Five years ago, then-Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton fathered a child out-of-wedlock. Now that he has resigned (mercifully) his position as mayor, his son no longer has health coverage. Willie left office with a half-million-dollar lump sum pension, and the mother of his child is asking for half of it.
Heck, I’d ask for the whole thing.
Mother [...]
Archive for the 'Family' Category
Deadbeat Willie
September 27, 2009One big, happy family
September 1, 2009Congratulations go out to the Duggar family, who are expecting their 19th child. I love these guys.
The Duggars Expecting 19th Child – News – Yahoo! TV
Happy Father’s Day
June 21, 2009On Father’s Day 2009, I’m pointing out something in which I actually agree with Barack Obama: the utmost need for responsible fathers.
Barack Obama got a basketball, his first name and ambition from his father. Little else.
The son gave back more than he received: a lifetime of ruminations about the man who abandoned the family, a memoir [...]
Mommas, don’t let your babies grow up to be liberals
December 27, 2008Reb Bradley has a book out describing how to train up a child to be a good, wholesome, responsible conservative.
“I noticed that all of the societal ills Rush talked about were really manifestations of people who really never grew up – never matured,” he explains. “Ultimately, that is what the worldview of liberalism is all [...]
A homeschool family
May 27, 2008more about “A homeschool family“, posted with vodpod
There is no joy in Mudville
February 14, 2007Columnist Kathleen Parker discusses how liberal feminists celebrate Valentine’s Day.
But Valentine’s Day does matter because, no longer a holiday of hearts and flowers, it has become a feminist political vehicle in the gender wars. Think armada.
Usurped in 1998 by Eve Ensler and her vagina warriors — conscripts to Ensler’s blockbuster play “The Vagina Monologues” — [...]
Education matters
January 29, 2007Sharon Cobb and I kinda sorta agree on something, which is noteworthy, because our areas of agreement so far are limited to four things: our support of Israel, rock-and-roll, sports, and photography. On everything else, we’re about 180o out of phase.
Ms. Cobb left a comment to a blog post I made on Saturday about John [...]
Those tolerant liberals
December 20, 2006Dr. James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family penned a commentary in the December 18 issue of Time under the irrefutable title “Why Two Mommies is One Too Many,” and some academics and homosexual activists aren’t exactly displaying that tolerence the left demands of others.
The first attack came in claims from two researchers whose [...]
Love your woman, regardless of her size
December 12, 2006Sharon Cobb wrote a post a few days ago that’s been burning inside my pea-sized brain ever since I first read it, and I’ve got to get it into words.
Sharon writes: “I would like to point out to people who aren’t as familiar with [Marilyn Monroe] as my generation is that she was a size [...]
Yesterday’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Conservative, liberal fertility gap is widening”
November 22, 2006Last October, Michelle Duggar from Arkansas gave birth to her 16th child. The Duggar family received nationwide media attention, for obvious reasons, but not all the press coverage was flattering.
For example, Mark Morford of the San Francisco Gate penned a scathing, condescending column presumptuously titled “God Does Not Want 16 Kids: Arkansas mom gives birth [...]
Marriage: the most effective cure for poverty
November 16, 2006Nathan Moore posted a couple of days ago on the state of the family, or, more specifically, the spread of societal ills when the nuclear family breaks down.
Today the illegitimacy rate among blacks in the United States sits at an astounding 70%. The source of the poverty problem is not a lack of rights, as [...]
The men feminists attract
October 16, 2006This is a post I’ve been mulling over for some time, and it has to do with liberal feminists and the way they view men, and vice versa. By “liberal feminists,” I refer to the NOW gang, the kind of women who declare that all men are scum and rail against our “patriarchal society,” and [...]
I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore…
August 26, 2006In a recent issue of Forbes, Michael Noer warns his male readers not to marry career women.
Guys: A word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don’t marry a woman with a career.
Why? Because if many social scientists are to be believed, [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Dads play key role in raising our children”
June 12, 2006The feminists have a saying that goes “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” I’m here to dispute that argument, especially when kids are thrown into the picture. So with Father’s Day coming up on Sunday, here’s a Right Minded toast to fathers and fatherhood.
To start, in his March, 2002 newsletter [...]
War on fatherhood
June 6, 2006WorldNetDaily has yet another piece that fits the case for the traditional family that I’ve been trying to make these last few days.
Fifty years ago, “Father knows best” was a hit TV show, in which insurance agent Jim Anderson (actor Robert Young) would come home from work each evening, trade his sport jacket for a [...]
Liberalism and the decline of the American family
June 1, 2006Thomas Sowell’s column on May 30 fits in very well with all the writing I’ve been doing these last few days about the American family. It’s tempting to quote Sowell’s entire piece, but I’m going to refrain and just point out the best of the best.
While liberals may think of the 1960s as the beginning [...]
Father really knows best
February 17, 2006Katherine Coble doesn’t entirely like my philosophy of parenting, as she takes issue (with the adoration of Brittney) with my post from yesterday.
Here’s Katherine:
I’m not a big fan of demonising anything in popular culture. When I was a kid it was Rock Music (boo-hiss). When my mom was a kid it was the internal combustion [...]
Father knows best
February 16, 2006Dan the Baptist made the comment yesterday on his blog that “Today as I was driving home I jokingly asked my daughters if either of them got any Harry Potter valentines today. My oldest daughter said ‘NO Daddy and I know I know Harry Potter is the devil’ Man I was so proud.”
As a result, [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Absurdity of Parent A and B”
October 26, 2005In Massachusetts, the only state where same-sex marriage is legal, gay rights activists want the words “Mother” and “Father” struck from birth certificates and replaced by “Parent A” and “Parent B.”
Michele Granda, an attorney for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, says “There should be no doubt in Massachusetts that Massachusetts records should accurately reflect [...]
But what if she’d had 16 abortions?
October 20, 2005Mark Morford, a columnist for the San Francisco Gate, penned a scathing column on the Duggar family from Arkansas for having 16 children. Folks, this is a primer on liberal “tolerance.” If you want to see just how tolerant a lot of liberals really are toward Bible-believing, pro-family Americans, then read this column and file [...]
