Policy consultant Michael Robinson of the California Alliance for Families and Children reports that AB 164, a bill which would have denied thousands of California noncustodial parents the right to receive their children's school records, has been pulled off the floor of the California Assembly.
The bill, which passed the Assembly Judiciary committee by a 9-1...
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The 2008 Election isn’t for another year or so, but you couldn’t tell it by watching the potential candidates. First, Democrats raised a stink about Fox News offering to host a Democrat debate because, according to John “Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful†Edwards, Fox News is…biased! Once Edwards said it, other Democrats jumped...
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John Edwards reminds us about his “two Americas”…
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife reported $29.5 million in assets, including millions of dollars in a hedge fund he worked for part-time.
Part-time… imagine how much he could’ve made if that pesky government job hadn’t kept him so busy.
The couple also reported investment income of...
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The lamestream media told you: Nine U.S. soldiers and 17 Iraqi civilians died when a suicide bomber detonated at a crowded market in the troubled yada yada province today. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: Nine U.S. soldiers and 17 Iraqi civilians were brutally murdered when a radical Islamist waging jihad on the West...
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The lamestream media told you: Nothing. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: Charges against Virginia senator Jim Webb’s assistant, for carrying a sidearm in a bag into a Senate office building, have been quietly dismissed. Prosecutors were not confident they could prove the aide carried the firearm “knowingly,” a required element of the offense....
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for coordinating the federal government’s homeland security communications with all levels of government, the private sector, and the public. In support of its mission, the department has deployed a Web-based information-sharing application — the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) — and operates...
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"There we were: your basic American family. My husband loved his job in foreign relations; I worked from home as a writer so I could be there for our kids, a girl and a boy. Yes, we had the usual quarrels over money and time, but we seemed happy enough, with one exception: My...
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On the last day of the RoboBusiness Conference in Boston, something wonderful happened. Institute of Robotics in Scandinavia (iRobis – Contact) introduced robotic imagination. I don’t mean imaginative robot designs. I mean; robots that imagine. And by imagine, I don’t mean simply creating images in a simulator. I mean imagination as part of reasoning...
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Given the speed at which global warming proponents declare the end of the world when the “average” temperature rises a degree or two in a given week or month, it’s only fair to ask whether this latest news is indication of a global cooling trend:
The average temperature in April 2007 was 51.7 F. This...
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A letter from a reader who was the target of his ex-wife's Parental Alienation campaign:
"After I was divorced from my son's mother, she would constantly use him as a pawn. I remember two instances in particular.
"I was injured on the job once, and as part of the settlement I came into a modest sum of money,...
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If you don’t know who Tommy Thompson is, don’t feel uninformed. He doesn’t rate the media coverage of really important people like Paris Hilton. Like many others, Mr. Thompson is running for president. His background is not unimpressive. He served as Wisconsin’s governor for an unprecedented four terms. He also ran, with a budget...
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I once assumed that Mother’s Day would be immune from the intrusions and calculations of partisan politics. But no longer. This past week House speaker Nancy Pelosi used Mother’s Day to launch her latest salvo against the Iraq war. And while she was at it, she indulged in some back-handed gender stereotyping, making the...
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Originally published as a letter to the editor in the “Atlanta Journal-Constitution.” Ellen Goodman is correct to note that damage to the woman is a relatively weak reason to prohibit abortion as many people come to regret choices they’ve made and that doesn’t make us ban those choices (“On abortion, father doesn’t know best,â€ÂÂ...
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On Friday, May 11, 2007, on FNC’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, I debated my regular “nemesis,†Lis Wiehl, about whether working mothers are “entitled” to flex-time. Watch the videoclip, which ends with viewer mail from Thailand.
Marc Rudov Debates Lis Wiehl
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FNC’s Your World with Neil Cavuto: 05.11.07
“Are Working Mothers Entitled to Flex-Time?â€ÂÂ
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Photographic artist Stephen Shames has put together an excellent collection of fatherhood pictures for George Soros' Open Society Institute. According to Shames:
"Low-income dads are largely absent from public policy discussions. The government, when it intervenes at all, directs its programmatic and financial support toward mothers. When men are discussed, they are often portrayed negativelyâ€â€Âas...
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