In a culture where cold, hard science is king, one doctor is questioning whether the theory of "safe sex" can measure up, as abstinence until marriage. In her pamphlet "Sense and Sexuality: The College Girl's Guide to Real Protection in a Hooked-up World," to be released later this month, Miriam Grossman, M.D., uses her medical training and 10 years' experience as a staff psychiatrist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to expose the physical and mental dangers of the uninhibited sexual climate that dominates the modern college campus.  In the introduction, Grossman describes the tragic and recurring scene in her campus office: a young woman, broken and in crisis, describes the mistakes that have poisoned her dreams.  Dr. Grossman laments: "The worst part?  Many times the crisis was 100 percent preventable.  If only I'd known... she says, if only someone had told me." She didn't know to "wait until marriage?" These are the words, says Dr. Grossman, that young women should never have to say.  Hers is not a pamphlet for "safer sex," but for giving girls the information they need: the "critical health information" that few others will tell them about. One of the most striking   features of this pamphlet is how Dr. Grossman draws her arguments from her authoritative medical

The former top child exploitation prosecutor in the U.S. says one thing has fueled the explosion in the availability of child pornography -- the Internet. Former Vice President Al Gore may not want to claim credit for inventing the Internet after he learns of one of the negative consequences of the information superhighway. "Before there was the Internet -- and [at the time] I was at the Justice Department leading the prosecutions -- we could say with a fair amount of certainty that the number of people involved in child pornography in America was small and getting smaller," says Pat Trueman of the Alliance Defense Fund. "[But] when the Internet came, child pornography boomed...." Trueman was also the former chief child exploitation and obscenity prosecutor for the Justice Department. He states that some individuals who start looking at adult pornography online will be attracted to child pornography. And, according to a study by the Mayo Clinic, as much as 80 percent of those who view child pornography will eventually molest a child, often so that they can trade photos and videos of their crimes with others. Internet fuels crimes against children

When school starts in the fall, many college students will be paying exorbitant tuition to universities that offer a silver platter of worthless courses: classes in Marxism, prostitution (Sociology of the Sex Industry is all the rage), “queer theory,” pornography, and rock and rap music. While some of these classes are easy to spot as non-educational, others masquerade under legitimate-sounding names in mainstream academic departments. As an Ohio University senior who has sat through plenty of college junk courses—many of which were required for graduation—I’ve compiled a list classes for incoming freshmen to avoid. 1. Don’t register for English classes that revolve around the writings of some allegedly oppressed group, such as “Gay and Lesbian Literature” or “Women and Writing.” These classes typically have nothing to do with great, or even good, literature. I once signed up for a Women’s Writing class to fill a requirement. Did we study the classic works of history’s best female authors, such as the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen? Nah. Instead, the class mostly revolved around short pieces by untalented women who whined about America’s “sex/gender system.” The only assigned book was the biography of Assata Shakur, a female Black Panther who fled to Cuba after she was convicted of murdering a cop.  LINK

Following is an interview I had recently with Mackenzie Eaglen, the senior policy analyst for national security with the Heritage Foundation. Matt Friedeman:  We are in the middle of an election cycle, and this is the week where we're dealing with a lot of the issues that I know you appreciate. In this election cycle we talk about spending priorities and America's defense. It's front and center. And I just want to throw some things by you that you can help us understand. Do we spend way too much on defense and things like homeland security? You're an expert on both of those things. Mackenzie Eaglen:  Well, that's a great question. Interestingly, most Americans think we actually do spend too much on defense. But if you ask them what we actually spend, the number is typically 10, 20, 30 times higher. Our U.S. defense spending is at a historical and relative low. It's less than 4% of our gross domestic product or our $14 trillion economy. So it's really a modest burden on the economy. And it's one of those first principles of government. It's the primary responsibility of Congress and the president to provide for the common defense. So really without them doing that robustly and appropriately, all other national priorities fall away. And it's also the guarantor of our national economy and the strength of that economy. So really it's low and it has been even during a time of war. Friedeman:  It's an historic low? Is it dangerously so? Strong military, moral purpose 'inextricably linked'

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