The V-Day movement is an international campaign to raise awareness of violence against women.  In the process, it demonizes men by portraying them as potential rapists and abusers and women as helpless victims.   In a 2005 survey of 2,500 University of Florida and University of South Carolina students, 22% reported being victims of...

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A little over a year ago, in an effort to retain more recruits, the Army ordered drill sergeants to take a more sensitive approach.  That means less shouting.  According to Pauline Jelinek’s October 10, 2006 Associated Press article, “Army tones down drill sergeants,” the head of Army National Guard recruiting, Colonel Mike Jones, said,...

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Recent headlines ranged from the crude to the cruel.  The crude being sexually explicit instant messages from Congressman Mark Foley, (R-FL), to underage pages.  The cruel being the most maleficent school attack to date: The execution style shootings of 10 Amish girls by a monster who had brought items designed for the performance of...

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Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem and Rosie O’Donnell are backing GreenStone Media, a new radio network featuring all female hosts.  The network was launched on September 12.  Their stated goal is to counter conservative talk radio’s “male point of view.”  According to Lowell Ponte’s September 6, 2006 NewsMax.com article, “Fonda, Steinem and Rosie Challenge Rush,...

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This weekend illegal aliens and their advocates marched on House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s Batavia, IL office to promote a plan to end deportations and legalize those illegally in the U.S.  This event was brought to you by Miller!  Miller Brewing Company, part of London based SAB Miller, spent $30,000 for materials, a planning convention...

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On Friday, the Maryland Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s ruling that the state’s new early voting law is unconstitutional.  This “vote early and often” bill included an unfunded mandate allowing five days of voting in the week prior to Election Day, although the state constitution permits only one day of general election...

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I received many comments regarding my last post.  The main areas of concern seem to be divorce, alimony, child support and custody.  To me, it sounds like the judicial system seems to be the problem. The judicial system often arbitrarily decides property divisions, custody and amounts to be paid on the basis of who...

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Some of the comments on my last post, “The Boy Problem in Education is the Nation’s Problem,” deserve a response, (the original comments are posted below that post).  Denis said, “FEMALES brought this situation about, both through action and inaction.”  A small group of women brought about many of society’s current problems through political...

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The think tank Education Sector recently released a study that suggests the problem of academic underachievement in boys is a misperception.  Sara Mead of Education Sector suggests that the belief that our educational system may be shortchanging boys is “hysteria” tied to “Americans’ deepest ambivalences and fears about changing gender roles.”  Mead also said,...

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In a fascist economic system, businesses are privately owned, but government controlled.  In any economic system, some regulation is necessary to ensure safety and to enable redress of fraud.   When the government micro-manages private businesses, it threatens to cross over the line of fascism.   The latest attempt at government control of business is...

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The articles, “School Board Flip-Flops on Flip-Flops,” “Are flip-flops damaging your career?” and “What Not to Wear to Work: 15 Things,” all appeared on the internet the same day.  It makes one wonder about what some people wear.  A school board in Washington state adopted a dress code that includes a ban on wearing...

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My child arrived just the other day, He came to the world in the usual way. But there were planes to catch and bills to pay. He learned to walk while I was away. And he was talking ‘fore I knew it, and as he grew, He’d say, “I’m gonna be like you, Dad....

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In her June 4 Washington Post editorial, “What Happens When There Is No Plan B,” an attorney using the name Dana L. wrote about how she was “forced” to have an abortion because the “morning after” pill is not available over the counter, (OTC).     She wrote regarding her arrival at a Planned Parenthood...

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The FBI raided the congressional office of Representative William Jefferson, (D-LA), on May 20 and May 21 seizing documents and computerized records from Jefferson’s office.  Earlier, the FBI seized $90,000 in cash from a freezer in his home as part of an ongoing investigation in which Jefferson was videotaped last July 30 taking a $100,000...

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This week, President Bush and the Senate will be working to pass a compromise bill that would offer citizenship to many illegal aliens and create a “guestworker” program. We will hear arguments supporting “legalization” of those who entered the U.S. illegally. One argument is that people came here illegally to escape poverty. If the...

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Martha Burk wants Congress to pass the Fair Pay Act which would create tangles of red tape, (and court cases), over what constitutes equal “skill, effort, responsibility and working conditions even if the actual work is dissimilar.” Burk wrote, “women working full time, year round still make only 76 cents for every dollar that...

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Groups including the Mexican American Political Association, (MAPA), and Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, (ANSWER), are planning the “Great American Boycott of 2006” which will occur on May 1. It will include demonstrations demanding legalization of illegal immigrants and protesting H.R. 4437, a bill to increase border security and immigration enforcement....

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Recently the parents of the student who Debra LaFave had sex with dropped their charges against her because they did not want to further upset their son by making him testify. Earlier, LaFave pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd lascivious battery for which she received seven years of probation and three years of...

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Saturday’s Washington Post featured an article by Candy Sagon about how cookbook publishers and food companies have simplified recipes to accommodate Americans’ diminishing culinary skills. Instructions have been broken into smaller steps and terms such as “add,” “simmer” and “fold in” have been replaced by instructions on how to do so. In Sagon’s piece,...

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The First Amendment states that Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech. That protection includes everything from re-publication of cartoons Muslims find offensive to ignorant Holocaust denials, expressions that have been prosecuted in some countries. Free speech should be protected no matter how rude or stupid the speech in question may be....

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