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America is filled with parks that are filthy, dangerous and badly maintained. Bryant Park, in midtown Manhattan, was once such an unsavory place. But now it's nice. What changed? It's been essentially privatized.
by John Stossel
Our culture offers so much, materially, that it's easy for our children-and for us, too—to take for granted how much we really have. The antidote? Gratitude.
Conservative Americans are happier than liberal Americans. Liberals respond this way: "If we're unhappier, it's because we are more upset than conservatives over the plight of those less fortunate than ourselves." But common sense and data suggest other explanations.
The island had spent decade after decade isolated, premodern and rural — and then in just a few short years, boom, modernity! There was a time, not so very long ago, when everyone wanted to take credit for this transformation. Nobody tells those kinds of stories anymore.
The crisis faced by black children cannot be solved without bringing neglectful parents back into the fold.
by Bob Herbert
When it comes to the increasing sex, violence and profanity in entertainment media, the social libertines are indifferent. They insist that children will hardly be warped or ruined by the media they consume. They chortle at the paranoia of Hollywood critics. Their mantra: If you don't like it, just turn the channel. But if the issue isn't indecency, but instead, say, obesity, so many of those titans of "tolerance" suddenly become the censors.
by Brent Bozell