All posts tagged "Ramesh Ponnuru"

A conservative critic branded the Trump administration's proposed incentives to encourage Americans to have more babies as something out of a Soviet-era Eastern Bloc country.

On CNN's Inside Politics Tuesday, Dana Bash cited a New York Times article about the administration's ideas to bolster the birthrate, that include $5,000 bonuses to new mothers, menstrual education programs, and a "Medal of Motherhood" for parents with six or more children.

"My view on this, has been that surveys for decades have shown that Americans would like to have more kids than they end up having," said The Washington Post's Ramesh Ponnuru. "And, so, the the thing that we need to be looking at as policymakers or people who are interested in this, is, how do we remove the obstacles that are keeping people from achieving their goals for their families, not trying to change their minds or socially engineer an outcome for them, which starts to look, frankly, weird and creepy." ...

Michael F. Cannon and Ramesh Ponnuru write an article called "You Mislead!", which is apparently the NRO method of sympathizing with Joe Wilson, two weeks late and with a lot more lying.