From the Chicago Tribune: More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, a new study says. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.“This is reality-check research,” said the study’s author, Lawrence Finer. “Premarital...
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To,The EditorThe Daily Standard Dear Sir, I am writing in response to the article Dowry Disgrace India’s “kitchen accident” epidemic by Abigail Lavin published in The Daily Standard. This article is a disgrace to journalism because it does not show any signs of proper investigation of facts. Instead it appears to recycle ideas from...
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The lamestream media told you: Five U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, bringing the total in the first week of this month to 12. American newspapers have developed easy-to-recognize graphic sidebars for their routine reporting of U.S. military deaths by Muslim insurgents. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: The lamestream...
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Dear Editor, I am writing in response to an article, “Stove-burst deaths unusually high, Gujarat cops say hands tied†by Sreenivas Janyala, published in your newspaper on December 18, 2006 (http://indianexpress.com/story/18850.html). This article is nonsensical and poorly researched. Domestic violence is a very serious issue and requires great attention. When one assumes that domestic...
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Dear Ms. Chandrima, In your article “What are men scared of?†in The Telegraph (link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061030/asp/calcutta/story_6933770.asp) you said, “But I was just wondering what made the men feel so threatened. There doesn’t seem to be much reason.†People who do not understand why men feel threatened by the Domestic Violence Act will...
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IPC section 498a was originally designed to protect married women from being harassed or subjected to cruelty by husbands and/or their relatives. This law was mainly aimed at curbing dowry harassment. Unfortunately, this law has been misused to harass men and their families rather than protect genuine female victims of harassment. The Supreme Court...
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If you run a small business, this story might as well be headlined, “Prez backs sticking your head in a vice, but only if aspirin provided.” In the realm of government counterproductivity, this is how Bush’s plan would look if it were a rowboat:
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Bush said he has asked his new Pentagon boss to report to him as quickly as possible on plans to enlarge the size of the Army and Marine Corps.
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“Here is the simple meaning in context of the words spoken today by President Bush. Three years ago President Bush announced that he was launching a ‘Crusade’. This is why Muslims refer to Americans as ‘Crusaders’. The Crusades were a thousand years ago when the Pope marched his Christian army across Europe massacring every...
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Robert Bidinotto reports…
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Indian celebrities may have lavish weddings, but their infrequent divorces are tame affairs, often settled out of court to escape the media glare and stem the damage to their public image.
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Under Section 17(1) of the Act, every woman in a domestic relationship shall have the right to reside in the shared household, whether or not she has any right, title or beneficial interest in the same.
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On November 7 American voters took the GOP to the woodshed and gave them a licking they won’t forget for a good long time.  Congressman Mike Pence concluded solemnly, “I believe we did not just lose our Majority, we lost our way. I believe this happened to us because somewhere along the way...
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Thank God McCain-Feingold (better known here as “McCain/Find-gold”) passed and achieved its stated goal of getting the money out of politics, or this would be getting out of control: The chairman of the Federal Election Commission yesterday predicted that 2008 will produce the first $1 billion presidential race and that the $500 million that each...
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The mother convicted of forcing her young children to take seductive nude photographs of her so she could meet guys on the Internet was sentenced Friday to up to four years in state prison.
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 A PRIME EXAMPLE OF USELESS “MEDICAL” RESEARCH But the subtext of it is to demonize McDonalds. It took four medical researchers writing in a prestigious medical journal to establish such amazing facts as the fact that people eat more McDonalds in places that have a McDonalds restaurant! But such “authoritative” findings will be...
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Charles Murray on Immigration Some succinct thoughts from a scholar who is not afraid to call a spade a spade Regarding illegal immigration: 1. Making laws about who gets to become a citizen, under what circumstances, is a legitimate function of the state. 2. Protecting borders is a legitimate function of the state. 3....
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 Antigun NY newspaper: “Dozens of readers have taken issue with The Journal News over its decision to run a list of pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties as part of a wider investigative article. The names of more than 30,000 licensed handgun owners were posted online as part of “Falling Through...
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