Major issues can rise from minor things, and so it is with the Masters golf tournament of a week and a half ago. The winner, unheralded Zach Johnson, stood down blustery winds, benumbing temperatures and the closest thing to a force of nature in golf, Tiger Woods, to win the first major tournament of...
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CONFIDENTIAL drug company documents appearing to suggest a link between a popular anti-depressant and suicide and violence have been handed to authorities in the United States, it emerged today. The British Medical Journal (BMJ) received the documents concerning the drug fluoxetine (Prozac) from an anonymous source and has now turned them over to the...
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Background: Last month we launched our Campaign Against Anti-Male Advertising which focused on the competition for a $150 million advertising contract from Volvo. The agency which is the apparent favorite to win the contract is Arnold Worldwide, recently the creator of numerous anti-male commercials. We asked Volvo not to award the contract to Arnold...
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Here’s the audio of a speech Barack Obama gave today discussing the Virginia Tech massacre:
“There’s also another kind of violence that we’re going to have to think about. It’s not necessarily the physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways,” he said, and goes on to catalogue other...
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I wondered how long we would have to wait before President Bush was blamed for yesterday’s massacre at Virginia Tech.
Wait no more…
“At least one of the weapons used by the shooter is believed, as we said, to be a nine millimeter semi-automatic pistol, which would be like this one, with a clip designed to...
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What a wonderful ad for www.todayseducation.com. I’m not sure what the guy’s sin is–I guess he should be awake and she should be sleeping. Maybe if he were up washing dishes and she were asleep then it would be OK, at least for a little while…
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Beginning my third year at MENS NEWS DAILY is quite a milestone for me.
I have written about many adversities to our way of life, primarily threats to the American Household, and I’m glad for the opportunity here to speak to these issues.
I am also very pleased to announce the launch of the...
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“One man’s vulgarity is another man’s lyric,” indicated a Supreme Court justice over three decades ago. (1)
The justice said it, and many have parroted it ever since under the supposition that something very clever, very liberating, very American had been said.
Building on this ‘maxim,’ the contention today is that consistent with the right...
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“One man’s vulgarity is another man’s lyric,” indicated a Supreme Court justice over three decades ago. (1)
The justice said it, and many have parroted it ever since under the supposition that something very clever, very liberating, very American had been said.
Building on this ‘maxim,’ the contention today is that consistent with the right...
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I have mixed emotions about the story Drunk women can consent to sex, judges rule (UK Telegraph, 3/27/07). I certainly believe that intoxicated women are quite capable of giving meaningful consent to sex, and I think it’s a terrible that when two people get drunk and have sex, we pretend that it’s rape and...
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From Signe Wilkinson of the Philadelphia Daily News
Those lazy men again. A quiz question:
1) Which gender is often portrayed in the media and in commercials as being lazy at work?
a) The gender which works the longest hours at the most dangerous demanding jobs.
b) The gender which doesn’t.
Answer: B
2) When all work is considered–work inside...
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The issue of gun control is now once again arising in the wake of the horrible crime that was committed at Virginia Tech.
There are only a couple of points I’d like to meander about, and the rest can be handled in the coming days.
First, as I always say, “illegal is as illegal does.”...
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According to the website Holiday Insights, we recently passed Ex Spouse Day which is on April 14. The website wryly notes, “Someone must have been kidding when they created this day, right? Could anyone actually want to recognize their Ex? Most of us want to forget them.†The piece continues somewhat apologetically, “We will...
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Background: My new co-authored column, Child Support System Ignores Dads’ Economic Reality (Chicago Sun-Times, 4/14/07), responds to the Sun-Times’ father-bashing news story State’s deadbeat dads owe $3 billion–Deadbeat parents owe $3 billion in Illinois alone, $100 billion nationwide. When parents refuse to honor child support, their kids pay. And so do you (4/8/07).
The...
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Humility and benevolence must take place of pride and overweening selfishness. Reason, rising above these mists, will then discover to us, that we cannot be true to ourselves, without being true to others - that to love our neighbors as ourselves, is to love ourselves in the best manner - that to give, is...
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Humility and benevolence must take place of pride and overweening selfishness. Reason, rising above these mists, will then discover to us, that we cannot be true to ourselves, without being true to others - that to love our neighbors as ourselves, is to love ourselves in the best manner - that to give, is...
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