Since 2001 I have been attending and then leading free legal seminars for the Berkshire Fatherhood Coalition that is open to the public. It initially startled me how often the subject of paternity fraud came up during meetings. Continually, I meet men who believe that they are paying child support for children that are...
Read more »
December 6, 2007 (RFE/RL) — When U.S. forces detained more than 30 employees of Iraqi legislator Adnan al-Dulaymi last week on charges of terrorism, it briefly appeared that the lawmaker, long accused of supporting terrorism, might face intense scrutiny over suspected wrongdoing. Instead, al-Dulaymi spent one day under house arrest, after which he was...
Read more »
December 6, 2007 (RFE/RL) — A U.S. congressman who once traveled with mujahedin fighters as they battled Soviet forces in Afghanistan says Pakistan has been exerting a negative influence on stability in the region. In an interview at RFE/RL’s broadcast headquarters in Prague, Dana Rohrabacher (Republican, California) said he thinks U.S. policies on Afghanistan...
Read more »
By Faraj Sarkouhi November 26, 2007 (RFE/RL) — The swift move by Iran’s Islamic Culture and Guidance Minister to ban a newly published novel by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has once again put the spotlight on the phenomenon of censorship in Iran. The ban on “Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores,” published in Iran...
Read more »
By Robert Coalson December 2, 2007 (RFE/RL) — There is an “election” going on in Russia. Not an election, but an “election.” This is not an election that falls short of international standards. It is not a democratic, a flawed democratic, or even a pseudo-democratic process. According to a recent RFE/RL poll, nearly two-thirds...
Read more »
By Robert Coalson November 30, 2007 (RFE/RL) — On the one hand, the Kremlin’s plan for the legislative elections seems to be proceeding smoothly. Election commissions, local officials, the police, the courts, and the pseudo-opposition parties all seem to be doing their part to ensure that the pro-Kremlin Unified Russia party wins in a...
Read more »
A U.S. Senate committee has passed landmark legislation aimed at combating global warming by limiting carbon dioxide emissions. The vote was timed to coincide with the U.N. conference on climate change taking place in Bali, Indonesia. The bill would set caps on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from electric utility, transportation and manufacturing industries beginning...
Read more »
Knut, Germany’s famous polar bear, turned one at the Berlin Zoo yesterday. For the celebration he had a healthy cake with fruits and vegetables, fish and rice on lettuce topped with a candle-shaped rolling pin. The director of the zoo, Bernhard Blaszkiewitz, said: “I wish Knut that he will get as old as polar...
Read more »
For the first time in history, the Siemens Competition, formerly the Siemens-Westinghouse Competition, was won by two females. The competition, which along with the Intel Competition are one of the two most prestigious competitions for high school science research in the United States. The Siemens Competition has two competitions, one for individual research and...
Read more »
A group of over 200 scientists have signed a document demanding that political action be taken following the scientific evidence that had been put forth in the last International report on climate change. The document, that had been drafted by the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Australia,...
Read more »
Amazing but not surprising--a press release from the UK shared parenting group Families Need Fathers said "1 in 4 children do not consider their fathers as immediate family":
ÂÂ
"BBC Newsround’s 35th Anniversary Survey has found that 1 in 4 children do not consider their fathers as immediate family. Although this figure is alarming, Families Need...
Read more »
Intermixed with Hillary Clinton’s many disparate stances on illegal immigration are the occasional, very revealing statements that say far more about her character in general than about her transient and flexible beliefs. In one recent statement, she expressed her surprise at the vehemence of real America in its opposition to the massive invasion of...
Read more »
Feminists are up in arms over the "Jennifer Love Hewitt looks fat in a bikini" controversy, and I'm inclined to agree with them. TMZ.com recently ran a photo of Hewitt in a bikini (above left) with the observation "We know what you ate this summer, Love--everything!" Hewitt fired back at critics who poked fun at...
Read more »
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 – Media Matters for America systematically suppressed information designed to assure a factual depiction of partner violence, according to RADAR (Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting). Two hundred scholarly studies now show men and women are equally likely to engage in domestic violence. On Tuesday November 20, Media Matters posted an...
Read more »
Representing 38% of all voters, white men represent the second largest block in the American electorate, after white females. It is these 97 million white males to whom the Republican Party owes it electoral success in five out of the last seven presidential campaigns. The reason is simple: White males have abandoned the Democratic...
Read more »
In general I see feminists as merely misguided and not intentionally malevolent, but there are some times when it's hard. This is one of those.
According to www.infozine.com, in this recent debate, Notre Dame philosophy professor and pro-feminist author James Sterba (pictured) expressed the following sentiments:
"Sterba, for example, wants to strengthen the legal definition to...
Read more »
I have read recent findings that show that the belief that child molesters are doomed to re-offend is outdated and that many do not. However, it is assuredly true that many child molesters are incorrigibly recidivist. Child molesting is a horrible crime and children must be protected from it. However, it is not equivalent...
Read more »