I believe what marriage has been for all of recorded history, a societal institution that includes two genders (polygamy just has more of one gender), and based on my faith only one of each. But one doesn’t have to be religious to accept this as intrinsic to the nature of marriage; i.e. without two genders you can’t have something called marriage.
"If sustainable development is to be achieved, the goals of economic development must be reappraised." - 'People and the Planet'
"What they are doing is somewhat akin to trying to get your computer to boot up by hitting it with a club."
Gradually, almost imperceptibly, the roles of America’s citizens and their government have been reversed: Where did governments — at every level — get the idea that they are supposed to manage the affairs of their citizens? Governments were first created in America to serve their citizens. Now, citizens must ask their government for permission to build a house, to drive a car, to open a business, or to buy a gun. The role and authority of government has changed over the years from an entity…
In The Freeman Online, Bruce Edward Walker brings to mind a once-popular mid-20th-century author: Perhaps no author better chronicled the disastrous, soul-crushing European political experiments of the middle half of the twentieth century than Arthur Koestler. The Hungarian-born author wrote magisterially (in English, no less; he first published in Hungarian, German, and Russian) of the follies of the Pink Decade of the 1930s in a series of political novels. Unfortunately, they’re all but forgotten in today’s university curricula. The world requires constant reminders of what…
If it does, you can blame … J. R. R. Tolkien? . . . one of the things that I talk about is what I like to call “West Coast White nationalism” because West Coast White nationalism, a lot of the people that I know on the West Coast who think in terms of a racially defined new order of society, you take one look at them and you think that they’re hippies or you think that they’re liberals. Their lifestyles and their attitudes embrace…
By Mike Gray [The record] shows that neither then [during the '60s], when it would have counted, nor later, when it would have clarified, did most mainstream liberals offer up anything as direct and definitive as a stern, unqualified denunciation of the New Left, black nationalists, or other activists inspired by them. The more common response was to try to have it both ways, to suggest that the radicals behaved regrettably, at worst, but that the social evils they opposed explained and to some degree…
By Mike Gray Karl Marx was greatly influenced by the intellectual currents of his day: Marxism is primarily a social, political, and economic theory that interprets history through an evolutionary prism. Marx claimed to have discovered a “progressive” pattern controlling human evolution, which would lead humanity to the advent of a communist society of classless individuals. On this basis Marx defined the state and all its laws as mere instruments of class oppression, which would have to disappear when the final stages of human evolution…
By Mike Gray After spending four depressing days this month at a meeting of 3,000 writing teachers in Atlanta, I can tell you that their parent group, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, is not really interested in teaching students to write and communicate clearly. The group’s agenda, clear to me after sampling as many of the meeting’s 500 panels as I could, is devoted to disparaging grammar, logic, reason, evidence and fairness as instruments of white oppression. They believe rules of grammar discriminate…
By Mike Gray Divide and conquer—it works every time. From the Democratic Socialists of Central Ohio website: “You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry …. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because…
by Mike Gray On Pajamas Media, Rand Simberg believes “You Just Might Be a Marxist,” in the grand tradition of Jeff Foxworthy: With his new book, Stanley Kurtz has done what the media refused to do — finally vet the president and his radical past, two years too late to prevent him from becoming president, but just in time to issue a restraining order on him next Tuesday. Yet people seem to be under the misapprehension that in order to be a Marxist, one has…
by Mike Gray Poor Lenin’s Almanac: Perverse Leftist Proverbs for Modern Life Mark Musser’s review at Accuracy in Media: Bruce Walker does a masterful job exposing the corrupt Marxist leftovers from the 1800’s that is currently rotting America from the inside out as many leftist ideals have subtly and slowly replaced our Judeo-Christian heritage. Using a satirical method that rivals Juvenal’s satire of the debauched Roman Empire, Mr. Walker distills for us in common language the rotten fruits of communistic ideology. This political burlesque is…
by Mike Gray Eric Rush, in a WorldNetDaily article, proposes the idea that what passes for government of the people is in reality “Government, Inc.,” as prefigured in the 1975 sci-fi film Rollerball: Most dystopian yarns have their basis in sage insight, so it should be no surprise that 35 years later, aspects of this particular one are coming to fruition in a sobering manner. To refresh (or elucidate, if you’ve never seen the film), in Rollerball, the world is governed by the Energy Corporation,…
by Mike Gray Author and minister David Noebel offers a concise summary of the six major views of the world that presently jockey with each other not just for mankind’s attention but also his allegiance. Noebel defines a worldview as “an interpretive framework”—much like a pair of glasses—through which you view everything. It refers to any set of ideas, beliefs, or values that provide a framework or map to help you understand God, the world, and your relationship to God and the world. Specifically, a…
Guest writer Malcolm Kline notes that U.S. academia routinely ignores the enormity of the crimes of Communists while harping on the faults of the United States. Storied Soviet dictator Josef Stalin once famously said that one man’s death is a tragedy, a thousand is a statistic. He and his successors compiled so many human statistics that the unfortunately few academics and intellectuals who are trying to ascertain the true number are still working on it. “One cannot discuss the past, present, or future while they…
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