Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Leftist states give the government ever greater power to interfere with parenting, but legal history establishes parents’ and families’ long-standing, non-textual constitutional rights. This is a two-part series. Part I examines whether parental rights exist in constitutional law. Part II will examine the substance of constitutional parental rights. With the
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Candace Owens was wrongly shamed for asking a question about childlessness and angry, bitter women like Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Handler, and Kathy Griffin. I’m on the verge of being an empty-nester and I couldn’t be happier. I never wanted children and I really hated raising children. Being child-free will be
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Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin succinctly diagnoses the ills other than guns that lie behind school shootings — and I add two more problems bedeviling boys. My thanks to lyn5 for making me aware of the way in which Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin responded to a question asking him how he
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Today’s middle-class parents have a unique cohort of obsessively loved children. No wonder they’re attractive targets to young men intent on inflicting pain. In America, we are experiencing something unique: For the first time in history, the clear majority of children die after their parents, not before. Before the modern
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I warned 7 years ago that Progressive sex ed is intended to destroy your child’s sense of physical inviolability and privacy. It’s gotten worse since then. Sex and children have been in the news a lot lately, and I don’t just mean the endless stories of surprisingly pretty female teachers,
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The miserable sexism of Hillary’s supporters. I’ve agreed with myself to disagree with Jonah Goldberg about Donald Trump, while still greatly respecting and deeply appreciating Goldberg’s take on just about everything else. In the wake of Hillary’s 9/11 collapse, followed by her dehydration, followed by the media castigating as sexist
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Yesterday, I read (out loud) the worst “rebuttal to a speech” ever. Today, I read something less amusing, but also important: It’s a disturbing parenting article that places a serious emotional burden on boys — the same boys who today live in an anti-male society. A little background: One of
Continue readingI’m about to make one of my huge leaps from the micro to the macro, so bear with me here. I just can’t help but notice a distinct similarity between the punitive parenting style I see in a couple of Progressive fathers I know and Bernie Sander’s hard Left, tax-the-rich politics.
Continue readingMy day has spiraled so wildly out of control, I despair of ever getting it back. Fortunately, a good friend who knows well how I think sent me an email that says much of what I would have said today if I’d had the time. So, here is the “Bookworm
Continue readingI’m so proud of myself I could burst. Yes, I actually wrote those smug words, but you have to hear what my kids said to me to appreciate them. My older said to, “What I really like about you, Mom, is that I can tell you anything. You always listen
Continue readingIt’s always the same: Over the weekend, because of family demands, I get almost no time at my computer, and my email starts to back up. By Tuesday, between my two email accounts, I have several hundred unread emails. I then do the logical thing: I cravenly avoid my computer.
Continue readingMy parents raised me to be academically successful. They came from a European milieu that valued intellectual elitism above all other things. That was my value too, and one I applied to the people with whom I chose to surround myself. As the years went by, though, I realized that
Continue readingLast week, I posited that gay parenting has a problematic biological component that the Left assiduously ignores — or, more accurately, it has a lack of a biological component that the Left assiduously ignores. In any gay parenting relationship, at least one of the parents is a step parent, something
Continue readingMy mother called me yesterday, her voice shaking with tears. “I’m in such terrible pain. I can’t stand it. I need to see the doctor.” “Okay,” I said. “I’ll take you. When can the doctor see you?” Mom’s answer made me realize I’d been played. In a suddenly ordinary voice,
Continue reading“In loco parentis” is a Latin term that translates to “in the place of a parent.” To the extent it still shows up anywhere today, it shows up in courts when an institution appears on behalf of a child, instead of the parent appearing on behalf of the child. The
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