Failing Institution Marriage is a failing institution. There are some basic factors driving this failure — judicial and societal — but the bottom line is indisputable: For the first time in US history, across all ethnic groups, the majority of women are unmarried and 40% of babies are born to unwed mothers. The judicial...
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by Timothy Weinstein Parental abduction in itself is a traumatic event for the left-behind parent. Brazil alone has over 50 cases of abduction from the United States representing over 70 children, my own two included. In addition to the emotional costs the left-behind parent must endure, one must understand the financial costs. Due to...
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As a fathers’ advocate, I had hope when President Obama was elected. Some expressed disappointment that the author of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) had become Vice President. They feared more gender-based discrimination. Being a liberal egalitarian, I was optimistic. My president had said he respects our civil rights. I believed all we...
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Seeking moral legitimacy for a practice that, in every one of its forty-million plus iterations has resulted in the death of an innocent unborn child, the abortion advocacy has seized upon fetal stem cell ?science? as a means of elevating itself to the standing of decency and honor.
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As regular readers of this blog know, I am severely disabled and, as a result, have never been able to support myself. My principal source of support is alimony. However, I do engage in paid labor to the extent that I am able to do so. I have quite a few reviews up at...
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It’s been widely reported that illegal aliens comprise upwards of 27 percent of the US prison and jail population. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection — two agencies within the Department of Homeland Security — claim in several reports that they’ve apprehended over 100,000 criminal aliens whose offenses go far beyond...
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Obsession with Carats Nothing speaks subjugation like a man on bended knee, sliding a diamond engagement ring on the finger of his new fiancée. Yet, countless men engage in this emasculating, enslaving ritual every day. When asked why he felt compelled to prostrate himself while pledging to his “better half” a life of devotion,...
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After a ten-day trial before Judge Patti B. Saris, Jeffrey Shields of Bath, Maine, was civilly committed to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a sexually dangerous person, according to a report sent to the National Association of Chiefs of Police’s Child Protection Program. Shields is the first individual in the...
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A grand jury in San Diego has handed down 14 indictments, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California has filed two criminal complaints, charging 36 defendants with a federal racketeering conspiracy, firearm offenses and drug trafficking violations, according to a report submitted to the 14,000-member National Association of Chiefs of...
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(Information for the following was provided to the National Association of Chiefs of Police by the Department of Homeland Security.) A defrocked Catholic priest who once served as a spiritual advisor to Mother Teresa was sentenced in Chicago on Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for sexually molesting a boy on several interstate...
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All things must end, and Fred on Everything just has. This will be the last regular column, although the site will stay up and I’ll add things from time to time as the mood urges. The reasons for this disappearance are several. One is that writing the thing is a lot of work for...
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A federal complaint filed in Providence, RI charges Anthony St. Laurent, Sr. with solicitation to commit murder-for-hire, according to an FBI report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police’s Organized Crime Committee. According to an FBI affidavit supporting the criminal complaint, St. Laurent tried to enlist others to kill Robert DeLuca, who,...
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I first encountered John Updike through his Roger’s Version, a cosmological and theological treatise disguised as a porno novel. Updike, as he admitted in Roger’s Version, is really a Marcionite Heretic. This ancient heresy, most recently advanced by the German theologian Karl Barth, holds that God is wholly other, completely unapproachable by reason: theology...
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Tupelo, MS – Television station WSYX in Columbus, Ohio, has delayed a decision on airing a television program produced by American Family Association (AFA). The program, “Speechless …Silencing the Christians,†was scheduled to air Saturday night on the ABC affiliate station. “We were surprised that WSYX agreed to air the program, and then decided...
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President Obama has made a major mistake and put America’s families at risk by selecting David Ogden to become Deputy Attorney General, says Fidelis, a pro-family organization. “David Ogden is a hired gun from Playboy and the ACLU. He can’t run from his long record of opposing common sense laws protecting families, women, and...
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Six southwest Texas counties have been added to a growing list of law enforcement agencies throughout the state that are receiving access to a program developed by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security; this program is expected to bolster local efforts to identify dangerous deportable criminal aliens, according to information forwarded to the...
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Revelations about the mother who recently gave birth to octuplets have occasioned a great deal of public consternation. There was a natural and laudable concern for the welfare of the eight babies who were, of course, underweight and premature when delivered. Concern became more acute as more was learned about the circumstances surrounding this...
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Denise Noe’s Lizzie Whittlings: The Extraordinary Career of William Moody Author’s Note: This was original published in “The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery, and Victorian History” Borden buffs know William Henry Moody as one of the prosecutors of Lizzie Borden. Less well known are the facts that after the trial he went...
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When the movie “First Wives Club” came out in the fall of 1996, the men’s movement had never done a multi-city protest. The internet was new and the possibilities endless. Within 10 days a 25-city protest was organized that recieved a historic quantity of national attention. Our point was not to urge a boycott...
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(The following report is based on documents obtained by the 14,000-member National Association of Chiefs of Police.) “The faster we get them locked up, the faster illegal immigrants replace them,” said a Los Angeles police officer. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested nearly 2,000 gang members and gang associates in...
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