A front-page article last week opened with what the editors apparently believed was an important and troubling observation: \”In an Oval Office meeting on Dec. 29, 11 of President Obama’s top advisers stood before him discussing the heated fiscal negotiations. The 10 visible in a White House photo are men.\” The Times helpfully provided the smoking-gun photo—the ten males awkwardly arrayed far across the room from a seated Obama, some in three-quarter view, like beauty contestants. That the president’s press office circulated the image at all is the only newsworthy item in the Times’s otherwise drearily formulaic article. Who would have guessed that the Obama White House still possessed enough lingering innocence regarding gender politics to release such a red flag to the media, apparently under the misimpression that the image simply recorded a meeting of the president’s inner circle rather than provide a searing portrait of the patriarchy in action? The administration and its successors will never make such a mistake again.

Having established the state of national emergency, the Times went on to ring the usual changes on the bean-counting theme, carefully charting each agency’s gender breakdown and quoting \”experts\” in the heretofore unknown field of the \”representation of women in government and business\” on the administration’s dereliction of its female- hiring duties. The fact that the White House itself is virtually half-female did not assuage the Times’s righteous indignation.

The Times offered no examples of a patently superior female candidate being rejected for a second-rate male, beyond citing Michèle Flournoy as a plausible candidate for Secretary of Defense (Obama has nominated Chuck Hagel) and three other names for chief of staff and Treasury Secretary. Flournoy was a think-tank defense wonk whose READ via www.city-journal.org

By Penny Starr

JANUARY 19, 2013

As has been widely reported, an NRA representative recently met with an Obama administration-directed firearm task force led by longtime gun control supporter Vice-President Joe Biden. It came as no surprise that the meeting had little to do with keeping our children safe and much to do with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment. But you may be surprised to know one of the revelations that came out of the meeting.

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I\’m no private investigator… but this could be a clue.

The club web-page is up also… It says details are still to come, but it states the club is open 24hrs a day, and the first Monday of every month is Pizza Night. John\’s Pizza, which is right next door, better talk to someone at the club and get that contract!

CHURCH NOT A CULT

The Lighthouse Baptist Church in Gloucester City over the years has taken some blows from people who know nothing about my pastor or church. We are not a cult, nor do we affiliate with any such religion.

On Monday night, January 9, we had a memorial service for Leroy Bonner \”Candyman.\” He has been a member for over 17 years. His family chose to have a private viewing. We as members did not get to say our goodbyes. 

Our pastor, Jim Doster, decided to have a memorial in honor of Leroy. Some of his family members were informed. We did not intend to cause pain or harm to his family. 

We are Bible believing church. That’s it! I am tired of hearing bad things about our Pastor and church, stop it. We’re not so bad when feeding the hungry, paying rent, giving out clothes, and finding shelter for those in need. 

If you care to find out the truth about my pastor or church, come visit anytime. We welcome you. Other than that, leave my pastor and church alone. 

Thank you, God Bless 

Patricia (Tinker) Ruple, Gloucester City

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