To most Americans with a recollection of the Cold War, it was assumed the global superstate would be brought about through military conquest. However, in Salvaging Civilization, H.G. Wells suggests how this planetary political organization could be brought about through education and the management of public opinion. According to Wells, the future of mankind...
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Published as a letter to the editor in the Bolivar Free-Herald. Reprinted here with permission of the author. How to fix social security by Billy Eugene Dickerson What’s the best way to “fix†social security? President Roosevelt had a good idea when he set up social security. The problem is he set it up...
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The fathers’ rights movement is often extremely critical of family law judges. While I think this criticism is excessive and overblown, some of it is certainly legitimate. The biggest problem is that family law judges often don’t respect the loving bonds between fathers and their children. One example is the Traub case. In The...
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The Department of Homeland Security established the US Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program to collect, maintain, and share data on selected foreign nationals entering and exiting the United States at air, sea and land ports of entry. These data, including biometric identifiers like digital fingerprints, are to be used to screen...
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Here’s the text of the House Surrender Bill that just passed.
It includes:
$140,000,000 to pay farmers for livestock and fruit destroyed in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
$120,000,000 to research “the consequences of Hurricane Katrina on the shrimp and menhaden fishing industries.”
$25,000,000 to “growers and first handlers, as defined by the Secretary, of fresh spinach that were...
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Bay Area author Terry McMillan sued her ex-husband for $40 million Wednesday, saying that the now-openly gay man married her to get his U.S. citizenship and, along with his divorce lawyer, launched a smear campaign against her.
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The former model, who insists she still loves Paul, has accused lawyer Fiona Shackleton of making their divorce as difficult as possible.
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I don’t really care about the actual story, I just thought it was ironic that someone from Ireland was named “Falmouth“. The only other more appropriate name for an Irishman would’ve been “McDrunkenly”…
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Sometime between the founding of a student-run porn magazine and the day the campus health center advertised “Free Lube,” Harvard University seniors Sarah Kinsella and Justin Murray decided to fight back against what they see as too much mindless sex at the Ivy League school.
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Their propaganda of false statistics and their arm-twisting techniques convinced us that this evil monster has to be stopped at any cost. Fortunately, we learnt their behavioural patterns from Christina Hoff Sommers and Warren Farrell.
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Politicians and Muslim leaders denounced a German judge for citing the Koran in her rejection of a Muslim woman’s request for a quick divorce on grounds she was abused by her husband.
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When one searches to find the causes for America’s rapid deterioration, there is no shortage of suspects. However, my thirty-plus years experience as a pastor, counselor, and researcher has convinced me that there is no greater threat to America’s future survival than the overall negative effect that modern-day feminism has had, and is having,...
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The remaining charges against three Duke University lacrosse players originally indicted for rape may be dropped sometime within the next few days, according to a report.
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Today the Idaho Senate passed, by a vote of 24 to 7, HJM005, a resolution “Stating findings of the Legislature and urging Congress to use all efforts, energies and diligence to withdraw the United States from any further participation in the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America or any other bilateral or...
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Many folks desperately cling to their faith, even when logic, common sense and the facts prove that their religion works against their self interests. Case in point, this Reuters story about Muslim feminists (oxymoron?), who are behind an English-version of the Koran that seeks to soften the holy book’s misogynist teachings. From Reuters: “A new English-language...
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According to “Work, play licenses may depend on child support” (Wichita Eagle, 3/21/07), “Professionals who need licenses to practice, and even those who just need them to hunt and fish, could soon find them tied to child support.”
“A bill that received preliminary approval Tuesday in the Kansas House would permit the state to suspend...
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Before legendary magician and escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926, he told his wife, Bess, that if there was a way to contact her from beyond, he’d find it. Harry and Bess came up with a secret code so Houdini’s “ghost” couldn’t be faked by a phony but convincing spiritualist and...
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John Belushi is dead! John Belushi lives! Twenty-five years after John Belushi (1949-1982) died, culminating a four-day binge in which he drank enough booze, snorted enough coke, and had enough heroin-cocaine “speedballs†to kill a herd of elephants, all too many writers still can’t think straight about him. During the last two-to-three years of...
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