I find the song In Some Room Above the Street, especially as sung in the inimitable vibrato of the late country singer Gary Stewart, to have an extraordinary emotional power. Part of the reason for the song’s power is that it ends on an unexpectedly poignant note. The song begins by telling of a...
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Realizing that Barack Obama’s underhanded program can only be successfully achieved within a complete media/information monopoly, he has called on sympathetic minions to help compile an “enemies list†by submitting the identities of any who dare to resist his medical socialism plan by disseminating any information that “seems fishy.â€Â
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The following letter to the editor that I wrote was recently published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. We may disapprove of politicians getting into sex scandals, but we should not be shocked, regardless of the person’s moral beliefs. The simple truth is that monogamy is not a natural state for humans of either gender. Millions...
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Allegation has become the fiat currency of social and legal power over men, and it is working in spades. Corporations cave in, shrinking from the bad press of lawsuits that go to trial. Prosecutors that cannot politically afford to be seen as soft on crime, or hard on women, run innocent people through with...
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It really makes one wonder how men get the rap for fragile egos when the culture we live in is dependent on routine mendacity to help women feel adequate.
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Mr. Cronkite, the influential and well-liked anchorman of “CBS Evening News” from 1962 to 1981, died today at age 92. However nice a person he may have been, Walter Cronkite was, more importantly, a model voice for liberal-progressives’ brand of socialism. His lack of understanding about the nature of the Constitution and about the...
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“How can ANYONE take this man seriously?†writes Marilyn, a frequent reader of our Center for Vision & Values articles. Attached to Marilyn’s email was this headline, “Gore compares climate change fight to war against Nazis.†As the accompanying article noted, Al Gore, speaking at the World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment in...
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Received via Phil Cook… WWW.MENSENEWS.ORG A new newsletter and website devoted to issues concerning men is now available! MensENews.org will post current news stories from around the nation on our website daily. MensEnews.org is offering a free newsletter service where you can get your news delivered right to your email. There are four unique...
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Choosing the rule of law over the rule of man marked a signal event in the history of civilization. Those seeking to implement “social justice†through the courts want Lady Justice to take off her blindfold so she can see the faces of the poor huddled victims of American class injusticeâ€â€and rule accordingly. Make...
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Disrespect and Manipulation Humans are biologically wired for infidelity, we hear. Monogamy is an artificial lifestyle, they say. Men and women cheat on each other because they just can’t help themselves, right? Wrong. People who respect and value themselves don’t cheat; moreover, they attract like-minded partners. Infidelity is a choice — as obesity, substance...
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(Chicago, IL) – Lifetime TV, with its audience of 100 million households, announced the launch of a new reality series, Deadbeat Dads. The show follows National Child Support founder Jim Durham as he tracks down and confronts fathers who don’t pay child support. The worst part about Deadbeat Dads is that innocent children of...
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Author’s note: Previously published in “The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery, and Victorian History.†Denise Noe’s Lizzie Whittlings: Elizabeth Montgomery Actress Elizabeth Montgomery won a permanent place in the hearts of Borden buffs when she took on the part of Lizzie Borden in the made-for-TV movie, The Legend of Lizzie Borden. For...
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Fathers Are Mere Tenants The manhood brand is dead, kaput, and that is no accident. Men, who built the legal and physical infrastructure of this country from scratch, have, over the past 36 years, chosen to allow women to marginalize and overshadow them. It’s as though the entire history of men was written on...
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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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President Barack Obama’s performance on “The Tonight Show†last week prompted various friends and colleagues to discuss the question of leadership. No one came up with a definition suitable for nailing to the wall or turning into a message to scroll across the computer screen. I suggested it may be one of those things...
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"Everyone knows that it is just wrong for men to hit women." Yes we do! But apparently there are still far too man educators, researchers and interveners who still do not know that it is wrong for one person to hit another regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation or severity.
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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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This past weekend, the mainstream news media were breathlessly reporting that an arrest of a Salvadorian immigrant for killing a young Washington, DC woman named Chandra Levy is imminent. The case originally received so much media attention that she became a household name. While the media continue their fascination with this case, they have...
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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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On Thursday, loser in the 2004 presidential race and former Vietnam anti-war leader Senator John Kerry (D-MA) arrived in the Hamas-ruled Gaza shortly after two Democrat congressmen visited the terrorist-infested region. “I came to Gaza to evaluate the situation closely,” Kerry told reporters upon his arrival in Gaza. Asked if he intends to meet...
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