M. Senge)
6. Competing for the Future (Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad)
7. Emotional Intelligence (Daniel Goleman)
8. The Level 5 Leader (Jim Collins)
9. Feedforward (Marshall Goldsmith)
]]>By John Stemberger, President, Florida Family Policy Council
June 24, 2011
There is an endless supply of bad news facing American culture. However, we can remain optimistic about some good news-- we continue to gain significant ground in the battle against abortion. As a movement, we are advancing the cause of life and winning people on the issue so quickly and on so many fronts, it is hard to keep track.
Despite President Obama's recent appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court and the challenge they present to the hope of ever seeing the Roe v. Wade decision reversed in our lifetime, abortions have continued to gradually decline since the 1980's.
In the past 20 years, abortions have dropped from 1.6 million to about 1.3 million per year. That's a drop of 19 percent. Below are just ten of many recent developments of the last decade that should give us great hope that we may very well be witnessing the beginning of the end of abortion in America.
1) Polls Show Americans, and Especially Young People, are more Pro-life Than Ever- For the first time in many years, the majority of Americans are pro-life. With each new poll, there is growing evidence that we are building a cultural consensus and winning hearts and minds for the idea that we should protect the unborn by banning or restricting abortion in most instances.
In May of 2011, a Gallup poll found that 61 percent of Americans want all or most abortions to be illegal and believe that abortion is "morally wrong." This equates to 61 percent of Americans who believe that abortions should be either legal under no circumstances or legal only under a few circumstances.
While one could argue that the data shows that many people have mixed feelings and want to identify with both sides, that conflict in and of itself is progress since even people who identify themselves as pro-choice continue to wrestle with and make concessions regarding the greatest moral and social issue of our day.
The only thing more encouraging than the poll numbers themselves is the fact that the young people are more pro-life than ever! This is exciting because if we can capture the imagination and convictions of a single generation, then we are well on our way to gradually moving the pro-life position to a morally preferred position in both secular and institutional circles.
One example of this progress is Students for Life, a national organization that is growing by leaps and bounds and which has become a major force in the pro-life movement as evidenced by its presence on hundreds of university and college campuses around the country.
2) Technology Shines Truth Into The Womb- One of the many reasons for the increase in public opinion against abortion is that technology has revealed with stunning visual clarity "what that really is that is in the womb" and it is not merely a "blob of flesh".
Pro-life leader and attorney Ken Connor has often said, "It's not a duck or a Buick-- it is a baby!" In 2004, Focus on the Family began distributing ultrasound machines for the Option Ultrasound Program which has provided 80 percent of the funding for ultrasound machines to pregnancy medical clinics. Focus estimates that over 90,000 babies have been saved since the program's inception.
In 2010, National Geographic started distributing an amazing video called the "Biology of Prenatal Development". This award-winning documentary uses state-of-the-art technology to present real-time footage of human development from fertilization to birth inside the womb and is designed to be used in schools as an educational tool.
The advent of the internet has also made readily available to women information about abortion including its risks and complications. Hundreds of videos and websites provide women with instant information to make a much more informed "choice" than was previously available.
3) Both Politicians and Public Policy is More Pro-life Than Ever- I was recently in Tampa with Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum and Connie Mackey of FRC Action PAC to help them scout out facilities in which to hold the large pro-life caucus meeting held during the Republican National Convention.
Phyllis has been leading the fight to keep the pro-life plank in the GOP platform since the 1964 Goldwater campaign. Her experiences in recent history made it clear to me that since 2008, the GOP has virtually conceded that the pro-life position is a critical and non-negotiable part of the Republican platform. In fact, the leadership of the Republican Party now clearly understands that the GOP cannot win without being pro-life.
It is also apparent that Republican consultants now regularly advise candidates to say that they are pro-life for strictly pragmatic reasons. "Pro-choice" Republicans are apparently also "losing" Republicans in closed primaries in most political districts in America.
The challenge in 2011 is not to find pro-life Republicans, but to figure out which ones really mean it. The millions of Americans who view abortion as a morally disqualifying issue prove that being pro-life is not just good policy, but is also good politics. As Ronald Reagan once said, "It is not necessary for them to see the light-- but merely to feel the heat."
In April of 2011, Michael New wrote in State Politics and Policy Quarterly, a peer-reviewed publication aimed at state policymakers, that a review of abortion data from 1985 through 2005 provides "solid evidence" that laws restricting, but not outlawing abortion, "have an impact on the childbearing decisions of women."
Additionally, in just the past 90 days, state legislators around the country have enacted unprecedented pro-life legislation on the heels of the election upsets that occurred in November of 2010. For example, the Florida legislature has passed only four pro-life bills in the past 15 years, but has approved five major pieces of pro-life legislation in the 2011 Legislative Session alone.
4) Blacks and Latinos are Beginning to Lead the Movement- My good friend John Ensor has said that "abortion will end in America when Blacks and Latinos are not just involved-- but are leading the pro-life movement." He is right. And this "third wave" of the pro-life movement is gradually starting to appear and grow.
Babies of all ethnicities are being aborted at grossly disproportionate rates. Although Black and Latino women make up only 25% of the population, they account for 59% of all abortions.
In 2004, Planned Parenthood closed 20% of all their clinics nationwide but still performed about 25% more abortions. They did this by closing clinics in rural and sparsely populated areas and focusing instead on inner cities with higher concentrations of Black-American and Latino women. Roughly 94% of abortions clinics are located in cities.
I recently debated a Planned Parenthood leader at the FAMU College of Law in Orlando on this question chosen by the predominantly minority law school students: "Is Abortion Black Genocide?" Just the fact that the students from this prominent Black-American College chose this title for the debate actually says quite a bit about the progress that we are making in increasing awareness of the sanctity of life.
Every year in January during the anniversary of Roe v Wade, I go to the local Planned Parenthood clinic sidewalks with my children and others to pray and to peacefully draw attention to the great atrocity that takes place at these facilities.
This year, I was amazed to find that there were about 200 people gathered, and that almost half of them were people of color. I saw Blacks, Latinos, and mixed races. In addition, about half of those present were younger people under the age of 35. Furthermore, the minorities present led the prayers, the public speaking and the songs. When I saw this I first began to wonder, could we be witnessing the beginning of the end?
5) Hollywood and its Movies are more Pro-Life than Ever- In the last five to seven years, almost every major motion picture that has directly touched upon the issue of abortion or that has portrayed pregnant mothers has been pro-life.
This development is simply remarkable. The movies Bella, Juno, Knocked Up, Waitress, Children of Men, Look Who's Talking, and August Rush all portray mothers (and sometimes fathers) who made critical pro-life decisions. I could not even recommend all of these movies, but even the raunchy ones got it right on this issue.
Fully animated children's movies like Finding Nemo and Horton Hears-a-Who also present storylines that respect and honor life. Jason Jones, one of the producers of the movie Bella, told me that he knows politically liberal, secular Hollywood producers who are strongly pro-life. We are talking about Hollywood movie producers!
One openly gay movie producer, who stands in opposition to abortion, reportedly stated, "If I could raise enough money, we could end abortion in America-- through movies." This is serious progress toward reaching our goal of developing a cultural consensus.
6) The Resurgence of Side Walk Counseling and other Pro-Life Activism- This observation may just be isolated to my regional observations in Florida, but it appears that more and more pro-life supporters have become comfortable with the idea of physically going to abortion clinics.
By attending to the sidewalks in front of these clinics, pro-lifers are able to peacefully counsel, pray, provide assistance, hold signs, preach and plead with mothers to abstain from killing their babies. Sidewalk counselors are truly the front line of the pro-life movement; and their courage and commitment is truly admirable.
The depiction of pictures and videos outside of clinics is a more controversial, but some would argue effective tactic that displays the actual practice and product of an abortion by showing the dismembered and destroyed unborn child that results.
Greg Cunningham's group, the Center for Bioethical Reform, carefully and intentionally uses this strategy. CBR presents its Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) on college campuses all around the country after requesting the legal assistance of our organization to demonstrate its legal right to be there.
The GAP is a traveling photo mural exhibit which displays graphic forms of genocide in world history and places them in a historical context with abortion. The photos include the remains of dead bodies from the Cambodian Killing Fields, Jewish Holocaust victims, and African Americans killed in racist lynchings. The GAP has been to colleges and universities all over the country and has made a lasting impression upon the tens of thousands of students who have viewed it and experienced its sobering impact.
7) The Crisis Pregnancy Center Movement Begins Planning Strategically - In my view, Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPC) and the people who run them are modern day heroes. The work they do is simply amazing.
Time magazine did a cover story in 2007 entitled: "The Abortion Campaign You Never Hear About: Crisis Pregnancy Centers are working to win over one woman at a time." However, CPC's have historically popped up organically without serious thought about how many others were around it or the locations of nearby abortion clinics.
In other words, the CPC movement has never thought about itself globally or strategically-- until recently. Heartbeat International under the leadership of Peggy Hartshorn and John Ensor has pioneered a strategic study and a plan to counter the systematic placement of Planned Parenthood's abortion clinics in inner cities...
Over the last 7 years, Ensor has lived for extended periods of time in Boston, Miami, Los Angeles and then to Pittsburg to plant sustainable CPC's in those cities that are plagued with the highest concentrations of abortion clinics in the county. This inner city CPC planting strategy reaches more women and allows Black and Latino churches to take local ownership in and leadership for the sustained support of the ministry.
8) Planned Parenthood's Fraud Has Been Exposed and is Being Stripped of Public Funding - 2010 and 2011 were without question the worst years in Planned Parenthood's (PP) recent public relations history.
Lila Rose, an unassuming but striking college student has rocked their world with a series of undercover sting operations that has exposed the largest abortion provider's rampant fraud, corruption, and criminal conduct.
Her student lead organization Live Action, and its undercover investigations have repeatedly caught PP clinic personnel lying, covering up child sexual abuse, and aiding those involved in child sex trafficking. The stunning video that documents the findings of these historic student-led investigations have helped to fuel the fire that led to the defunding of PP by several states which stripped them of taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions.
PP receives approximately 363 million dollars from state and federal public funding. Recently, Congress tried but failed to ban the funding. As of June 2011, the states of Kansas, Indiana and North Carolina have all cut state funding directed to PP.
In 2012, Florida will also have a state constitutional amendment on the ballot which will give voters the opportunity to ban the public funding of abortions.
9) Post-Abortive Women have become an Increasingly Powerful Voice - The generations of women who grew up under Roe and who were lied to and told that abortion was a safe and simple procedure have become emboldened and are no longer silent about their difficult experiences.
Silent No More, Operation Outcry and A Cry without a Voice are three very different national organizations that all collect the voices, stories and testimonies of women who have had abortions and who want to speak and write about their experiences of pain and regret.
Relational and existential evidence of the dangers and risks associated with abortion is a powerful tool to spread awareness and concern for the issue of life.
These brave women share their deeply personal testimonies about the mental, physical and spiritual pain and complications that have resulted from the abortions they underwent.
10) Abortion doctors are being disciplined, leaving the industry and not replacing themselves- All across the country, abortionists are being reprimanded for their violations of local, state and federal laws.
Some have even had their licenses revoked. Some are being punished by medical boards and others have just walked away from the sickening practice or have been converted and are now pro-life advocates.
There are approximately 40 percent fewer abortion doctors than 20 years ago, and fewer men and women are willing to consider entering the industry. The bottom line is that each year, fewer abortions are performed and fewer individuals are becoming abortionists in our nation.
The skeptic may argue that many of my observations are anecdotal and unscientific. However, it seems clear that these developments are relatively recent, unique, and are all occurring at an unprecedented rate.
I was recently in Washington, D.C. speaking on this topic before a group of national leaders. After speaking, I sat next to Dr. Jack Wilke, one of the founders of the pro-life movement in America and asked him if he agreed with my observations nationally or whether they are confined to Florida.
He quickly agreed that amazing things are happening in the pro-life movement not just in Florida, but around the country. The entire abortion industry is on the ropes and is being hit hard from multiple sides. Now is not the time to rest but rather to double up our efforts and to work harder than ever while we have a providential window and extraordinary momentum.
My final prayer is that we will look back upon abortion in America with the same shame, outrage and sadness that we now look upon the barbaric practice of slavery. While we continue to labor diligently to reach that goal, we can be encouraged by the fact that we are making significant progress and may just be witnessing "the beginning of the end..." of abortion in America.
John Stemberger is an Orlando lawyer who leads the Florida Family Policy Council and has been an advocate in the pro-life movement for over 30 years
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