In Neal’s previous post, he shared how his wife being the primary breadwinner early on in their marriage changed the dynamics of their relationship. In this post I’ll attempt to look at this difficult subject from the woman’s perspective. The topic of breadwinners encompasses much more than just relational dynamics and social norms. This is …
Perspective On Breadwinning – View From The FemaleRead More »
The debate over the value of a college education has intensified of late. This is partly due to rising education costs and high unemployment rates, but also to President Obama’s reboot of his “Don’t Double My Rate” plan to circumvent July’s increase of student loan interest rates. Last week the Center on Education and the Workforce …
College Degrees and Unemployment: It’s Your Major, StupidRead More »
A recent study by the Pew Research Center showed that 25% of all households with children were led by single moms. The same study showed that in 40% of all households with children, the woman was the top earner. In today’s Washington Post, Chris Cilizza writes that this can be a problem for Republicans What …
Potential customers of the latest gaming consoles from Sony and Microsoft are concerned about the impact the games and whether or not users will own them or merely be licensing them as they currently do with computer software. At the heart of the issue in both cases is whether gamers will be allowed to play …
Outrageous. And guess who’s name comes up? At the same time the Internal Revenue Service was targeting tea-party groups, the tax agency took the unusual step of trying to impose gift taxes on donors to a prominent conservative advocacy group formed in 2007 to build support for PresidentGeorge W. Bush‘s Iraq troop surge. The …
We made the announcement on the podcast this past week, but we also wanted to announce it on the blog. We are happy to welcome Anna Morris (aka @im0verit) to the Pocket Full of Liberty Team! Anna has written two posts for PFoL as a guest prior to joining us full time. She addressed the …
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If you like Tom Brokaw and hate Eric Holder…this one’s for you. It looks like the writing is on the wall for the Attorney General. We’ve seen this before. The White House has thrown so many people under the bus in the last few years that we can see it coming a mile away. The …
No, this is not from The Onion: Hunter Spanjer says his name with a certain special hand gesture, but at just three and a half years old, he may have to change it. “He’s deaf, and his name sign, they say, is a violation of their weapons policy,” explained Hunter’s father, Brian Spanjer. …
Weapons Grade Stupid: Deaf Boys Name Sign Violates Weapons PolicyRead More »
It sure seems to me somebody in the federal government thinks so: A U.S. attorney in Tennessee is reportedly vowing to use federal civil rights statutes to clamp down on offensive and inflammatory speech about Islam. Bill Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, was quoted by the Tullahoma News this week suggesting that …