Tag: hijab

  • A Word about TV Commercials (RR)

    A Word about TV Commercials (RR)

    “THEIR TRUTH ISN’T OUR TRUTH” by OPOVV, ©2020 (Jun. 28, 2020) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the place to hear it here first. We like to think we deal in reality; none of this hype/make-believe hocus-pocus stuff. If we want any hocus, we’ll visit Madam Shylock. But…

  • It’s Time to KISS

    It’s Time to KISS

    “A REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY” by Linda Goudsmit, ©2019, blogging at Pundicity (Mar. 20, 2019) — The familiar acronym KISS, “keep it simple stupid,” began as a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in the 1960s according to Wikipedia. “The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made…

  • Will Women’s Rights Change in Iran After Hijab Protests?

    Will Women’s Rights Change in Iran After Hijab Protests?

    U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT CALLS FOR WOMEN’S “AUTONOMY AND DIGNITY” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 3, 2018) — Dramatic videos of Iranian women protesting the mandatory hijab head covering have been posted under the hashtag #GirlsofRevolutionStreet on Twitter. On Friday, 29 women and possibly some men, were reportedly arrested in Tehran for defying the government-imposed headscarf, which…

  • Beware The Hot-Blooded Lions From the Muslim Desert!

    Beware The Hot-Blooded Lions From the Muslim Desert!

    FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Jul. 10, 2016) — We want you to picture this.  You are finally settled onto a lifeboat filled to the gunnels with shivering and petrified passengers, as you watch your ship sinking before you.  You drift away from the sinking vessel and suddenly…

  • Here’s What It Will Take

    “WE THE PEOPLE” by One Pissed-off Vietnam Vet (Sep. 21, 2011) — The question is “What will it take to save the United States Constitution from becoming a discarded article, to be regulated as a document that will be remembered as ‘flawed’ in its conception of individual freedoms afforded to all?” Okay, what will it…

  • Update: What Will It Take?

    FOR AMERICANS TO FACE THE TRUTH by One Pissed-off Vietnam Vet (Sep. 18, 2011) — No, seriously, what will it take? We’ve been through the Marine barracks suicide bombing in Lebanon, the Lockerbie plane crash, the embassies in Africa blown to bits, the World Trade Center in 1993, planes flying into things in 2001, Fort…