Many of my readers are fathers who've been locked out of their children's lives after a divorce or separation. That's why we fatherhood/shared parenting advocates are always thrilled when some SOB who does enjoy joint custody mistreats his children.
Today's case in point, Lucien Hoffman, who (allegedly) left his two year-old daughter in a hot car for...
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Republican Fred Thompson is expected to make his US Presidential bid announcement on Jay Leno’s The Tonight Show Wednesday, September 5th. The appearance will mean Thompson will miss the September 4 Republican debate in New Hampshire. Thompson’s adviser Mary Matalin, appearing Sunday’s Meet The Press, said the decision was made because Leno had more...
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Peace talks between between Sunnis and Iraqi Shi’ites in Finland aimed at ending sectarian violence in Iraq have ended. The talks, organized by Finnish non-profit NGO WCrisis Management Initiative (CMI), took place over four days in a secret location in Finland. The discussions were aimed at demonstrating to the two sides what lessons could...
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At the annual European Society of Cardiology Summit in Vienna, Austria, a female cardiologist has suffered a heart attack in front of her colleagues. The 46-year-old Italian woman collapsed on Sunday and was immediately revived by one of her fellow heart specialists. The woman was transferred to the general hospital in Vienna, were she...
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Andy Strangeway, 42, a painter and decorator from Yorkshire, has completed his quest to sleep on every Scottish island with an area of over 40 hectares. The quest took four years, and was completed on September 3, after Strangeway spent the night on the uninhabited island of Soay in the St. Kilda archipelago. “I...
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Andy Strangeway, 42, a painter and decorator from Yorkshire, has completed his quest to sleep on every Scottish island with an area of over 40 hectares. The quest took four years, and was completed on September 3, after Strangeway spent the night on the uninhabited island of Soay in the St. Kilda archipelago. “I...
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A million toads caused a traffic jam on Inland Island Highway, between Campbell River and Courtney, British Columbia on Saturday. Several years ago, after another toad incident, a 45-centimetre plastic fence, built east of the highway by the Ministry of Transportation, where the toads come from, to guide them safely under the highway into...
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According to media agencies in North Korea, the United States will remove N. Korea from their list of countries that sponsor terrorism and lift some sanctions against the country. “The U.S. decided to take such political and economic measures for compensation as delisting the DPRK as a terrorism sponsor and lift all sanctions,” said...
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September 3, 2007 Athletics bump Tigers in 10 * Athletics 8, Tigers 7, 10 inn: In a game that the Tigers led, 7-0, the Athletics came back, scoring two runs in the 9th inning to tie the game, and winning the game in the 10th inning with a bloop single by Jack Hannahan. Yorman...
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Freelance journalist Gabriel Pollard interviewed John Ballinger who has what is believed to be the first unlocked iPhone working in New Zealand on the Vodafone New Zealand GSM network. Ballinger, director of Bluespark Ltd., managed to unlock the iPhone without having to solder anything. This is unlike George Hotz, the first person to unlock...
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Democracy in America, vol.2, p.8
AT different periods dogmatical belief is more or less abundant. It arises in different ways, and it may change its object or its form; but under no circumstances will dogmatical belief cease to exist, or, in other words, men will never cease to entertain some implicit opinions without trying them...
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One of the best songs about the sacrifices fathers make to support their families is Billy Joel's "The Downeaster 'Alexa'." The song is about a working-class fisherman who works hard and sacrifices at his dangerous job because "I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes...I've got people back on land who count on...
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I recently stumbled upon an old column of mine which discusses the sacrifices which breadwinner dads--particularly blue collar dads--make for their families. In it I included a few stories from when I did construction work in my mid-20s. They serve to demonstrate the special hardships that blue-collar men endure to provide for their families, and...
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I was reading the news last night, when this headline caught my eye: As Republican Hypocrisy Party Tanks, Conservatives Lean Libertarian Yesterday, MSNBC news network, Chris Mattews introduced a daily newspaper editor from one of the “most conservative papers in America.” She corrected him, saying their editorial page was conservative, and then corrected herself,...
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Beware the Big-Man syndrome By Duncan du Bois As Africa’s history shows, Big Man-type rule invariably accedes to power under such conditions, writes DUNCAN DU BOIS The solidarity shown by SADC leaders with the tyrant Robert Mugabe at the recent SADC summit in Lusaka not only affirmed the stricken historical path Africa continues to...
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 "I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard...
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