The Michigan National Organization for Women just put out an Action Alert opposing HB 4564, the Michigan Shared Parenting Bill. NOW writes:
"Joint custody is more expensive, as it presupposes the maintenance of two households with sufficient room and necessities for the children."
In other words, it's more economically efficient for the child to live with mom...
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“Snatched from the Jaws of Victory: Feminism Then and Now” By PAULA ROTHENBERG Exellent provocative piece from a second-wave feminist asking the basic question — have women been duped by a co-opted version of contemporary feminism? “ … shouldn’t women be able to dress they way they want? The answer seems unambiguous. Of course...
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*Her first word was not “mama” or “dadda”, but “baby daddy”  *When her Mom asked Britney how high she could count, she burst out laughing when she got to 69.  *Most kids tell their playmates, “let’s play doctor”, Britney would beg her little buddies, “Let’s play gynecologist, I’ll be the patient.”  ...
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From CBS' City Takes Down Billboard That Glamorized Divorce (5/9/07):
"Life, it appears, isn't the only thing that's short. A racy billboard proclaiming "Life's short. Get a divorce." was removed from its downtown perch on Tuesday, only one week after the steamy advertisement was posted.
"Bookended by pictures of a partially clothed man and woman, the...
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Al Sharpton has anointed himself as the arbiter of morality and political correctness.  Most Americans consider Sharpton a pompous blowhard, but unfortunately the black community and the media genuflect before this transparent con artist.  I won’t waste any time appealing to the African American community to stop legitimizing Sharpton. Blacks have a...
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I’m willing to bet liberals don’t raise the “separation of church and state” myth with this use of the Church to advance a political agenda.
Churches in five big U.S. cities plan to protect illegal immigrants from deportation, offering their buildings as sanctuary if need be, as they pressure lawmakers to create a path to...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP A 17-month FBI undercover investigation has led to charges against six men who allegedly tried to amass a small arsenal for a planned attack on soldiers at the US Army base at Fort Dix in New Jersey. The six menâ€â€Âincluding three residing in the US illegallyâ€â€Âwere arrested Monday night by...
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The satirical article Majority Of Parents Abuse Children, Children Report (The Onion, 4/13/07) has a lot of truth to it. One of the subtexts of the article is a criticism of our society's increasing aversion to parental discipline and limit setting. These are, of course, associated with fathers more than mothers, which is one...
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Jerry Schaefer of Long Beach, CA didn't like my recent co-authored column “CA Legislators Vote to Protect Pets from Domestic Violence but Deny Services to Male DV Victims†(Long Beach Press-Telegram, 4/21/07), which opposes a law recently passed by the California Senate Judiciary Committee. He recently wrote a letter to the Press-Telegram--published, remarkably--apparently cheering women who...
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Our illustrious former President, Bill Clinton, wrote all the clues for a crossword puzzle which ran over the weekend on the New York Times website.
A five-letter word for “wife” that starts with a “b” and ends with an “h”?
In all seriousness though, the 38-across clue is “cockney greeting,” and my answer of “Hi, Monica”...
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In researching “Denise Noe’s Lizzie Whittlings,†my regular column in “The Hatchet: The Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies,†I recently purchased a book about the case called “The Girl in the House of Hate†by Charles and Louise Samuels. It was originally published in 1953, something that shows in the title. Like those writing...
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