I would say that the Iranians can’t have a nuclear weapon, in my view. But I also believe that we’ve got a lot of things to do–that we could do, including getting other nations together to impose meaningful sanctions, painful sanctions on the Iranians, which I think could have a beneficial effect. I’m very pleased that the new president of France’s leadership on this role. There’s enough economic and political clout amongst European countries and other nations in the world who share our common values and ideals and goals to put enormous pressures on the Iranians.
On Fox News Sunday, House minority leader John Boehner pointed out the slippery slope Democrats are hoping to create by its massive expansion of S-CHIP, explaining “What we believe is that we ought to be insuring poor children first. … If you look at what the Democrats are trying to do, they’re trying to create a much larger share of health coverage in America run by the government. Most people don’t want government run health insurance.” This Week‘s roundtable took on the newest addition to Al Gore’s trophy cabinet, the Nobel Peace Prize. In many ways, this exchange is symbolic of the media’s exceptionally ignorant take on global warming, portrayed here by Sam Donaldson:
George Will: The panel does the science. [Gore] does the hyperbole that gets people to pay attention to the science. … The [IPCC] says ‘over the next century we might anticipate a one foot increase in the sea levels,’ approximately what we’ve had since 1860 without a planetary crisis. Mr. Gore says ‘20 feet!’ Hence the scene in his movie where Ground Zero is under water, because he assumes that all of the ice in Greenland melts. Which, the scientists say, could happen in a thousand years or more. Sam Donaldson: Well, wrong, wrong. There are now studies which suggest that within 30 years the polar icecap may melt. George Will: It’s not polar. We’re talking about Greenland. Sam Donaldson: Well it’s near enough for government work.
Meet the Press did something interesting this week, spending an entire hour talking with Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint about their new book, Come on People: On the Path from Victims to Victors. Among the many good points Cosby made was this one, on the mindset of the single mother:
If a young girl says, “I want to have a baby because I want something that, that loves me,” that young lady is saying something. And we’ve got to talk to her about herself and her idea of love. She hasn’t graduated from high school, she’s willing to, to have a child. All of these character corrections are not being done while record companies are putting out records inviting people to continue that kind of behavior, to, to not talk about get an education. It’s just as easy to put that to a rhythm.
For a real-life telling of one such story, make sure to read David Simon’s The Corner, a harrowing account of a year in the life of an inner city family. If Cosby can do something to change the mindset of such families, we’ll all be better off.
