Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truism that children can't vote, but Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of When the Bough Breaks: The Costs of Neglecting Our Children, has discovered that their parents don't vote either. In the last national election, only 39% of adults with children at home cast a ballot, as compared with 61% of the elderly. During the 1950s, says Hewlett, who runs a nonprofit organization aimed at getting parents to the polls, 65% of parents voted...
Just as the believers had to yield in the face of evidence that contradicts their assumptions, though, so have the naysayers. It's a truism in archaeology that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Digging up the past is a hit-or-miss proposition. And one hit can demolish a mountain of skepticism. Among the discoveries that strengthen the Bible's claim to historical accuracy...
Newt Gingrich, perhaps the most visionary of all prominent politicians (a truism no matter how one might feel about his particular politics), makes headlines by bashing TV talk shows for destroying the moral fabric of America while Bob Dole cashes in with a calculated and highly successful attack on Hollywood. Bill Bennet, the conservative author of The Book of Virtues recently observed that Colin Powell would be a good president for America, not because his views coincide with Bennett's (they don't), but because he more than any other candidate would be able to make use of the bully...
...James Demus, pastor of the Park Manor Christian Church on Chicago's South Side, joined Chicago's Million Man March steering committee. Says he of Farrakhan's followers: "I admire their work in cleaning up drugs; I admire their sense of cleanliness and frugal spending." He adds the urban truism, "In this neighborhood, the word is you don't mess with the Muslims...
...longer required to pony up their own funds as a condition of federal help, the money they do earmark for welfare will have to compete with every other program. In battles like those, the politically powerless lose, and no group has less clout than the poor. In fact, this truism has already caused welfare benefits to decline about 40% in constant dollars over the past 20 years. States strapped for cash--as all of them are--cut welfare first...