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Growing up, I was expected to be quiet. Silence is necessary to maintain secrets. Parents drinking? Keep your mouth shut. White kids targeted at school? Don't tell or you'll be sorry. When you have no words to describe your world and no one wants to hear about it anyway, a part of you goes mute. But this doesn't mean you stop observing and sensing. When my mother flew into rages, I knew something was wrong. When my parents were rarely home, I sensed that this wasn't normal. Being robbed of language is a state of isolation, of suspended animation. It's...

Earth: An environmental writer mainstreams an idea floating around the green fringe — save the earth by population control and give carbon credits to one-child families. Are we threatened by the patter of little carbon footprints? New York Times environmental writer Andrew Revkin participated in an Oct. 14 panel discussion on climate change with other media pundits titled "Covering Climate: What's Population Got To Do With It?" People who need people they are not. In a recently rediscovered book, "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," co-authored with Malthus fans Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Holdren wrote that families "contribute to general social deterioration...

COUPLES who have more than two children are being “irresponsible” by creating an unbearable burden on the environment, the government’s green adviser has warned. Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, says curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must be at the heart of policies to fight global warming. He says political leaders and green campaigners should stop dodging the issue of environmental harm caused by an expanding population. A report by the commission, to be published next month, will say that governments must reduce population growth through better family planning.

So now it turns out that the martyr of the academic hard left, Norman Finkelstein, was denied tenure at DePaul University not so much because of my critique of his non-scholarship, but in large part because of his overt sexism. According to a news story in today’s Chicago Sun-Times, a report filed against his tenure by three members of the Political Science faculty “claims that Finkelstein allegedly called a female staff member a ‘bitch.’” The report also claimed that Finkelstein “shunned” colleagues who disagreed with him and that his boorish conduct extended to “dramatically closing his office door when his...

AMSTERDAM, April 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An MP of the Dutch Labour Party has suggested that stay-at-home mothers who used state subsidies for their education should pay the government back since their work at home is “wasted” on child rearing. Sharon Dijksma believes that punitive measures should be taken against women who choose to stay at home with children after graduating from university instead of entering the paid workforce. “A highly educated woman who chooses to stay home and not to work: that is destruction of capital,” said Dijksma, deputy leader of the Labour Party (PvdA) in 'Forum', a...

MADRID, July 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Critics of the movement of the new Spanish government to liberalize the country might be forgiven for thinking that the real goal is to radically de-Catholicize the country. The list of initiatives taken by the Zapatero socialists could have been lifted straight from the Catholic Catechism’s list of the most popular modern sins. With over 80% of the country still claiming to belong to the Catholic Church, and with Spain’s recent history of anti-Catholic Marxist pogroms before the Franco regime, the impression becomes even stronger. Last month the world was awed by the millions...

Teaching EuthanasiaBy Patrick J.Reilly The intense battle to prevent Terri Schiavo's husband from removing her feeding tube was horrible enough. To think that some American Catholic universities—and their ethics, theology, law, and medical professors—bear some responsibility for Schiavo's  slow death is almost too much to imagine. Yet prior to Schiavo's death, professors from top Catholic universities helped convince the courts and the public that removing her feeding tube was acceptable and consistent with Catholic teaching—even while the Vatican said it was euthanasia. Several professors sought to publicly undermine Pope John Paul II's clear statements on the moral obligation to feed and hydrate...

During the last three decades, the issue of overpopulation - or perceived overpopulation - has been discussed in various capacities. The primary instigators of these discussions have been the radical environmentalists, the radical animal rights activists, and certain wealthy elites in our Western society. All of these groups more or less assert that human beings are destroying the planet. There are too many of us, they say. Hence, we must utilize “family planning” (read: abortion, contraception, sterilization), even in a coercive manner, to limit the number of people born into the world. As a result of this elitist, anti-life mentality,...

CHICAGO - The Secret Service sent agents to investigate a college art gallery exhibit of mock postage stamps, one depicting President Bush with a gun pointed at his head. The exhibit, called "Axis of Evil: The Secret History of Sin," opened last week at Columbia College in Chicago. It features stamps designed by 47 artists addressing issues such as the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal, racism and the war in Iraq. None of the artists is tied to the college. Secret Service spokesman Tom Mazur would not say Tuesday whether the inquiry had been completed or whom the Secret Service...

On its official Web site, Northwestern offers an impressive biography of Law Prof. Bernardine Dohrn, detailing her work in children's law, her educational background, her academic appointments and other notable accomplishments. The university's profile curiously omits one of her most significant leadership positions: She was a principal organizer of the Weathermen, a radical cabal, during the late 60s and early 70s. Among its many criminal exploits, the group claimed responsibility for no fewer than 12 bombings between 1970 and 1974, and Dohrn spent a decade hiding from federal authorities to avoid prosecution for assaulting a police officer. A basic Internet...

Here's the first of an amazing series of photos, audio and video files taken at the San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair by "Zombie". The entire series can be seen here.WARNING: Several of the images and files on the page -- especially the sixth image from the top -- are highly work-unfriendly, and might disturb Freepers not used to the open-air freak show that is San Francisco "alternative culture." Proceed with caution!

BC-APNewsAlert,40 NEW YORK (AP) - Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart has been convicted of helping an imprisoned radical sheik communicate with his terrorist followers on the outside. AP-NY-02-10-05 1525EST

And I think the party has more than 50 percent in favor of a woman's right to choose, with some limitations. But that branch of the party has never been vocal. So that as the party has tilted more to the south and west, the pro-choice Republicans have been in a distinct minority and there's been a concern about having a pro-choice Republican as chairman of the (committee). Listen, you saw it all during the primary, that was their mantra, their bugle call. The same people that are after me now were after me in the primary. ... There really...

The election is barely a week old and already the Democratic spin machine is in full force attempting to explain, for those of us who they deem "intellectually challenged", why Bush won this election. The word "morality" keeps creeping up in many of the editorials I read. The new mantra of the wounded Democratic elite seems to be that Republicans have gained a foothold in the use of the word "morality". They argue that they, the Democrats, have always been the party of morals; after all, they champion issues of the poor and disenfranchised. They make love, not war, and...

THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world. This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation. This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their critics by raising their eyes...

Kerry lost. But the real loser in this election was the Democratic Party. Not simply because Republicans retained the presidency and increased their control in the Congress. The Democratic Party lost because in this election cycle the party intensified its move to the extreme left. In retrospect, Kerry, an extreme liberal, was an appropriate choice for this Democratic Party. Kerry was a "rhinestone war hero," as my co-author John O'Neill aptly tagged him – not a true Audie Murphy. Moreover, he was a radical war protester who was comfortable meeting with Madame Binh in Paris, one of the communist enemy's...

HAVANA (AFP) - Noted US linguist and left-wing social critic Noam Chomsky said he was surprised at the failed US policy in Iraq, especially after such a relatively easy invasion. The 74-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor said it took "real talent" to botch things up as badly as the United States has in Iraq, especially in view of prostrate state the country was after years of UN sanctions. Speaking through an interpreter at the formal presentation of his book "Noam Chomsky en La Jornada," a compilation of articles published by the renowned US scholar in the Mexican newspaper La...

It may be too late to organize anything against this, but interested parties should know that former terrorists/leftist martyrs Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers will be attending the 7:15 showing of the documentary/propagandistic puff piece The Weather Underground Friday night at the Lagoon Cinema in Minneapolis. I found out about this by reading the following (nauseating) review in the U of M's newspaper: http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2003/09/18/6569 More details are at the Lagoon Cinema's website at http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Market/Minneapolis/LagoonCinema.htm

KFI news in Los Angeles just reported that war protestors have vandalized the George S. Patton Museum in the high desert of California. The Museum director was interviewed and said that slogans like "Alah is Great" were spray painted on tanks, and otehr museum pieces as well as other damage done in a clear attack to protest the war in Iraq.

Some of Greece's richest men are believed to have paid large sums to be kept off the hit list of the terrorist group November17. They are said to include the family of Gianna Angelopoulos, organiser of the 2004 Athens Olympics, and Yiannis Latsis, a shipowner. The blackmail came to light when Ms Angelopoulos's husband, Theodore, gave the Prime Minister, Costas Simitis, an extract from the diary of his uncle Dimitris, who was murdered by the gang in 1986. Mr Simitis, who regards the arrest of domestic terrorists before the Games as a priority, sent it to the judiciary. This week...

Lies, Damned Lies, and JournalismBy Larry SchweikartFrontPageMagazine.com | July 17, 2002 In the 1970s or 1980s, a typical exchange over liberal media bias went something like this:CONSERVATIVE: "The media is biased." JOURNALIST: "No, it's not."CONSERVATIVE: "Yes, it is."While conservatives could cite anecdotal evidence as to liberal bias in the media, journalism's defenders always replied that such examples did not mean anything There was, as Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis used to say, "no pwoof." In the 1980s, this began to change, albeit slowly. A few surveys---often done by the Media Research Center (MRC)---provided some astounding numbers, such as the fact that...

"I won't say nothing, phone my lawyer"Reformatisch Dagblad By Jan van Klinken, AMSTERDAM - Volkert van der G., the 32 year old man from Harderwijk that is the suspect in the Pim Fortuyn killing, is part of a wide spread netwerk of actiongroups. In that world the panic increased lately. The incredible victory that List Pim Fortuyn was heading to, was a nightmare for the (ultra)left actionnetwork. "I won't say anything, phone my lawyer mr. Bakker Schut." Was the only thing that Volkert van der G. would say to the police after he was arrested six minutes after the murder...