The two biggest lessons of the last two decades regarding the black inner cities is that policing is important for reducing crime and welfare reforms matter a lot. Heather MacDonald recently wrote about Obama:

For all his effort to touch an array of policy bases, Obama ignored the single most effective urban policy of the last decade: accountable, data-driven policing. The conquest of crime has done more to revive troubled cities than any other government policy of the last 40 years.

Likewise, regarding welfare, the most important welfare reforms of all time were implemented in 1996. These reforms placed time limits on getting the basic welfare check (TANF). With out-of-wedlock birthrates climbing to 90% in the black inner cities, enabled by single mothers being able to survive on welfare without living with the fathers of their children, it was obvious some reforms were needed. Most liberals however (including Obama), resisted reforms and warned of a catastrophe, but the opposite occurred. Welfare mothers began working more and child poverty rates dropped. We need to build on the idea of more restrictions on welfare, but Obama talks nothing about doing this.

Being half black, if Obama pushed for most intensive policing in black neighborhoods and reducing welfare benefits, some would call him a traitor to his race. Based on his past writings, it is very important for Obama to show that he authentically black. So if Obama is elected to president, don’t expect much improvement in the lives of inner city blacks.

I am not saying Obama’s intentions are bad. Obama does support improving infrastructure that could impact the inner cities. But doing a better job of paving the roads will not do squat for reducing the percentage of single parents or cutting crime, the things most needed to revive black inner cities.

All of these inner city problems reinforce each other. Single mothers often do an inadequate job of disciplining their sons. The boys then, with no fathers around, turn to gangs to find father figures and make money via crime. If they get girls pregnant, it is no problem because the girls can get welfare. Lax policing allows the gangs to thrive and gang members take on prestige in the neighborhoods. It is a never ending cycle that can only be broken with major welfare reform and more aggressive policing.

The black inner cities will become livable, vibrant places only with major new policies. We need change - but Obama will have none of that. It will just be more of the same, with maybe a few more paved roads.

A woman running for office with five kids is a bad mother, the msm have established. But a man who ran for national office with ten kids at home, including a six month-old, and a pregnant wife — became a hero, a martyr, and an icon to which all dreams of what liberalism might have been were attached for a generation. Was Robert F. Kennedy ever vilified for ignoring his family? Did anyone sneer at his failure to abort or use contraception? No and no.

But now I have finally discovered real sexism, sexism of the rawest and most blatant kind. In your face sexism. Where is it? Well its coming this week from the feminists and left-liberals regarding Sarah Palin! Instapundit today links to a site set up to begin to document it , and there is plenty already. None of this would ever be said about a man.

What hypocrisy! This is truly the PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome). The irony of course is that they are just making the McCain-Palin ticket stronger.

The thing that I have always so disliked about so many left-liberals is that they just have to despise their opponents. There is no spirited disagreement. No, if you disagree with them - you are low-life scumbag. Now Palin is getting this treatment firsthand. The only thing is - she can bite back.

There is a downright desperation among Democrats on what to do about Palin. To Hillary Clinton’s credit, so far she has refused to chime in from some sexist angle.

And where are left-liberal feminsits defending Palin against sexist abuse?