Joel Rosenberg, former senior aide to presid. candidate Steve Forbes, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Natan Sharansky has brought us another chilling and frightful novel that examines a future that is all to possible considering the context of the Middle East.
“Dead Heat is a novel – it’s fiction, it’s made up – but the themes are quite plausible,” says Rosenberg, who once served as a senior aide to U.S. presidential candidate Steve Forbes, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky.
He notes that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is urging the Muslim world to envision a world “without America.” Is this possible? “It is,” Ahmadinejad insists, “when our holy hatred strikes like a wave.”
for article, see http://joelrosenberg.blogspot.com
Monday, March 17, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Feminism's empty promises...
Many of you know of Dennis Prager, who is a syndicated talk show host in LA. He had a recent article talking about why many more women than men find themselves depressed. If we all could just get this message to the masses!
Unless one believes that women and men are the same and therefore the same things bring them happiness, the feminist emphasis on career has been an obstacle to many women's happiness. As a rule, women derive most of their happiness from relationships, not from work. Men need both to be happy far more than women do. Men's very identity is predicated on their answer to the question, "What do you do?" Whether fair or not -- to either sex -- virtually no woman's identity is dependent on what she does for a living. That is why, while both sexes suffer financially from the loss of a job, when men lose their jobs, they often also lose their self-worth as a man. The greater importance of work to men is also manifested in their willingness to work many more hours than woman.
for full article, see: http://dennisprager.townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2008/03/11/why_are_so_many_women_depressed_part_i
Unless one believes that women and men are the same and therefore the same things bring them happiness, the feminist emphasis on career has been an obstacle to many women's happiness. As a rule, women derive most of their happiness from relationships, not from work. Men need both to be happy far more than women do. Men's very identity is predicated on their answer to the question, "What do you do?" Whether fair or not -- to either sex -- virtually no woman's identity is dependent on what she does for a living. That is why, while both sexes suffer financially from the loss of a job, when men lose their jobs, they often also lose their self-worth as a man. The greater importance of work to men is also manifested in their willingness to work many more hours than woman.
for full article, see: http://dennisprager.townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2008/03/11/why_are_so_many_women_depressed_part_i
Monday, March 10, 2008
Public Education and its Christian origins
I'm sure many a parent is outraged, or at very least concerned at the rulings of the activist judges in California, legislating from the bench, ruling that it is illegal for (uncertified) parents to educate their children. The government wants to program, er, sorry, educate our children as they know how. Clearly they know best for our children!
I ehard about it, and wanted to do some research as to the origis of public education, how it got its start. Would you believe that it began and came out of the Puritans in colonial New England? Yeah, and it was also strongly tied to the church in these colonies (i.e. respect for authority, honoring parents, personal humility, hard work ethic...) all the bad stuff like that.
The Puritans who founded New England were among the most highly educated persons in England, the leaders and ministers being mostly Cambridge University graduates. All of the original colonists, men and women, were able to read and write and were students of the Bible.
Even more important than formal training to read and write, however, was the totality of family, church, and political society in the formation of children's character, which was the original meaning of education. Education was conceived broadly as the transference to its children of a society's culture, the absolute essentiality for the survival of society, particularly for Puritans in the savage wilds of North America in the early 17th century.
for full article, see http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0906/0906puritanpubed.htm
I ehard about it, and wanted to do some research as to the origis of public education, how it got its start. Would you believe that it began and came out of the Puritans in colonial New England? Yeah, and it was also strongly tied to the church in these colonies (i.e. respect for authority, honoring parents, personal humility, hard work ethic...) all the bad stuff like that.
The Puritans who founded New England were among the most highly educated persons in England, the leaders and ministers being mostly Cambridge University graduates. All of the original colonists, men and women, were able to read and write and were students of the Bible.
Even more important than formal training to read and write, however, was the totality of family, church, and political society in the formation of children's character, which was the original meaning of education. Education was conceived broadly as the transference to its children of a society's culture, the absolute essentiality for the survival of society, particularly for Puritans in the savage wilds of North America in the early 17th century.
for full article, see http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0906/0906puritanpubed.htm
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Homosexuality, Not 'Homophobia,' Is Health Risk
I found this interesting report by the FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL:
Some startlingly honest quotes from researchers who have studied the health of homosexual men were published by a "gay" newspaper in Michigan last week. Speaking of one study at a conference of the American Public Health Association late last year, former U.S. Centers for Disease Control researcher Ron Stall, Ph.D., M.P.H., said, "You had a syndemic [interconnecting epidemics] situation going on among a group of men, 80 percent of whom were college graduates, three-quarters of them were white, who were living in some of America's richest zip codes, and yet they had a health profile that looked like they were living in a favela [hillside slum] in Brazil." The gay newspaper article blamed these health problems not on the choice to engage in homosexual conduct, but on society's "homophobia." Yet that "homophobia" obviously wasn't severe enough to keep these men from getting college degrees and earning enough to live in "America's richest zip codes." Another CDC researcher, Richard J. Wolitski, stated that homosexual men report being victims of childhood sexual abuse at "rates that range between 12 and 37 percent [which is] much higher than rates for other men, which typically range from 1 to 4 percent." And those who "came out" as "gay" at an earlier age were the most likely to have had "forced sex before they were 18." Isn't it time we acknowledged that a cycle of sexual exploitation, not homophobia, is the source of these harms?
I mean... how does one person's disagreement of opinion with another inflict disease and STD's?
Some startlingly honest quotes from researchers who have studied the health of homosexual men were published by a "gay" newspaper in Michigan last week. Speaking of one study at a conference of the American Public Health Association late last year, former U.S. Centers for Disease Control researcher Ron Stall, Ph.D., M.P.H., said, "You had a syndemic [interconnecting epidemics] situation going on among a group of men, 80 percent of whom were college graduates, three-quarters of them were white, who were living in some of America's richest zip codes, and yet they had a health profile that looked like they were living in a favela [hillside slum] in Brazil." The gay newspaper article blamed these health problems not on the choice to engage in homosexual conduct, but on society's "homophobia." Yet that "homophobia" obviously wasn't severe enough to keep these men from getting college degrees and earning enough to live in "America's richest zip codes." Another CDC researcher, Richard J. Wolitski, stated that homosexual men report being victims of childhood sexual abuse at "rates that range between 12 and 37 percent [which is] much higher than rates for other men, which typically range from 1 to 4 percent." And those who "came out" as "gay" at an earlier age were the most likely to have had "forced sex before they were 18." Isn't it time we acknowledged that a cycle of sexual exploitation, not homophobia, is the source of these harms?
I mean... how does one person's disagreement of opinion with another inflict disease and STD's?
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