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Evolution and School Violence
Tina Marie has an excellent new column up on our website today. She writes about the link between the teaching of Darwinism in the public school system, and the increase in school violence in recent years. “From the time they’re old enough to understand,” she writes, our kids are taught that “they are the product of nothing but random chance. But if life is really about nothing but ‘random chance’, is there any kind of ultimate purpose in taking your next breath? If you don’t have a purpose, you don’t value life; that includes both your own life and the lives of others. And there you have the core reason for the sky-rocketing murder rates, both in America around the world. If we teach kids that they evolved from animals, why do we act all surprised when they act like animals?” Her column also includes an endorsement for the Ben Stein movie “Expelled“. All in all, definitely worth a read.
Invisible Victims
Barbara Kay is out with some new statistics on domestic abuse. In the past, she has written a lot about the structural unfairness in Canadian divorce law; unfairness that always presumes certain issues in favour of women. Yesterday, she came up with something else along this line. The presumed victimhood of not only women, but also of gays and lesbians. “A new study by Statistics Canada,” she writes, “confirms what researchers in the field of domestic violence proved years ago: that partner violence amongst same-sex Canadians is significantly higher than amongst heterosexual couples.” These statistics, she continues, are “particularly disconcerting to… most Canadians who have bought the myth that unprovoked domestic violence is virtually always a man-on-woman phenomenon.”
Dhimmi Jimmy
Michelle Malkin has some thoughts about Jimmy Carter’s recent meetings with the Hamas terrorists on the West Bank. “Jimmy Carter’s thick skull and moral myopia,” she writes, “are an American embarrassment and an American problem. But more precisely: Jimmy Carter is a Democratic problem. He casts a long, feckless shadow over the party,” and she warns that this will haunt the Democrats through their convention in August and beyond.
Yes, We’re Bitter
And one last shot today at Barack Obama’s “god and guns” comment from earlier this month. This one comes from columnist Mary Grabar over at TownHall.com. This column, more than any other that we’ve seen, sums up some of the frustration of so-called “middle America” with the elitism of people like Obama and others. She addresses Obama directly when she writes “You sneer at those like us who put our faith in God and not in those like you who would presume to know what’s good for us and tell us what to do with our money and our children.” Grabar, who has a PhD in English, also writes: ” I know your liberal cronies, Barack; they make me check off my skin color on job applications and ask me during job interviews of how I teach multiculturalism, yet don’t know where Slovenia is on the world map.” The rest of the column is just as fiery; one of the best pieces of writing we’ve seen in a long time.
Public date: April 24th, 2008
