Liberals have a legitimate gripe about idiotic mandatory minimum sentences that keep nonviolent drug offenders in prison longer than rapists. Youth violence is not the fault of Hollywood, it's the fault of the perpetrators. The truth is, when risk factors for violent behavior are evaluated by experts, media violence doesn't even make the list. In the National Research Council's highly regarded 1993 evaluation of the biological, psychological and social science research on what causes violence in society, poverty, access to weapons and drug use were among the factors, but media violence wasn't. Bottom line is, violence is the fault of the perpetrator and that is solely where the responsibility should lie.
Women already get equal pay for equal work.
The figure tossed around these days is that the average American woman makes 75 cents for every dollar earned by a man. Economists, though, will tell you the comparison is specious, like comparing apples to kumquats. The figure merely compares the wages of full-time employees by gender and doesn't take into account differences in experience, tenure, hours of work and occupation. If true cohorts are compared, the gender pay gap virtually disappears. Affirmative action in higher education presumes blacks can't compete.