Archive for May, 2006

BRITISH FOOD TYRANNY UNPOPULAR Plans to ban junk food from school lunches are under threat because some local authorities are unable to find a contractor willing to provide healthier meals. New rules for school meals were published by the Government last week, limiting children to two portions of chips a week and requiring... »

More men than women say ‘I do’ to marriage, family Share on digg »

On Our Honor: James Bowman and Christina Hoff Sommers discuss Share on digg »

American men father children early, CDC study finds Share on digg »

U.K. May Extend Divorce Rights to Unmarried Couples Share on digg »

Murder is murder regardless of whether killer and victim are strangers, acquaintances, friends, lovers, or husband and wife. Assault is assault regardless of the relationship between attacker and victim. However, many people have a hard time accepting that rape is rape. Date rape is often regarded as less serious than stranger rape. Rape in... »

Because we are made in the image and likeness of God — because we are as one on this planet—let us this week renew our commitment to a world where our Nation and all nations grow and prosper together in a spirit of love and brotherhood. - President Ronald Reagan, February 13, 1981 Read Steve... »

We Communists say that there is one way to abolish the capitalist State, and that is to smash it by force. To make Communism possible, the workers must take hold of the State machinery of capitalism and destroy it. - Olgin, published first in 1933 by the Workers Library Publishers Read Steve Farrell’s latest at... »

No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or... »

THE EFFECTS OF INTERNAL WAR IN PRODUCING STANDING ARMIES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS UNFRIENDLY TO LIBERTY ASSUMING it therefore as an established truth that the several States, in case of disunion, or such combinations of them as might happen to be formed out of the wreck of the general Confederacy, would be subject to those vicissitudes... »

NewsMax.com. CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela is buying helicopters, boats and military transport planes in defense deals worth about $2.7 billion, modernizing its military as tensions grow between leftist President Hugo Chavez and the United States. Flush with oil profits but blocked from buying U.S. arms, Chavez is increasingly looking to countries like Russia and... »

MySpace.com is described as an Internet site devoted to social networking. Any rational adult who’s spent more than a few minutes on MySpace might well conclude that it, like much of cyberspace, appeals to the lowest common denominator. I won’t bore – or repulse – you with specifics. Let’s just say that you... »

This is the title of a post I saw on LiveJournal. The notion of “buying victimhood” was being extended to cover: …various (otherwise to me inexplicable) patterns of ‘buying victimhood’–from adopting a baby of another race to proclaiming oneself a ‘male feminist’ to affecting the clothing, hair style or speaking pattern of an underprivileged group... »

As always, it’s my mission to bring the liberty message outside the liberty community. A lot of truth and wisdom originate in the liberty community, but, talking amongst themselves, it rarely escapes the gravitational pull of the liberty chat room. Good For The Country is written for the non-gun owner. One of the top questions... »

“This Just In — Scientists at the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service are reporting that the unprecedented increase in fatal shark attacks up and down both coasts of the nation has now reached the alarming rate of over 500 deaths per day — a horrific and blood-soaked pace which continues to climb unabated!... »

I’d like to thank this fine institution for the opportunity to speak to the Class of 2006. I’m sure you’ve had your fill of lectures, but in the fine tradition of academia, you’ll have to endure one more before we push you out the door into the real world. I say “real world” for a... »

Wear wooden shoes long enough and something like this is bound to happen. If you thought third-parties in the U.S. could get wacky, take a look at this: Pro-paedophile activists have established a new political party in the Netherlands to campaign for the legalisation of sex between adults and children. “Ten years ago we were ‘on... »

Nobody’s Opinion; It was reported today that they found the gene that explains why some people are more sexually active than others. It’s called the D4 receptor gene.   “I can’t help it honey. I didn’t know you would be coming home early! But you know I’m genetically inclined to want more than one woman.  I’ve... »

SELF-DEFENCE A TOUGH SELL IN PENNSYLVANIA When a Somerset County man opened fire on two intruders at his apartment last month, killing one, he insisted he was protecting himself. Whether Matthew Eperjesi was justified remains a question for the courts at a time of nationwide debate over extending legal protection for gun owners... »

Smart army man trumps scare-mongering media An Australian military commander has tried to ensure truth does not become a casualty of conflict in East Timor, but embarrassed a TV network in the process. Australian commander in East Timor Brigadier Michael Slater appeared this morning in a live cross from Dili to... »