Monthly Archives: April 2010

Electing the nation of Iran to the UN Commission on the Status of Women is rather like electing a KKK Grand Wizard to commission that is concerned with uprooting antisemitism or racism throughout the world. For just as a KKK person to racial equality what water is to fire, it holds with equal force that Iran is to the equality of women what water is to fire. Yet, if Israeli soldier should kill one Palestinian even in self-defense, people come out of the woodwork to complain of gross injustice on the part of Israel against Palestinians. Continue reading →

Who is more evil? Is it the person who brandishes a dangerous weapon at the outset? Or, is it the person who gives you every reason to believe that you can count on her or him to help you, but who then turns around and entirely subordinates you to her or his will? The answer is obvious. It is not racism at all to hold that the second is, by far, a much better characterization of Obama than the first. It is this poignant reality that many very decent citizens of the United States have justifiably felt regarding the man who is now President of the United States: Barack Obama.
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When should a parent who has been sexually abused tell her or his 5-year old child about that sexual abuse?  Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s answer to a caller named Elizabeth may very well be one of Dr. Laura’s most brilliant responses … Continue reading →

Tiger Woods invites us to reflect upon the difference bewteen moral excellence and talent in sports.  The question that his sex scandal so vividly brings to the forefront is this: To what extent are we willing to look pass a … Continue reading →

The move into sexual maturity for males is entirely pleasurable, essentially involving erections and ejaculations; whereas the move into sexual maturity for females is way more complicated as the menstrual cycle makes abundantly clear. What is more, expressions of tenderness between women (generally shorn of sexual desire) have always been far more commonplace than expressions of tenderness between men (generally shorn of sexual desire). When we take into account all the subtle differences between women and men, a young man who commits himself to vows of celibacy might be more susceptible to self-deception than a young woman herself to celibacy. And therein might be the root of the explanation for why pedophilia plagues the Catholic Church and, moreover, there is such an extensive cover-up of this horrendous immoral behavior. Continue reading →

Somewhere along the line, Universities seem to be increasingly shorn of basic commonsense.  The latest example of this social and moral deficit is Duke University.  Without a doubt, eliminating sexual harassment and sexual abuse is a most laudable goal.  And … Continue reading →

Respect at its best reaches and affirms across differences rather than insists upon obliterating differences. Continue reading →

The death of Phoebe Prince as a result of cyber bullying is yet another yet another reminder of the simplest of all realities, namely that morality starts in the home. The moral fabric of society is but an extension of that truth.
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Next to offering one’s 7-year old sister to be gang-raped, homosexuality seems absolutely uninteresting. Surely, the former speaks to a far more reprobate mind than the latter does. Continue reading →