I remember my father telling me the story of Lou Brissie when I was a child--the baseball player whose leg was shattered in 30 pieces during World War II and who came back to make the major leagues and play in the All-Star Game. For some reason I had always imagined that Brissie had died...
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How did a drug-addled stripper succeed in smearing the reputations of three Duke lacrosse players, dividing a community along racial lines, and making a mockery of the American legal system? That’s the question that Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson pose in their recent bell-ringer book, Until Proven Innocent. Unless your news source is the...
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Health officials in the United Kingdom have confirmed that the H5N1 strain of the Avian Flu has been found in turkeys on Redgrave Park Farm in Suffolk, England. The farm is owned by Gressingham Foods. Officials also say that it is likely that the virus arrived in the U.K. by way of migrating birds...
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New York Times proposes a follow-up program by the folks who brought us the War on Poverty. In an extraordinary opinion piece in the November 13 New York Times, editorial board member Eduardo Porter endeavors to make a case for socialism’s Holy Grail: forced equality of income and government-regulated consumption as the road to...
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By Rinaldo Del Gallo, III, Esq. I would like to convey some brief thoughts on this year’s Veterans Day. Those who fought in our countries wars fought to preserve freedom. By “freedom†I mean not freedom to do whatever we want, but freedom to engage in fundamental rights. Today, however, our country has deprived fathers...
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Given the gruesome description of normal family life in this new Onion piece, I wonder if this reporter has been talking to my son. Or me when I was 15.
What I never realized then is just how lucky I was to be "trapped" in a "boring" stable, two-parent family.
Local Boy Trapped In Family
The Onion
November 9,...
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Presumptive Predators
In case you didn’t know, October was “Domestic Violence Awareness Month,” during which Americans were startled to learn that women are just as likely as men to commit domestic violence. Mention this at a party, and you’ll find yourself standing alone at the punchbowl for the rest of the night: people just don’t...
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Atlantic Monthly Associate Editor Matthew Yglesias criticizes my readers in his recent blog post The Weird, Wacky World of Antifeminist Blogging. His post concerns the loony reaction from blog commenters at www.MensNewsDaily.com about my recent blog post Feminist Writer Ann Friedman Has a Point. (My blog posts are also cross-posted on www.MensNewsDaily.com.) A few points:
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A few weeks ago the Daily Times in Maryville, Tennessee published an article about the alleged injustices in divorce faced by self-described "victim" Kathy Wright. The article accuses the husband, James C. Wright, of being a violent, de facto deadbeat dad. It tells a very feminist story of an abused, beaten down wife's struggle to...
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The man who allegedly oversaw drug-dealing and other activities of the largest “clique†of the 18th Street Gang was among 12 people arrested on charges that include the distribution of crack cocaine. Sergio Pantoja, 31, who is known on the street as “Tricky,†is the lead defendant in an eight-count indictment returned last week...
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The man who allegedly oversaw drug-dealing and other activities of the largest “clique†of the 18th Street Gang was among 12 people arrested on charges that include the distribution of crack cocaine. Sergio Pantoja, 31, who is known on the street as “Tricky,†is the lead defendant in an eight-count indictment returned last week...
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I recently partnered with Dr. Ned Holstein, president of Fathers and Families, in a campaign designed to draw attention to a serious problem in our child welfare system. When a father's former wife or partner has been found to have abused her children and has had them taken by child protective services, decent, loving...
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Below are some recent articles and items of interest from Fathers & Families' latest News Digest.
Male domestic violence victims increase (East Anglian Daily Times, 11-6-07)
Mills is dumped by divorce lawyers (San Francisco Chronicle, 11-9-07)
Michael Jordan finally speaks about divorce (Chicago Sun-Times, 11-9-07)
Becker's child custody triumph (The Sun, 11-9-07)
Osmond goodbye: family shares memories of father...
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