John Hamel, LCSW, a court-certified batterer treatment provider and author of the book Gender-Inclusive Treatment of Intimate Partner Abuse, has just come out with The Context of Intimate Partner Violence: Three Common Myths--An Annotated Bibliography. In it, Hamel identifies three common myths about Intimate Partner/Domestic Violence:
MYTH #1: Mutual abuse is a rare phenomenon.  Even...
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by Bill Bonner Kurt Richebächer died two weeks ago at his home in Cannes, France, at 88 years old. R.I.P. One of our greatest complaints is the way the modern world pays homage to its dead. When a good man finally has the mud tossed on his face, he is almost instantly forgotten; so...
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Background: On various occasions I've discussed both the 2001 Elian Gonzalez case and the current "Elian Gonzalez II" case. In both cases I support the right of the fathers--Juan Gonzalez in 2001 and Rafael Izquierdo in the current case--to take their children back to Cuba and raise them as they see fit. To learn...
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"What bugs me about divorce...
"When they fight and yell...
"When I have to keep secrets...
"Not getting to see my friends...I miss my dog"
Sharon Shenker's My Family Has Two Houses is a book for kids about divorce. On the page pictured it asks kids to list "Things that bug me about my parents' divorce are..."
I...
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Oprah Winfrey can shill for Barack Obama. She can host glitzy events and collect cash for him. She can campaign with him, maybe even do some commercials for him. What she can’t do is take a candidate who’s clearly not ready for the big leagues and make him a president. Mrs. Obama’s recent revelation...
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Every year thousands of Americans are victimized by a swindle known as the “immigrant abuse scam.†What’s amazing is this shake-down is paid for by the U.S. taxpayer under the guise of stopping domestic violence. One of those persons was Roger Knudson, 64, of Arizona. When he discovered his wife was having an affair,...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The National Association of Former Border Patrol Agents recently released their position paper on all aspects of the illegal immigration issue. Over 250 former Border Patrol members of all ranks signed the document, which received scant mention by the mainstream news media. The position paper addresses amnesty and guest worker...
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September 12, 2007 (RFE/RL) — It’s being dubbed the “father of all bombs” and it is alleged to have a capacity four times more powerful than its U.S. equivalent. Speaking on Russia’s state ORT television channel on September 11, Colonel General Aleksandr Rukshin, the deputy chief of Russia’s armed forces, said the bomb had...
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By Robert Coalson Russia — Federal Financial Monitoring Service Director Viktor Zubkov at the 16th congress of Association of Russian Banks held in the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions, 05Apr2005 The choice of Viktor Zubkov surprised many both in the media and Russian politics (file photo) (TASS) September 12, 2007 (RFE/RL)...
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By Daniel Kimmage unidentified place – An image grab taken from a video released by Al-Qaeda media wing As-Sahab 07 September 2007 shows Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden delivering a speech at an unidentified time and place, undated (AFP) September 11, 2007 (RFE/RL) — Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s 26-minute video pronouncement, released on...
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Officials with the United States Department of Defense have stated that Israeli fighter planes struck at least one target inside Syria a week ago. On September 7, Syrian fighter planes fired upon Israeli jets that were allegedly “dropping ammunition” in the northeastern part of Syria. The actual target, or the extent of the damage...
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A second, 47 minute video that allegedly shows al-Qaeda’s leader Osama bin Laden has aired on the Internet, the six-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Reports are saying that the video only shows an image of bin Laden, much like the ones in the previous tape, but that his voice can be...
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Microsoft launched BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with the great RFID technologies in Taiwan at September 11 (Taipei Time). And Microsoft Taiwan held a launch seminar with “Pulse the Operations with the Communication of Enterprises” topic and invited hardware and software companies introducing the integration between RFID, SOA, and EDI with BizTalk Server 2006 R2....
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According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) a second massive earthquake, magnitude 7.8 struck Indonesia at 6:49 a.m. (local time) . The quakes epicenter was located 185 kilometers (115 miles) south, southeast of Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia with a depth of 10 k.m. (6.2 miles). Just hours ago on September 12, a massive...
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