A New York Times front page headline today tells us that “For Young Earners in Big City, Gap Shifts in Women’s Favor.” The big surprise? New York City women between 21 and 30 working full-time made 117% of men’s wages. Everyone is wondering why. Here’s why, for starters… When I did the research for...
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Background: I've previously discussed the Larry Birkhead vs. Anna Nicole Smith/Howard K. Stern/Anna's mother/many others custody battle--to learn more, see my co-authored column Anna Nicole dispute shows system's flaws (Chicago Sun-Times and others, 3/10/07) or click here.
The Birkhead case was an excellent example of the way mothers and their allies are able to...
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Nothing particularly wrong with the cartoon above by Chan Lowe of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, except, as I've noted on numerous occassions, it seems strange that we rarely see a cartoon which implicates a woman in global warming, only men.
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Grandmothers are an important ally in the struggle for shared parenting. I often receive heartbreaking letters from grandmothers and grandfathers who have lost their grandchildren in their sons' divorces. When the custodial parent cuts the ex-spouse out of the children's lives, grandparents are usually cut out, too. Sometimes grandparents in these situations are also...
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Some defendants are fortunate to have respected citizens speak on their behalf, Michael Vick has clowns like Deion “Neon” Sanders come to his defense. “What a dog means to Vick might be a lot different than what he means to you or I. Hold on, don’t start shaking your head just yet. Listen to...
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The lamestream media told you: Nothing, though the dangerous and highly unregulated Internet circulated numerous stories on proposed OSHA regulations that would have a subtle side effect of… closing all federally licensed firearms dealers in America. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: It is hard to imagine a hotter hot button than a brazen...
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Why the delay on this Page Nine? We were closed for two weeks, I was out of town, I’m working on my next book, it rained, and the dog ate my homework, thanks for your understanding. Change the world by taking a reporter shooting — NSSF.org reports: Sara Sedlacek, a reporter for Iowa’s West...
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Joyce Carol Oates is arguably our greatest living woman writer — and one of our greatest living writers period. She has said that she is “very sympathetic with most of the aims of feminism.” Many critics have faulted her for the wealth of violence in her fiction; Oates answered them in an essay entitled...
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1) The modern American “peace movement” is responsible for the deaths of far more people than the U.S.-involved wars its members have protested over the past half century. Why then are so many Americans still convinced that going to war is the worst thing our country can do? 2) Over the course of its...
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“A 23-year-old Nepali man cut off his right hand after morning prayers and offered it to Kali, the Hindu goddess of power, the Annapurna Post daily said on Wednesday.”  Quote from Reuters  My readers, in the enlightened West, will shrug at the nonsense and brutality that still goes on in the name...
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I am tired of apologizing.
I am tired of apologizing to Muslims. It’s not something that’s happened overnight. It’s taken a while, but now, no more apologies.
We, as modern societies, have opened our borders to Muslims. What have we gotten in return? Demands. If we complain, we’re called racists. ...
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