Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had a sobering message for the media on Tuesday about the country’s staggering opioid epidemic – it’s getting worse - and drug overdose is now the leading cause of death among Americans under the age of 50.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
While most of the world hails the blockbuster movie, Wonder Woman, as a new box-office record for a film directed by a woman, the devoted mother who starred in the movie and who was five months pregnant while filming parts of it is a stark reminder to all of us that embracing authentic femininity can put the heroine in all of us.
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The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has issued new “enhanced” policies which are aimed at promoting homosexuality and transgenderism among youth and say that they “will not tolerate” anyone who is not supportive of children’s “right to self-determination of sexual/gender identity.”
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In an age when children as young as eleven are easily encountering misbehavior on line, parenting expert Katharine Hill, the UK director of the Care for the Family charity, discusses eight key tips to keeping kids safe on line. sometimes the problem is that we as parents don't think that the internet can harm our kids, it is silly to see how it is normal for us to worry about the safety of our kids when going to school, getting in their car and using their high back booster seat, but still we have no clue of what the internet can do.
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TNT is planning to air a trashy new “comedy” on Sunday evenings that chronicles the “life and crimes” of five women who work at a Florida nail salon.
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Gallup’s latest Values and Beliefs poll reveals that Americans are becoming more liberal on certain moral issues, such as birth control and sex outside marriage, but are still conservative when it comes to issues such as abortion, pornography, cloning and adultery.
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The American Family Association (AFA) delivered 500,000 more signatures to Target headquarters in Minneapolis this week, which only adds to the headaches this once towering retailer has been experiencing since initiating its dangerous and misguided bath and fitting room policy.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A protest is evolving against a new movie, The Little Hours, which is a so-called American “comedy" based on the story of a servant boy who takes shelter in a very dysfunctional convent where the nuns outdo one another in their haste to seduce him.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The blatantly anti-Catholic ABC series, The Real O’Neals, has been cancelled and will not be returning for a third season.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A new book by psychologist and body image researcher Renee Engeln says we all need to spend less time talking about beauty in order to “put it in its place” behind other more important matters – and mothers, grandmothers and aunts need to quit complaining about their bodies in front of young women!
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