Jaycee Lee Dugard’s case is every parent’s nightmare, a troubling reminder that the evils of this world are not confined to dark alleys in big cities.
“Education is under siege,” states Dr. Henry Giroux, author of “Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture’s War on Children.” “It’s under siege by the marketers.
Every generation has its maniacs — especially racist maniacs. Such was Charles Manson. Here’s his story as it unfolded 40 years ago — one that is a lesson to us today.
Here’s a breaking news alert for all Americans: if you take part in protest rallies, voice your discontent through picket signs, or disrupt events with yelling or intermittent shouts, then you are likely a right-wing extremist or a member of an angry mob, and you must be silenced.
The unemployment rate in the U.S. now stands at 9.5 percent and soon will top 10 percent. And the number of U.S. households on the verge of losing their homes soared by nearly 15 percent in the first half of this year.
Critics who refer to President Obama’s proposed public health plan as socialism have got it all wrong. The menace we face is not a result of the introduction of socialist ideals but the triumph of corporatism — that is, the corporate state wedded to the government.
When his wife Joy died in 1960, C.S. Lewis’ life crumbled. “If my house has collapsed at one blow,” the famous author and Christian apologist writes in the early pages of “A Grief Observed” (1961), “that is because it was a house of cards.
In 1776, America was going through the difficult process of being born. Stating that the colonies “are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States,” on June 7 of that year, Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee introduced three resolutions at a meeting of the Second Continental Congress cal
The zombies may have stalked Michael Jackson on camera in his music video “Thriller,” but it was the media vampires who hounded him off camera and eventually sucked him dry.
“Most citizens,” writes columnist Nat Hentoff, “are largely uneducated about their own constitutional rights and liberties.” The following true incident is a case in point for Hentoff’s claim.
Children are in greater physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual danger now than at any other time during the life of this nation — and the threat is coming from a multi-billion dollar industry that is using the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform child
Nat Hentoff has had a life well spent, one chock full of controversy fueled by his passion for the protection of civil liberties and human rights. Hentoff is known as a civil libertarian, free speech activist, anti-death penalty advocate, pro-lifer and not uncommon critic of the ideological left.
