In ancient China, the penalty for adultery was death for the Chinese understood that the FAMILY was the foundation of civilization. The offspring of a male and female legally sanctioned arrangement were protected by state recognition of their status for the sake of heredity especially with regards to land ownership. Thus, marriage was far more than a simple personal contract with or without religious significance. It affected civil order. In Christianity, the Biblical injunction against homosexual ACTS (not persons) dictates that a believer cannot participate in the legal sanction of what is doctrinally forbidden. Holding up for derision those who choose morality over convenience is another sign of our culture's ethical poverty.

American children as a group enter school two grades above the students in most "First World" countries usually because of their exposure to a great many what might be called "teaching tools" (some teach the wrong things however). Even the poorest child usually has a TV and other electronic gizmos denied poorer children in other countries. However, with the "help" of our education system, they LEAVE school AT LEAST two grades (or more) BELOW students in those same countries and often below children from Third World countries. Our "system" is designed to produce people who can read enough to fill out some bureaucratic form and perform in a low-skilled environment.

What really IS missing in this story is the racial identity of both accused and accuser - and it may play a very real role in why the University has acted as it did. Anybody remember the Duke lacrosse team? That was a black accuser and those whom she accused were white. I tend to believe that such may be the situation here. Indeed, I would be surprised to find it otherwise.

The death penalty would be effective if it didn't take so long to carry out that the criminal might die of old age waiting. Of course, it should only be considered in cases where there is no question of guilt or the heinousness of the crime - and yes, these are more common than most folks think. The torture-murder of two white teenagers by a group of blacks, male and female, would be a case applicable, but as a society, we are too politically correct to make that judgment. The killing of a police officer used to be a standard death penalty case in New York but today... Indeed, the death penalty aspect of the Casey Anthony case of great notoriety might well have caused the jurors to acquit the defendant. For those who say that death is...

Such a suggestion has merit and those who would be offered the choice would be those who would most benefit from the real reason flogging or caning is considered in these days of vaunting self-esteem: it humiliates the person being punished. Candidates for a caning would be scofflaws, drunk drivers, non-violent felons (check kiting, shoplifting, vandals, etc.), low-level child and spouse abusers (not rising to a felony) and various other types that wind up in jails before they wind up in prisons. Furthermore, it doesn't have to be horribly brutal or bloody. Corporal punishment could be nothing more dangerous than a visit to the woodshed with a paddle or a willow switch. This type of "flogging" would be sufficient since the results...

There is overwhelming evidence that the central theme in Darwin (spontaneous and/or random events leading to just about everything) is incorrect. The late Dr. Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the DNA molecule (and a "Darwinian" atheist) once was asked if DNA could have "spontaneous" or "randomly" evolved. Dr. Crick answered that no, it was far too complex to have simply "evolved" using that definition. Naturally, his audience was agog at such an admission because if DNA, the "molecule of life" was unable to simply "evolve," HOW DID IT GET HERE? Dr. Crick's answer forever puts to rest the idea that Darwinian scientists are scientists while those who put a Creator in the process somewhere are simply low-brow kooks. According to Dr....

This is far more than simple stupidity. This is a conditioning experiment - that is, getting Americans used to obeying government instructions no matter how stupid and senseless. Right now, they're only atrociously inappropriate; they have yet to become dangerous (unless you want to count the radiation from full body scanners). In the future, that will not be the case. TSA agents are of the type that most tyrannies choose to be the "grunts," the pawns and foot soldiers carrying out - unthinkingly and uncritically - the orders of their (and our) superiors. So do not believe that the excesses of the TSA are simply the result of bureaucratic idiocy. No, indeed, they are very well planned to create an atmosphere of inevitability. Some will...

I hate the idea of a Muslim victory resulting in a world-wide Caliphate, but the only fun thing that might come out of it is to watch all of these Jewish liberals, "women activists" and gays who adore and support Obama learn that the cry of "intolerance" they have used against conservatives for all these years has been directed at the WRONG target! Watching the progressives support Muslims and denounce traditional Christians in the name of diversity and tolerance is a lot like watching the pact between Hitler and Stalin - you know that eventually the result will be bloodshed. Only difference here is that all of the blood shed will be by the progressives.

And remember, Posse Comitatus that has been in force since the end of reconstruction has been allowed to lapse. The act forbade the use of the military as domestic police. Now, with the Act no longer in place, there is nothing to stop the current government from using our military forces in a police roll at home. However, as our police forces continue to "militarize" with SWAT groups and other para-military groups, it's hard to tell the difference between the actual military and the "law enforcement" look-alikes. And when you have two courts - including the Supreme Court - rule that the police may enter your home at any time without a warrant, well, there goes the country. Finally, we have seen that the courts also accept injury and...

It isn't the sin of corruption from which Weiner and so many elites suffer, but the sins of arrogance and pride. They can do whatever they want to whomever they want because they are what they are, period. Even if they were morally as pure as the driven snow, the arrogance and pride would still be there. It was pride and arrogance that pushed Obamacare through over the wishes of the People and it's pride and arrogance that has made of our federal government a den of thieves and lechers. Yes, both parties are responsible for the current cesspool but that's because both parties are - as Pat Buchanan pointed out - two wings on the same elitist bird of prey. I'm not sad, actually, I'm damned mad.