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Why These Feminists Oppose Pelosi’s Equality Act0
- Culture
- January 29, 2019
Four self-described liberal feminists said Monday that “gender equality” legislation pushed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will jeopardize women’s rights and actually promote inequality. “The Equality Act, which sounds all well and good, is an unmitigated disaster for women and girls,” Kara Dansky, a lawyer and board member at the Women’s Liberation Front, said at
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Should You Give Up Your Metro Seat to a Pregnant Woman?0
- Culture
- January 29, 2019
Should you give up your seat on public transport to a pregnant woman? Probably a majority of people would answer “yes” to that question. But how does that work in practice? The London Underground has a creative solution. They offer expectant mothers a white button to wear that says “Baby on Board.” Their trains have
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Democratic Socialism and Regular Socialism Have the Same Goal0
- Economics
- January 29, 2019
The longing for the socialist dream comes in part from the great success of capitalism as an engine of prosperity. From the nineteenth century onwards, the entrepreneurial economy created prosperity on a scale that had never been seen before in history.The socialists, however, believed economic success would become even greater in a society of egalitarian
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Can Children Really Be Raised ‘Without the Concept of Sin’?0
- Culture
- January 29, 2019
Working for an online publication naturally brings a lot of feedback from those in the trenches. These reports are fascinating, for they give a snippet view of what real families in every day America are experiencing. One such piece of recent feedback came in the form of the photo below, which depicts a child’s school
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Venezuela’s Situation Requires a Great Deal of Pragmatism0
- International
- January 28, 2019
In a bold move last week, the National Assembly of Venezuela, which was deprived of its constitutional powers by the government-controlled Supreme Court in March 2017, appointed National Assembly’s leader Juan Guaidó as interim President of Venezuela. This triggered an immediate reaction on the streets where millions of Venezuelans gathered to demand the resignation of
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Throwing the Sheep to the Wolves0
- Culture
- January 28, 2019
The boys from Covington Catholic did a good thing by going to the March for Life. If what the Catholic Church teaches is true, Roe v. Wade marks a death sentence for roughly 1,000,000 innocent human beings every year, year in, year out. As John T. Noonan wrote decades ago, “No plague, no war, has so devastated the land.” The March
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Homer’s Advice for Fathers and Sons0
- Culture
- January 28, 2019
Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages had been given the gift, not only to peer into the twenty-first century, but to correspond with we who live in that most confusing and rudderless of centuries. Had it been in their power
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California Now Wants to Tax… Drinking Water0
- Economics
- January 28, 2019
California’s new governor has wasted little time continuing the state’s seemingly limitless expansion of government. Governor Gavin Newsom’s first budget proposal, published last week, suggests instituting a tax on drinking water in the name of cleaning up California’s water systems. The “Environmental Protection” section of the 2019-2020 budget seeks to establish a new special fund,
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What I’ve Learned As A Life-Long Homeschooler0
- Education
- January 25, 2019
Many people still consider “homeschooling” to be a religious farmstead cult instead of a legitimate form of education. Yet on average, homeschoolers are far out-performing their publicly-educated peers in almost every subject. According to the Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), In 1990, the National Home Education Research Institute issued a report entitled “A Nationwide Study
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