It’s 2007 A.D. and most of us are aware that a major part of the population no longer believes that marriage should be confined to the practice of one sex marrying the other. In fact, it may soon become a fundamental right of citizenship for any person within the diversity spectrum to receive the state’s imprimatur after pairing off with whoever or whatever they want. So, imagine my surprise, given the nature of our society, to discover an article in The New York Times which seemed to indicate that the decision to get married was one made entirely by women. Its title is “51% of Women Are Now Living Without Spouse,” and it happens to be the Times most popular article at this moment.  In its paragraphs, the reporters refuse to examine the attitudes of men alongside those of women which results in it providing a false description of reality. This is intentional, of course, as it furthers the paper’s implicit goal of pursuing female empowerment at all costs.

Having previously reported on the participation of Revolutionary Communist Party members at the “National Conference on Media Reform,” I can now confirm that members of the old Soviet-line Communist Party USA were there, too. But it gets even more interesting. It turns out that one of the founders of the group sponsoring the conference is personally rubbing elbows with identified communists in a broader movement designed to impeach President Bush and force a U.S. defeat in Iraq.

Less than half a month has passed since the Democrats took control of Congress, and already they are proving to everyone just how far to the left their party has slid over the years. In typical neo-communist fashion, Representative Maurice Hinchey of New York [1] has decided to drag the long-buried - but apparently not quite dead - Fairness Doctrine [2] out of its tomb, dust it off, rename it the Media Ownership Reform Act (MORA) [3], and attempt to replace free speech in the media with what he and his ilk like to refer to as “fair speech”.

Irvine, CA--At the National Conference for Media Reform last weekend, several lawmakers called for the return of the “Fairness Doctrine,” which demands that television and radio broadcasters give a balanced presentation of all sides of controversial issues.

Today they are pushing CO2 and Global Warming BS!  And just for fun helping out the ‘second-hand smoke’ JunkScience scare campaign.

Former Vice President Al Gore scours the countryside looking for support for a possible presidential run and attempts to emulate bible-thumping preachers while preaching a message of the need for “big government” to save the planet. Meanwhile, Gore hobnobs with the Hollywood elite many of whom wouldn’t know a Bible from a Cecil B. DeMille script for the movie “Samson and Delilah.”

Thomas Paine wrote one of the most famous tracts of the Revolutionary era. Titled “The Rights of Man”, it was a tract that many said, should it not have existed, the Revolution could not have occurred. In fact, historians contend rightfully, that the writings of our founders and their contemporaries were incredibly important as much for their content as for their ability to spread the ideas over which we went to war with Great Britain across the hard to travel geography of early America.

There is an effort in Congress - mostly thanks to the Democrat leadership - to strangle the energy baby in the cradle.

Former President Jimmy Carter and presidential candidate Christopher Dodd believe that the mechanics of the ballot box sanitize a victorious dictator. 

Did anybody mention that those 4000 folks were probably charged $1,200,000,000 for ‘medical services’?

Politics isn’t the only area in which strange bedfellows are made. One can say the same thing about poker as its unique characteristics have proved alluring for presidents, plumbers, starlets, professors, and even common criminals. Author, and noted poker authority, Ed Miller is none of the above, but he is one of the more intelligent and industrious individuals associated with the game. Personally, I am quite familiar with his books, and my keen appreciation of them led me to interview him last month. He came off as a bright and enthusiastic man, and I am sure many a rounder found our conversation enlightening, but it seems that his wife did not. The young lady posted a blog on her website in which she took exception to one of my questions concerning her husband’s appearance on the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy television show. Normally I would not trouble readers with such mundane matters but Mrs. Miller’s criticism provides me with a nice opportunity in which to excoriate the notion of the radical feminist wife.

Recent reports of bird-brain Flu in the Washington D.C. area have been confirmed!

The Ayn Rand Institute is releasing this 1993 speech on the Clinton Health Plan--originally delivered at a Town Hall meeting in Costa Mesa, California--because the same essential issues underlie today’s debate over universal health coverage. While current proposals, such as Governor Schwarzenegger’s, differ in their details from the Clinton plan, they share with Clinton’s proposal a fundamental moral premise: the notion of a right to health care. It is this moral premise that must be rejected if the problems with America’s health care system are ever to be solved.

Memphis, Tennessee: Media reform sounds like a good cause. But the gathering here of more than 2,000 activists turned out to be an effort to push the Democratic Party further to the left and get more “progressive” voices in the media, while proposing to use the power of the federal government to silence conservatives. 

In a few weeks, there will be almost 200,000 battle-hardened, elite, American troops in Iraq-each and every one trained in counter-insurgency operations.  They will be supported by almost 50,000 US Navy and Air Force personnel stationed in the Persian Gulf, and ready to bring 300-500 American combat aircraft into action at a moment’s notice.  In addition to this overwhelming combat power, the Iraqi Security Forces can field between 350-450,000 people ranging in capability from desert border patrol forces to extremely experienced and battle-proven counter-insurgency special forces.  Other Coalition forces in Iraq add to the 700,000 with yet tens of thousands more troops.