The American Culture by Cal Thomas

Culture
"I am sympathetic to the story told by Joseph Rocha, who claims in a Washington Post opinion column that he was discharged from the Navy because he is gay, though he says he never told anyone. Rocha says his male colleagues concluded he was gay when he wouldn't laugh at their dirty jokes about women or visit prostitutes with them. Gay service members have a point when they claim a double standard exists for heterosexuals and homosexuals regarding sexual behavior. ... But we are beginning in the wrong place. The place to start is whether citizens of this country, through their elected representatives and the military leaders named by them, have a right to determine what type of service members best serve the interests, safety and security of the United States. I contend we do. The military should not be a test lab. Pressure is building to put female sailors on submarines, along with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people presumably. That many heterosexuals find homosexual behavior immoral and not conducive to unit cohesion is of no concern to the social wrecking crew. What gay activists apparently don't care about is the effect reshaping the military in their image would have on our ability to fight and defend the country, which, after all, is the purpose of a military. ... The gays in the military and gay marriage issues are part of a broader attempt by liberals to restructure society. Social activists despise biblical morality (which heterosexuals could use a little more of, too), traditional values that have been proven to work when tried and numerous other cultural mores. This is not an opinion. It is also not a secret." --columnist Cal Thomas

What? AARP pushing porn?

from the AFA Journal of October, 2009:

What? AARP pushing porn?

A recent MIM newsletter took on the American Association of Retired Persons. What's the problem with AARP? Robert Peters explains:
AARP publications have been running ads for Better Sex for a Lifetime videos which (according to the ads) offer "explicit sexual programming for adults 18 and over." They can ordered from a third-party distributor.
What AARP has not told its members is that Phil Harvey, the man behind the sex video distributor, is also the man behind Adam and Eve, which is one of the biggest commercial distributors of hardcore pornography in the nation.
What AARP also has not told its members is that even if some sexually explicit material can have positive educational value when provided y a competent professional for use by a specific individual, that doesn't mean the same material won't have a detrimental impact on many others if disseminated indiscriminately. The videos can have the same effect as run-of-the-mill hardcore pornography. And for millions of Americans, viewing hardcore pornography is a ruinous addiction.
I am currently working on a project to show how "adult pornography" contributes to sexual abuse of children. One way it contributes is that predators often use "adult pornography" to groom their child victims. In compiling hundreds of articles and court cases on the subject, I was surprised to learn that many predators are seniors, some in their 70s and 80s.
What AARP was not telling its members is that if they went to the Web site listed in the ad to purchase the Better Sex videos, they would be exposed to a smorgasbord of pornographic videos and other sex paraphernalia that one would expect to find in an adult bookstore.
I hasten to add that the Better Sex ad in the July/August 2009 AARP Bulletin does not refer people to the pornographic Web site, but to a different site, which is much cleaner (by comparison). Perhaps the letter that MIM sent to AARP executives in January (with an accompanying news release to the media) complaining about the ads did some good!

........I think the author of the above is Randall Murphree who writes for the AFA Journal