Apr
29
So, Fifty Percent of YFZ Incarcerated Teens Have Babies
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Photo: YFZ mother and child According to Child Protective Services (CPS), of the supposed 53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 who at gunpoint were forced from their homes at Yearning For Zion Ranch, 31 either have children or are pregnant. Rod Parker, attorney for the FLDS families, doubts those numbers. “I do […]
Apr
27
Last Man Standing: Saudi Arabia
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Desert Kingdom Holds Fast to Refusing the Woman’s Vote Photo: King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia From America in 1920, to Kuwait as recent as 2005, this world has systematically witnessed nation after nation succumbing to the Curse of 1920, granting the Eveonian (of or characteristic of Eve) practice of women voting. Today, there is only “one […]
Apr
23
The First Woman To Vote: How the Woman With the Little Pail Leavened America
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Photo: Louisa Ann Swain, Laramie, Wyoming It was September 6, 1870, and a little old lady, now seventy, placed a clean apron over her housedress and prepared to go on two important errands that morning. Before she walked out the door, she picked up a little tin pail to take with her. The streets of […]
Apr
22
The Yearning For Zion Hearings: Duplicity in Action
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Photo: CPS investigator Angie Voss At the outset of this entire debacle surrounding the raid of the Yearning For Zion FLDS community, Child Protective Services (CPS) spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner stated, “This is about children who are at imminent risk of harm, children that we believe have been abused and neglected.” This was only the beginning […]
Apr
18
Eldorado Yearning For Zion women experience the most feared words ever spoken: ‘Your children are ours,’ CPS
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Photo: Marie, mother of three boys “The death penalty of family law cases.” This is how the events unfolding for 416 children and their now-separated mothers were described as the State of Texas and Child Protective Services (CPS) mount their largest single attack ever on families. After being forcibly removed from their homes at gunpoint […]
Apr
18
The Eldorado Polygamist Compound Hypocrisy
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Photo: Armed raid of YFZ Ranch You can always know when someone is doing wrong when they have to exaggerate the facts in order to justify their actions, e.g., Waco, Texas, 1993. When you read the accounts of what is taking place surrounding the Yearning For Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, reporters cannot call it […]
Apr
18
Women Are Not Equal to Men
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Photo: Elizabeth Cady Stanton When the first press release went out announcing the publication of The Curse of 1920: The Degradation of Our Nation in the Last 100 Years, I was surprised to receive a reply from Coline Jenkins, the great-great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Of course Stanton is the 19th century suffragist and […]
Apr
18
‘Most Controversial Book of the Year’: ‘The Curse of 1920’
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Finally, conservative commentator Ann Coulter has someone to agree with her after making her outlandish comment regarding her “pipe dream” that we take “away women’s right to vote.” Yes, there is now a book out that espouses this same prescription. With its equally controversial message, it has the intriguing title, “The Curse of 1920,” and […]