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Daily Archives: November 11th, 2009

‘Are Same-Sex Couples Better Parents?’

  The inevitable has happened. Both the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times have recently posed this question: Do same-sex couples actually make better parents than the old-fashioned, increasingly obsolete Mom and Dad? Here’s from the Chronicle writer Amy Graff: My daughter’s first best friend had two dads. My husband and I used to joke that [...]

The Federal Takeover

  This country is being pickled, Pelosi-ed and pressure-cooked. Take it from a housewife. She knows a mess when she sees it. We are on the road to bureaucratic tyranny. I highly recommend this editorial from Investor’s Business Daily on the Congressional health bill passed last Saturday. Kerry Jackson writes: Two hundred twenty U.S. lawmakers voted [...]

Remaking Rome, cont.

  The discussion about popular culture, and how to reasonably and effectively protest it, has continued in the post Remaking Rome.     Here are comments from Clark Coleman and from me: Clark writes: I touched on two different issues in my earlier reply: the level of protest that certain things would elicit in a previous generation [...]

Transracial Adoption and Feminism

  As mentioned in the previous post, international adoption has soared in the last 40 years and yet is a relatively unexamined cultural phenomenon. A new study looks at the confused identity experienced by many transracial adoptees from foreign countries. The study does not examine a major cause for the growth in transracial adoption: feminism. The rejection of motherhood in [...]