When children of divorce or separation are being abused in a mother's home and the children are taken by the state, they should be placed with their father ASAP, barring a finding of unfitness. One of the problems with the child welfare system is that this is often not the case.
In Choosing Foster Parents over...
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Like Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel, the Fed chairman uses words to mean the opposite of reality. The Wall Street Journal reports that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, speaking at a German central bank conference, stated: …my reading of recent developments is that although some of the details have changed, the fundamental elements...
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"Nobody who knows me well can ever say I wasn't a father to these kids."--former NFL Star Bennie Blades
"They couldn't be any closer"--the mother of one of Blades' children, describing the boy's relationship with Bennie Blades, his father
How can a man pay $1.3 million after-tax dollars in child support and then be arrested...
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"That's my house & that's my car / That's my dog in my back yard / There's the window to the room / Where she lays her pretty head / I planted that tree out by the fence / Not long after we moved in / That's my kids and that's my wife /...
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I have more than one reaction to the now famous audiotape of the interview between Senator Larry Craig and arresting officer Sgt. Dave Karsnia. The first is that Sen. Craig just MIGHT be telling the truth largely because Sgt. Dave Karsnia had such a tedious assignment. He had to hang around that airport restroom...
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I have more than one reaction to the now famous audiotape of the interview between Senator Larry Craig and arresting officer Sgt. Dave Karsnia. The first is that Sen. Craig just MIGHT be telling the truth largely because Sgt. Dave Karsnia had such a tedious assignment. He had to hang around that airport restroom...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The crime of identity theft undermines the basic trust on which our economy depends. When a person takes out an insurance policy, or makes an online purchase, or opens a savings account, he or she must have confidence that personal financial information will be protected and treated with care. Identity...
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September 10, 2007 (RFE/RL) — After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States claimed a series of successes in battling Al-Qaeda: toppling the Taliban in Afghanistan; destroying training bases the Islamic regime had allowed Al-Qaeda to operate there; and arresting key aides to Osama bin Laden, including Khalid Sheik Muhammad, the alleged...
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September 10, 2007 (RFE/RL) — The Taliban said today it is ready for talks with the Afghan government, one day after President Hamid Karzai offered negotiations in a bid to end the ongoing insurgency. However, a purported spokesman for the insurgent group, Yusuf Ahmadi, said that it does not believe Karzai’s suggestion for talks...
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WASHINGTON, September 10, 2007 (RFE/RL) — Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow in foreign-policy studies at the Brookings Institution, a private Washington policy center. Since the war in Iraq began in March 2003, O’Hanlon has frequently criticized the strategy of U.S. President George W. Bush. But on July 30, O’Hanlon and a Brookings colleague,...
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WASHINGTON, September 10, 2007 (RFE/RL) — Over the past four-and-a-half years, Anthony Cordesman has not been reluctant to criticize U.S. President George W. Bush’s Iraq war policies, where he has seen deficiencies. Cordesman is a strategic analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a policy research center in Washington. But in a...
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September 10, 2007 (RFE/RL) — There are conflicting reports today about the fate of some 260 Pakistani troops who were abducted by pro-Taliban militants on August 30 in a tribal region of Pakistan. The Associated Press quotes Pakistani security officials and an unnamed militant as saying the soldiers were handed over to members of...
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By Heather Maher Iraq — New U.S. military commander in Iraq General David Petraeus speaks during the hand over ceremony at the U.S. military Camp Victory in Baghdad, 10Feb2007 General David Petraeus (file photo) (epa) WASHINGTON, September 10, 2007 (RFE/RL) – In front of a packed hearing room on Capitol Hill, the top U.S....
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A debate has been launched by almost 300 people, seeking further research into William Shakespeare and the many masterpieces attributed to him. The group, named the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition, are reluctant to believe that the Bard wrote all of the plays that make him internationally famous, and are keen to unravel the mysteries surrounding...
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A debate has been launched by almost 300 people, seeking further research into William Shakespeare and the many masterpieces attributed to him. The group, named the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition, are reluctant to believe that the Bard wrote all of the plays that make him internationally famous, and are keen to unravel the mysteries surrounding...
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Pope Benedict XVI, speaking on the third final day of a visit to Vienna, Austria, has appealed for renewed respect for Sundays. In the Roman Catholic Church, Sundays are called the Hebrew word Sh?bath (now called the Sabbath), meaning “to rest”. Originally on Saturdays, which is still retained in the Jewish faith, it was...
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According to al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden will release yet another video which is said to contain a will and testament from one of the September 11, 2001 hijackers, Abu Musab Waleed al-Shehri. The second tape was reportedly recorded from the same spot as the video that was released last week. “Coming soon, God willing,...
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Today on Capitol Hill, U.S. Army General David Petraeus presented a long awaited testimony. The number one U.S. commander in Iraq said 30,000 United States troops may be able to leave Iraq by the summer of 2008. The top U.S. diplomat in Iraq, Ambassador Ryan Crocker, also joined General Petraeus in the presentation to...
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The Canadian government is in heated debate regarding a law which allows Muslims to wear veils on election days. It has been decided, amid concerns from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, that the law will not change. PM Harper says a ruling which Elections Canada made in July to allow veils was wrong. Over the...
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