Dennis Prager, a writer and radio host over at Townhall, is someone I grew up listening to and admiring, on the radio and in person. Here he is on free school lunches, a topic I've let go under the radar. He makes some really great points, getting at some of the subtle effects of these huge programs that we may not always think about.
And that shines light on what I think might be part of a different problem. There is a lot of substance in his column, the material for a genuine, smart, honest debate about large and expensive policies. But the problem is the tone: Dennis's column is angry, a diatribe, with large font yelling at the "Left," which turn his incisive points into full-on indiscriminate hammer blows. Sadly, that's the way he and other conservative write, masking fodder for debate with frantic arm-swinging.
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