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Sightings: August 2002 Print Edition
Globe Finally
Understands that Feminist Schools Damage Boys
The Boston Globe has finally discovered what MassNews
has been saying for years: that boys are getting shortchanged
in our schools.
Their lead story on a front page last month reported
that "boys get referred [to special ed] because
they tend to act out. … very often they don't necessarily
have a disability at all. It's just that they're active."
That quote from Mass. Education Comm. David Driscoll
was the most important story in the whole world that
day, they say.
The Globe didn't say, however, that the damage to
boys happens because the women in charge of our schools
just do not understand them, as Prof. Christiana Hoff
Sommers said in her famous book, The War Against Boys,
and as MassNews said in its series about the feminists
at Harvard's School of Education and at Wellesley
College.
The July edition of MassNews had a story last month
about the major problems that Wellesley is causing
across the nation with its heterophobia that is financed
by the federal government.
Nor did the Globe wonder if the large amount of Ritalin
that is used in this state to sedate boys is because
of the extreme feminists who run our schools here.
The Globe did quote more of Driscoll, "Young
girls tend to be passive and underidentified, because
they're compliant, and sometimes it hides a disability."
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Liberals in
Lincoln Don't Like "Anti-Snob" Law Either
Even the picturesque town of Lincoln, where many rich
liberals live, is attempting to get around the state's
anti-snob law. That law allows developers to override
local zoning regulations if the town doesn't have
at least 10% "affordable housing."
Despite the fact that the EPA has warned the state
that "sprawl" is the worst environmental
hazard in Massachusetts, no one has the courage to
change our laws.
After MassNews wrote about the woes of the pristine
town of Grafton in our February 2001 issue and mailed
it to 250,000 homes across the state, the Boston Globe
took notice. It immediately reported many stories
about how wonderful the state law is.
But Senate Pres. Tom Birmingham told the Globe in
the fall of that year, "I have heard more complaints
about [the affordable housing law] in the last year
than in my last nine years in office.
The rich liberals in Lincoln are now trying to solve
their problem by buying 30 acres that have just come
up for sale in their town.
The town's administrator told the Globe, "There
is a real threat of developers coming to Lincoln with
large-scale projects, going against what the community
wants and needs. This is a really good opportunity
for the Town of Lincoln to take control."
No one disagrees with the town's desire to keep out
the sprawl that the state demands.
But where were those rich liberals when tiny Grafton
was trying to "take control" of their town's
environment?
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Is Globe Agreeing
that Country Used to be Better?
Even the Boston Globe seems to agree that our country
used to be better when we had higher values and morals.
Their cartoon on an Editorial Page last month, which
was taken from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, showed
a man at a newsstand looking at the headlines and
saying, "I miss the days when the only people
you couldn't trust were in government." The headlines
he was looking at were:
- Insider trading
- Enron scandal
- Athletes on steroids
- Is your neighbor a terrorist?
- Drug companies gouge patients
- Arthur Andersen case
- Catholic priest scandal
Is the Globe really telling us that when old-timers
say they can remember a time when people were more
honest and decent, they may be right?
Globe Still
Doesn't Understand Why Africans Die of AIDS
The Boston Globe has been writing a lot in the last
few years about the "21 million dead" in
"20 years" from the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
But it still doesn't tell the whole truth. We did,
just a year ago.
Although it again wrote about the suffering among
poor women in Africa, the Globe still hasn't reported
what Ambassador Alan Keyes told a crowd at the State
House in 2000, right after Fistgate.
Keyes revealed he had been briefed about AIDS by the
World Health Organization over twenty years ago when
he was Assistant Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan.
"They described the nature of AIDS and the virus
and predicted the terrible things that would happen.
"At that time, this wasn't necessarily well known
by everybody, but they knew what the problem would
be and they also knew something else that was interesting.
They knew that in certain parts of the world it would
be contained, and in other parts of the world it had
the potential to be so destructive that whole populations
would be threatened.
"And you know what the difference was? It was
a difference in sexual mores between one part of the
world and another. In some parts of the world, rampant
promiscuity was the philosophy and ideology confined
to only certain kinds of sexual groups. But in places
like Africa it was a philosophy spread throughout
the entire population, heterosexual as well as homosexual,
and they predicted then, that that difference of moral
philosophy would, in fact, lead to an awesome difference
in the death toll that would be faced because of this
terrible scourge.
"When are we going to step back, my friends,
and realize that they weren't just talking through
their hats? They knew what they were talking about,
and as they predicted, so it has occurred. We have
before us the most clear example we can of what will
happen if we allow the general breakdown of sexual
morality and sexual responsibility that is encouraged
by what this state is trying to do in its schools.
And it will not be the birth of halcyon days of tolerance
and naturalism in sexual activity. It appears that,
instead, it will be the lengthening shadow of death
for individuals to whom we owe not such a fate of
death but our most compelling arguments of love."
However, there is an easy cure for this disease. It
is the "a" word, but that word is not allowed
in the Globe offices.
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Rep. deMacedo
Passes Resolution about Flag Pledge
A Resolution by Rep. Vinny deMacedo to condemn the
action of three judges at the Ninth Circuit in California
to outlaw the pledge to the flag, was approved in
the House 133-6. But Senate Pres. Birmingham has failed
to act on it.
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