Margaret Roberts was just about alone in condemning the welfare state as "pernicious," destructive of the national character.
But it could be argued that low tax receipts now are having a pernicious impact, particularly on state and local governments.
"You are making a bad situation worse by importing into the city tax code a little-understood but really pernicious aspect of the state tax code," said Edmund J. McMahon Jr., a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative research organization.
Crucially, that race-swapping happens in name alone, making it the moral opposite of blackface: Meg borrows the historically pernicious authority of the state to enforce racial identity, while changing nothing about the way she and her daughter look or behave.
Two dozen men with guns entered an Oklahoma City diner promptly at midnight on Wednesday, intent on inaugurating a pernicious new law allowing the state's 142,000 citizens with concealed-handgun licenses to begin wearing their loaded weapons publicly.
CNP meetings are closed to the public and the press, but it's likely that they see their job as being the formulation of policy on 'Christian reconstructionism' - the closing of the pernicious gap between church and state.
It's when Obama makes blanket statements like "We do not practice torture," while simultaneously upholding pernicious practices such as the state secrets act that I get queasy.
Religious activists, upset since the 1960s at what they see as the growing and pernicious separation of church and state, seized on that ruling to press Congress to pass The Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 1993 -- and a spate of state versions of it have been passed subsequently.
Yes, there are legitimate concerns about the pernicious spread of the 'secret/classified' state and its companion: the persecution of so-called "leakers".
Demyelination is also the result of an immune attack upon the central nervous system, which may follow viral infections such as measles, or of immune deficiency states such as pernicious anemia.
