Background: In 2005 feminist gender scholar Peggy Drexler released her anti-father book Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms Are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men. I criticized Drexler and her assertion that lesbian parents are better for boys than straight parents in my columns Are Boys Really Better off Without Fathers? (San...
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It shouldn’t come as a surprise, given that many of the Democrat Presidential candidates don’t even think there’s a war on terror going on.
It looks like the Left is rehashing the “Katrina antiwar strategy”. The newest campaign kicked off this past weekend when Kansas Democrat Governor Kathleen Sebelius claimed that shortages of equipment...
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The San Antonio Express-News article "Baldwin case underscores argument about PAS" (5/4/07) has quotes from three of the leading authorities on Parental Alienation Syndrome--J. Michael Bone, Richard Warshak and Amy J.L. Baker, author of Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties that Bind.
According to the article:
"'Anyone who works in the field of...
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Actor Alec Baldwin has been raked over the coals for a phone call he made to his daughter. It was not a very nice phone call, but then most of us can recall unpleasant conversations with family members. How many of us are called on the carpet by the national media, forced to explain...
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Okay, it’s been a few hours since the Drudge Report linked to audio by “shock jocks” Opie and Anthony’s “XM Outrage.” The audio is described as…
Warning: Extremely Vulgar Language
Shock Jocks Opie and Anthony engage in discussion about forced sex with the Secretary of State. A studio guest begins describing the scenario as the...
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A new study shows that child abuse increases in military families after the military parent deploys. Strangely, the study's authors apparently don't publicly reveal who--the mother or the father--is doing the abusing.
Since most military service personnel are men, the answer is apparent. Nevertheless, from press reports one might get the impression that it is...
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Now we understand that Google has automated ad placement on websites that’s generated by key words.
My recent column on the Flying Imams generated some interesting Google advertisements on the lower left side, considering the picture just to the right of the ads….
I’m still trying to decide if this is funny or not.
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Normally there is a strict double standard with domestic violence--domestic violence by men against women is a terrible crime, whereas domestic violence against men is a joke, or is not taken very seriously.
I guess we're making some progress, because Baltimore Orioles announcer Rick Dempsey (pictured right as a player in the 1970s) is actually in...
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Normally there is a strict double standard with domestic violence--domestic violence by men against women is a terrible crime, whereas domestic violence against men is a joke, or is not taken very seriously.
I guess we're making some progress, because Baltimore Orioles announcer Rick Dempsey (pictured right as a player in the 1970s) is actually...
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Over the years I’ve earned a tidy sum debunking the assorted gender myths that are regularly floated by the media. (Well, maybe I exaggerate about the tidy sum, but you catch my drift.) Did you hear about the latest Urban Legend to bite the dust? Back in 1989 Arlie Hochschild wrote a book called...
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Author Tom Wolfe was recently interviewed by the Financial Times, and had a very interesting take on “stupid” (among many other things) that could cause at least one man excessive ribbing at the next foo-foo liberal cotillion.
“You should have been here when Eisenhower was president; he was not very good in a press conference...
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Published at the turn of the 21st Century in “The Caribbean Express,†a newsmagazine that is no longer in business. Unless otherwise specified, individuals interviewed were residents of Atlanta, Georgia at the time this article was written. The last millennium saw an earth-shattering and historically unprecedented collision between worlds, as the Europeans “discovered†a...
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