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Children Are “Sexual Beings”

August 24, 2011

 

PENNY STARR  of CNS News reports:

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is offering advice to parents and teens about sex education, including assurances that teens may “experiment” with homosexuality as part of “exploring their own sexuality,” and that masturbation should be of concern only “if a child seems preoccupied with it to the exclusion of other activities.” Read More »

 

When Anger is Proper

August 24, 2011

 

THIS PREVIOUS entry looked at a piece by Washington Post advice columnist Carolyn Hax. Hax’s response to a woman who had recently received a devastating blow showed the insensitivity that lies behind modern non-judgmentalism. The woman’s husband had left her for a man. Her friends and family were showing sympathy for him, even as her husband was posting indecent ads online with his boyfriend. Hax told her to get over it and move on.

Some excellent comments were added to that entry. Jill Farris wrote:

The proper response to evil and immoral acts should be anger and revulsion. A woman who is sickened by a husband who leaves her for another man and posts sex ads is doing her children a favor by showing her emotions. It is the right thing for her to do.

I grew up in the 1960’s when my parents and all their Ivy League colleagues were divorcing their wives and acting very immorally. It was the accepted thing among everyone we knew so the children kept quiet about their deep pain and sorrow over the break -up of their families. Read More »

 

August 23, 2011

 

Canoe in the Rapidds; Winslow Homer, 1897

Canoe in the Rapids; Winslow Homer, 1897

 

Another Hax Job

August 23, 2011

 

CAROLYN HAX, the Washington Post advice columnist, is an incarnation of modern non-judgmentalism, which decrees that when someone does something utterly outrageous in his personal life, others must accept it and say, “Well, who are we to judge?” A woman writes to Hax and tells her that her husband has left her and their children for a man and is now posting indecent ads online with his boyfriend: Read More »

 

Diallo Should be Charged

August 23, 2011

 

NOW THAT charges have been dropped against Dominique Strauss-Kahn  on the basis of the character of his accuser, it is inconceivable that the case be closed. Nafissatou Diallo should be prosecuted for perjury and obstructing justice.

 

The Catholic Woodstock in Spain

August 22, 2011

 

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SEE the coverage of World Youth Day in Madrid at Tradition in Action.

 

August 22, 2011

 

Boys Fishing, Gloucester Harbor; Winslow Homer, 1880

Boys Fishing, Gloucester Harbor; Winslow Homer, 1880

 

A Woman in the Marines

August 22, 2011

 

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER features this story today of a woman who joined the Marines to follow in the footsteps of her deceased boyfriend, who was killed in the Marines. One can’t help but feel for this woman’s grief and loneliness, but warriors are not made in this way. Read More »

 

Male Authority Revisited

August 22, 2011

 

SUSAN writes:

I’ve enjoyed going through your archives, and in some ways I agree with you. I would like to ask about one of the issues you frequently address.

A couple of notes about my situation: I’m married, and my husband is a man by any standard. He’s not a firefighter, police officer, or in the military – in fact, he works as a mid-level paper-shuffling office drone (and I’m not criticizing him, as he’d be the first to agree with me). Read More »

 

The Business of Childhood

August 22, 2011

 

JOEL BAKAN, a Canadian law professor, writes in The New York Times,

WHEN I sit with my two teenagers, and they are a million miles away, absorbed by the titillating roil of online social life, the addictive pull of video games and virtual worlds, as they stare endlessly at video clips and digital pictures of themselves and their friends, it feels like something is wrong.  Read More »

 

Portrait of a British “Family”

August 19, 2011

 

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WHO WILL this child be someday? His parents – a black woman and an Asian man – conceived him in a contractual arrangement. His mother lives with a white woman. They have all three fulfilled their desire for parenthood, without viewing the child as a whole, as a social being.

I always wonder what the people who work in the clinics that facilitate these kinds of families are like. I can’t imagine it. Life must seem so cheap to them. Read More »

 

A Mother Who Declined Government Formula

August 19, 2011

 

CONTINUING THE discussion of subsidized infant formula and the culture of breastfeeding (see previous entries here, here, and here), Kimberly writes:

When I was a brand new housewife with my first baby boy, two old men in a coffee shop asked me if I planned on going back to work sooner or later. My response was sincere and unplanned. “No, I would rather work for love than for money any day!” I said, with a big grin. The old men smiled big, amused, and what looked like almost grateful smiles.  Read More »

 

The Chocolate Factory Riot

August 19, 2011

 

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THIS STORY OF foreign students protesting their wages at a chocolate plant in Pennsylvania is truly remarkable. The students came to this country on State Department work-travel visas, known as J-1 visas, which are commonly used to provide businesses with a pool of cheap foreign labor, especially in the summer. The students’ complaints, judging from the news accounts, are two-fold. One, they wanted to make more money for less labor. (They are paid $8.35 an hour.) Two, they wanted to have a good time.

One of the students came right out and said that she was expecting Charle’s Chocolate Factory, not a real manufacturing plant.  What an outrage. No Oompa-Loompas or Willy Wonka. No Veruca Salt or Mike Teavee. According to the New York Times,

When she was offered a contract for a job at a plant with Hershey’s chocolates, she said, she was excited. “We have all seen Charlie’s chocolate factory,” she said. “We thought, ‘This is good.’ ”

The State Department grants the students visas through an agency called the Council for Educational Travel. The Council works with employers around America to find foreign students jobs, a service unavailable to Americans. There are no agencies rounding up paying jobs and summer housing for any American college students who are without employment and would like to work. Read More »

 

Australian Columnist Encounters Homosexual Bullies

August 18, 2011

 

WRITING IN The Sidney Telegraph, Columnist Miranda Devine last week discussed the publicity surrounding Finance Minister Penny Wong’s lesbian partner, who is expecting a baby. Devine spoke in fairly mild terms, condemning a fatherless society and same-sex marriage. She wasn’t in the least critical of Wong herself. Read More »

 

When Marriage is Love – and Nothing Else

August 17, 2011

 

MICHAEL S. writes:

I find the comments of the Marriage Project with regards to the new marriage norm very interesting. Over the pass several months I have discussed marriage with my girlfriend. In the process I expressed a desire to marry and start having children. In my mind, the next step after marriage is starting a family. Read More »

 

More on Bankers and Looters

August 17, 2011

 

SEBASTIAN C. writes:

My disagreement with you and Dalrymple is so extreme, I’m going to try to write a piece for Zero Hedge blasting him for making such a stupid, unfair, morally relativistic argument. The fact that the windbag was trying to criticize moral relativism makes it even worse. Comparing the London looters to the bankers who now hold the whole Western world hostage and threaten a war of holocaust proportions to match the ones they manufactured in the previous century, who refer to the cradles of our civilization as “Piigs,” who rape and enslave entire nations, defames the rioters’ good name. Read More »

 

Study

August 17, 2011

 
Study: At a Reading Desk, Lord Frederick Leighton, 1877

Study: At a Reading Desk, Lord Frederick Leighton, 1877

 

How the Media Portrays the Murder of a Homosexual and a Child by a Homosexual

August 17, 2011

 
Dr.Louis Chen, charged with stabbing his homosexual lover 100 times and killing his two-year-old son

Dr. Louis Chen, charged with stabbing his homosexual lover 100 times and killing his two-year-old son

DIANA writes:

Two observations came to me as a read this article about the horrific child-murder involving physician Louis Chen which you discussed last week:

1. Journalists now accept as normal the biologically impossible: that two males can “have a child.” (Up there with “gender reassignment” and other forms of science fiction we have
to accept as fact.)

2. More important, this is a stew of sheer perversity!

Read More »