Some more radio. I was on KRLD to talk about the Students for Concealed Carry on Campus “Empty Holster” protest.
Listen here:
http://podcast.krld.com/krld/731502.mp3
Archive for November, 2007
On the Radio
November 30, 2007The Rebellion Radio Vigilante Show covered the porn club controversy. I did some commentary.
Nick and Ryan are great guys and you should definitely subscribe to this podcast. They do great work.
You can listen here:
http://www.nowlive.com/member.asp?id=100238756&showmode=schedule
It’s labeled “porn club controversy”.
I’m in at the 39 minute mark.
I also did the Terry Lowry Radio show. You can listen here:
http://www.thewhatsupradioprogram.com/audio/071126LEM.mp3
Congressman Lamar Smith on Immigration
November 28, 2007In honor of Congressman Lamar Smith’s visit to Joe Momma’s Coffee House tomorrow with YCT at UTSA, I’d like to share a piece he wrote for the Washington Times.
Most Americans clearly want their government to secure the borders and enforce immigration laws. They understand what many elected officials still don’t: rewarding lawbreakers with amnesty only encourages a new flood of illegal immigrants.
In September, New York Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced a plan to allow illegal immigrants to obtain New York drivers’ licenses. The proposal has been sharply criticized across the nation. A recent poll found 77 percent of Americans oppose drivers’ licenses for illegal immigrants.
Congressman Smith’s speech tomorrow will be discussing the DREAM Act and why other incentives like this are bad and encourage illegal activity.
In fact, Democrats and various interest groups have never been serious about reducing illegal immigration. In the last two years, an overwhelming majority of House Democrats voted against almost every piece of legislation aimed at reducing illegal immigration. For example:
• 80 percent said no to enhanced border security and increased enforcement of laws prohibiting the employment of illegal immigrants. The proposed bill required the use of a basic pilot program, which helps employers determine whether their employees are legal.
• 74 percent said no to national security standards for drivers’ licenses to prevent alien terrorists from getting identification documents. The REAL ID Act aimed at keeping out and removing alien terrorists from the U.S.
• 63 percent said no to strengthening border security by constructing reinforced fences along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Just a taste of what’s to come at the event tomorrow.
Wednesday, November 28th 8pm
Joe Momma’s Coffee House on Babcock Road across from UTSA.
Bring questions and cameras! Special thanks again to Joe Momma’s Coffee House for the accommodations.
Coffee With My Congressman!
November 27, 2007I hope those of you in the San Antonio area will join me at Joe Momma’s Coffee House for a special event on behalf of the Young Conservatives of Texas.
We will be joined by special guest Congressman Lamar Smith!
He has been named one of the 100 most influential people in Washington by the National Journal.
Although many like to just call him one of the hardest working men in Congress.
Congressman Smith will be speaking on the DREAM Act. He’ll be available for questions and photos.
What: Coffee with Congressman Lamar Smith
When: Wednesday November 28th at 8pm
Where: Joe Momma’s Coffee House across UTSA
15503 Babcock Rd.
San Antonio, TX 78256
Need more info:
yct_utsa@yahoo.com
www.yctutsa.org
Special thank you to Joe Momma’s Coffee House for helping set this fantastic event up!
Feminism Gone Bad
November 22, 2007I posted earlier with a link to my new column with the Independent.
For a taste of the subject matter I said:
Women have betrayed women, and as a female I must state with pride that the women’s movement got significant rights and advancements for females. The fight for suffrage and equal rights was a fabulous and novel concept, but this successful and glorious movement has been hijacked by women like Nancy Pelosi, Gloria Steinem, and Eve Ensler. One of the most infamous examples of how women have betrayed women is the play The Vagina Monologues, by Ensler. Women in the play scream “vagina” at the top of their lungs in a call for “ending violence against women.” Women, our movement is about choice, and it is your choice to combat this type of feminism and reclaim the original purpose of the movement.
Not entirely controversial right? Perhaps it was my mention of encouraging women to get their concealed carry licenses to arm themselves against violence. Of course, at the mention of the word Glock, someone had this to say:
The last point I’d like to make is related to the Glock. Good luck with that. As a person who’s been down there in the gutter with females, males, and children in ER’s throughout the city…I can tell you that a Glock won’t do you a whole lot of good when the person trying to hurt you is either your husband/boyfriend/family member or a close acquaintance.
Any martial arts expert would be the first to let you know that “putting all your eggs in one basket,” so to speak is a sure path to placing yourself in more, not less, danger. As a brown belt myself, I can tell you that screaming VAGINA in a parking lot with your hands full of shopping bags is a much more effective form of defense than digging through all your belongings in search of a Glock, the way you would search for your cell phone. At any rate, it would be sure to attract attention, which is exactly what you want if someone is attacking you.
Alright, I’ll be the one with a holster for my Glock when I’m out shopping instead of the woman screaming “vagina” to save herself. While screaming “vagina” may certainly attract attention, attention doesn’t always save you.
My mom was mugged in broad daylight, screaming for help, and no one helped her, it drew little attention in the bustling parking lot. In fact, she fought off her assailant and managed to keep her purse and her life.
I’m not going to take the same chance.
The problem with the commentator is that she assumes I will shove my concealed weapon to the bottom of my cute purse and not be ready if I need it. I’m certain I’ll either wear a holster with my weapon or carry a purse that is equipped with the space to add in a holster or some sort of pocket. The same argument can be used against carrying pepper spray. Lucky for women guns are made small enough to be able to carry in a variety of handbags with a variety of options as to how to carry it.
I encourage you to read the other comments on the article. This is at least the sixth time in the past month I’ve been compared to Ann Coulter. How dare I be an outspoken conservative female.
My New Column Out Today in the Independent
November 20, 2007Women have betrayed women, and as a female I must state with pride that the women’s movement got significant rights and advancements for females. The fight for suffrage and equal rights was a fabulous and novel concept, but this successful and glorious movement has been hijacked by women like Nancy Pelosi, Gloria Steinem, and Eve Ensler. One of the most infamous examples of how women have betrayed women is the play The Vagina Monologues, by Ensler. Women in the play scream “vagina” at the top of their lungs in a call for “ending violence against women.” Women, our movement is about choice, and it is your choice to combat this type of feminism and reclaim the original purpose of the movement.
The radical wing of the feminist movement calls abortion the biggest issue facing women rather than national defense, health care or impending taxation because of liberal spending programs. It is to a young conservative’s despair, however, that women like Steinem and Ensler are welcome to college campuses across the nation to perform the Vagina Monologues in an empty promise to save women from violence. Young ladies, I invite you to really “take back the night.”
One of the greatest opportunities I ever had was to intern in the Washington, DC area this summer for a conservative women’s organization called the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute. These savvy women gave me a balanced education in women and gender studies where I read both conservative and liberal feminist texts. The difference in their feminist method, however, was that the genders are equal. Women don’t demand special privileges above men, and it’s alright to want to be a stay-at-home mom or go off to the workforce.
Listen to me on the radio today!
November 14, 2007I’ll be on the Adam McMannus Show this afternoon at 5:30pm central time to discuss the porn club controversy and Dr. Grossman’s upcoming visit to Trinity/UTSA.
You can tune in at www.kslr.com.
Learn more about Dr. Grossman at www.cblpi.org.
Read more here:
http://russandfriends.blogspot.com/2007/11/who-stole-feminism.html
Bumped until tomorrow…details as I get ‘em.
Updates on the Porn Club info:
Lets see… Riley Jackson Starr is her stripper name. Her real name can be found in the Smithson Valley High School 2006 graduating class. Everyone at the school recognizes her national pictures especially ex-band members.
She is telling everyone its a school sponsored activity and then actively soliciting students to make porn movies as well as watch them. This isn’t theory, its fact.
My son was invited to a lingerie porn show last week and politely declined.
She said when she asked to be a school sponsored group, UTSA didn’t even ask what the group did, just that she needed a faculty sponsor, which she hasn’t been able to get.
Surely…
It should be simple. As adults, the administrators should just say no. Think they will?
Nope.
UTSA? Say it isn’t so.
That’s the same thing I said.
Lock and Load
November 13, 2007A recent letter to the editor in my campus paper read as:
Gun advocates conveniently sidestep the subject of experience as well. The claim is that armed students could have gunned down Cho Seung-Hui before his rampage claimed the lives of many students and faculty.
However, I challenge gun advocates to predict the outcome of any given violent situation. It seems much more likely that the tension and anxiety of such a predicament would lead to additional harm if more shooters were introduced.
What if the tragedy at Virginia Tech evolved into a gun-battle with a madman on one side and students on the other?
As a student at UTSA, I can firmly say that if students are allowed to carry guns onto campus, I will feel much more unsafe. We should not allow ourselves to submit to the fear of another campus shooting and react by arming the populous.
The only responsible way to respond to such tragedies is with solidarity: do not allow the campus to become a breeding ground for gun violence.
But that letter got a great response from Allison Aldrich, a junior at Virginia Tech, and fellow conservative activist:
That is wonderful that you don’t trust a student with a firearm to defuse a treacherous scene. Who, then, DO you trust?
Do you trust the police? Because I personally saw the police scrambling around on my campus after the first shootings with no idea where the shooter was headed.
With police response times as they are (and that is in no way their fault) people are ultimately responsible for their own security. I would rather be armed and ready to protect myself, even if it does make people like you a little squeamish to see someone with a gun.
And your idea that the only responsible way to respond to such tragedies is with “solidarity” is about the most absurd claim in your entire article.
What would you have campuses do? Join hands and sing Kumbaya?
There is no way to make 100 percent of the people feel welcome and loved 100 percent of the time. And even if you could, you aren’t accounting for the mentally deranged people who will not respond to you no matter how many hugs you give them.
Hopefully schools like Virginia Tech and UTSA soon realize that instead of protecting students with these kinds of policies, they are taking away the right we have to protect ourselves.
Until then, just remember when you’re deciding what life-threatening policies to follow, it is better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
New P*rn Club at My Alma Mater….
November 13, 2007http://www.ksat.com/video/14579038/index.html?taf=ant
Two students who joked about a p*rn club have decided to make it a reality. “Club X” as it’s being called by Riley Jackson Starr, a stripper and UTSA student, believes that the club will promote safe sex because p*rn actors wear condoms.
Condoms do not equal safe sex.
Dr. Miriam Grossman, a psychiatrist and senior fellow with the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute writes:
Then why, I wonder, do we hear nothing of another widespread behavior associated with malignant tumors of the mouth and throat?
The New England Journal of Medicine recently reported that cancer of the tonsils and base of the tongue are rising annually, and the evidence that oral HPV infection can cause these tumors is “compelling.” Having more than five oral-sex partners increased the risk of these malignancies by 250 percent.
The Journal’s conclusion: “The widespread oral sex practices among adolescents may be a contributing factor in this increase.”
Teens consider oral sex less risky and more acceptable. No doubt that’s why 20 percent of ninth graders and 50 percent of all teens have engaged in it. Ninth graders, by the way, are around 14 years old.
We are all taught since middle school the myth that condoms make sex safe and fine. But that is not the case. Latex is not the magical wand that suddenly removes all psychological side effects from promiscuity and disease from behaviors associated with sex.
Dr. Grossman furthers:
For example, I write about “safer sex” guidelines and the false sense of security they confer. I have seen many students, mostly women, who follow those guidelines religiously and still face a diagnosis of herpes, warts or pregnancy. A high price is paid physically and emotionally, but the dogma of “safer sex” goes unchallenged. The ideology of permissiveness depends on it.
Many e-mails I’ve received from readers are extraordinarily candid. Sarah, for example, wrote: “I met a guy who asked me out. I didn’t really like him at first, but he was nice, so I agreed. Since a bunch of friends had sex with multiple guys and bragged about it, I figured it would be no big deal to sleep with this guy. I did, and suddenly I felt like I couldn’t live without him.”
When Sarah stopped hearing from the fellow a few weeks later, she felt devastated and started drinking heavily. “I’ve hooked up with two other guys I just met, but I can’t forget the first guy,” she wrote. “In your book you explain there’s a biological reason for this, which helps me feel less crazy.”
Sarah was referring to oxytocin, a hormone released during sexual behavior. Research indicates it promotes feelings of attachment and trust. This may partly explain Sarah’s reaction to what she assumed were inconsequential encounters. “I feel lied to by everyone, including my school and magazines, that makes it seem like sex is just another thing to do on the weekend,” Sarah wrote.
There are lots of Sarahs on campus. In fact, at least 40% of sexually active undergrads nationwide have had experiences like Sarah’s. Having grown up watching “Friends” and “Sex and the City,” they arrive on campus believing the PC ideology about sexuality: I can party like Phoebe and Samantha and never pay a price.
Of course, in real life, Phoebe and Samantha would have warts, herpes, abnormal Pap tests, episodes of depression and a few abortions in their history.
Instead of declaring war on hooking up—as we have done on tobacco, alcohol and fast food—most campuses support the PC ideology. Casual sexual behavior is a given; some universities even say OK to group sex and other fringe activities—use latex, get tested and keep “Plan B” on hand, just in case.
This approach places sexual freedom ahead of sexual health. Students ought to be warned of the pain and hazards of fleeting, empty relationships—even with latex. Their physical and emotional vulnerability are critical, but neglected, issues. PC or not, it’s time we acknowledge this crisis and deal with it.
Want a real safe sex lesson?
Hear Dr. Grossman speak at Trinity University on December 4th at 7pm in San Antonio, TX.
For more info or to RSVP email yct_utsa@yahoo.com
Visit our event page on Facebook! Please invite your friends.
