Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: REWARD & PUNISHMENT Those sweet carrots on a string And hard sticks you sometimes swing – When too often denied Or too often applied – Lose their sapor and their sting. From the archive TOXIC Modern …
Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: LITTLE ANGELS They seemed monsters, the worst in creation, Their whole lives predisposed to predation, But it’s obvious now: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao Were just victims of discrimination. From the archive STUDENT TEACHER “If only we’d …
Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: CONTAGION It’s not spread by mosquitoes or fleas, Nor dispersed by a cough or a sneeze, It’s communicated by The half-witted and sly: The political kind of disease. From the archive EAGLE FORMULA There’s a cure …
“Husband” and “wife” are out and “partner” is in. Also out: “man” and “woman.” “Gender” is the word of choice today. Want to say “contraception?” Try “reproductive health.” With these and similar word games, combined with an extreme interpretation of “anti-discrimination,” international institutions are imposing ideologies across the globe . …
In Crime and Punishment, famed Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky despicted with brilliant insight the criminal’s compulsion to confess. It is not surprising that the Communists, the greatest mass murderers in the history of the world, share this compulsion — though their moments of candor have more the air of braggadocio …
The unprecedented decision by the Vatican to undertake an apostolic visitation to assess the quality of religious life in orders of sisters in the United States came as a big surprise to many people when it was announced in January. That surprise was doubled with the news two months later …
It could be construed as a black day for the English language — but not if you work in the public sector. Dozens of quangos and taxpayer-funded organisations have ordered a purge of common words and phrases so as not to cause offence. Among the everyday sayings that have been …
