News of Note: A study says men earn more when their wives do all the chores...but men with homemaker-wives only earned 3% more. That seems like a very marginal amount, when these guys in effect have a maid, cook, nanny, event planner... I mean, average wages in the US in 2002 were $36, 764 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Three percent of that is $1,102.92, or about $91 per month, or about $3 per day. (If you make $100,000 per year, that still is only $3,000 more per year, $250 per month, or $8 per day, so even then it seems quite miniscule.) I would sort of expect someone who gets all those services for free to be making more than an extra $3 per day. Really, the title of the article should point that out, because the fact that anyone who has someone else do the bulk of the domestic work makes more money is really not a shocker.

Patrick Henry College would probably approve of women staying home, as you can read in the New Yorker profile of this self-proclaimed "Harvard for Homeschoolers. " An excerpt from the founder and President of the school, Michael Farris: "[President and Founder of the school Michael] Farris’s manifesto for the school, “The Joshua Generation,” embraces the Rove principle: the “Moses generation,” he wrote, had “left Egypt,” and now it was time for their children to “take the land.” Farris is the author of nine nonfiction books and three novels, all with Christian themes, and in them he warns against “MTV, Internet porn, abortion, homosexuality, greed and accomplished selfishness”; he calls public schools “godless monstrosities.” (Emphasis added) There are so many other comment-worthy things about this article, I just recommend reading the whole thing.

FYI: The school competes with Bob Jones University, which recently banned students from wearing Abercrombie and Fitch clothing because of the company has "shown an unusual degree of antagonism to the name of Christ and an unusual display of wickedness in their promotions."