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Quote: Seneca the Younger on Castrati

                                   Life  “It is not because things are difficult, that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare, that they are difficult.”  Checkout my link to related post – Castrati Casualties

Household Haven Vol. #2 Essay 8

Household Haven Vol. #2 Essay 8

People have lived in shelters, of one form or another, for eons. Once tools, honed of stone, proved to be useful to fell trees, man abandoned the fixed locations of the cold and damp caves of their ancestors. Man began to travel about, building a new shelter of wood where the need arose. In doing so he began the … Continue reading

Quote: Christina Hoff Sommers on Brainwashing

“We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right with the world.” Check out the reason why, on my link to a related post – Brainwashed

Brainwashed Vol. #1 Essay 5

Brainwashed Vol. #1 Essay 5

As soon as droves of women began to attend college during the late 1960s and early 1970s, the radical, second-wave feminists and their academic socialist cohorts, who clearly understood young women’s naive vulnerabilities, began their efforts to use this flood of gullible collegians as pawns, in order to accomplish their political agenda, through “friendly” manipulation … Continue reading

Parental Relationships Vol. #2 Essay 16

Parental Relationships Vol. #2 Essay 16

Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother. This is the 4th Commandment, not Suggestion, but Commandment. It has been at the core of the advancement of civilization throughout recorded history. It has allowed humanity to drag itself out of the mud of barbarism, to become disciplined creatures with high standards of behavior and respectable lives. Until … Continue reading

Cauldron of Cackling Crooks and Criminals Vol. #1 Essay 8

There was a time, in the not so distant past, when women were placed on “pedestals” and both admired and revered. They represented all that was good within humanity. Women were considered the kind, polite, considerate, loving, sweet, selfless half of mankind. As mothers, grandmothers, daughters, sisters, nieces and aunts, they were the reason civilization developed. Men were … Continue reading

Endless, Erroneous “Education” Vol. #1 Essay 14

Endless, Erroneous “Education” Vol. #1 Essay 14

Harvard University – Massachusetts There was a time when a college education was held in high regard. It was considered a privilege that only the truly deserving were permitted to experience.  And, unlike today, America’s first colleges were educational institutions whose sole purpose was the training of young men for the ministry. America began its path to higher education … Continue reading

Quote: Mark Steyn on Birth Rates

Second-wave feminism convinced the young female baby boomers in the 1960’s that marriage and children limited their ability to “be-all-that-they-could be” and that both were signs of “oppression” and “domination” by men. As a result, divorce rates exploded, abortions skyrocketed, marriages declined and birthrates crashed, leaving Western Civilization gasping for air in 2012.  kqd “Why be surprised that Spanish … Continue reading