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Monthly Archives: September 2011

A Car Swerves Off the Road

  YEARS AGO, when I was in my twenties, I was driving one winter night along a four-lane highway near the city of Camden, New Jersey. It was bitter cold, windy and it had snowed the day before. The city of Camden, for those who are not familiar with it, is one of the most dangerous cities in [...]

The Socialist Paradise of Sweden

  THOMAS F. BERTONNEAU writes: Sweden illustrates better than any country I know the parasitic character of liberalism-socialism. In the mid-twentieth century, Sweden built itself up into a regional industrial power with a robust export-economy in goods ranging from grain and dairy products to heavy machinery and ships. Sweden’s role as a “neutral” in World War [...]

Fundraising Drive

  THE Center for Work-Life Policy is a “think tank” based in New York City that devotes its considerable efforts to the ongoing transformation of society. The Center advocates, among other things, the replacement of the male corporate worker, particularly the white male professional, with the female corporate worker. Even though the income of working women has [...]

In Sweden, Feminist Utopianism Falters

  JESSE POWELL writes: I have heard Sweden referred to as a paradise many times. In Sweden, which is famous for its generous parental leave policies, everything is supposedly wonderful and the Swedish have no problems. In fact, Sweden has many of the same social problems found in the rest of Europe. For instance, there was a radical decline in the [...]

Worsening Black Unemployment

  EDWIN RUBENSTEIN writes at VDare: From January 2009 to August 2011 both whites and blacks suffered employment declines: Black employment fell by 540,000, or 3.5% and white employment fell by 2.5 million, or 1.8%. By contrast, more Asians and Hispanics held jobs at the end of the period than at the start of the [...]

And the Indians Shopped at Whole Foods Too

  WRITING in response to this post about a journalist who claims it is immoral to have children because they will harm the “environment,” Regina Hess writes: Last week, my husband and I took our five children on a field trip to Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts. I had forgotten how politically correct Plymouth had become, but was rudely [...]

Disgusted with the Shallowness of Facebook

  KAREN I. writes: I quit Facebook after going to an old friend’s Facebook page and finding a death announcement. The family had posted a childhood picture of the deceased individual, with graphics of glittery stars around it. Along the top of the photo was “R.I.P.” I was stunned at the news and absolutely disgusted [...]

 

“I Decided Not to Have Children for Environmental Reasons”

  THE WESTERN educated woman is so afraid of having children – so afraid of what it might require of her, so afraid of no longer breathing, thinking, and acting like a man, so afraid of losing friendships based on her status as careerist – that she reaches in her desperation for all kinds of [...]

The Personalistic, Relativistic World of Facebook

  FRED OWENS writes: The dominant media is not CNN, The New York Times, or The Washington Post. It’s not FoxNews either. It’s Facebook. That’s where the nation and the world meets, connects, and relates.

When a Pope Truly Loves the Muslim, He Does Not Affirm the Muslim’s Faith

  AT VFR, Howard Sutherland writes: Isn’t every Pope’s primary mission to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations and call people–all people–to the Christian faith? Rather than make statements that imply an equivalence between Christianity and Islam, Pope Benedict should exhort those Moslems who have moved into Christian (or once-Christian) lands to [...]

The Census Bureau Innocently Overestimates the Number of Homosexual “Marriages”

  THOUGH the federal government does not officially recognize the fraudulent institution of same-sex “marriage,” a major federal agency does. The Census Bureau issued revised 2010 figures yesterday for the number of same-sex couples, which it derives from respondents who say they are “married” to a member of the household of the same sex.

The Meaning of a Test

  A WOMAN I know taught her son at home until he was eight. She was then considering sending him to a small private school. In order to apply to the school, the boy had to take an entrance exam.

Crusoe Found

  [T]he Captain had brought the Pinnace in near the Place where I at first landed my Rafts, and so landed just at my Door. I was at first ready to sink down with the Surprize. For I saw my Deliverance indeed visibly put into my Hands, all things easy, and a large Ship just [...]

Praise from a Reader

  ALYCE writes: I think you are wonderful.  You are a friend of women, and make me proud to be a woman also. You are a friend to those I love most – my sons, my daughter, my husband, my father.