This week, Fathers & Families and I launched a campaign in defense of Rafael Izquierdo, the embattled father in the "Elian Gonzalez II" case in Miami. In that case, Izquierdo, who a Florida court found to be a fit, committed father, is fighting the Florida Department of Children & Families' long, expensive, and highly-publicized...
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On Wednesday, Turkey’s Grand National Assembly voted 507-19 to authorize sending troops into northern Iraq to pursue Kurdish rebels. Although the authorization is valid for one year, Turkish officials made clear that it would not necessarily result in military action. Both the United States and Iraq have recently warned Turkey against such an incursion....
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American preservationists breathed a sigh of relief in August as the Farnsworth House, a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed house widely considered a masterpiece of modern architecture, was spared by flooding along the Fox River in Plano. Storms deluged much of the Midwest, causing rivers throughout the region to overflow their banks. At...
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Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a drug-resistant strain of bacteria, killed nearly 190,000 Americans in 2005 alone, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That is more people than were killed by AIDS in the United States. More than 194,000 Americans were afflicted with MRSA infections in 2005. Although...
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The American satirist Stephen Colbert has announced that he will run for the Presidency of the United States. He made his announcement on his mock news show The Colbert Report. However, Colbert said that he would only run in his home state of South Carolina as a favorite son. He also said that he...
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Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for 2007. According to the Nobel Foundation, the award was given “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to...
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The other day I had the pleasure of watching the classic Disney animated film of Cinderella. This got me to thinking about the meanings of the famous fairy tale. The wicked stepmother became a negative archetype for good reason. Throughout most of human history, childbirth was extremely dangerous. Mothers often died giving birth. Children...
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Rafael Izquierdo, the embattled father in the "Elian Gonzalez II" case in Miami, yesterday expressed anger over the impact Florida Department of Children & Families' new legal appeal will have on his daughter's schooling. He explained:
"I don't want her to fail second grade," he said. "I thought everything was going to be a lot...
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"The world is seeing nobody can just take a child away from you."--embattled Cuban father Rafael Izquierdo (pictured)
Embattled Cuban father Rafael Izquierdo has publicly said very little during his long struggle to get his daughter back from the Florida Department of Children & Families, but what he said yesterday spoke volumes. In the outrageous...
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My mom had a succinct (but oh-so-scathing) saying for the times when us kids would attempt to put off bad behavior on one of our compatriots: “Who’s worse – the fool, or the fool who follows him?†Ouch. I was having a conversation of sorts with an old friend whose politics are very different...
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One area of keen interest for divorced fathers is how alienated children reunite with the parent who was the target of the Parental Alienation campaign. Sadly, sometimes this reunification never occurs. Many times it does, but only years later.
A few years ago I did a His Side with Glenn Sacks show called Hope for...
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Soon after my article “Dobson is Right” was published, I became aware that the founder and chairman of Focus on the Family is, “as an individual,” breaking ranks with a resolution he is involved with as a leader. There can be no mistake that “more than 50 pro-family leaders” met in Salt Lake City...
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When the Murambatsvina operation was mounted by the government of Zimbabwe in 2005 it was directed at those who occupied illegal dwellings in urban areas and who operated informal businesses to support themselves and their families. According to the United Nations subsequent report on this operation 700 000 people were rendered homeless and some...
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Controversy erupted after more than 50 pro-family leaders met in Salt Lake City on September 30th and resolved almost unanimously to support “third-party” candidates if the convictions of neither Republicans nor Democrats fell in line with theirs. To some, this stance seemed like political heresy and the event was quickly condemned. The worst condemnations...
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