cf. brake

At the center of Washington, DC, is a battle. And at the core of this nation is war. Not for political parties or for financial gain. But for the very heart of this people. The very fabric of our existence. A week ago hundreds of thousands of women, and their supporting male characters, descended on the National Mall. Most, including girls too young to understand, wearing knit hats euphemizing a term that pornographers use to entice and enslave young men in sexual addiction. Speakers raged and pounded on the podium about how society has kept women down - yelling that the only thing that will free women is to reject the very thing that makes women unique. That sets women apart. That gives the world need for women. Screaming in the face of anyone, especially a woman, who would stay the hand of a woman from destroying her womanhood. And the world watches. Gathering in their collective throats an outcry of pent up rage that anyone would dare to keep a woman down. Would dare to stop her f...

In 1964, Lyndon Baines Johnson stood up and declared in the most masculine of words: A War on Poverty. A manly pursuit. Never again would an American child lie down to sleep hungry. Never again would a mother worry about having enough money to care for her children. Never again would a family shiver through a cold, winter's night. Never again would a father...  Be necessary. For almost every one of the last fifty years, the United States has spent more money than the year before on programs to help grow out of poverty. Pretty quick, that has become more than ONE TRILLION DOLLARS a year. And the results? In those fifty years, the percentage of children born to unmarried parents has climbed from less than ten percent to well over forty percent. And Supplemental Security Income, SNAP, Medicaid, and countless other programs have taken over where once fathers fought. It is not to say that these programs are bad in and of themselves. By no means. They have buoyed countless families in ...