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Rod Dreher
Food stamps at … Whole Foods?!
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Rod Dreher
And you thought people on food stamps only bought buckets o’ crap: “I’m sort of a foodie, and I’m not going to do the ‘living off ramen’ thing,” he said, fondly remembering a recent meal he’d prepared of roasted rabbit with butter, tarragon and sweet potatoes. “I used to think that you could only get…
Social Security going broke faster
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Rod Dreher
For the first time ever, Social Security will pay out more in benefits this year than it will have taken in — a threshold on the way to the system’s insolvency that Social Security wasn’t expected to reach till 2016. This news brings to mind why I am down about health care reform. I don’t…
Manners make the Mom
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Rod Dreher
To the young mother sitting across from me on the Acela: Look, I know it’s tough to deal with a screaming toddler. We’ve all been there. Traveling with little ones can be really hard. I am pleased to be patient — to a point. If you would make some good-faith effort to calm the squalling…
Two cheers for Red Toryism
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Rod Dreher
Phillip Blond played to a packed house at Villanova last night. In the audience was our longtime blog friend Franklin Evans, who turned me into a newt, then joshingly relented. A good time was had by all, I think. Having listened to Phillip speak at length twice about his ideas, I’d like to say a…
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