Recently Martina Navratilova objected to transgender women (biological men claiming to be women) participating in women’s sports. She claimed that they had an unfair advantage and would ruin women’s sports. There have already been a few examples of such transgenders …
Intersectionality
The radical left proponents of identity politics and the promoters of victim status, are presenting a most incoherent view, called intersectionality. Intersectionality teaches a linkage between the oppressed groups in the world who have been oppressed by the privileged …
A Letter Home
By George Byron Koch 22 January 2023 Dear Mom, Gosh, can you believe it’s 2023 already? I’m still writing “22” on nearly everything. Seems like just yesterday I was sitting in first grade celebrating the century change! I know we …
The New York Abortion Law and Religious Values
A new abortion law in New York gives unrestricted abortion rights to women even up to the point of birth even if she is in labor. Surveys show that the majority of Americans want to preserve the right to abortion …
Universal Medicare and Universal Free College
Leaders of the Democratic Party (some of whom are announced candidates for president) are calling for Universal Medicare including doctors’ visits and hospitalization. The same ones also call for free College for all who qualify. The bar is pretty low …
Kate Hudson and Raising Children as Genderless
This week, Kate Hudson took objection to a misunderstanding of what she meant in not raising her youngest child, a daughter, as genderless. She claimed that she is not doing this. She only was saying that she wanted the child …
THE PAINFUL RULE OF THE SHAS PARTY
Some, but not most are aware that the ultra-orthodox Sephardic political party Shas controls the Interior Department in Israel. This is the price Benjamin Netanyahu pays to stay in power. His coalition government requires a parliamentary majority (the K’nessset). Shas …
Toxic Masculinity
It becomes more and more clear that unless we evaluate human life from a biblical point of view, we cannot get things right. Our analysis will lead to supposed solutions that cause more damage. Only a Biblical world view gives …
ELIZABETH WARREN AND THE TWO INCOME TRAP
I was quite amazed to find that Elizabeth Warren wrote a whole book some 15 years ago which agreed with something I have been arguing for years. Her book was entitled The Two Income Trap. This is an amazing book …
Sabbath Reading
Sometimes my Friday pre Sabbath reading of the Jerusalem Post inspires me to comment on Facebook.. This week there were two articles that I wanted to comment on. The first was from Melanie Philips from London who regularly writes and …