Recently, a friend who lives in California wrote me a heartbreaking note. His daughter had gone on a mission trip to a poor district in Mexico and discovered, among many needy people, a child who appeared to be abandoned and starving. The child became very attached to his daughter and called her “Mother.” He...
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As I've noted on many occasions, female violence against men is not treated seriously, and is often considered funny. Philadelphia Daily News reporter Dana DiFilippo's article A GENITAL REMINDER (5/18/06) from last year is a good example. DiFilippo wrote:
"With their wedding anniversary less than two weeks away, Howard Randolph was thinking romance. He hoped...
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An Air Canada flight from Toronto to London on 6th December was disrupted by a passenger who began shouting in an apparent case of “air rage”. This incident, however, has since become the subject of a hit video this week. During the apparent panic attack, a man identified as “Jay” indicated fears that he...
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An Air Canada flight from Toronto to London on 6th December was disrupted by a passenger who began shouting in an apparent case of “air rage”. This incident, however, has since become the subject of a hit video this week. During the apparent panic attack, a man identified as “Jay” indicated fears that he...
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The death toll for Tropical Storm Olga reached 38 on Friday. The rare December tropical storm, which disintegrated into a mass of thunderstorms late on Wednesday, killed two people, a woman and a 3-year-old boy, in Haiti. In the Dominican Republic, 12 Hatians drowned. Olga’s torrential rains were also blamed for mudslides that killed...
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After the United States agreed to the changes proposed by India this morning, the so called Bali Roadmap has been agreed on, to applause from all parties. The decision was made at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali. The Roadmap establishes a time frame and scope for reaching a post-2012 climate...
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After the United States agreed to the changes proposed by India this morning, the so called Bali Roadmap has been agreed on, to applause from all parties. The decision was made at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali. The Roadmap establishes a time frame and scope for reaching a post-2012 climate...
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The Register, a British technology news and opinion website, reports that a former Wikimedia Foundation Chief Operating Officer (COO) has a criminal record in at least four U.S. states: Texas, Maryland, Virginia and Florida. Carolyn Doran, born Carolyn Sue Bothwell, was the WMF COO for six months from January to July 2007. The Register...
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Every once in a while, I get an email from somebody who thinks I’m an investigative journalist (I am better at it than Dan Rather, but still…), and this morning was one of those times. Usually these letters end up being from people who were lucky to find enough time between swatting at imaginary...
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Recently hero father Manuel Jesus Cordova Soberanes gave up his attempt to come to the United States and instead turned himself over to the Border Patrol, all to save the life of a injured nine-year-old American boy.
Cordova found the boy wandering in the Arizona desert after the boy's mother was killed in a...
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"Child support became politicized by the early 1990s, when parents who allegedly fail to payâ€â€'deadbeat dads'â€â€became the subjects of a national demonology, and child support went from being a minor matter affecting a few people on the margins of society to a sacred political cow in the national vocabulary. 'On the left and on...
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The lamestream media told you: Hate crimes are increasing at an alarming rate nationwide, according to the Associated Press in a report carried by most major lamestream news outlets. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: Authorities nationwide are classifying an increasing amount of criminal activity as “hate crimes,” a recently invented category of offense....
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The lamestream media told you: Deer hunting, a barbaric blood sport enjoyed by a decreasing number of fringe elements in society, is being opposed by PETA and other wildlife rights groups fighting for humane treatment of the adorable little Bambi-eyed harmless critters. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: Frank Miniter, author of “The Politically...
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"Glory years catch action shots / arm whips and body contortions / a human catapult / the backs of those cards / cite numbers / that tell stories of saves, wins, flags, records / handshakes, butt slaps, celebration mobs / you can't see / the cost of winning / lines on my forehead under...
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