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November 21, 2017
Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg

Mississippi’s Move to Protect the Family Should Be Lauded, Not Attacked
Mississippi has been in the news lately thanks to HB 1523, the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act.” By enacting this sane law, the state has taken a heroic stance on morality that holds the potential to restore the rightly ordered foundation of civilization, the family. Although this truth been obscured by the rising tide of the sexual revolution, the well-ordered family is a vitally necessary building block for the good society. However, the supporters of this important law are under attack. The opponents to this good bill are legion and a most formidable foe of the family with tentacles in every aspect of public life. Nevertheless, HB 1523 is a beacon of hope in a dark time.[...]
November 21, 2017
Catherine Davis

The Radical Feminists and the Beasts They Created
It was amidst the cultural upheaval of the 1960s that “radical feminism” was born. These women were seeking liberation from patriarchy -- a system where males held primary power -- and among them was a woman named Kate Millet, the first president of the National Organization of Women. At one of their early organizational meetings, the women called for a cultural revolution that would destroy the American family by destroying monogamy and the patriarchy. When asked how they would accomplish this, they answered: by promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality. And they succeeded. Today’s America is a snapshot of just how well radical feminism has moved the culture toward “liberating” women from the family structure where the father was honored or revered.[...]
November 20, 2017
Jenni White

Storytelling Drag Queens — Coming Soon to a Public Library Near You
This month, the Maricopa County Library District canceled an event at their annual LibraryCon called “Reading With the Queens.” The event, in which three drag queens were to read diversity and tolerance-themed stories to children, was canceled by the Library District’s administration citing it had “no connection to the spirit of the LibraryCon event” and didn’t meet their story time program guidelines.[...]
November 14, 2017
Erik Halvorson

Dear President Trump: “America First” Should Mean Free and Open Trade
Last Friday, President Donald Trump took the podium at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam to deliver a forceful speech in which he doubled down on his nationalist economic rhetoric. In his remarks, Trump rebuked Asian countries and their leaders for what he called “unfair trade practices” saying, “We are not going to let the United States be taken advantage of anymore." Trump further asserted that the United States was continually subject to what he referred to as “chronic trade abuses” that were costing American jobs. While this rhetoric plays well with much of the President’s political base and is consistent with his past policy positions, it does not concur with his other supposed “America First” policies.[...]
November 14, 2017
Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg

This Viral Video Shows Exactly What’s Wrong with the Idea of “Privilege”
A video featuring teacher Adam Donyes attempting to explain “privilege” to his students went viral recently. In a mere week, it received nearly 35 million views, 750,000 shares and almost 20,000 comments, with many viewers claiming it makes sense out of the issue of “privilege.” However, the truth is that it substitutes material reduction and emotionalism for intellectual and moral substance and serves as a lesson in ideological hounding, not justice.[...]