By ProtectMarriage January 23, 2010
Over the last couple of days, we have been treated by the plaintiffs to astonishing intrusions into areas supposedly protected by the First Amendment, including religious freedoms and the political rights of free speech and association. It started Wednesday when a Stanford political...
By FrontPage Magazine January 24, 2010
By Michelle Malkin Pay attention: In the afterglow of the Massachusetts Miracle, there are flickers of peril for the right. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but like Paul Revere’s midnight message, consider this warning “a cry of defiance, and not of fear.” Conservatives...
By Kevin Leitch January 25, 2010
Some more rumblings on the wider web regarding the autism ‘epidemic’ – I’m not allowed to carry on commenting at Harold’s (he allowed me one then when I further backed up my points he refused to allow those comments through. Amazing behaviour from someone who invited...
By FrontPage Magazine May 27, 2009
By John Perazzo With a desire to change the subject from the North Korean nuclear test, President Obama appointed an activist judge in hopes of tilting the Supreme Court further to the Left. On Tuesday morning, Barack Obama formally nominated Sonia Sotomayor, a judge on the 2nd Circuit Court...
By Dr. Gwenn June 02, 2009
We all know that moving is stressful on a family. As if the logistics of the move itself are not overwhelming enough, there's the adjustment to a new area complete with laying down new roots and establishing a new social structure. This is tough for adults as well as kids of all ages. Kids...
By FREE June 09, 2009
What will our energy future look like? Of course, I have no special insights, but I see two interesting trends. Here's the first. In large, complex economies, meaningful energy transitions occur gradually across many decades. Vaclav Smil, from the University of Manitoba, offers these compelling...
By Dr. Gwenn June 11, 2009
Cell phones are their feature are an ever growing topic in today's families. It used to be that the hot button issue was whether to get the phone . Now, we have to deal with all the features: texting, Internet, camera...to name the tip of the iceberg! Clearly we're becoming a more mobile society...
By FrontPage Magazine June 18, 2009
By Vasko Kohlmayer With unemployment at a record high and the economy going from bad to worse, Joe Biden was forced to admit the obvious on Meet the Press on Sunday. "Everyone guessed wrong," he said about the impact of the administration’s economic stimulus on the American economy.
By FrontPage Magazine June 21, 2009
By Tom Purcell Ah, Father’s Day is upon us. I can’t think of a better time for dads and men to remember how to be dads and men. Flip on the tube any time during the day and you’ll see fathers portrayed as hapless buffoons – saved from themselves by their wives and all-knowing children...
By Suzanne Venker June 22, 2009
Without a doubt, the biggest problem with the working mother debate is the fact that it doesn't get into specifics. For instance, when we talk about mothers at work, do we mean mothers who return to the workforce after a maternity leave -- as the women in the media do -- and hire nannies or send...
By Suzanne Venker June 25, 2009
Do not throw stones. If you're a Republican, think hard before judging Mark Sanford. If you're a Democrat, do not use Sanford's story to your advantage. Being liberal or conservative has nothing to do with having an affair. But how Sanford handled the situation is very much related to his politics...
By Mitzi Dulan, RD, CSSD June 25, 2009
Lose weight fast and cleanse your body of harmful toxins! These are just a few claims given for what you can expect if you go on a detox diet . You’ve probably seen them on TV, read about them on the internet , or heard athletes and celebrities boasting about the wondrous effects of these...
By Dr. Gwenn July 06, 2009
One of my favorite summer activities is watching reruns of Star Trek Next Generation. It’s become somewhat of a summer tradition in my family the last few summers. Having become trekkies themselves, my kids were able to very much enjoy the recent movie, and get the history and lore behind it.
By Suzanne Venker July 10, 2009
In addition to the bogus definition of self-esteem, Boomers also instilled the notion that there are no real gender differences. For a balanced, accurate study of this issue, I recommend Taking Sex Differences Seriously, by Steven Rhoads. (Great guy, great book -- though this one's not for casual...
By Code Pink July 15, 2009
What do 20-somethings think when they think of “ nuclear weapons”? Most I know, myself included, think of random cultural references like old black-and-white mushroom cloud videos, zany ’80s sci-fi flicks, maybe our high school English readings of “Brave New World” or...
By Reason Foundation July 15, 2009
By Tim Cavanaugh Is our long international nightmare over? Has the recession ended already? Yes, says Bank of America Merrill Lynch. (Now there's a company that combines the two names everybody thinks of when they think of sound financial planning and long-term economic vision.) According to a...
By Bret Jacobson July 20, 2009
It looks as if Americans -- already pummeled by an economic slide from dropping home prices to 10 percent unemployment -- may avoid the final knockout punch. Political pundits are forecasting increasing odds that that grassroots pressure may force President Obama and Congressional Democrats to...
By Suzanne Venker September 13, 2009
On Sept. 25, 2009, I will be speaking at the How to Take Back America Conference in St. Louis, Mo. The subject of my workshop, which I'll be conducting alongside Phyllis Schlafly, is "How to cope with feminist attacks on marriage and motherhood ." It's a subject I've been dealing with for...
By Suzanne Venker September 15, 2009
Several posts ago I linked you all to an article I wrote called "The Myth of Female Empowerment." If you missed it, you can scroll down to find it or go to my website and click on the Articles heading. Opposing Views posted the article on their site, and some of the comments are as...
By FrontPage Magazine September 20, 2009
By Vasko Kohlmayer "Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil... you have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people," concludes Michael Moore in his latest documentary Capitalism: A Love Story . Moore's fulmination is neither surprising nor atypical in...
By Monica Engebretson September 21, 2009
Few people would force an animal to live its entire life in a cramped, barren cage suspended over its own waste. As an example, most humane-minded people agree that puppy mills which keep dogs in precisely such conditions are abhorrent and should be shut down. But what happens when the animals...
By Deal Hudson September 23, 2009
New, stunning, evidence has just been reported by LifeSiteNews.com that the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is funding groups that advocate abortion and prostitution . CCHD, the social justice arm of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which ceased funding ACORN...
By The Cato Institute September 25, 2009
By David Boaz I wrote in Libertarianism: A Primer , “One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can’t tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society can comfortably allow people to choose voluntary socialism.” (In the...
By FrontPage Magazine September 28, 2009
One of the ironies of the Obama administration’s experiment with European-style social democracy – complete with growing government, higher taxes , and increased regulation – is that it comes at a time when Europe is moving away from that very model. The latest example comes from Germany...
By LifeWay Christian Resources October 05, 2009
A marriage without conflict is dead. If there are two living people in a marriage, conflicts, disagreements and misunderstandings will occur. It’s called being alive and human. About 400 people attended a Festival of Marriage in Panama City, Fla., Sept. 25-27, where they heard experts in...
By Suzanne Venker October 06, 2009
The media is in love again. Now that God is firmly perched in the White House, they can turn their attention elsewhere. And they have: on the new parenting book Nurtureshock , by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. Nurtureshock: New Thinking about Children is not a book about how to...
By Reason Foundation October 08, 2009
A study reported this week in the Archives of General Psychiatry found that an experimental " cocaine vaccine" was mostly ineffective at reducing consumption of the drug. Less than two-fifths of the subjects injected with the vaccine, which is supposed to stimulate production of...
By Rick Brentlinger October 12, 2009
God saves gays but do you think He wants them to stay gay? (by Jeremy, California) Rick Brentlinger answers: God delights in saving gays and everyone else who repents of sin and trusts Jesus Christ alone for salvation. Nothing in the Bible indicates that God is in the business of changing...
By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights October 14, 2009
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a front-page news story in today’s New York Times on the problem of child sexual abuse: Reporter Paul Vitello shows the shocking extent of child sexual abuse in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community. He also details the cover-ups that have long...
By Suzanne Venker October 21, 2009
In 2006, Michael Noer, executive editor of Forbes magazine, wrote an article entitled “Don’t Marry a Career Woman.” The gist of the article was that men are unhappier in marriages in which the women earn more than $30,000 a year, as opposed to marriages in which the women work less. Not...