Same feeling I have about Trump. He loves the country and the people who make the country go. I will never forget the time he held up a big baby boy and told the proud momma, in admiring tones, to the cheers of observers, “Construction worker!”
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The Iron Lady
Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope St. John Paul II won for us the Cold War. My personal opinion.
LCQ,
I’m praying that Pope Leo will be a Fearless Pope in the face of the demons that are all around us like JPII. I’d love to see a Papal visit to Taiwan on the agenda (since the ChiComs would never give in permission to come there).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTFu3Q_pkeY
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Canada’s judiciary loves the aboriginal grifter-and-karenwaffe set.
Feminists won’t give Thatcher credit for what she achieved as a female world leader. A trailblazer. One of the most key figures of modern politics who altered the course of history. I guess she wasn’t the “right” type of female for them. Brits (some anyway) couldn’t get past the fact she was direct and decisive.
If there ever was a time that Britain needed Thatcher, it’s now. It’s a shame what that country has allowed itself to become.
Feminists won’t give Thatcher credit for what she achieved as a female world leader.
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Capable and accomplished people do not interest them.
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‘Feminism’, like ‘the Peter Principle’ and “Murphy’s Law” has short form and long form definitions. The short-form is ‘the habit of looking at human relations with the assumption that women have options and men have obligations’.
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I think you’d have to scrounge to locate a legal measure sought by soi-disant feminists or a social practice promoted by them that was advisable. You could find categorical hire bars and discharge mandates in public employment it would have been salutary to remove. There were off-the-books activities in workplaces which might have been defined as tortious (e.g. attempting to extort sex from employees). The allocation of slots in state higher education between all female, all male, and co-ed schools could have been adjusted some places and ill-considered admissions screens in state professional schools removed. Domestic employees should have been incorporated into the Social Security and unemployment compensation systems from the beginning. One thing feminists never took an interest in but did largely disappear was stupefying alimony awards. (The radio satirist Henry Morgan labored under such an award for decades).
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“The short-form is ‘the habit of looking at human relations with the assumption that women have options and men have obligations’.”
Good point.
Reverse that in the domestic setting, and what you have is “women have obligations” (which is correct they do) and “men have options.”…yikes!… The fair thing would be “women and men have obligations.” Different obligations. Women shift theirs at different stages in their life.
I’m under no illusion that Thatcher didn’t have to outsource part of her domestic obligations to run a country. You can’t do both well at the same time. It’s impossible.
Thatcher defeated the Communists in the East and the Communists in the old Labour Party (who are sadly attempting a comeback: witness Starmer’s “vengeance VAT” on private school tuition and another proposed on private medical insurance).
Tom – it’s on the record that Starmer (and his wife) both attended Private Schools and Starmer himself benefited from fully funded bursaries for the private education he received. As one former classmate recently said “Starmer is fudging the facts” about his own privileged education and now actively destroying opportunities for students to benefit from the same privileges he grew up with. The left lie. The headlines are “Starmer is only good at driving out the wealthy and ambitious”
Our PM who grew up in social housing and raised by a single mother, now owns multiple investment properties in the inner city (his own electorate) including a multi-million dollar beach side mansion, all while having an entire career as a politician and never working a day in the private sector. And yet he wants to raise the GST tax to 15% on goods and services to pay for his welfare state. Make that add up. The left lie.