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2010-05-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

Spengler: Wife-beating, sharia, and Western law

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Posted by tipper 2010-05-26 09:45|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Personally I think that discussions of wife beating, female genital mutilation, honor killing and Muhammud's age at marriage to be better topics to discuss than cartoons of Mo.

Posted by lord garth 2010-05-26 11:24|| 2010-05-26 11:24|| Front Page Top

#2 In ancient Rome, the paterfamilias had absolute power over the rest of his household. He could execute his children or sell them into slavery. When he died his authority passed to his nearest male relative. Tiberius Caesar led his private and public life just that way, creating a police state and choosing the eminent Caligula as his successor. Parts of the world have not advanced beyond this type of misrule yet.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-05-26 13:55|| 2010-05-26 13:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Anguper. No argument but consider absolute rule by such women as Messalina or Agrippina. Ain't just men that can't be trusted with absolue power.

Posted by Glusoling McCoy9364 2010-05-26 15:37|| 2010-05-26 15:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Rule under Messalina would have been, uh, noteworthy.

However, had Livia Drusilla been Empress, I suspect her reign would have been exceptionally orderly. She knew how things worked in Rome. For all her bad press, about everybody agreed she was on the ball.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-05-26 16:59|| 2010-05-26 16:59|| Front Page Top

#5 IOW, LEADERSHIP IS EVERYTHING.

* RAMBO > [paraph] THE MIND + HEART/SPIRIT, NOT THE WEAPON.

PATTON versus POTUS CARTER versus MADGE THATCHER versus ..........................@etal, I-HAVE-IN-MY-HAND-A-PAPER-SIGNED-BY-MR. HITLER versies WE-WILL-FIGHT-IN-THE-FIELDS-IN-THE-STREETS-WE WILL-NEVER-SURRENDER.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-26 21:40|| 2010-05-26 21:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Where is the proper Story Pic? Please, add this to the Rantburg news photo collection: Spengler

Posted by OldSpook 2010-05-26 22:38|| 2010-05-26 22:38|| Front Page Top

#7 However, had Livia Drusilla been Empress, I suspect her reign would have been exceptionally orderly. She knew how things worked in Rome. For all her bad press, about everybody agreed she was on the ball.

You mean she wasn't Empress?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-26 23:32|| 2010-05-26 23:32|| Front Page Top

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