The American Spectator : Guilt and Innocence

Text Size

Guilt and Innocence

By Lisa Fabrizio on 7.18.12 @ 6:07AM

Who are the sexual abusers of our children?

During the interminable days of baseball’s All Star break came news of Louis Freeh’s report on Penn State’s involvement with the heinous crimes of assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. It seems that Joe Paterno, the once-beloved coach of the Nittany Lions, knew for years about Sandusky’s crimes and did little or nothing to stop them. Many have called for the NCAA to invoke the so-called death penalty on the school’s football program, but the loudest cries have come from those who want to “tear down that statue” of Paterno that stands outside of Beaver Stadium on campus; an empty and silly gesture, typical of those who strain at gnats and swallow camels.

In the wake of the Penn State mess, the unanimous war cry across the nation has been: “We have a moral responsibility to protect our kids; we must preserve the innocence of our children!” Are they kidding? Can they be serious? How can our children be innocent or protected in a country that, rather than defining deviancy down, has defined deviancy up; up to the level of not only acceptance, but approval.

In modern America, we are often lectured on certain aspects of Christianity that conform themselves to the liberal mindset; their favorite being: judge not lest ye be judged. As a consequence, we are constantly urged to forgive thieves, murderers, drug addicts and any manner of societal reprobates usually because their crimes are explained away as being “society’s fault.” But in the case of the real abuse of our children, this is most certainly the truth.

It is precisely those in power who are heaping the worst sort of abuse on our children; who are creating the perverse, sexual environment where “anything goes,” and steeping our children in its ways. For every Jerry Sandusky, there are thousands of liberal bureaucrats who have invaded our public education system to teach our kids about the functions of sexual organs long before these poor babes will develop them; to believe that any and all sexual practices are not only okay, but healthy — our own U.S. Surgeon General told them so — and to prepare them for what they think it truly means to be an American: a godless, dumbed-down, sexual performer.

And it’s hard not to assign some blame to their parents — although they have been raised a similar environment — who not only expose their kids to the foul air of modern Hollywood, but force them to wallow in it right alongside them. So twisted has our culture evolved, that to watch an old movie or TV show where a kindly old gent sits a child on his knee, now conjures up disturbing mental images in our kids. Can this have happened in only a generation or two? Sadly, it has.

What are the messages that our culture daily delivers to our kids? That they don’t need fathers to nurture and raise them; the idea that males are essentially useless to the family unit has proven not only dangerous to society — it is no coincidence that Sandusky chose as his victims, boys with no fathers in their homes — but criminal. That any brothers and sisters they might have had are too expensive or inconvenient, and will either be chemically destroyed or murdered in the womb because in today’s America, the family budget prioritizes toys for adults over the desire and care for children.

We are a nation of too many little girls painted up like trollops for “beauty” contests and taught the basics of the old bump-and-grind in “cheerleading” school; little boys who, by watching televised sports, learn bathroom humor and how to objectify women before they’re even potty trained.

And it’s no wonder, considering that our culture condones dads who spend hours surfing the Internet for porn and approves of moms who dress and act provocatively. What influence can this have on, say, a little boy who sits next to his mother at a lunch counter while all men present ogle at her skin-tight tights and low-cut leotard which leave nothing to the imagination? With what notions of women and motherhood will he grow up?

How can innocence survive in any of our citizens — let alone the youngest and most vulnerable — when our very laws now define classes of people based solely on their sexual proclivities? No, the innocence of our children cannot be preserved until it is restored.

If we really cared about our children we would stop teaching filth and perversion in our public schools by brainwashing them to believe it is good for Heather to have anything other than one Mommy and one Daddy who are married to each other. We would stop promoting the idea that free and unfettered sex is beneficial for them in any way and stop glorifying it on TV, using children as straight men for any number of unfunny and repulsive sexual jokes.

Sandusky and others who physically assault the bodies of our children are indeed monsters, but as the lynching parties assemble, let them broaden their gaze to include those who wound the innate innocence of our children’s souls.

About the Author

Lisa Fabrizio is a columnist who hails from Connecticut (mailbox@lisafab.com).

Letter to the Editor View all comments (63) | Leave a comment Leave a comment

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.18.12 @ 6:38AM

Well spoken, Lisa

MK48| 7.18.12 @ 10:01AM

Lisa.......I wait for your column's very insightful.

Brookschwarzenegro | 7.18.12 @ 3:39PM

But America protects the wealthy and or v. well connected:
did anyone think for a minute that Roman Polanski would ever be prosecuted?

I knew from Day One in '94 when I watched the OJ motorcade how he would beat the rap;
he would get the best attorneys. Right before the verdict, I called a local Man of Letters to say I though OJ would walk-- he said I was crazy, the bloodwork was was billions to one OJ did it.
I called back after the verdict, but the guy's voice sounded tired and defeated. "I don't feel like talking." End of conversation.
Whether liberal or conservative, if they are rich and or connected, they can walk, it's nothing new.

Bob Grant| 7.18.12 @ 6:56PM

Remember,

Many members of the OJ jury were the same people who vote for Maxine Waters every two years. It didn't take much convincing, or for that matter money.

Tell me a public defender fresh out of night law school couldn't have won an acquittal.

Those people were dead set on sending a message well before opening arguments.

Gary B| 7.18.12 @ 8:41PM

Jury nullification... Sometimes it goes very wrong. We'll see more of it in our future, as level-headed Americans rebel against a corrupt legal system. In my opinion, judges, as a group, are the greatest enemies of America. Legal scholarship has been shoved aside by cynical ideology. We are going to have to shove back - real hard.

Gary B| 7.18.12 @ 8:37PM

Excellent, excellent piece. Thank you...

Appleby| 7.18.12 @ 6:54AM

It's all right there in "Brave New World." Some of us read this in high school (because we had parents who read and who had read it and who thought it would be a good thing for us, especially in the 1960s, to read and discuss). Some of you will have read it and thought it sounded like great fun, and wished somebody would invent Soma and the government would make Free Love its official religion. And some of us can see that it's being instituted all around us every day, especially since the ubiquitous Binkie has taken control of the hearts and minds of every second person old enough to toddle.

If you haven't read Brave New World, get a copy and read it. If you can't read a whole book, read the chapter where Mustapha Mond explains to John Savage what the whole plan was and why it was instituted. Or get the Cliff's Notes and read that. But familiarize yourself with it, because it's here all around you, and you can't fight the enemy if you refuse to acknowledge what or who it is.

PCC| 7.18.12 @ 7:28AM

Dear Ms. Fabrizio,

Thank you for the "Oh Why Oh Why?" column.

Now, let's demolish the statue.

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.18.12 @ 7:47AM

I will bet that coach Paterno is glad he is gone from this world.
How he let this go on for YEARS is simply impossible to understand.

Why in the world didn't he call upon one of his BIG Christian linebackers to b eat the crap out of Sandusky...before throwing him out on the street?

I simply cannot get my hands around this mess!

I cannot get my hands around porno parents either. I wish I could.

Bob K| 7.18.12 @ 9:27AM

Ken,
Paterno didn't let it go on for years. Local Law enforcement knew about it as early as 1998 and did not take action. He is a link from the New York Times concerning that:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11.....tery.html/

It is logical to assume that his staff, including his secretary, asst. DA's and County Detectives were also aware of it.

In 2008 another complaint against Sandusky was forwarded by the new DA to State Attorney General Tom Corbett who is now Governor and no action was taken then either.

http://www.centredaily.com/201.....-case.html

GW| 7.18.12 @ 5:55PM

Paterno was by all accounts, a senile old man toward the end of his career? Did he do enough? Obviously not. But you are correct to point out that the media, DA's, and detectives failed their duties at least as badly as Paterno.

Bob Grant| 7.18.12 @ 7:59PM

Read the Louis Freeh report. Not only did Mr. Paterno turn a blind eye, he attempted to convince the others not to report to higher authorities.

He was actively involved in the coverup.

It makes no sense to say he did all he could when Mr. Sandusky was allowed to actively represent Penn State and had access to the facilities.

No, Mr. Paterno failed MISERABLY when it was "his time" and so his statue MUST come down along with his legendary status. This incident clearly trumps 50+ years of service to the university.

Gary B| 7.18.12 @ 8:47PM

And, who covered up Freeh's role in the mass murder at Waco. I can't believe he's walking around free, along with that bitch of an attorney general, Janet Reno. You know, the one who tossed that poor Cuban kid over the fence back to Cuba. How many criminals per square foot reside in DC?

Gary B| 7.18.12 @ 8:48PM

Off subject, sorry...

Doctor Right| 7.18.12 @ 7:48AM

Your point is we-taken, Ms. Fabrizio.

Our culture is rotten from the core.

We shouldn't look at Joe Sandusky and say "How could this happen?"

We should take notice that it's happening more and more often...and it's going to get worse.

When we began to untether our society from the moral and ethical principles of the Bible in the 1950's, the rot crept in, and for 60 years it has festered.

Socially, culturally, politically...we are reaching a boiling point. William Butler Yeats said "Things fall apart, the center cannot hold."

It's going to get ugly out there; what will fill the void?

Nancy in NC| 7.18.12 @ 7:52AM

Many of us agree you, Ms. Fabrizio, and often are labeled old fogies. The left has done such a fine job of defining tolerance that we don't reconize decency any longer.

Doctor Right| 7.18.12 @ 8:03AM

And that is exactly what they intended.

MK48| 7.18.12 @ 10:09AM

Yesterday THEY challanged the Boy Scouts again....I will be just a matter of time before the supreme court will favor gays in the scouts.

Why don't they just form their own troop....

WRTolkas| 7.18.12 @ 4:35PM

Because no-one will make uniforms in pink and chartreuse. I don't even what to imagine what "skills" will be covered for merit badges.

Gary B| 7.18.12 @ 8:59PM

The answer to that is simple: defy the "Supreme" Court. Everyone else does.

Maybe the Boy Scouts need to meet in secret, like early Christians. And, maybe, those meetings need to be protected by armed guards.

Cobalt| 7.18.12 @ 8:06AM

Do you know who lives near you?

http://www.criminalcheck.com/

EastTexasRancher| 7.18.12 @ 8:22AM

I once attended an abstinence based speech at an area E. Texas high school. Later on that year our school district made an abstinence based policy in teaching our children that still stands.
This speech was riveting as was the speaker, a middle aged woman, who kept several hundred teens on track with message to the point they gave her a standing ovation.
But what I wanted to hear was the students later in the bathroom. So, while in the student bathroom I heard two 13 year olds talking. One said to the other, "No one ever told me I didn't have to." That told me all I needed to know about where my country had devolved to. Now another 15 years later, nothing surprises me.

WRTolkas| 7.18.12 @ 9:07AM

"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."

C. S. Lewis

C'mon Man!| 7.18.12 @ 9:07AM

Look, we remove God from our culture and then wonder what went wrong. It's pretty simple people, but most anti-God people don't want to hear it.
You are now reaping what you have sown. If you don't like it, the ONLY solution is to invite God back in.
Can't wait for all the godless responses from purp and the boys... bring it on!

Bill84728| 7.18.12 @ 9:09AM

One thing about our culture that you left out, although you obviously are aware of it, since your article nibbled around it: men are not only useless, stupid, and ineffectual, but in the family context, they are a threat and dangerous to both mom and children. How many people watch Lifetime on TV? It's unrelenting, and Lifetime isn't the only medium that beats on that drum.

Bill84728| 7.18.12 @ 9:11AM

Oh yeah, and boys are trained to be girls. Little girls at that.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.18.12 @ 10:12AM

Sorry, Bill, while you are probably correct about the theme of much of the content, Lifetime is a network aimed at women, largely from a feminist standpoint. Switch to Spike for a while, and you'll forget all about it.

On the other hand, I sense a heavy feminization of the Discovery-Investigative channel, (the Murder-Homicide Network). What is next: the Military Channel celebrates the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell by a marathon playing of "The Sergeant"?

Bill84728| 7.18.12 @ 3:14PM

So what are you sorry about?

Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.18.12 @ 3:25PM

It was sort of a shorthand "sorry not to fully agree with the concern about Lifetime, since it's a proto-feminist network, and that's what they do, so while you describe it accurately, it is what I expect from their ilk".

Marie| 7.18.12 @ 9:31AM

You may make fun of the tearing down the statue, but the way I see it is it's a mini version of tearing down the statue of Sadaam Hussein. How many people have to suffer greatly before something is done? 10 people, 100 people, 1 million people? One child suffering from a pedophile is enough to take severe action against Penn State.

Bob K| 7.18.12 @ 11:21AM

The local District Attorney and the law enforcement agencies of the county knew of this as early as 1998 and decided to do nothing about it but there are no statues of them to tear down.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11.....tery.html/

C. Vernon Crisler | 7.18.12 @ 9:52AM

I think Liz is indulging in political correctness here. The crime involved gay behavior, not child abuse in general, or parental irresponsibility in general. It seems as though Liz thinks she has to talk in general for fear she will be accused of singling out gays, or gay behavior. Given how homosexuality is promoted and approved of today, and given how such things are excused as a "gay thing," it's no wonder that Paterno chose the cowardly way out of not rocking the boat.

Cobalt| 7.18.12 @ 10:48AM

Society is even sicker than you might think.

This organization epitomizes just how morally bankrupt we really are.

NAMBLA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.....ssociation

Butch| 7.18.12 @ 2:01PM

What is frightening to me is how hard he worked to provide himself with a plentiful supply of victims: establishing the charity, working hard to fund it, soliciting volunteers, sponsors, and activities and events, all the equivalent of full-time employment. All to what purpose?

And they wonder why the Boy Scouts reject gay scoutmasters. An article about their decision in the paper today (AP and LA Times) was one-quarter the Scouts' statement and three-quarters the reaction of "The Gay and Lesbian Anti-Defamation Alliance." Right on the heels of the Freeh Report. Sandusky was all the "defamation" that was needed. Why does anyone think gays are so obsessed with the Boy Scouts and their camping trips.

And you are right: the author evades the gay issue, which is what this episode is all about.

C. Vernon Crisler | 7.18.12 @ 5:35PM

Good point about the Boy Scouts.

Gary B| 7.18.12 @ 9:01PM

Maybe we should be "obsessed" with gays and hound the hell outta' them.

Wally Kalbacken| 7.18.12 @ 11:05PM

Yes - the homosexuality of the pattern of pedophilia was the big thing left unsaid in Freeh's report. Search for "Homosexual", "gay","pederast" in the report and you come up with bupkes. I read the entire report and it sickened me. Something I read for the first time in the report was an account a witness provided of Sandusky performing oral sex on one of the boys. Now for all those who define rape as only a crime of violence, and suggest that pedophilia is a crime of violence, or subjugation and dominance, against a minor, how do you isolate that from homosexuality? Was it just random chance that Sandusky didn't abuse young women? When the oral sex account is in Freeh's report, and the word "homosexual" doesn't appear anywhere, how hard are we working to ignore a critical factor?

Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.18.12 @ 10:04AM

College campuses have long been sanctuaries for sexual predators, though, classically, it was male professors preying on naïve coeds who were legally of age. As the lobbies for pederasty and homosexuality have grown more militant over the last few decades, though, along with critical importance of revenue-generating collegiate athletics on many campuses, this case represents the confluence of many of the missteps of morality and ethics in our culture.

CJW| 7.18.12 @ 1:24PM

Albert
Are you in Avalon? May I suggest Via Mare Restaurant, on Ocean ("mare") and 21st.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.18.12 @ 3:22PM

Avalon is next week, though my children are in baseball/ softball tournaments in surrounding states, so I may be commuting more than dining out, but I'll keep it in mind. thanks.

CJW| 7.19.12 @ 8:36AM

It is BYOB

Eric Rasmusen| 7.18.12 @ 10:15AM

Mr. Crisler has you pegged. It's a sad day when a conservative columnist doesn't dare mention the words "gay" or "homosexual" in an article on homosexual child abuse, and feels constrained to talk about the evils of men ogling women instead. I don't see a big problem of society-- at least the people who read magazines--- saying how normal and good it is for men to ogle women in tight clothes. And I doubt that porn involving skin-tight clothes did much to set Sandusky's imagination going.

C Smith | 7.18.12 @ 10:30AM

"... It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones" (Luke 17:1-2).

Seek| 7.18.12 @ 11:08AM

I find it highly ironic, and comical, that culture-war conservatives like Lisa Fabrizio at once decry a liberal external explanation for crime ("society"), yet invent one of their own ("cultural rot"). I knew that somewhere in her jeremiad lurked a cheap and preposterous snipe at "Hollywood," among other sources of supposedly harmful influences on children. Sorry, Lisa. Harry Potter movies, no more than Super Bowls, motivated Jerry Sandusky to molest boys. Jerry Sandusky made that choice himself. Now he has to live with them. A witch hunt for "cultural polluters," as Ms. Fabrizio implicity urges, would render conservatives every bit as repulsive as the worst of the Left. No thanks.

Dai Alanye | 7.18.12 @ 12:26PM

Seek is inventing a witch hunt that Fabrizio never called for. The problem IS cultural, and we can only hope (and work) for a reversal of the present trend.

As an example of what we're up against, I recently watched the A&E version of Pride and Prejudice with a woman in her twenties. She was astounded at the reaction to Lydia eloping with Wickham.

"What's the big deal?" she wanted to know. Because, of course, women living in sin and later facing abandonment by their erstwhile lovers is quite commonplace today.

Oldefarte| 7.18.12 @ 10:32PM

GTH and rot there! Oh and take your related ilk with you on your trip. Lisa's editorial is truth and as is said about same......IT FRIGGIN HURTS, doesn't it? Fool, Hollywood has been the political tool-mechanism used for liberal corruption for decades now. You sleezbags of the left use the MSM, Hollywood and the socialist propagandizers of academia to indoctrinate our youth, and again you all will rot in Hades for your crapola. This pervert should be hung by the gonads until deceased for what he [along with many others rotting from his disease] did to those boys [who needed a friend, a father figure, someone to talk to and instead they got that piece of excrement disguised as a football coach]. Take your GD liberalism and SHOVE IT WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE.....AND THEN....TWIST IT SIDEWAYS, OKAY????????????

cicero| 7.18.12 @ 11:47AM

The guilt and blame must be focussed individually, rather than societally, otherwise the cultural problem cannot be solved. Spread the guilt too wide, and nothing happens. Focus it, and the consequences will go far to change the society.

In by gone days, guys like Sandusky, as soon as he was discovered, would have had the stuffings beat out of him by the real men in the community, before the authorities were called. His beaten and bloody condition would be blamed on his attempt to escape. Now we wring or hands, and ask why someone else didn't do something. All those who knew and did nothing should be charged as "aiders and abettors". Anything less will do nothing to change the culture.

As for the football program, it was not the "football program" that molested those boys. It was Sandusky, who was allowed to do so by the individuals who stood bye and watched.

Butch| 7.18.12 @ 1:44PM

Cicero, I was raised in an oil town in the deep south. Practically all of the men in town were World War II vets, and all had seen plenty of killing. My Little League coach marched the Bataan Death March at age 18, and spent the duration of the war as a P.O.W. These were the men who raised me.

Then--and there, to be sure--it would have been worse than you speculated. A child molester known to be guilty would have simply disappeared, never to be found, and never to be heard from again. Nobody would know what happened to him, inclulding the town law, who would have been in on the "disappearance." Such was the judgement for sex offenders.

Bill84728| 7.18.12 @ 3:18PM

Your home oil town sounds like my upstate New York home mill town.

JP| 7.18.12 @ 12:06PM

I think the point is is that he continued to allow Sandusky to use Penn St for his perverted purposes. When the Police and the DA refused to investigate let alone prosecute Sandusky, Paterno et. als. still had the moral duty to do what is right (go public if need be). Instead he and others allowed Sandusky to continue to molest young boys.

THKrupp| 7.18.12 @ 12:25PM

I agree with the commenters that say blaming society for Mr Sandusky's actions is wrong. Actions by an individual are the responsibility of the individual. His actions are the actions of a sick and demented person. The school and everyone else did not cause him to do those actions. The inaction of his superiors and the officials in the know probably had more to do with protecting the football program and the school. If they are guilty of standing by and doing nothing then the individuals in question should be charged.

I would like to know how everyone proposes to put God back in society? Which set of beliefs will be used for this? Roman Catholic? Evangelical Lutheran? LCMS? Methodist etc etc? Most likely it would be some non denominational set of beliefs that dont really mean anything at all. If I were a parent I would not want my child being taught or being forced to confess beliefs that conflict with my personal set of beliefs. For instance do you use grape juice or wine during confession? What exactly are you confessing to during confession? Each sect has its own beliefs and of course I consider my own to be superior to everyone elses.

Cool Hand Luke| 7.18.12 @ 12:36PM

Hollywood at one time was controlled by conservatives like Cecil B. DeMille who made movies like The Ten Commandments. Then come the sixties and realism is the wave with sex and
violence prominent.

Feminism follows with women demanding equality and at the same time destroying the family unit.

Now, we live in a time where men kiss men on network TV and the Pentagon celebrates Gay
Pride month.

Paterno was grossly negligent with Sandusky who is an evil and very sick man. Our Society is on the wrong track and as a conservative I believe we are losing the war.

That' s scary...

Tom Kyba| 7.18.12 @ 12:48PM

Funny how the troll brigade can't seem to find a pseudo-intellectual non-argument to make on this subject, considering that Sandusky and others have been enabled by the trolls' liberal culture that celebrates the idea of do your own thing but never has the guts to draw a line in the sand. As a result, along with the loosening of sexual attitudes, all of the perverted detritus of society has been dragged forward as well. Let's face it; liberalism is one screwed up philosophy. When your reason for being begins and ends with destroying the "old ways" it becomes hard to adhere to any standards that don't conclude with "as long as the older generation dislikes this, it must be good, and we will twist ourselves into knots to ensure that we see and hear no evil but speak plenty of it when criticized.
Consequences are for grown-ups. Liberals just don't get it. Correction, liberals refuse to get it.

obadiah| 7.18.12 @ 12:53PM

We must restore what it truly means to be an American: a Fundamentalist, dumbed-down, sexual performer.

JD| 7.18.12 @ 1:01PM

I'm not a fan of the Paterno-bashing. The guy did a lot of good in his life. Clearly he hung on too long (he was REALLY old) and couldn't bring himself to believe an awful truth, with great consequences. But he's been getting more heat than Mike McQuery and other people better-positioned to have stopped it.

Sandusky is the monster, here. Let's not lose track of that. Feels too much like the logic of Democrats - blaming the nearby rich guy more than the person directly responsible for a problem.

CJW| 7.18.12 @ 1:11PM

It is an easy call to say the Penn State officials should have barred Sandusky from the Penn State facilitites after he resigned or retired.
There were criminal charges filed against Sandusky in the mid or late 90's, but the DA declined to prosecute. If the DA would have prosecuted then Sandusky would hav e been in prison then, and some of the children would not have been victims.
I have not seen any explanation why the DA did not prosecute.

Truncheon| 7.18.12 @ 1:41PM

Well and rightly said, Ms. Fabrizio.

Joe D.| 7.18.12 @ 2:14PM

"How can our children be innocent or protected in a country that, rather than defining deviancy down, has defined deviancy up; up to the level of not only acceptance, but approval." - Right on target!!!

"their favorite being: judge not lest ye be judged." - Which as we both know is taken out of context by those that don't know God or his principals. Being lawyer or fruit inspector is a lot different then a Judge who passes final judgement. If we stop making discernments about what are good morals in our society, God Help us!

Joe D.| 7.18.12 @ 2:15PM

One more thing, Jerry is a homosexual petifile. Why is this not stated in the media.

Oldefarte| 7.18.12 @ 10:35PM

No, he's instead a piece of excrement disguised as a human being!!!!!!!!

JohnLeo| 7.18.12 @ 2:58PM

There was a magazine cover back in 1967 proclaiming that "God Is Dead." Once an idea like that takes hold, all is lost.

MikeBee| 7.18.12 @ 10:04PM

The Libs tell us that we need to allow gay men to marry each other and raise boys. They tell us that we need to accept gays in the military. They tell us that gay men should be allowed to lead the Boy Scouts, and to join their group. On and on and on, ad nauseam, about how we need to allow gay men into roles in society leading or joining boys.

All the while, we keep being presented by God with examples of why gay men should NOT be allowed to lead boys, or be in charge of them. We have the Catholic priesthood sexual scandal of Ephebophilia, Jerry Sandusky's abuse of children, and other public examples of abuse by gay men of boys. I don't see how the Libs can continue to press their issues.........with all the evidence to the contrary.............

Oldefarte| 7.18.12 @ 10:41PM

Lisa's editorial is extremely truthful and should be read and then re-read as such. This country's moral decline has been occurring over decades now, and all due to the psychological influence of Hollywood and other liberalistic vehicles. Their messaging comes to you and your children 24-7 via the Hollywood's TV programming and movies. It's what's known as subliminal messaging, and it is entirely purposeful. Pat Buchanan touches upon same in in his book, DEATH OF THE WEST. If individuals don't take it upon themselves to reverse these current societal norms, our civilation is doomed to destruction in the not too distant future!!!!

Latest Headlines

Obama’s Assault on the First Amendment

George Neumayr|15 comments

Damage Control for Dummies

Matt Purple|11 comments

Time to Go for the Kill

Peter Ferrara|10 comments

Restrain the Abusive Administative State

Doug Bandow|3 comments

Disabling American Sovereignty

Iain Murray|2 comments

The Other Gosnells

Jordan Gonzalez|3 comments

Can He Unite Virginia’s GOP?

Carten Cordell|8 comments

Undoing the Brainwashing

Thomas Sowell|5 comments

The Spectacle Blog

Carney Goes Birther on Major Garrett

Aaron Goldstein | 12:10AM

UPDATED: More on Lerner Pleading the Fifth

Kaylin Bugos | 5.21.13

Did Virginia Republicans Just Elect Terry McAuliffe?

Ross Kaminsky | 5.21.13

Lois Lerner Will Take the Fifth