The writer Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?) had some interesting thoughts in his famous Devil's Dictionary.
ORPHAN, n.
A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude
DIPLOMACY, n.
The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
SAINT, n.
A dead sinner revised and edited.
CHILDHOOD, n.
The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy...
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The mere mention of private military companies is enough to panic the OH MY GOD squad of American society and leaves them loudly shrieking fascism and totalitarianism, murder and thuggery. There have been scores of private military companies and security firms employed by the Department of Defense and the State Department in Iraq since...
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On numerous occasions I've discussed the ways the taxpayer-funded domestic violence industry vilifies men and promotes unfair and misleading stereotypes about domestic violence. "Restaurant," an amazing domestic violence public service ad from HomeFront, a Canadian domestic violence agency, captures perfectly the way the domestic violence industry views and portrays men. To watch the ad,...
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David Vitter, a Republican United States Senator from Louisiana, has earmarked $100,000 for Louisiana Family Forum (LFF), a conservative creationist organization. Vitter put the earmark into the labor, health and education financing bill for fiscal year 2008. The bill specifies the Louisiana Family Forum received the money “to develop a plan to promote better...
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Several reports coming out of Myanmar today suggest that thousands of monks involved in protests against the Burmese government will “be sent away” to prisons outside of the capital city of Rangoon. Other reports are stating that the number of monks killed by Burmese troops are in the thousands. According to reports by BBC...
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Charlotte Harrison, from Beverly Hills, fell to her death while taking pictures at the edge of a steep canyon after she stepped over a low rock wall at a pull out on the Grand Loop Road in Yellowstone National Park. Rangers were called to the Calcite Springs area, just north of Tower Falls at...
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Prime minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown announced during his trip to Baghdad, Iraq, that his government will be withdrawing at least one thousand British troops from Iraq by the end of 2007. Brown also plans to gradually hand over control of Basra to Iraq security forces in accordance with the withdrawal. “What...
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In October United States Presidential candidate for 2008 Fred Thompson said about Iraq, “We can’t forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there he clearly had had WMD.” However, the several different investigations, including the Iraq Survey Group headed by Charles Duelfer concluded, in...
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One common theme in Parental Alienation cases is the alienating parent punishing the children for having any positive interactions with the targeted parent. In Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties that Bind, several of the adults interviewed by Amy J.L. Baker report having this experience.
One of them is David, whose...
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One of the mildly annoying manifestations of anti-male sexism in our society is that when a negative quality is being portrayed, and it could just as easily be a male or a female behaving badly, it will almost always be the male. One example of this is editorial cartoons about Global Warming, which would...
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The Nifonging of the three lacrosse players from Duke University did not rise out of a vacuum. Rather, it was the product of two systemic problems in America, the tendency amongst many prosecutors and judges to replace the concern for justice with the concern for self-promotion and career advancement, and, in cases of certain...
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Cliché, corny or trite, it can probably be said that most who occupy this globe, and certainly all Americans of sound mind would relish attaining that Holy Grail of “World Peace.†Unfortunately at present, from the perspective of the American voter, the parameters of our Constitution, and history, there is an almost incomprehensible naïveté...
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When Rudy Giuliani took a phone call from his wife in the middle of a speech, PJM advice columnist Dr. Helen Smith was dismayed. What his campaign tried to spin as the act of a caring husband, she sees as...
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