Category: Blogosphere

Kudos to Actress Katherine Heigl For Practicing Responsible Gun Use

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Actress Katherine Heigl – best known for starring in 27 Dresses , Grey’s Anatomy, and The Ugly Truth – recently tweeted about her trip to the gun range to prepare for her role on NBC’s State of Affairs. Headed to the gun range today to practice my shooting skills for #StateofAffairs — Katherine Heigl (@KatieHeigl) January 6, […]

 

‘Unbroken’ Film Channels Respect for the Greatest Generation

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The film “Unbroken” is captivating audiences nationwide and abroad. Since its Christmas day release, the film has generated nearly $88 million in ticket sales. “Unbroken” follows the story of late World War II hero Louis Zamperini, who died last July at age 97. The film is inspired by the namesake bestselling book by Laura Hillenbrand. […]

 

Welcome to the Revamped Counter Cultured!

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Hello, and Happy New Year! We hope you’re liking Counter Cultured’s new layout! Founded in September 2012 by my sister Gabriella and I, Counter Cultured seeks to communicate culturally conservative issues through small government, non-religious arguments and engage millennials to speak out on these issues through different forms of new media. We wanted to fill […]

 

HILARIOUS: Boehner Wishes Merry Christmas – Social Media Responds With Anger

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Where to begin? This is hysterical. You screw the majority of America over… betray your conservative base… put a hit out on the Tea Party… cave to Obama and the Marxists, and give the President everything he wants… and then you wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Hypocrisy, thy name is John Boehner. But hey, his […]

 

Obama Wants to Reclassify Internet As ‘Utility’ So He can More Heavily Regulate It

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember how the Internet was one of the last places of freedom in the world? Well, Obama wants to end that. He wants to reclassify the Internet as a “utility,” like your water or electricity, so that he can clamp down on the freedom we enjoy and he can then place heavy, oppressive regulations on […]

 

Counter Cultured Chats with ‘TokenLibertarianGirl’ Julie Borowski

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by Gabriella Hoffman Here at Counter Cultured, we pride ourselves in being counter cultural against the tide of moral relativism and big government that has plagued our generation and our country. We are a group of millennials interested in dissecting leftist arguments and delivering spicy commentary from a young conservative edge that even libertarians can […]

 

Gun Groups Don’t Degrade Women

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by Gabriella Hoffman The leftist blog Mother Jones recently lashed out at gun groups, specifically the National Rifle Association (NRA), by accusing it of objectifying women and treating them like sex objects.MJ senior editor Mark Follman authored a hit piece titled “How the NRA Degrades and Objectifies Women” to purport the decades’ old lie that Second […]

 

UCSB Killer Elliot Rodger, Not Guns, is to Blame for Massacre

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by Gabriella Hoffman I want to start this article by first extending my thoughts and prayers to the victims of the Isla Vista massacre. I spent summer 2010 in downtown Santa Barbara and will always cherish the time I spent living there. No town should be subjected to this kind of horror. Please join me […]

 

Proposed National Women’s History Museum Fails to Honor All Women

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by: Gabriella Hoffman: The late fashion icon Coco “Gabrielle” Chanel once said, “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”The female establishment continues to hold our gender hostage by refusing to acknowledge and accept our differences. Not every woman is a man-hating, “empowered” pro-abort. Not every woman believes in neutralizing gender differences. Not every woman […]

 

Stand Your Ground Against Gun Grabbers

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by: Gabriella Hoffman:  Gun grabbers masquerading as crusaders for “sensible gun safety” are relentless in their efforts to undermine the Second Amendment. Since the gun control movement is losing steam, they are seeking ways to remain relevant. Recently, former New York City mayor and notorious nanny statist Michael Bloomberg pledged $50 million to defeat the National […]

 

Let’s Use Social Media As a Force for Good

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by Anna Maria Hoffman Social media plays a big role in our lives, and we’re all familiar with its positive and negative effects. We see how social media helps us maintain our friendships, connect with like-minded political people, grow nonprofits we support, remain informed about big news stories, draw awareness to issues we care about, […]

 

18-29 years old? Participate in a religious liberty video!

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Are you 18-29 years old? Do you care about the constant attacks on religious liberty in America? Then, participate in our new video project about religious liberty. To receive instructions, you must fill out everything present in the below submission form. Submission forms that contain false and inaccurate information or don’t fulfill our requirements will […]

 

Obama’s Newest Assault on Free Speech: The So-Called ‘Free Flow of Information Act’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s newest attack on free political speech protects neither journalists nor does it assure any “free flow of information.” In addition to the IRS targeting conservative groups, individuals and their families–and now proposing rules to silence them during elections–and the new FCC plan to police the press by placing so-called “researchers” in newsrooms across the […]

 

Obama Plans To Hand Over Control of the Internet to a “Global Internet Community”

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net Another Friday, another violation of American freedoms and rights. This one is personal. Today, ICANN and the US government announced their intention to relinquish control of the Internet to the UN by 2015. Where’s Congress? Where’s the outrage that should be thunderous over this travesty? From WaPo: U.S. officials announced plans […]

 

Libertarians and Conservatives: Can They Work Together?

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by: Anna Maria Hoffman:  Not too long ago, we received a great question from one of our readers named Thomas. His question addresses the different factions in the GOP and the importance of uniting on principle to achieve victory this year and in 2016. I firmly believe that the many different factions on the right side […]

 

Free At Last: Federal Court Hands Bloggers Legal First Amendment Protections

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

At long last we get a proper ruling on the First Amendment status of bloggers, one affording them the same legal status as “real” journalists; this from the Ninth Circuit Court in California, no less. The Ninth Circuit is often derided as the “Ninth Circus” because its rulings are almost invariably left-wing and anti-American. But […]

 

It’s Possible to Remain Counter Cultural in College

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by: Anna Maria Hoffman One of our readers, a young man, sent us a question about how millennials can stay counter cultural in college. His question mentions Matt Walsh’s recent article: “Monogamy is unnatural,”: which is an excellent email response to a professor who believes that monogamy is undesirable and antiquated. Dear Anna Maria,:  Recently I noticed an […]

 

Gay People Against Redefining Marriage: They Exist

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by: Anna Maria Hoffman Recently, we received a question that highlights a great reality that Dan Savage and Andrew Sullivan fail to acknowledge: there are gay people who are against the government redefining marriage.: The “marriage equality” movement assumes that its targeted audience is all on board with its goals. However, there are gay people who wish […]

 

5 Ways to Be Counter Cultured in 2014

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by: Gabriella Hoffman:  2013 was a great year for counter cultural millennials. More young people: marched for life: and stood for the preborn, while many became disillusioned with “marriage equality.” More: women took up firearms ownership: and rejected so-called birth control “rights.” Best of all, Pajama Boy–the epitome of male effeminacy–became a nationwide laughingstock. This year, the Left will be […]

 

The GOP and Social Issues

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by: Anna Maria Hoffman Recently, we received a question from Michael, one of our readers from the U.K. “What is the best response to people who say the GOP should abandon social issues and focus on the economy/fiscal issues?” Thank you for asking this question, Michael. It’s an important question that needs to be answered well.We […]

 

“Marriage Equality”: Focus On It or Forget It?

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by: Anna Maria Hoffman Recently, we received this question from a woman named Sharon: “Marriage Equality seems to be winning everywhere and not showing signs of slowing down. Should focus be placed on other issues instead?” Thanks Sharon for your question. The answer is no, and I’ll explain why below.First of all, the “marriage equality” movement […]

 

The Dating Culture: How Women Can Help Build Heroic Men

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by: Stephanie Zawada “What happened to men?” is a common topic amongst today’s women. With an flood of goofy television fathers, from sports writer Raymond Barone to stay-at-home Robby Ray Cyrus, portrayed as the societal norm, young men-liberal or conservative, religious or agnostic, 20 or 30-have grown up subconsciously exposed to the dogma that men are […]

 

ARTPOP: Lady Gaga’s Latest Album of Hypersexualized Cacophonies

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by: Anna Maria Hoffman:  Recently, Lady Gaga released her new album ARTPOP. After listening to “Applause,” I decided to listen to the entire album yesterday, which was difficult to sit through. Like her last album, which was notable for its blasphemous, derogatory songs, it: is a tasteless, hardcore libertine “work of art” that perpetuates cultural decay and […]

 

Crazy for You: How to Politely Tell Him You’re Not Interested

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by: Anna Maria Hoffman Nowadays, it seems like there are two types of young men who exist in our dating culture: young men who hesitate to pursue young women they want to be with and young men who think they have struck gold when they haven’t. The latter type are young men who are too forward […]

 

Terry McAuliffe Wants Virginian Women to Submit to Big Government

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by: Gabriella Hoffman Tomorrow is Election Day here in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Many of you have seen me comment, tweet, and write about the gubernatorial race in great detail. (Disclaimer: I’m a Ken Cuccinelli supporter and have been since he launched his campaign in Summer 2012.) This race is important for our state, and its […]

 

Seasons of Gray: A Great Alternative to Many Hollywood Films

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On October 18th,: Seasons of Gray, a film produced by Rick Santorum’s: EchoLight Studios,: came to theaters nationwide. This summer, I had the opportunity to see this amazing film at a private screening. Unlike many films produced by Hollywood these days, this film provides an uplifting message for all Americans and avoids any filthy, degrading themes to successfully […]

 

The Chase: Why Young Men Hesitate to Pursue Counter Cultural Young Women

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by: Anna Maria Hoffman:  These days, our culture is very hypersexualized, constantly presenting an overly sexualized, aggressive woman as the only desirable image a man should have of a woman. This is largely the result of radical feminism being introduced in our society decades ago, which has told women that they must adopt an aggressive, mannish, […]

 

Three Strikes You’re Out: A Call for the Rebirth of American Tradition

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by: Charlotte Sawyer:  Almost three weeks ago, I went to my very first Nats game. My friend Jon: had an extra ticket, so he invited me. I was thrilled to go! I had: been wanting to go to a Nats game since I moved to DC, and this was: the last game of the season. The last baseball game […]