My recent His Side with Glenn Sacks radio commentary for KLAA AM 830 in Los Angeles criticizes a Texas Proposition which will greatly erode the rights of those accused of domestic violence. The measure grants judges the ability to hold without bail those accused of nonviolent, trivial, or accidental violations of temporary restraining orders.
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By Terri Lynn Tersak , Teri Stoddard and Dave Heleniak There is a plethora of examples where the victims of our lawless courts acknowledge the subhuman status of non-custodial parents (NCP). They use various terms to describe those who are denied their civil and/or human rights and their state of being (the conditions a...
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Background: TV often portrays men and fathers as idiots--to watch some videos of "dad as idiot" TV commercials, click here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, or here.
 As Bill Maher says, "Look at television...the wife is always brilliant and ethereal and right about everything and the husband is always just a...
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Walt Disney Resorts in Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo will eliminate trans fats from all food served at the parks, by 2009. This move comes in addition to ridding foods of trans fats at Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World in Florida, by the end of this calendar year. The American parks began...
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Walt Disney Resorts in Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo will eliminate trans fats from all food served at the parks, by 2009. This move comes in addition to ridding foods of trans fats at Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World in Florida, by the end of this calendar year. The American parks began...
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Some things never change. The Los Angeles Times last week reported that in New York City Hillary Clinton brings fresh meaning to Chinese take out. Her campaign’s hauling in bundles of cash from impoverished Chinese areas. Dishwashers, waiters, street vendors, and other folks not normally considered fat cats are generously donating. Said a $1,000...
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Britney Spears will not appear on the legendary American children’s program Sesame Street. When contacted today, Sesame Workshop press representative Ray Hammerman replied that the rumors were: not true, there are no plans to have her on as a guest. Sesame Workshop Vice President of Corporate Communications Ellen Lewis backed up this statement, adding...
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At least 15 civilians, including women and children, have been killed in a bus explosion in Mogadishu’s northern district of Yaqshiid. The explosion occurred when the bus drove over an IED (improvised explosive device) or landmine while traveling to the Suuqa Holaha district in northern Mogadishu on Wednesday. It is not known who was...
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Myanmar opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi has left her house arrest to meet with government official. Witnesses have observed a caravan of vehicles leaving the home of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Reports say that she is meeting with a liaison minister, U Aung Kyi, who was recently appointed by Senior General...
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In the midst of accusations of wrongdoing, the Oral Roberts University (ORU) Board of Regents Chairman George Pearsons said the school owes over $55 million in debt. According to IRS records, ORU had about $76 million in revenue in 2005, and its operating budget for 2007-2008 was over $82 million. One former regent member...
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Armed Chinese police have surrounded and sealed off two monasteries in Tibet after monks began to celebrate the Dalai Lama’s honor of receiving the United States Congressional Gold Medal. At least 100 monks are reported to be held inside the Drepung monastery and its not known if any have been injured or arrested. Earlier,...
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Lisa Coolett, a woman who lives in Christchurch, New Zealand has found a one centimeter wide pebble that supposedly shows the image of the Virgin Mary. She found the pebble while walking on a beach on the South Island of New Zealand. Since finding the pebble, Coolett has stated that she has had some...
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James Lipton, the host of Inside the Actors Studio, mentions in his recently released memoir, Inside Inside, that he once worked as a pimp when he was living in France. “This was when I was very very young, living in Paris, penniless, unable to get any kind of working permit,” said Lipton. “I had...
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James Lipton, the host of Inside the Actors Studio, mentions in his recently released memoir, Inside Inside, that he once worked as a pimp when he was living in France. “This was when I was very very young, living in Paris, penniless, unable to get any kind of working permit,” said Lipton. “I had...
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Scientists say that floating inside Saturn’s rings are pieces of what they believe to be a “shattered moon,” according to images captured by NASA’s spacecraft Cassini–Huygens. The scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder looked at the images which were captured in 2004, and found what they call “moonlets” or large pieces ranging...
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Scientists say that floating inside Saturn’s rings are pieces of what they believe to be a “shattered moon,” according to images captured by NASA’s spacecraft Cassini–Huygens. The scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder looked at the images which were captured in 2004, and found what they call “moonlets” or large pieces ranging...
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The People’s Republic of China today launched its first moon orbiter as part of the country’s lunar exploration program. At 18:00 hours local time (10:00 UTC) the rocket Chang’e 1 lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China. The name of the probe refers to the Chinese goddess of the moon. The...
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According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) a magnitude 7.1 quake struck Sumatra in Indonesia just after 4:00 a.m. local time on Wednesday. The epicenter was located 135 kilometers (85 miles) west of Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia in the Indian Ocean, with a depth of 30 k.m. (18.6 miles). The NOAA issued a tsunami...
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According to reports, Turkey launched airstrikes against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bases near the border to Iraq. F-16 fighter jets and helicopter gunships on Wednesday were said to have bombed targets on both sides of the border. Turkish officials said that a major incursion was not implemented at this time to give diplomacy a...
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Background: My recent column U. of Maryland Correct to Deny Clothesline Project Protesters a Forum to Publicly Name Alleged Rapists (Baltimore Sun, 10/15/07), defends the University of Maryland's controversial decision to forbid campus feminist protesters from publicly naming alleged rapists during their "Clothesline Project"/Sexual Assault Awareness Week activities. I explained:
"The university cites the danger of...
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