Below are some recent articles and items of interest from Fathers & Families' latest News Digest.
Domestic violence court a solid recommendation (Jackson Sun, 11-13-07)
Michael Jordan divorce breaks records with $168 million agreement (TransWorldNews, 11-13-07)
Man wants to be banned from pubs (North-West Evening Mail, 11-14-07)
Florida man sentenced to 2 years in prison for not paying...
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Oral Roberts, founder and former faith healer, called an “emergency meeting” to reinstate Richard Roberts as president of Oral Roberts University. Richard stepped down last month when he was accused of illegal political contributions, financial wrong-doing, and wrongful firings in a lawsuit. On Wednesday Oral called an ‘emergency meeting’ for the faculty following the...
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Oral Roberts, founder and former faith healer, called an “emergency meeting” to reinstate Richard Roberts as president of Oral Roberts University. Richard stepped down last month when he was accused of illegal political contributions, financial wrong-doing, and wrongful firings in a lawsuit. On Wednesday Oral called an ‘emergency meeting’ for the faculty following the...
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A spokesperson for the Justice Department in the Netherlands has confirmed to the Dutch magazine Intermediair that it will temporarily suspend access to Wikipedia for its 30,000 employees, following recently revealed vandalism by staff members. The magazine has confronted the department with some untasteful edits to the Dutch Wikipedia which originated from their IP...
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Two students from Cologne, Germany, ages 17 and 18, are accused of plotting an attack at their school on November 20, the first anniversary of the shooting at Geschwister Scholl school in Emsdetten, in which 18-year old ex-student Sebastian Bosse carried an attack that left six people wounded by gunshot and others wounded by...
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The angry “Why don’t you shut up?” that King Juan Carlos I of Spain uttered against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez a week ago on Saturday has apparently reached a cult status in Spain and Venezuela. A mobile phone ringtone remix of the quote text has been downloaded 500,000 times (generating some €1.5 million revenues)....
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The angry “Why don’t you shut up?” that King Juan Carlos I of Spain uttered against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez a week ago on Saturday has apparently reached a cult status in Spain and Venezuela. A mobile phone ringtone remix of the quote text has been downloaded 500,000 times (generating some €1.5 million revenues)....
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Like many Christians, I have been suspicious of psychology, principally for the same reason that philosopher of science Karl Popper was: In its twentieth century incarnations, it was typically not falsifiable. For example, if you doubted that some Freudian theory was true, you were “defensive†about it, and therefore the theory must be true....
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There is a great debate raging in America right now, and for once it doesn’t have to do with who should have been voted off “Dancing With the Stars.†(On a side note, shouldn’t a show called “Dancing With the Stars†actually have stars?) The debate is whether we’re ready for a female President....
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Just this past weekend we have had three deaths of people closely associated with us. This is becoming all too common and points to the crisis here taking on a new dimension. Yesterday a young man walked through the door – he had just arrived from the UK where he has married and works...
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Occasionally people are aware that there is more to Thanksgiving than stuffing a turkey and themselves at the dinner table. In Sunday’s sermon at Black Rock-Long Ridge Congregational Church (North Stamford, Connecticut), Pastor Steve Treash’s text was Luke 17:11-19: Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee....
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Author’s note: A previous version of this article was first published several years ago in the publication of the Atlanta Writing Resource Center. The many changes in our technologically oriented society have led some to doubt the value of a liberal arts education and the literary skills it builds — but it has in...
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The United States Senate is preparing to vote for a bill that will authorize the feds to turn over hundreds of millions of dollars to radical feminists. It’s believed that Democrats and Republicans will attempt to “bribe” female voters with huge handouts that have little basis in fact. According to Jim Peterson, president of...
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The United States Senate is preparing to vote for a bill that will authorize the feds to turn over hundreds of millions of dollars to radical feminists. It’s believed that Democrats and Republicans will attempt to “bribe” female voters with huge handouts that have little basis in fact. According to Jim Peterson, president of...
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Dan F. Craft, a 55-year-old truck driver, has been sentenced to four years of CCS/ISP (Community controlled sanctions/ intensive supervised probation)--the strictest kind of probation--for being behind on his child support. He says it happened because he fell behind when he was out of work, and then the Child Support Enforcement Agency revoked his...
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"Gemma Gregory’s latest victim had no idea that she had a history of claiming rape when he was asked to attend the same police station in September last year.
"The man had had a relationship with Gemma but ended it because of her heavy drinking. The couple met on a few occasions later on, and...
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Background: Conscientious Virginia judge James Michael Shull, who smoked out a woman who sought to extend a restraining order based on false charges of domestic violence, was just removed from the bench by this Virginia Supreme Court ruling. Not only was Shull railroaded, but he has been the target of widely-disseminated lazy, misleading reporting...
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by David John Marotta and Beth Anderson Nedelisky Many seniors look forward to saving on medical insurance costs by enrolling in Medicare at age sixty-five. However, navigating the Medicare system is not for the faint of heart. Medicare is an alphabet soup of plan choices. Currently Medicare is organized as parts A through D....
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In most science fiction stories, extraterrestrial technology is unveiled to the world when it is piloted to earth by proverbial little green men or bug eyed monsters. However, in Saucer, Stephen Coonts presents a scenario where man’s initial exposure to a civilization from beyond the earth does not occur overhead but rather from beneath...
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Not everyone looks forward to sitting around the Thanksgiving table with their extended family, notes PJM advice columnist Dr. Helen Smith - particularly those whose politics differ from members of the clan. She offers a food-fight prevention survival guide....
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