Background: There has been a backlash against me in the feminist blogosphere since Pajamas Media advice columnist Dr. Helen Smith interviewed me recently on the subject of the Violence Against Women Act, the way our legal system handles domestic violence, and related issues. The interview is Fighting for Men's Rights (Pajamas Media, 10/8/07). To...
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October 9, 2007 — Western news agencies are quoting an Iraqi government report as demanding that the U.S. security firm Blackwater pay $136 in compensation for the killing of Iraqi civilians in Baghdad last month. The sum would allow $8 million to be granted to each of the families of 17 people killed in...
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October 9, 2007 — Pakistan’s military says scores of pro-Taliban militants have been killed in the past several days of fighting in the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan. The army said in a statement that 150 militants and 45 Pakistani soldiers had died in the fighting. The fighting broke out when militants attacked...
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In an official report issued on Monday, Iraqi authorities demanded that the United States sever all contracts with Blackwater USA, the private military security firm hired by the U.S. State Department to protect its diplomats in Baghdad. The report accuses Blackwater employees of deliberately killing 17 civilians in an incident that took place on...
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A bomb wounded a local politician’s bodyguard in the northern city of Bilbao on Tuesday, in an attack a senior Spanish Interior Ministry official blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA. Spanish media say the injured man is a bodyguard for a town councilor from Spain’s ruling Socialist Party, who was taken to hospital...
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The Pakistani army says that at least 150 to 200 Taliban militants, along with 50 Pakistani troops have been killed in recent battles between al-Qaeda, Taliban fighters and Pakistani troops along the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan in an area known as North Waziristan. At least 20 other troops were injured and at...
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Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani said on Sunday that he supports a U.S. Senate plan to divide Iraq into three separate regions for Shiite Muslims, Sunni Muslims, and Kurds. The plan includes a limited central government in Baghdad which would protect Iraq’s borders and distribute oil revenues among the three regions. The Bush administration and...
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Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani said on Sunday that he supports a U.S. Senate plan to divide Iraq into three separate regions for Shiite Muslims, Sunni Muslims, and Kurds. The plan includes a limited central government in Baghdad which would protect Iraq’s borders and distribute oil revenues among the three regions. The Bush administration and...
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Pajamas Media advice columnist Dr. Helen Smith interviewed me recently on the subject of the Violence Against Women Act, the way our legal system handles domestic violence, and related issues--see Fighting for Men's Rights (Pajamas Media, 10/8/07). Readers can comment on their experiences with domestic violence laws by clicking here.
Several prominent feminist bloggers are...
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“The fashion system must adapt to the reality that there is no strong difference between summer and winter any more . . .” So said Beppe Modenese, founder of Milan Fashion Week, in an interview with the New York Times. Another day, another revelation about the potential for global warming-related chaos and economic disaster....
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One of the greatest offenses a political candidate can perpetrate is abuse of the internet. To a majority of younger voters and an ever-growing number from all age categories, the internet is the counter-weight to managed news, glossy retouched images, and the ever more polished brainwashing techniques that come with every election cycle; a...
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The radical feminist Tahirih Justice Center is poised to get $1M from a special Congressional appropriation obtained for it by two very sleazy congressmen. The bill has passed the House and is now before the Senate. To all those who care about the men’s rights cause, YOU MUST CALL YOUR TWO SENATORS NOW! Not tomorrow or...
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"Another problem with VAWA is the way that it helps fund domestic violence advocacy groups’ political agenda. Whenever we try to push forward legislation to help resolve some of the gross inequities of the family system and to protect the loving bonds children share with their fathers, these groups are out in force in...
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"There is also substantial evidence that Izquierdo’s little girl is being alienated from him...
"According to Miguel Firpi, the girl’s psychologist, the girl 'does not want to go to Cuba…she grinds her teeth at night.' Firpi says the girl tore up a new toy her father had given her. When the girl was angry after...
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