Hillary and the Garbage she “Forever” Drags Around

Hillary Clinton Has a ‘Woody Allen Problem’

By Larry Elder – February 6, 2014

Dylan Farrow, now 28 years old, is the adopted daughter of Oscar-winning director Woody Allen. In “An Open Letter From Dylan Farrow,” published in The New York Times, Dylan accuses her father of inappropriately touching her “for as long as I could remember.” She said: “When I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house. He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me.”

Not good news for Mr. Allen — or for Hillary Rodham Clinton. Here’s why.

Dylan’s brother, Ronan Farrow (formerly known as Satchel) is Allen’s biological child. Ronan Farrow was appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s special adviser for the Office of Global Youth Issues in 2011. He has long sided with his sister, considering his dad a monster who serially molested his sister and who, through his representatives, called his mother and sister liars.

Former President Bill Clinton’s defenders did the very same to accusers Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers, et al, that Ronan believes Woody did to his mother and sister. These women — most of whose claims were eventually admitted to by Bill Clinton — were shamed and blamed. Was Hillary involved in these verbal attacks? To what degree was the famously hands-on wife of Bill involved — or even worse — leading the “nuts or sluts” strategy used to malign his accusers as either crazy or of questionable morals?

Media justify the attention on so-called “Bridgegate” because, after all, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is a likely GOP presidential candidate. Why does Hillary Clinton get a pass over the serious allegation that she bullied a woman who claims Bill raped her?

Juanita Broaddrick, an operator of nursing homes, accused former President Bill Clinton, then Arkansas’ attorney general, of rape. Broaddrick, then a Clinton campaign volunteer, described what allegedly happened in a Little Rock hotel room. “Stupid me, I ordered coffee to the room,” she said. “I thought we were going to talk about the campaign.” Broaddrick told “Dateline NBC”: “I first pushed him away. I just told him ‘no.’ … He tries to kiss me again. He starts biting on my lip. … And then he forced me down on the bed. I just was very frightened. I tried to get away from him. I told him ‘no.’ … He wouldn’t listen to me.”

What does this have to do with Hillary?

Broaddrick claims that two weeks after the rape, at a political event, Hillary approached her. “She came over to me, took ahold of my hand and said, ‘I’ve heard so much about you and I’ve been dying to meet you. … I just want you to know how much that Bill and I appreciate what you do for him.’ …

“This woman, this little, soft-spoken — pardon me for the phrase — dowdy woman that would seem very unassertive, took ahold of my hand and squeezed it and said, ‘Do you understand? Everything that you do.’ I could have passed out at that moment and I got my hand from hers and I left. … She was just holding onto my hand. Because I had started to turn away from her and she held onto my hand and she said, ‘Do you understand? EVERYTHING that you do,’ I mean, cold chills went up my spine. That’s the first time I became afraid of that woman.”

Bill Clinton publically called White House intern Monica Lewinsky, a liar.

Bill denied having an affair with Gennifer Flowers, publicly called her a liar, while surrogates trashed her as a “saloon singer.” Years later, Clinton finally admitted that, yes, Flowers told the truth when she said their relationship had been sexual. The President’s defenders dismissed allegations by former Arkansas staffer Paula Jones, who accused then-Gov. Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct. Clinton defender-in-chief James Carville said, “If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find.”

In the midst of all this, Hillary appeared on television — and blamed political opponents. “The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it,” she said, “is this vast rightwing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.”

During the ’12 campaign, the media spent considerable time on an unproven accusation that teenage Mitt Romney abused a gay high school classmate by cutting his hair nearly 50 years ago. When will Hillary face questions about her role in the mistreatment of Bill’s alleged victims of sexual assault, abuse or harassment?

What, if anything, did she say to Broaddrick?

And how much did she know when she self-righteously blamed their scandals on the “vast rightwing conspiracy”? Allegations of threats, abuse and thuggery are one thing when, like Allen, one makes movies.

But Hillary may become the president of the United States.

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Modern Orphanages Outscore FosterCare in Study

from the National Center for Policy Analysis:

Foster Care versus Modern Orphanages
February 6, 2014

Arguably, child welfare officials should understand that children need some stability in their lives, something that was once offered in orphanages and is not offered in foster care, says Richard McKenzie, the Walter B. Gerken Professor emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, and a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis.

McKenzie surveyed 2,500 aging alumni who lived in 15 American orphanages prior to the mid-1960s. The orphanage alumni at the time of his research had outpaced their age counterparts on education, income and attitudes toward life (and a couple of dozen other social-economic measures):

•The alumni had a median income 10 percent to 60 percent higher than the general population in their age group; in part because they had a 39 percent higher college graduation rate.
•They also had substantially lower unemployment and crime rates.
•More than 85 percent of the alumni reported favorable or very favorable assessments of their orphanage days. A scant 2 percent reported unfavorable memories.
The vast majority of the alumni shuddered at the thought of spending their youth in foster care.

Surely there have been, and continue to be, bad orphanages in the world, but such could just as surely be said of biological family care, and certainly of foster care.

Critics sometimes acknowledge positive life outcomes for alumni of orphanages of the past, but question the ability to orphanages to function today. McKenzie spent the fall of 2011 embedded in a self-proclaimed “modern-day orphanage,” the Crossnore School, hidden in the North Carolina Appalachian Mountains and home to close to a hundred children in all grades who openly talked with him about their life experiences, before and during Crossnore.

•A seriously withdrawn 13 year old read on the fourth-grade level on admission, but she graduated from high school on time, and then went to community college.
•A teenage girl was admitted after enduring sexual abuse from age 8 to 11 from her stepfather. After years of truancy, she graduated on time and now attends community college.
•A 12-year-old boy, who faced a tragic childhood because of his father’s psychoses, developed a network of middle school drug dealers. When caught at age 14, Crossnore took a chance on him and reversed his miserable school record. On high school graduation, he became the first teenager to be hired on a major 2008 presidential campaign. He recently graduated on a full scholarship from an elite Northeastern university — with honors.
There is a need for a menu of care options, including adoption and children’s homes. Foster care — with kids often going through up to a dozen or more placements before aging out of the system — should not be the only child care game in town.

Source: Richard B. McKenzie, “Foster Care versus Modern Orphanages,” National Center for Policy Analysis, February 2014.