Dogged by weeks of protest, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit finally took down the controversial advertisements from its buses this past weekend. Purchased by a local abuse shelter, the ads featured a young schoolgirl who blithely predicted, “One day my husband will kill me.” Journalist Helen Smith denounced the ads as “Very disturbing hate...

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The Family Place, an abuse shelter in Dallas, recently placed race-baiting advertisements on local buses. The ads depict a smiling African-American girl crowned with a tiara who innocently predicts, “One day my husband will kill me.” Barbara Kay of the National Post charged the ads were “outright lies.” Dallas Morning News columnist James Ragland...

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Bob Hartzog of Glendale, Ariz. was roused out of his slumber by a ringing phone. It was the cops. According to the policeman, Hartzog’s wife Valentina charged he had forced her to have sex and threatened to kill her. The officer, stationed outside of Hartzog’s home, ordered him outside. Opening his front door, Hartzog...

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If a friend of yours was in desperate straights and had to seek refuge in an abuse shelter, wouldn’t you want that person to be able to go to a place with staff who are qualified, compassionate, and have a clean record? Then you’ll be shocked to learn what’s going on at Another Way...

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Lachrymose tales of battered women abound when representatives of abuse shelters come calling, hat in hand, for taxpayer money. But what is the truth of the matter — are abuse shelters really brimming with hapless victims trying to break free of the cycle of violence? The answer to that question is a surprising “No.”...

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Say what you want about Senator Joe Biden. But there’s no denying the fact he’s one of the more entertaining politicos in town. Looking for a guy who blurts out the occasional inconvenient truth? Then Biden’s forehead-knocker about the “terrible” Obama ad – the one that mocked John McCain as computer illiterate — certainly...

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What happens when an abuse shelter engages in conduct that is so unethical and bizarre that the public almost can’t believe the magnitude of the travesty? Read on and decide for yourself. Crystal D. Hall of McIntosh County, Okla. was the wife of James Hall and the mother of five. She also had a...

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Subsidized by millions in taxpayer largesse, domestic violence coalitions operate in every state in the Union. While most groups have annual budgets in the $1-3 million range, some run much higher. For example the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, with its $26 million budget, seldom feels the need to recycle paper clips. Who are...

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Christina Wilson was caught in an abusive relationship, so last November she took refuge at the Cherokee Family Violence Center in Canton, Ga. She hoped the 12-bed shelter would help her mend the wounds and get her back on her feet. Pregnant with child, she was assigned to a room with another woman who...

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As House Republicans stayed behind in Washington DC to debate solutions to the nation’s energy crisis, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was out on the TV circuit last month, talking up her recent book, Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters. As a mother of five and current Speaker of House, Nancy Pelosi has...

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Few persons know how women’s abuse shelters first got started. Four years ago lesbian activist Bonnie Tinker made this stunning admission in The Oregonian: “In fact, it was a small group of lesbians from Portland who were at the forefront of a national movement to provide safe havens for women…We knew that foundations were...

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Amidst the hoopla surrounding Sen. Joseph Biden’s ascendancy to the right hand of Barack Obama, something was curiously missing. Over the last 15 years, Biden has repeatedly bragged to his friends and colleagues, “What I’m most proud of in my entire career is the Violence Against Women Act.” So why no mention of his...

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Mary Runge of Palm Bay, Fla. found herself without a job and her savings depleted. So last month the single mom went knocking on the doors of local charities for help. The 47-year-old mother of three was urged to tell the girl at the local abuse hotline: “tell them we have been abused, and...

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Some persons find it incomprehensible that a woman would maim or murder her husband or boyfriend. That thought may have crossed the minds of the persons who watched in horror as Debi Olson repeatedly stabbed her ex-husband, Mauricio Droguett at a Des Moines, Iowa shopping mall. Olson was charged with first-degree murder for the...

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On October 21, 2007 Milaus Almore, eight weeks pregnant, sought refuge at the SafeSpace abuse shelter. Ten days later the 26-year-old woman lay dead, stabbed with a pocket knife that left a gaping wound in the side of her neck. The weapon was wielded not by her abuser, but by another woman staying at...

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s finest moment was the day she was elected as Speaker of the House. That’s when she curled her fist and flexed her right bicep, he-man style, promising to institute “the most ethical Congress in history” after all those years of testosterone-addled, business-as-usual in the U.S. Congress. Shortly afterwards she named...

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Hey girls, want to get skanky? Well, sashay down to your local abuse shelter and get buzzed! No, you don’t have to be a real victim of domestic violence. All you need is a convincing story. Last year Hollie Cephas of Monticello, Ark. arrived on the doorstep of the Options shelter to recount her...

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The domestic violence industry is one of the most corrupt and unaccountable enterprises in modern-day America. Every year it sucks over $1 billion from the federal treasury and ships the money to a variety of radical feminist organizations dedicated to revamping the family unit. Thanks to the generosity of the Violence Against Women Act,...

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Last week my column revealed the all-too-common mistreatment of children in abuse shelters around the country. The article highlighted two incidents involving a Florida shelter — a former director who was cited for contributing to the delinquency of minors, and the sexual assault of a 4-year-old girl. Following publication of that essay, several...

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