The Rutgers women’s basketball team had a Cinderella season, advancing to the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball National Championship game. The Rutgers players, predominately African American, are not only superb athletes, but excellent students. The average person would describe the Rutgers women’s basketball team as inspiring, gifted and talented.  Don Imus, the shock...
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Pants on Fire
Here we go, again. College campus. Three male athletes. One anonymous woman. Delayed rape accusation. Dubious circumstances. Presumed male guilt. Ruined reputations.
Last week, an 18-year-old, nameless, faceless woman leveled rape accusations against three male football players at the University of Minnesota. This woman, not a student at the university, waited two days...
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I am partnering with Parental Alienation expert J. Michael Bone, Ph.D., John Curtis, Ph.D., author of The Business of Love, and Debby Hirschhorn Ph.D., author of The Secret Marriage Killer: Eradicating Verbal and Emotional Abuse, in the new ‘Being a Better Dad’ Teleseminar series.
The seminar is a convenient way for men to learn vital...
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And it’s getting harder to tell the two political parties apart anymore…
Florida’s Republican Governor is not only moving to restore voting rights to convicts, but he’s pushing to allow them to regain the right to vote quickly and without a review or waiting period.
Meanwhile, our Republican President continues to lobby for amnesty for illegal...
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One of the most common and pernicious anti-male myths in popular culture is the myth of the lazy husband. As I’ve noted before, research shows that when both work outside the home and inside the home are properly considered, it is clear that men do at least as much as women.
The new article...
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The New York Times isn’t normally terribly prescient when it comes to gender issues and fathers’ issues, but Times reporter Leslie Kaufman gets it right in her new article In Custody Fights, a Hurdle for the Poor (4/8/07). Kaufman writes:
“Custody battles are rarely gentle affairs, but if you are poor, such fights can carry...
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Just because she has assembled a well-oiled political machine and holds a commanding lead over the rest of the pack, doesn’t mean Hillary Clinton should go out and order the invitation cards for the inauguration ball. No, not by a long shot. The true measure of Mrs. Clinton’s presidential stock is whether she can...
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Everett woman posed as boy, abused girl, police say
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For the past seven years US markets have experienced the ripple effects of the tech sector’s correction in 2000. The latest waves have been in the slow decline of the housing market and, now, in the weakening of the commercial real estate market. While economists can’t always explain the timing of these ripple effects,...
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For a country that spent the better part of the 20th century loathing capitalists, Russia’s doing a heck of a job of recovering by raking in money from the Western uber-wealthy dying to go into orbit.
Charles Simonyi, a billionaire who is one of the co-founders of Microsoft, became the world’s fifth space tourist after...
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ABC News recently reported that a Rhode Island public school district superintendent named William Rearick demanded that those organizing the appearance of an Easter Bunny as Tiverton Middle School rename the performer Peter Rabbit “to be conscious of other people’s backgrounds and traditions.†A state legislator has responded by introducing an “Easter Bunny Act.â€ÂÂ...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Haniffa Bin Osman 55, a citizen of the Republic of Singapore, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and money laundering.   According to the plea agreement, from April to Sept. 29, 2006, Osman conspired with Haji Subandi and Erick Wotulo to...
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A reader sent me this touching video clip of a Seattle father’s reunion with his son. Ensign Bill Hawes, home from service in Iraq, snuck into his little son’s kindergarten class, which had been sending him letters overseas. The little boy races to his father and sobs ”I love you daddy” when daddy scoops him up.ÂÂÂ
See the video below. Have...
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