"When one man says 'No', all Rome begins to tremble."--Spartacus, gladiator and leader of the largest slave rebellion in ancient history
For many of my readers, the Christmas holiday is not a joyous one, but instead a time of incomparable sadness. Many, many fathers have been driven out of their children's lives, or to the edge...
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 To everyone Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, and three days from now Christians will be celebrating the nativity of Jesus Christ. It is fiting that Christmasâ€â€or “Christ Mass,†was placed during the Roman pagan festival of...
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I've never been a fan of strip clubs--I see them as being rather dehumanizing both for the strippers and for the male patrons. However, this new Texas law to tax male strip club patrons to fund rape-crisis centers is another example of how our society stigmatizes and punishes male sexuality. According to the Associated Press:
"In...
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(This article is based on a US government report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.) The US Customs and Border Protection is responsible for keeping terrorists and other dangerous people from entering the country while also facilitating the cross-border movement of millions of travelers. CBP carries out this responsibility at 326...
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J. Russell Coffey, the oldest surviving United States veteran of First World War (WWI), has died. He was 109. Coffey’s death was announced by the Smith-Crates Funeral Home in North Baltimore, Ohio. According to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (USDVA), he is the last remaining veteran of the war in Ohio. He...
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Sacha Baron Cohen, the British actor and comedian known for his characters Borat Sagdiyev and Ali G, told Britain’s Daily Telegraph on Friday that he was officially retiring the aforementioned characters. The reason for this, he said, is because of the public becoming too knowledgeable of him and his alter egos. “It is hard,...
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Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has left the Church of England and joined the Roman Catholic Church. Blair, currently the special envoy for Quartet on the Middle East, has long been attending mass with his wife and four children, who are all Catholic. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor received Blair into full...
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Background: For fathers and the children who love them and need them, Massachusetts sometimes looks a lot like feminist hell. In this series, Ned Holstein, Executive Director of Fathers & Families, points to four um...problematic...Massachusetts family law bills. The first bill Holstein cites is Massachusetts HB 113--to learn more, see my blog post Amazing...
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The lamestream media told you: The Senate backed a new plan to require automobile manufacturers to produce cars that get an average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, an increase of 10 MPG over current averages, according to the AP in an unbylined story. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: Experts poring over...
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The lamestream media told you: Referring to the Colorado Springs, Colo., ban on semiautomatic handguns for private security guards, Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Handgun Violence (formerly the National Council to Ban Handguns), said, “We allow ordinary citizens to carry these things around. Why we do that, I don’t know.”...
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Today, the anti-violence movement is, itself, predatory. It picks at minutiae and it misleads the public in order to, itself, thrive. This competition for survival comes at the expense of the nation.
Americans don’t have guns for food, we have guns to block tricks and boondoggles where we as armed citizens can handle the...
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One of the modern phenomena that I find amusing is the common feminist assertion, often parroted in the mainstream media, that the internet is a hostile place for women. These claims are usually supported by perfectly legitimate examples of men writing terrible letters or blog comments to feminist or female writers and bloggers. What...
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I have read people state that there is no reason to “purge†Christmas from America’s public life. I strongly agree with them. However, I don’t see that happening. Right after Thanksgiving, I heard Jose Feliciano enthusiastically singing, “I want to wish you a merry Christmas†on the radio. Everywhere I look I see symbols...
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I have read people state that there is no reason to “purge†Christmas from America’s public life. I strongly agree with them. However, I don’t see that happening. Right after Thanksgiving, I heard Jose Feliciano enthusiastically singing, “I want to wish you a merry Christmas†on the radio. Everywhere I look I see symbols...
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The murder of 16-year-old Canadian teen, Aqsa Parvez, by her Pakistani immigrant father for her refusal to wear a burka or hijab has shocked and saddened the nation. As people from all walks of life are mourning her tragic death, Muslims  particularly their religious leaders  have joined the chorus of denials that...
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Background: I oppose the War on Drugs, and am particularly appalled that we've locked up--warehoused, really--God knows how many minority men for nonviolent drug crimes. And yes, I do absolutely believe that if it were young white men (or women) being locked up for these crimes, the laws would've been changed a long time...
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