Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) believes that although a wife is supposed to “voluntarily submit” to her husband, she is not inferior to him, according to the Washington Post.

“The wife is to voluntarily submit, just as the husband is to lovingly lead and sacrifice,” Pearce wrote in a December memoir “Just Fly The Plane, Stupid!” that cites the Bible. “The husband’s part is to show up during the times of deep stress, take the leadership role and be accountable for the outcome, blaming no one else.”

Pearce also writes that while the wife is not inferior, she must nevertheless be obedient to her husband.

“The wife’s submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband,” he said in the book.

In the book, Pearce criticizes men who “bully their wives and families” based on the Bible passage that says wives should submit to their husbands.

“Authoritarian control is not given to the husband,” he wrote.

Pearce’s memoir recounts his path from owning a an oil-field service company to becoming a member of Congress, according to the Post.

Both the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee […]

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Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) told conservative activists on Wednesday that women should be forced to carry their babies to term because abortion ‘robs men” of their right to be fathers.

Speaking at the 41st annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., Hartzler opined that ‘abortion hurts everyone.”

‘It ends a beating heart, it leaves emotional wounds with women that they carry for life and it robs men of the privilege of fatherhood,” she said. ‘That’s why we must do everything in our power to end this devastating practice.”

Hartzler asserted that if abortion hadn’t been legalized, ‘perhaps we would have had a cure for cancer now.”

‘Let us not become weary in doing good,” she advised the crowd. ‘For at the proper time, we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

‘We will continue to do all that we can here on Capitol Hill to ensure Americans born and yet to be born enjoy the most basic right to life.”

As Right Wing Watch pointed out, anti-LGBT activist Scott Lively used similar rhetoric, saying that abortion ‘robs” men just earlier this week.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixty-five percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the nation’s system of government and how well it works, the highest percentage in Gallup’s trend since 2001. Dissatisfaction is up five points since last year, and has edged above the previous high from 2012 (64%).

Trend: Americans’ Dissatisfaction With System of Government and Its Effectiveness

These findings are from Gallup’s annual Mood of the Nation poll, conducted Jan. 5-8, 2014. The trend line on this measure shows remarkable change over time, rising from fewer than one in four Americans expressing dissatisfaction in 2002, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to the current situation in which almost two-thirds are dissatisfied.

Republicans and Independents Less Satisfied, Democrats Remain Consistent

Republicans and independents are largely responsible for the overall decrease in satisfaction with government effectiveness in recent years. Satisfaction among Republicans and independents began to wane during President George W. Bush’s final year in office. This may have reflected mounting public dissatisfaction with the Iraq war, coupled with the Democratic takeover of Congress after the 2006 midterm elections. Both groups’ satisfaction plummeted still more between 2008 and 2011, and has since dipped further. Republicans’ satisfaction went from a peak of 79% in 2005 to a low of […]

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A U.K.-based private equity firm has found the largest rare earth oxides deposits in the world in North Korea, according to statements by the company.

The British firm, SRE Minerals Limited, announced the results of its assessment of North Korea’s deposits last month. Most notably, the company said that it estimates that the Jongju deposit holds 216 million tons of rare earth oxides, which includes light rare earth elements (REEs), heavy REEs, and rare earth minerals. According to Voice of America, this would more than double the current global stockpiles of rare earth oxides, which the U.S. Geographical Survey recently estimated at 110 million tons.

Rare earth elements are used in many sophisticated technologies from cell phones to guided missiles. Although they are not especially rare, China controls upwards of 90 percent of the market due to its more lax regulations than Western countries in mining REEs. At times China has shown an inclination to use its near monopoly on REEs to exert leverage over other countries in political disputes.

It has long been known that North Korea sits on top of significant REE reserves, among other minerals, however SRE Minerals’ estimate is significantly higher than previously thought. Theoretically, the discovery could break […]

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The rich truly are different from you and me — they tend to hold seats in Congress.

Our nation purports to be a representative democracy, yet you don’t find many plumbers, mineworkers, dirt farmers, Wal-Mart associates, roofers, beauty parlor operators, taxi drivers, or other “get-the-job-done” Americans among the 535 members of the U.S. House and Senate.

What you do find is an over-supply of lawmakers drawn from a very thin strata of America’s population: Millionaires. In fact, the Center for Responsive Politics reports that last year — for the first time in history — more than half of our senators and House members are in the Millionaires Club. Indeed, the average net worth (the value of what they own minus what they owe) for all lawmakers now totals more than $7 million.

In short, the world in which our “representatives” live is light years from where the majority of people live, and the divide between the governors and the governees is especially stark for the 40 percent of people whose net worth is zero (or, technically, less than zero, […]

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