Posts Tagged ‘culture’
Day of Reckoning for Violence Against Women Act
BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 2 on a straight party-line vote. That proves again that the feminists control the Democratic Party, and also is a refreshing indication that Republicans are no longer intimidated by feminist demands. VAWA [...]
A Big Win for Endangered Children at the Super Bowl
NATHANAEL BENNETT, ACLJ The ACLJ is pleased to have participated in crafting new legislation to protect children from the horrors of human trafficking in Indiana just in time for the Super Bowl. It is a crime so horrific that most of us have a hard time comprehending it – the human trafficking of young children for the purpose of selling [...]
Obama Gives Gambling a Present
ECONOMY, EAGLE FORUM Just before sneaking off to Hawaii for a Christmas vacation where he barred news photos on the golf course, President Obama overturned longstanding U.S. policy that prohibited internet gambling. Obama used a secret Justice Department opinion, dated last September and quietly released to the public on Christmas Eve. The [...]
Child Abuse And Neglect Cost Taxpayers $124 billion
CULTURE, NEWSROOM AMERICA The total lifetime estimated financial costs associated with just one year of confirmed cases of child maltreatment (physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse and neglect) is approximately $124 billion, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This study looked at [...]
“Gender-neutral” Childrearing: When a Sexual Hang-up Leads to Child Abuse
BY SELWYN DUKE First there was “Pop” in Sweden, then “Storm” in Canada. Now out of Britain comes Sasha, a boy, we hear, who is being raised by his parents in a “sex-neutral” fashion. And this isn’t just your modernistic grandmother’s neutrality, where she didn’t want to push toy guns and trucks on her son. Sasha’s parents, [...]
The New American Elite
By Alan Caruba The only constant in the life of individuals and nations is change. Since the beginning of the last century, the process or rate of change has accelerated with the invention and availability of a myriad of machines, technologies that have altered the lifestyle of Americans as well as of millions around the world. Let me put it [...]
New rules for teenaged daughters
CULTURE, EAGLE FORUM: The UK Mail newspaper reports: Would YOU let your teenage daughter sleep with a boyfriend in your home? These middle-class mothers do. The alternatives, they insist, are even more worrying... When Sarah Watts’s 16-year-old daughter Alicia asked if her boyfriend of three months could stay the night, she wasn’t [...]
Europe: Assisted Suicide “Must Always be Prohibited”
RIGHT TO LIFE, MATTHEW CLARK, ACLJ We are pleased to report a major victory for life in Europe. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (“PACE” – pictured above) has banned euthanasia (assisted suicide) in Europe. The newly adopted Resolution provides, “Euthanasia, in the sense of the intentional killing by act or [...]
Silent No More Awareness Campaign Planned Outside NARAL Dinner
RIGHT TO LIFE, ANGLICANS AND PRIESTS FOR LIFE WASHINGTON, D.C. – All pro-lifers are urged to join the Northern Virginia, D.C. and Maryland chapters of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign this evening, Thursday, Jan. 25, outside the ballroom where NARAL will host its annual celebration of abortion. Supporters of life will gather at 5:30 [...]
39 Years, 54 Million Babies – The March Against Roe v. Wade
RIGHT TO LIFE/ABORTION, JAY SEKULOW 39 years ago the Supreme Court of the United States handed down one of the worst decisions our nation has ever seen – Roe v. Wade. Since this horrific decision that called the destruction of human life a “right,” 54 million babies have been aborted. That figure is a tragic and solemn reminder of what [...]
Planned Parenthood Texting Sex Info to Kids
LIFENEWS.COM It used to be said that the way to a man’s heart was through his stomach. Saying this was a tongue and cheek means of addressing simpler times and plainer ways. In the same lighthearted spirit the way to a woman’s heart was viewed as far more mysterious, and was often described as a path laced with kindness, understanding, [...]
40% of Pregnancies in New York City Still Aborted
New York City has the highest abortion rate in the nation — nearly double the national average of 23 %. LIFENEWS.COM The foundation that released shocking abortion numbers from New York City last year — turning it into what observers called the abortion capital of the Untied States — has new figures from the Big Apple. They haven’t [...]
Remembering the Amerasian in the Saigon Coffee Shop
By Carl L. Bankston III The tropical glare squats at the edge of the shade, studying arcs traced by our coffeecups in the rise and fall between crude wooden tables and our lips. Our rhythms are regular as heartbeats. Overhead, coconuts are swelling to self-sacrifice. We're taking a break from history. All the singers in the boom-box are [...]
The Aromas of Christmas — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Christmas time is when I’m prone to catching colds, this year being no different. My work takes me out in the elements and this past week we’ve had our share of damp and soggy air; not complaining, after this year of drought we needed the rain. Monday the symptoms started to appear so we took steps to minimize [...]
Christopher Hitchens: How Atheism Poisons Everything
By Selwyn Duke In writing this piece, I’m reminded of a little exchange between the late William F. Buckley and friend and fellow National Review writer Florence King. Buckley had just penned some less-than-flattering words about a recently deceased person of prominence whose name escapes me, and King chided him, saying something to the [...]
Christianity, Christmas, and the Grinch’s Unsuccesful War
By Jack Kerwick Contrary to what many on the political right would have us believe, there is no “War on Christmas.” If there is, it has to be the most poorly prosecuted war that there has ever been. Granted, the despisers of Christianity dwell among us. Yet it is a mistake to think that they compose a monolith. We can divide these [...]
Fr. Pavone & Dr. King Support Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act
Judeo-Christian America, Priests for Life Staten Island, NY – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life and Dr. Alveda King, its Director of African American Outreach, this past Tuesday issued statements in favor of H.R. 3541, the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA). The measure, the [...]
A Christmas Book
Carl L. Bankston III Sunday's (12/4/2011) New York Times carries a front-page article on a publishers’ strategy for old-fashioned print books. As many readers shift to e-books, the article reports, publishers have decided to concentrate on the style and cover design of paper texts. This is a wise recognition that books are aesthetic [...]
Habla English? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Last week at church was Stake Conference for our area; various Wards getting together to hear our local Priesthood leadership speak. There were translators on hand to accommodate Spanish speaking members in attendance which meant audio/visual requirements would have to accommodate the streaming of Spanish into [...]
Priests for Life Welcomes the New Mass for Human Life
Judeo-Christian America, Priests for Life With the start of Advent on Nov. 27, Catholics will begin using a new, and much-discussed, translation of the Mass. Along with this there are two brand new texts for a Mass "For Giving Thanks to God for the Gift of Human Life." This is the result of a long process that actually started with Cardinal [...]
Bigfoot and Racism
By Jack Kerwick Human beings, regardless of time or place, share in common a perennial fascination with tales of enigmatic creatures, beings that, in spite of the numerous testimonials that have been offered on their behalf, remain questionable. Sasquatch; the Lochness Monster; and the Abominable Snowman, are just some of these who [...]
Pledges, Oaths and Testimonies — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Several years ago there was a movie with Steve Martin and John Candy, Plains, Trains and Automobiles; but that has nothing to do with my title choice for today’s article, Pledges, Oaths and Testimonies. You’ll have to forgive me; my word association test results given to the police psychiatrist must have been [...]
Ron Paul: The Only Choice For Values Voters
Conor MacCormack, Guest Columnist In an encouraging development this past weekend, GOP presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (TX) won a convincing 37% of the votes cast at the annual Values Voter Summit straw poll held in Washington, D.C. While Dr. Paul's impressive ability to calmly and convincingly articulate his pro-Constitutionalist views [...]
Ron Paul on Values
By Jack Kerwick Ron Paul just scored another victory in his campaign for the presidency. Just last year, the Texas congressman barely even registered in the Values Voters Summit straw poll. This year, however, with 37% of the vote, he didn’t just walk away with it; he left second place contestant Herman Cain in the dust. With 23% of [...]
Support Protect Life Act; End Funding for Abortion Coverage
Liberty Alerts, JBS.org Freedom Campaign Support Protect Life Act; End Funding for Abortion Coverage On Thursday, October 12, the House takes up H.R. 358, the Protect Life Act, which has finally been scheduled for debate and a vote after having been reported out of committee last February. This is an amendment to the Patient Protection [...]
Captive Audience — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, A woman’s car was having trouble on a major roadway in Houston, allegedly, so it was reported she pulled off to the side of the road; I’ll get to “allegedly” later on. An officer of the law issued her a ticket for “driving on the shoulder and decided to arrest her”; sounds a little over the top for a [...]
As to Same Sex Attraction: Condemn the Sin, Love the Sinner
Called Unto Liberty, Dallin H. Oaks, 20th Century Sermons Each member of Christ’s church has a clear-cut doctrinal responsibility to show forth love and to extend help and understanding. Sinners, as well as those who are struggling to resist inappropriate feelings, are not people to be cast out but people to be loved and helped (see 3 Ne. [...]
Cultural Marxism: The Doom of Language
By Robert F. Beaudine “Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” Throughout history, ideas have been used for good or for evil. They have also led to the greatest evil – war. This is reflective in a [...]
The Security Sex
By Selwyn Duke We have all heard about the sex gap in voting patterns. This is the phenomenon whereby, in every election, women are far more likely to support liberal candidates than men are. For instance, in 1996, Bill Clinton captured 54 percent of the women’s vote but only 43 percent of the men’s. And in subsequent elections, the [...]
The Naked Truth and Public Nudity in San Francisco
By Selwyn Duke There currently is a debate raging over public nudity in San Francisco. It’s not what you think. It’s already entirely legal to parade about in the buff on the city’s streets, and no one is discussing the resurrection of indecent-exposure laws. Rather, the question is whether sanitary behavior — namely, posterior [...]
New Threat to Due Process on College Campuses
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org In The Huffington Post, FIRE Vice President of Programs Adam Kissel cracks down on the new threat to due process on college campuses prompted by both the Campus SaVE Act and the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights' (OCR's) April 4, 2011, guidance letter. Both the Campus SaVE Act and OCR's letter [...]
Rick Perry Signs Pledge Opposing Same-Sex Marriage
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed a pledge from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) pledging to oppose same-sex marriage and advance a constitutional marriage amendment. Perry joins front-runner and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, Rep. Michele [...]
Happy Birthday Dad — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I called my folks this morning to wish dad a Happy Birthday. Mom answered; but she wasn’t feeling well and wasn’t sure she was up to taking dad out for dinner, much less making his cake. Many years ago mom wasn’t feeling well on dad’s birthday. It was a hot August afternoon in Levittown, Long Island, New [...]
Destroying America’s Moral Fiber
By Alan Caruba There’s something very wrong when the forthcoming memorial ceremonies of 9/11 at Ground Zero in New York City will not include prayer. Almost by definition, a memorial service includes prayer for the souls of the dead and for renewal in the face of adversity. No doubt a combination of political correctness and common sense [...]
Old Christian Virtues Gone Mad
Daily Dabble in the Classics, G.K. Chesterton The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. _________________________ Source: G.K. Chesterton, Suicide of Thought.
Feminists Hate Everything Masculine
By Phyllis Schlafly I hope that one of the results of my new book The Flipside of Feminism will be to show the American people that the feminist movement was never about equality. It was always about interchangability, and when the facts of human nature are too overwhelming to make men and women interchangeable, feminists are determined to get [...]
Arizona’s New Abortion Regulations Upheld by Court of Appeals
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Phoenix, AZ – The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld new abortion regulations which require any woman seeking an abortion to meet face-to-face with the licensed physician performing the abortion at least 24 hours prior to the abortion. The law also requires that parental consent forms be notarized in order for a [...]
Sticks, Stones and Dehumanization – History Repeats — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Have you noticed the left’s marginalization of conservative values, more specifically folks who align themselves with the Tea Party movement? Glenn Beck touched on it during his radio show the other day; focusing on a disgusting name calling explosion which aired on MSNBC . “Well Martin Bashir really went all out [...]
That Great and Terrible Lie
By Steve Farrell Liberty and license are not synonymous. Parents know better. Too many of them have had the unfortunate dilemma of dealing with the “I am free to do as I please” child who routinely, or upon occasion, exercises that egocentric proclamation to reckless extremes. These parents stand as witnesses that a widely accepted [...]
Mommas, Don’t Let Your Daughters Grow Up to be Amy Winehouse
By Alan Caruba Being of an age when the singers with whom I grew up included Doris Day, Dinah Shore, Ella Fitzgerald and comparable talents who combined beautiful voices with beautiful lyrics, I had not paid any attention to Amy Winehouse and, on the news of her death, had heard only one of her mercifully short catalog of songs. Dead, no [...]
American Exceptionalism and Identity Politics Reconsidered
A Response to Dean Malik By Jack Kerwick Dean Malik has recently written a piece for American Thinker in which he contrasts what he calls “American exceptionalism” (AE, from this point onward) with “identity politics.” The former is good, he maintains, while the latter is bad. This essay is problematic for a variety of [...]
Mandating Coverage of Contraceptives Is Bad Health Policy
Kathryn Nix, Heritage Foundation This week, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its recommendation of women’s preventive services that should be covered with no co-pay or deductible under Obamacare—a list that included birth control and emergency contraception. While this raises important questions regarding social policy, it’s also [...]
“X” Marks the Spot — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, When I was growing up, not that the process was ever completed, we had a Hobo’s “X” marked on our front door. You couldn’t see it; but all the same it was there. Stray animals wandering the neighborhood would recognize the mark and know they were welcome to stop in for a meal and safe lodgings for as long as [...]
What Debt Crisis? Obama’s Spending Priorities
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice As the debate in Washington rages over how to avoid defaulting on our national debt, it is important to take a step back and look at this issue for what it is – a question of priorities. The federal budget, how our government spends our tax dollars, is a statement of our nation’s [...]
Charities Become Collateral Damage in Debate Over Marriage
Heritage Foundation, Culture Watch Children served by private adoption and foster care organizations are finding themselves among the victims of collateral damage of state decisions to legally recognize same-sex couples. From county courts to the U.S. Congress, the debate over protecting the conscience rights of religious institutions is [...]
Thinking About Race and the Past
By Jack Kerwick For the most part, ideological rivals of various sorts are divided as much over the past as they are the condition of the present and the shape they would like to impose upon the future: those of a more conservative or traditional bent tend to view the past, America’s past specifically, as a lost “Golden Age,” while [...]
Five Impacts of the New York Same-sex Marriage Vote
Chuck Donovan, Heritage Foundation The New York legislature’s June 24 vote to redefine the family and recognize homosexual marriage will have a number of short-term and long-term impacts within and well beyond the Empire State. The vote does not signal an end to the now two-decade fight over the meaning of marriage. A new phase—not an [...]
Will ‘Under God’ Stay in the Pledge?
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It was patently offensive- outrageous - a slap in the face of every person of faith in America - when NBC decided to cut the phrase ''under God'' from the Pledge of Allegiance during its broadcast of the U.S. Open golf tournament in Washington, D.C. They did it not once, but twice - [...]
New Poll Shows Most Americans Favor Traditional Marriage
Heritage Foundation, Culture Watch The results of a new poll suggest that most American adults still support a traditional definition of marriage. According to the national survey, sponsored by the Alliance Defense Fund, 62 percent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement: “I believe marriage should be defined only as a [...]
Fathers Matter: Involved Dads Impact Children’s Lives and Civil Society
Heritage Foundation, Culture Watch This Sunday – as with most Father’s Days - many dads will likely receive a jesting card, the latest all-in-one toolbox, and even more cheap ties. No matter how thoughtful the gift, our material offerings to fathers will likely fall short of recognizing the enormous impact dads make on the lives of [...]
