Oppression

Individuals and Structures

Friday, March 12, 2010
By Pelle Billing

If you know anything about contemporary feminism, you know that the word "structure" is popular. Structures in culture and society explain why men and women behave the way they do. Oppressive structures keep women down, and maintain the integrity of the patriarchy. Free will barely exists, since we are all programmed by the structures... »

Gender Equality: Men in Child Care, the Last Frontier?

Wednesday, February 24, 2010
By Teri Stoddard
Gender Equality: Men in Child Care, the Last Frontier?

"There are parents who hesitate to hire a male nanny," says Dave Culp, franchise owner of College Nannies & Tutors in the San Francisco Bay Area and Rookie of the Year, "But once they give them a chance, what we're seeing nationwide is that they're the most in demand." »

Maryland Officials Seek to Jack Up Child Support Obligations, Using Bogus Inflation Rationale

Sunday, January 31, 2010
By Hans Bader

A bill was just introduced in Maryland to increase child support obligations for households at most incomes.  It would impose a massive increase of nearly 30 percent, for a couple with one child making $3400 a month!  Maryland residents, who recently had their taxes increased, will face new burdens under the bill,  SB 252 (HB 500), which raises already excessive child support... »

Introducing All India Forgotten Women’s Association (AIFWA)

Friday, January 29, 2010
By Uma Challa

AIFWA is pleased to announce, to the media and the public, the launch of its youth wing, the True Equity Network (TEN) – India. AIFWA is a not-for-profit organization campaigning against the misuse of protections and privileges granted to women. AIFWA stands for true gender equality, and demands that civil and criminal laws be made equally... »

Deprogramming Yourself After Global Warming Scam

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
By Roger F. Gay

Confronting your own false beliefs can be a daunting task, even more so when coupled with an overwhelming level of corruption in the world around you, steering you the wrong way. Coming to grips with the latter can end your days of innocence about mass media and politics. For years now, people around the world... »

Norway Should Apologize for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

Thursday, December 10, 2009
By Roger F. Gay

Most descriptions of the award of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama have been shortened. The Nobel Prize website says it has been awarded to Obama “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” One of the criticisms of this award is that Obama was nominated after only... »

Death Penalty For Cop Killers?

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
By Angry Harry

I was vaguely listening to the radio yesterday when an item concerning the death penalty (in Texas, I think) began to air. I confess that I did not catch the whole piece, but it became quite clear that an American police officer was arguing for the increased use of the death penalty when it comes... »

America Without “Liberal” or “Conservative” Representation

Monday, August 17, 2009
By Roger F. Gay

Nothing more immediately spoils the honesty of political debate in America today than the common use of the terms “liberal” and “conservative.” They are too often used anachronistically, in a way maintained in the public mind through narrow relative thinking – and probably more often without thinking at all. It is common for these terms... »

Destructive Social Justice

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
By Thomas Brewton

The Democrat/Socialist Party’s plan to nationalize healthcare exemplifies the essence of social justice: an invidious urge to destroy what exists and a faith that social harmony depends upon making everyone equally miserable. Liberal-progressives estimate that 46 million people, 15% of the population, lack health insurance. In order to provide them insurance, liberal-progressives intend to... »

Iran: Green Hits the Streets

Sunday, June 28, 2009
By Slater Bakhtavar

My freedom is yours. You won’t be free unless you help me to get my freedom. Don’t remain silent while in the dark of night you hear screams of mothers for the lives of their kids. Don’t cover your ears when you hear the cries of the children for their mothers and fathers who have... »

Interfaith Dialogue: Let’s Talk Persecution

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
By Doug Bandow

President Barack Obama plans to call for an improved dialogue with Islam in his upcoming speech in Egypt. All faiths would benefit from greater understanding. Yet no conversation will be complete if it does not address Islam’s persecution of Christians, Jews, and other religious minorities. Western efforts to reach out to Islam are increasing. However,... »

The Obama/Napolitano Doctrine: Conservatism Verboten

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
By Chris Adamo

Obama has made claims of wanting to “unify” the nation. Yet few have properly grasped the actual intention, and thus the enormous danger posed by his goal. »

Speaking of Israel is to Speak of the Middle East

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
By Leette Eaton-White

Speaking of Israel is Speaking of the Middle East: Leette Eaton- White I gave you my personal perspective of the current situation in Israel in a very pro-Israel way in my last article for HipHopRepublican.com. Now I will continue my Pro-Israel lean but now I am going to give more reasons why I feel this... »

President Bush Signs Victims Protection Act to Combat Human Trafficking

Friday, December 26, 2008
By Jim Kouri, CPP

On December 23, President Bush signed into law a bill that enhances measures to combat human trafficking. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Assistant Secretary John Torres were among 16 federal agency and private organizational leaders in the Oval Office who witnessed the signing of H.R. 7311, the... »

Roanoke Neo-Nazi Indicted for Threats, Witness Intimidation

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
By Jim Kouri, CPP

William A. “Bill” White, the self-proclaimed Commander of the neo-Nazi group the American National Socialist Workers Party, was indicted by a federal grand jury for threatening five individuals and for attempting to intimidate litigants in a federal housing discrimination lawsuit, the Justice Department announced today. White, who was also recently indicted in the Northern District... »

Chambliss Victory Refutes Public Break With Conservatism

Wednesday, December 3, 2008
By Chris Adamo

Saxby Chambliss correctly grasps the situation, crediting Sarah Palin as the individual whose support and involvement “fired up” the base. He further admonished recalcitrant Republican “moderates” of the need for the GOP to return to “those basic core values” of Reagan conservatism. »

NACOP: Acid Attack by Taliban Shape of Things to Come

Monday, November 17, 2008
By Jim Kouri, CPP

The National Association of Chiefs of Police (NACOP) received the following report from the US Department of Defense in order to alert police commanders and security directors about a recent terrorism tactic development: It’s a measure of the enemy in Afghanistan that Taliban terrorists attacked girls walking to school in Afghanistan on Nov. 12 by... »

Why Governments Love Feminism

Sunday, November 9, 2008
By Angry Harry
Why Governments Love Feminism

Feminism has very little to do with equality between the genders, and it also has very little to do with the rights of women. First and foremost, feminism is about various groups seeking to acquire power and money, and to build huge self-serving empires in which millions – literally millions – of people nowadays have... »

Somali Pirates Continue Reign of Terror Off African Coast

Sunday, September 28, 2008
By Jim Kouri, CPP

The Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian freighter carrying military weapons defiantly demanded $20 million in ransom despite being surrounded by three foreign warships on Sunday. The spokesmen for the pirates, believed to be members and associates of Al-Qaeda, were contacted via satellite communications. They confirmed that they were surrounded by three foreign... »

Dead-Broke Dads and the Challenges to Parenting

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
By Jeffery M. Leving

“Deadbeat Dads” has been the headliner of multiple stories in multiple newspapers for decades. Cook County launched “Operation Father’s Pay”; Butler County in Ohio put faces of these so called deadbeats on pizza boxes; and the Los Angeles County District Attorney announced their “Most Wanted Delinquent Parent” list. Several other states have begun... »

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