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KLAR: Tradical Radicalism – Conservatism is Countercultural and ‘Cool’

December 10, 2025 John Klar

A Great Awakening from the Great Wokeness The 60s free-love revolution proclaimed love and peace as primary values, and especially embraced freedom from social and economic constraints. Epitomized by Timothy Leary’s call to “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” the movement’s essence was countercultural. Six decades later, the pendulum is swinging back. In the 1960s, … Read more

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MACDONALD: Girls as the Grist of Totalitarian Worldviews

November 17, 2025November 16, 2025 Steve MacDonald

While we wait for Democrats to explain why they didn’t give a rat’s ass about sex trafficking of minor girls when they had the chance to release all those “Epstein Files,” let’s consider another lifestyle choice they can’t bring themselves to oppose – Muslims and Islam, which emulates its dear leader, who enshrined the notion of child-brides … Read more

MACDONALD: It is The Culture, Not Marriage, That is Broken

September 3, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Married women are less likely to feel lonely, have richer social connections, and “report significantly higher levels of touch than unmarried women.”

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Cardello: Marriage And Homeownership No Longer A Goal

August 8, 2025 Ray Cardello

Not so many years ago, it was a natural progression to graduate from high school, enter the military or college, get married, buy a house, have children, and roll the dice that all worked out. You had a rewarding life, with a comfortable retirement. It was all part of the American Dream that was still … Read more

Roper: Civil Unions Was “Jim Crow” for Same Sex Couples

July 11, 2025 Rob Roper

It’s the twenty-fifth anniversary of Vermont passing the first-in-the-nation civil unions law back in 2000. Not marriage, mind, you. Something separate but supposedly equal. But if that were true, there would have been no need to pass another law legalizing gay marriage in 2009. So, why are politicians, journalists, and social justice warriors celebrating an … Read more

Klar: Divorce Is Hardest on the Very Young, Study Shows

June 20, 2025June 19, 2025 John Klar

A May 2025 report titled “Divorce, Family Arrangements, and Children’s Adult Outcomes” concluded that children aged five or younger suffer more severe and long-lasting impacts when their parents divorce than older siblings. It is axiomatic that nurturing families rear healthy children, and that stepfamilies fare more poorly than those headed by biological parents. The new … Read more

NH Marriage Meddling and How Democrats Profit from Minors’ Who are Ripe and Fertile …

May 9, 2024 Steve MacDonald

A long time ago, right here in New Hampshire, a gay marriage bill failed in a Democrat majority legislature. They strongarmed a reconsideration vote and passed it, despite a prevailing narrative that civil unions were enough. Gov John Lynch signed it, meddling in marriage.

“My Body, My Choice” is Not an Excuse to be a Slutty Woman”

November 4, 2023 Op-Ed

Ex-NBA player Joe Smith found out his wife of five years, Kisha Chavis, has an OnlyFans page. In a clip Chavis uploaded, Smith tells her how upset he is that she didn’t tell him about her porn account, adding that she should have talked with him before selling her body.

What’s The Point In A Husband Anyways?

September 24, 2023 Op-Ed

Anti-marriage propaganda is all over TikTok right now. The formula of the videos is almost always the same. A woman contemplating marriage and a family has a vision of the future in which she realizes that her husband will be simultaneously controlling and checked out. She sees the “burdens” this life could bring as children come into the mix and, ultimately, chooses to run away.

Jordan Peterson: Birth Control, Sex, Culture, Men, Women, Consent, and #MeToo …

July 5, 2023 Steve MacDonald

After watching this, I forgot what I was looking for when I tripped over it (digitally speaking). A young woman in the audience asks Jordan Peterson a question about men in the #meetoo age.

Respect for Marriage

December 21, 2022 Op-Ed

The Respect for Marriage Act (RMA) is anything but respect for marriage. Marriage is from God, not from any government. What the RMA does is show us how far from God we have gone.

Why Any Federal Law Defining “Marriage” Is Unconstitutional

December 13, 2022 Op-Ed

While Republicans and Democrats are having a tug of war in defining “marriage,” they have involved the government in a sacred religious ceremony, stepping into unconstitutional territory. What an incredible difference the 2022 midterm election made for the Republican Party—the one political organization many conservatives rely upon, and hope the party will uphold traditional Christian … Read more

Friday Open Thread on a Saturday – Was It Really That Quiet around Here?

April 2, 2022 Skip

Naw, just enough to keep me distracted. But relatively speaking, it was a quieter week politically – just the pop culture slap heard ’round the world. Which, as it turns out, gave us a great Blogline of the Day and it fits well on Will Smith as well on our degrading Culture (H/T: Instapundit): Will … Read more

Wake Up And Laugh: When You’re Single And Don’t Have Kids

November 12, 2021November 12, 2021 Steve MacDonald

While you may have been awake for a while already (if not, good for you) it’s never a bad time for a Friday morning funny. Here’s a couple of comics talking about being single, having married friends with kids, dating.

Tuesday Overnight Thread – Joe Biden and Mixed-Race Couples Edition, Man!

June 8, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Joe Biden made an observation recently. He noticed that most commercials have mixed-race couples in them. This, he says, shows the cultural direction of the nation. Joe is right that there are more of these commercials, but wrong about everything else.

Vatican Reminds Catholics They Can’t Bless Same-Sex Marriages (Just In Case They Forgot)

March 15, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Early on in the process of using political power to cram same-sex marriage down our throats, advocates claimed they only wanted Civil Unions. They got that then came for ‘marriage,’ but said they’d never force anyone to perform a same-sex union. Now, you can’t object without hell breaking loose.

With this Ruling, no Christian Girl in Pakistan is Safe

August 9, 2020

Tuesday, August 4, the Lahore High Court ruled Maira Shahbaz willingly converted to Islam and married Mohamad Nakash. Got it? There was a willing conversion. There was mutual consent to a marriage. Was there?

Notable Quote – Susan Venker

July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 Skip

Trying to change the culture does not always result in the “progress” the Progressive-Socialists Feminists claim. Because change almost always keeps going past its optimal “FORWARD” and into mistake and misery. That is the hubris that THEY know what is best and not seeing or admitting their own lack of expertise.

Marriage, moms and dads, never mattered more.

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020 Stephen Scaer

Children need their moms and dads, especially in times of crisis. Sadly, marriage rates fell by 6% in 2018, dropping to the lowest rates since the US started measuring that rate in 1867, according to the Center for Disease Control. Why should we care? Well, marriage as an exclusive, life-long relationship between one man and … Read more

Ilhan Omar Makes ‘White Devil’ Boyfriend ‘Husband’ Number Three (or is it Four?)

March 12, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Homewrecker Ilhan Omar, having successfully paid her own Dowry to “political consultant – boyfriend” Tim Mynett, has married him and announced their joyful union on social media.