ANN BARNHARDT, the remarkable and inspiring woman who is refusing to pay taxes to the federal government under Obama, is another anti-suffragette. She made these terrific comments on Sept. 1 about the women’s vote:

Do you know when things really started to go – literally – to hell in this country? When women were given the right to vote seperate and apart from their husbands. What a flipping disaster. This is when the war against marriage and the family began in earnest – and it has taken less than 100 years for both institutions to be almost completely destroyed. And it all started with the damn suffrage. (more…)

FITZGERALD writes:

I stumbled onto this little gem about the latest Slutwalk in Seattle when I was listening to local talk radio this morning. The female reporter who composed the blog posting was going on triumphantly about how women need to be respected. Respected for what? (more…)

TEXANNE writes:

Do you think people will stop wearing the yellow “Livestrong” bracelets now that Lance Armstrong has been officially discredited? I am seeing lots of online advertising for the Livestrong line, which I had not noticed before the most recent developments — maybe close-out specials. Will anyone want to be seen in Livestrong gear? (more…)

A READER sends this note after requesting an address for making a donation:

It’s the least I can do to help you keep up the great work that you’re doing.

Yours is one of the sites I check in with every day, and several times a day at that. I think most people know the re-energizing feeling of finding like-minded allies, but it’s especially heartening to me to find conservative women, since so many women–sadly–lean left, and often hard left. (more…)

BOND AND FREE

                 — By Robert Frost

Love has earth to which she clings
With hills and circling arms about–
Wall within wall to shut fear out.
But Thought has need of no such things,
For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings. (more…)

IN A previous entry, many readers who have more than two or three children wrote of the rude comments people make about their large families. Ironically, some mentioned that they are also the recipients of compliments for their children’s good behavior in public. A reader describes his experiences in this regard below.

Terry Morris writes: (more…)

PENNY writes:

Frances Parkinson Keyes, who died in 1970, was a popular author in the early 20th century.  I confess I’ve never read anything by her myself, but I’ve seen her books for years – first in the library and then in used bookstores.

This past weekend I picked up a copy of her Senator Marlowe’s Daughter (c.1933). Have yet to read it, but the plot seems to be that Faith Marlowe, only daughter of a New England senator, leaves America for Europe and has some kind of unhappy romance there. What really interested me while flipping through it, was this passage from the end.  (Yes, I am one of those terrible people who read the ends of books before buying them – though not mysteries, that wouldn’t be fair):  (more…)