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RECOVERING. CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN, 49, New Jersey's Governor and rising G.O.P. star; from surgery to remove an ovarian cyst; in Morristown, New Jersey...
There is a wonderfully telling moment in Bradley Whitman's piece "Welfare's Lost Children." (Opinion, Sept. 30) One can almost see the hand-wave when he says that "such a policy would force many unwed mothers to give up their children to the state, but in the long run, the benefits to society would outweigh the costs." Even leaving aside all of the other laughable defects of this assertion, like the reality that raising a child in an orphanage is orders of magnitude more expensive than raising that same child in its family, there is something idiotically perverse going...
Apparently, Whitman believes that the second parent's role is of such paramount importance that we may as well give up on the family if there's only one parent around. Given his statement that children from single-parent households are more likely to end up single parents themselves, I'm surprised he didn't bother to extend this line of thinking to the no-parent household...
...have yet to see a cogent call for welfare reform that doesn't contain at least one serious ellipsis in its logic Usually, however--and unlike Whitman--their authors at least try to conceal such leaps of faith. --James Grimmelmann...
...relative novice like Pat Buchanan look like George Washington. His only turn in public life was as chairman of the board of International Broadcasting for eight years, a position that gave him a little exposure to Washington. His foray into campaign politics so far consists of advising Christine Todd Whitman in her successful run for the New Jersey governorship in 1993. So he takes comfort in the example of Wendell Willkie, the utilities executive and political neophyte who grabbed the G.O.P. nomination in 1940. Forbes is willing to spend $10 million of his own money--an estimated...