. SUPERMOM REPORTS FOR DUTY WITH THE LITTLE SOLDIERS, TOO ARMY STOP-LOSS KEEPS COMBAT VET & FAMILY ON CALL FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS It's Not Just A Job. It's More Like Slavery. With Kids. I guess this "Army of One" thing is literally true. Apparently, there is no one else in the whole country who ...

In the family, which is a community of persons, special attention must be devoted to the children by developing a profound esteem for their personal dignity, and a great respect and generous concern for their rights. ... By fostering and exercising a tender and strong concern for every child that co...

Oh, no.  It's not over simply because Obama was elected president.  The pro-life crowd is still at it.  Even racheting it up a bit.  Here's what they're doing in North Dakota: A long legal journey could be in store for an anti-abortion bill the North Dakota House ...

The principal at a high school in California said "no" and shut down the drama club's production of Rent.  Mind you, this was the "school edition" of Rent, a cleaned-up version created by the show's producers with Jonathan Larson's estate.  Ren...

That's the logic of Ken Starr (previously obsessed with Bill Clinton's penis) who has filed a brief on behalf of the Yes on Prop 8 crowd to retroactively annul the 18,000 couples married in California last year before Prop 8 was passed. Republican "family values" at work. This is the response from t...

Our locally-living nationally-syndicated columnist, Nathan Tabor, is a howl today.  After trying to make the argument that Obama's policies will effectively result in genocide of African-Americans (yes, he really makes that argument), Tabor writes: But blacks are not the only minority grou...

Queering Black Politics: Reconsidering the Black Single Mother Argument In light of taddyporter's post and discussion below about non-traditional families (or non-cookie cutter families), here's another wrinkle: race. I think a commenter in that discussion made mention of how class identity impacts ...

Richard Dawkins wonders: We've mapped the entire human genome; we've mapped the entire chimpanzee genome.  We know they are 98% identical (sorry, evolution opponents).  It shouldn't be hard, therefore, to literally create some sort of interspecies.  Another "...

I get tired of neo-cons pining for Traditional American Values. I stumbled upon this cartoon from 1941, which, if television was an indicator of our values at the time, there was much room for improvement. In this toon by Walter......

The New York Times is writing about this, so it's -- you know -- serious. The story is about the Rev. Ed Young -- author, a television host and the pastor of the evangelical Fellowship Church. On the November 16 service, he urged the married couples in his congregation to have ...