Sins of the Sister (Excerpt)

Feminism is that force in politics which enables pornographers, abortionists, womanizers, pimps and human traffickers to have their way with women. They are granted political and social cover; even a cachet that increasingly welcomes these vile practices to casual exposure and creeping approval in the popular culture.

[pullquote]beaten to death versus rent money. This is empowerment?[/pullquote]Movies like Pretty Woman portray prostitution as some sort of independent consultancy, which like many careers can pose challenges and force decisions in order to resolve conflicts. Just another job. Nothing is different, everything is relative, and women like Julia Roberts’ hooker are at their best when weighing the odds of being strangled and beaten to death versus their need for rent money. This is empowerment?

I cannot imagine a more pathetically conflicted … Continue reading

Government-Managed Media Nothing New

What bothers me is not that “clean-room” procedures will actually be followed, since they are claimed. What bothers me is the justification for “early access” to begin with:

“For years, journalists participating in the lockups have shown up at DOL at the appointed time, then entered a limited-access area to receive the new data and prepare news stories for release as soon as official embargoes end.

The system insures that major news organizations get the data as soon as possible and allows journalists covering the release get a jump on providing analyses and opinion about the data.”

Washington Examiner, 13 April 2012

Why do they need “a jump” on anything? This is as hostile to the general public as the infamous Japanese Press Club. Let them find … Continue reading

Women who Hate Women and the Men who Hate Them Too

Modern feminism is the denial of femininity.  Where women differ from men, that difference must be minimized, stamped out, obliterated.  Ridicule and derision await women who do not wish to become men.  It is as profoundly self-loathing and destructive as defending one’s abuser.  For all the supposed “wisdom” of the female half of humanity, who are supposed to be more peaceful, more thoughtful, more caring, more healthy and so forth, because of their innate connection to the next generation, we see that the cause which has taken their name is now taking their lives.

Feminism, please recall, is that force in politics which enables pornographers, abortionists, womanizers, pimps and human traffickers to do their work with political and social cover; even a cache that increasingly opens these vile … Continue reading

The New Romans

NOTE: This entire post is distilled from an excellent article at the BBC.

Republic

At the end of the second century BC the Roman people was sovereign. True, rich aristocrats dominated politics.  Yet ultimate power lay with the Roman people.  Rome prided itself on being a ‘free republic’ and centuries later was the political model for the founding fathers of the United States.

Redistribution

[pullquote]”A Republic, if you can keep it”  –Benjamin Franklin[/pullquote]Many Romans themselves put the key turning point in 133 BC. A young magistrate, Gracchus proposed to distribute to poor citizens stretches of state-owned land in Italy which had been illegally occupied by the rich.

Empire

Augustus was both canny and lucky. When he died in 14 AD, aged well over 70, he was succeeded by his stepson, … Continue reading

The Big Newt Link List

Newt References

By Bill Quick and Laura Hult

About Newt:

Newt’s first Tea Party (with photo)
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Partial Transcript:  Newt Gingrich Campaign Rally in Jackson, Mississippi – March 8 2012
Here

Newt Gingrich: Autism Advocate
Here

RNC’s delegate count shows Gingrich ahead of Santorum
Here

Newt and Alvin Toffler
Here

 

Newt on the Issues:

Setting the Record Straight: Newt’s Positions on the Issues and His Record
Here

Gingrich Now Says He Was ‘Wrong’ to Support Individual Mandate
Here

Newt Gingrich: Growth and Prosperity Rather Than Austerity
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Newt: Fix Social Security So Obama Can’t Keep Scaring the American People
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No, Newt did not endorse the Obamacare mandate
Here

Where … Continue reading

The Inevitable yet Breathtaking Decline of Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter, high-speed wail, has reached a new low in her column of April 11, 2012, and I suspect she is nowhere near quitting.  Her unsupportable position regarding Romney demands support, and now she must lie and distort in order to make the words come out.

This column is not composed of actual shrieking, which she seems to have gotten out of her system in this Ricochet podcast, but it’s breathtaking nonetheless in its dishonesty and flat-out malice for the Tea Party, which she calls “conservative primary voters”.   I’m not going to fisk the whole thing.  Let me just outline it and poke a limited number of holes in this seamlessly rotten garment.

Checks and Balances

[pullquote]the three branches are still one government[/pullquote]We are familiar with our tripartite form of government, wherein each of three branches acts to check the impulses and balance the actions of the other two.  There is another level at work here, and I find it clarifying to recall that the three branches are all still subdivisions of one entity, the government.  The other trinity here is a set of relationships between God, Man, and government, and this is made explicit in the Declaration of Independence.

As a rule of thumb, I find that where Constitutionality comes into play, I prefer whichever course brings the status of things in closer accord with the Declaration.  This sort of action is typically undertaken by the Supreme Court, but is not limited to … Continue reading