[snip] The real ownership society. “In 1993, 72 percent of all applications from black home buyers resulted in loans,” writes Kimbriell Kelly in the Chicago Reporter, after surveying federal records for Chicago. “In 2003, just 48 percent did.”
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[snip] The price of integration. According to a study of more than 7,000 Arizona teens published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Hispanic teenagers for whom Spanish is the primary language are 65 percent less likely to have sex than Hispanic teens whose primary language is English. An accompanying editorial notes that this is just one aspect of a “healthy immigrant effect”: being less integrated into American society is also associated with lower infant mortality, better immunization rates, healthier diet, fewer suicide attempts, and a lower rate of alcohol, tobacco, and drug use.
[snip] Why real libertarians steer clear of conservatives. “After 10 years in power, the exact things that Republicans said were wrong with prior Congresses have become worse under their control,” write John Samples and Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute in the American Spectator. “In 1995, Bill Frist of Tennessee went to the Senate floor to denounce Bill Clinton’s budget policies, arguing for ‘adjustment, reform, and downsizing the federal government.’ He charged that ‘without a balanced budget agreement, there will be profoundly negative consequences.’ Today, Majority Leader Frist and his party preside over a deficit that is twice as big as in 1995. . . . Recent omnibus spending bills have contained twice as many earmarked spending projects as Democratic bills used to contain.”
