Michelle Malkin has this story about a California court that has issued an outrageously harsh – and grotesquely incorrect – indictment against the practice of home-schooling. From the LA Times: "Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children," wrote Justice H. Walter Croskey in a Feb. 28 opinion signed by the…
Category: Family Values
Brownback on Broken American Families
Via the NY Times, former Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback writes, briefly and brilliantly about the plight of the American family and our youth two generations removed from the free love revolution. Over the past five decades in the United States, the marriage rate has gone down and the divorce rate has gone up. In…
3 Years Ago…
…I wrote this slam in response to a newspaper column by Ana Veciana-Suarez about child care.
Gay Marriage
My friend David Broussard just posted a lengthy discussion on the subject on which I left a comment. My main point: The issue ultimately comes down to exactly this point: should the government continue to encourage, to the extent that it has done so – a rather dubious claim in its own right – traditional…
Drivel…
Ana Veciana-Suarez’s column on child-care research is just that. There’s so little that is sensible about this article that it’s hard to identify a point to pick on, but I’ll try. “Yet, as a society we’ve failed miserably in keeping up with the times and providing better options for families, particularly those who can’t afford…
Gay Marriage
A (former?) friend of mine, who happens to be gay and will remain unnamed, sent me this link. Here’s the tag line: Join me in adding your voice to a million voices raised in support of civil marriage for gay couples. Nope, I don’t think so. In the immortal words of Jerry Seinfeld, “not that…
Biology Means Very Little, Really
Thom Marshall wrote about a girl who wants to live with her step-mother instead of her biological one, only to be stymied by the courts. When will judges learn to keep their noses out of business like this? A 12-year old knows well enough what’s best. Far better, I might add, than a judge who’s…
Three’s Company
A man with 2 wives living in North Houston? Can it be true? It is. Read the Houston Chronicle article. “Polygamy isn’t for everybody,” the husband says. Obviously that is true! One simply hopes these people aren’t persecuted as Tom Green and family were recently. Read a summary of his account.