Earlier this week, numerous feminist blogs were proclaiming the April Griffin custody case to be the new "Woman victimized by sexist family courts" outrage (aka "Custody-visitation scandal case"). Past ones have included Genia Shockome, Sadia Loeliger, Bridget Marks, and others.
According to the feminist website MotherWarrior, which is leading the charge for Griffin, she "has...
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The Irony of Evolution
The well-deserved demise this week of former district attorney Michael Nifong, who almost ruined the lives of three innocent Duke University lacrosse players, gave new hope to American men. Postpone the celebration, guys. The maker of Trojan condoms just launched a new campaign, called “evolve,” that portrays men, literally, as pigs.
While...
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Now that the former DA Mike Nifong can reflect in the humiliation he deserves, while looking over his shoulder for the lawsuits and possible criminal charges he also well deserves, there is much unfinished business.
According to a March 29, 2006 USA Today report, a "flier being distributed outside Duke's student union Wednesday night looked...
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We have a hard time keeping the Ten Commandments, and now the Vatican has issued ten more commandments.  The Vatican’s “Ten Commandments” for drivers: 1: You shall not kill. (Isn’t this one of the original commandments? I think everybody would agree that committing vehicle manslaughter is a mortal sin.) 2: The road shall...
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One of my readers in Holland recently brought the new, anti-male ad campaign by Sprox, the Belgian shoe company, to my attention. Sprox believes men are inferior to women, and isn't shy about saying so. It's slogan is "Superior Shoes for the Superior Sex," and it's promotional video explains:
"Women are the strong sex. Women...
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Inspired by the paper maché figure that protesters paraded about Tiananmen Square in 1989, the 10-foot bronze statue is modest by any standard. These words are inscribed at the base: “To the more than one hundred million victims of communism and to those who love liberty.†Last week 400 persons gathered in Washington DC...
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Christina Hoff Sommers offers a compelling assessment of current feminism in her Sunday, June 17, 2007, Dallas Morning News op-ed piece entitled The Problem with American Feminists. Seldom does the public get an insider’s revelation of the true nature of what young women are being taught by those now controlling our institutions of higher...
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My new co-authored column, Most Illinois 'Deadbeats' Aren't 'Reprehensible' -- They're Broke (Chicago Daily Southtown, 6/20/07), criticizes "Operation Father's Pay"--Father's Day week police raids against so-called "deadbeat dads." The column, which is posted below, was written as a response to Deadbeat dads owe big (Chicago Daily Southtown, 6/18/07).
To write a Letter to the Editor of...
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When I first heard that Hillary Clinton had finally chosen a campaign song, and it was sung by Celine Dion, I figured that the theme song from the movie Titanic was the perfect choice. It wasn’t that song, however, and Hillary lost any opportunity she had to convince me that she was going to...
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Forget about your soccer moms, security moms and NASCAR dads. If Hillary Clinton has her way, 2008 will be the year of women with needs. According to a campaign spokesperson, New York’s junior senator is a veritable magnet for “women with needs.†The theme emerged after a recent Washington Post – ABC News poll...
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Yesterday I was down near the Botswana border trying to locate the scene of the killing of two MDC activists. We called in at a small store and spoke to the people there to ask if they had heard anything. I spotted some bread and asked what the price was. “30 000″ they replied...
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I had a tremendously interesting experience early last week when I appeared on a media venue broadcasted out of the Northeastern U.S. It was a Christian-leaning afrocentric radio station with a blowtorch of a signal that reaches from Ontario to parts of Pennsylvania. I’d been approached by one of the hosts to discuss –...
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An entire cottage industry has grown up around the do-it-yourselfer and a large part of this industry is devoted to the person who wants to fix up his or her own house. Buying a dump on the cheap and making it better than new sounds like a good financial deal followed by a worthwhile...
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While posing as a diehard conservative, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) was fingered by well-known watchdog group Judicial Watch for a $550,000 allocation hidden in a transportation bill that would fund an obscure North Carolina teapot museum. According to Judicial Watch, in its online publication Corruption Chronicles, politicians in both major political parties bring home...
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John R. Lott’s Wall Street Journal article, titled “It’s Not Enough to Be ‘Wanted’, imperfectly points out the essential dynamics underlying how Roe v. Wade led to rampant illegitimacy. But, this is only a rest stop half-way to Peoria. Briefly, Lott explains how Roe may have led to lax attitudes towards premarital sex by...
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