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The death of manlinesshttp://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52283 Posted: October 5, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern Mark Foley is a sick man in a sick culture. He apparently was abused by a priest as a child, and then he, too, abused House pages (how extensively is uncertain) before it ruined him. By the way, as his attorney affirmed on Tuesday, Mark Foley "is a gay man." Aside from the political tides generated by Foley's resignation, there are much larger cultural tsunamis swashing round. The Foley scandal intensifies the strain on relationships between youth and adults. It is particularly damaging for relations between old men and...

The Calling of Our Generationhttp://magic-city-news.com/article_6655.shtml By Hans Zeiger Sep 18, 2006, 10:43 "The war against this enemy is more than a military conflict. It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century, and the calling of our generation." These are the words of President Bush on September 11, five years after the attacks. If Baby Boomers doubt that this present war is the calling of their generation, the children of the Boomers-at least the rising leaders among them-have little doubt that it is theirs. On the eve of September 11, 2006, nearly 150 Hillsdale College students gathered for a...

The reason I'm an optimist about the future of America is because I tend to think that MTV does not speak for young Americans. But if I'm wrong, if the MTV generation is as perverted and spiritually impoverished as its namesake, then we might as well elect Drew Barrymore president in a few years and get this country all over with. Miss Barrymore, the 28-year old blond Hollywoodite, is "a repressed voter," she says in her new MTV documentary "The Best Place to Start." As a young person who is admittedly clueless about the whole voting thing, Barrymore wants other...

In his 1963 song "With God on our Side," Bob Dylan mocked America's historical tendency to believe that God takes the side of the Red, White, and Blue. In preface to Vietnam, Dylan sang that, "if God's on our side, He'll stop the next war." Of course, the war happened, and the outcome did not suggest that God had taken our side. The question of whether God is on our side has reemerged in a time when America has forgotten God with an intensive, systematic, painstaking kind of forgetfulness. Elizabeth Bumiller of the New York Times asked Democratic presidential frontrunner...

After a six-year legal battle, a school district near San Jose has settled a lawsuit brought by six homosexual students and the American Civil Liberties Union alleging anti-homosexual discrimination by paying out $1.1 million and beginning new mandatory diversity training programs for all students and staff in the school district. The district will also designate a "compliance coordinator" to investigate reports of anti-homosexual bias and to ensure that schools demonstrate favorable attitudes toward homosexuals. In Colorado, state university students are required to undergo diversity courses and comply with diversity standards in order to maintain student group funding. The stifling of...

Columnists' Corner "The College Slavery Tour" By Hans Zeiger Fresh from his failed California gubernatorial campaign, pornographer Larry Flynt recently lectured at college campuses around the country as part of an effort by the American Civil Liberties Union to recruit students to join their lethal cause. In the past few weeks, Flynt has made celebrity appearances at Harvard University, the University of Miami and the University of California at Berkeley. "Freedom of speech is not for the thought you love but for the thought you hate the most," Flynt declared to one audience. Hate speech is the appropriate label...

FRN Columnists' Corner "Clinton and Character " By Hans Zeiger When I was nine years old, I didn't consider Bill Clinton much of a role model. I saved an 18-point list I compiled in 1994 titled, "Bad Bill: Problems with the present President." In my unsophisticated list, I included: He secretly does uncalled-for things in the White House. He was supposed to act as a soldier in the Vietnam War. He even said he would. He then tricked officials to escape fighting for our country when he was needed. He eats too many hamburgers, which makes him fat. Clinton made...

FRN Columnists' Corner "America Without Jesus " By Hans Zeiger By Hans Zeiger When administrators of Saint Edward State Park in Kenmore, Washington launched an engraved brick fundraiser to build a playground, Dan and Olga Buchanan put in $100 for a brick in their name. In August, the Buchanans received a letter from the playground coordinator telling them that the brick was unconstitutional because it contained the words, "Thank you Jesus." In her letter, the playground coordinator wrote, "Because the Saint Edward State Park Playground is located on public land, our intent and unwritten policy for all of the 511...