I've been hard on child support officials for their ridiculous pretense that when fathers don't pay their child support, it must mean that they have the money but are being stingy with their kids. Research shows just the opposite--usually the fathers who can pay, do so. Most who don't pay, can't. To learn more...
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Texas criminal defense attorney Paul Stuckle (pictured), who specializes in defending men falsely accused of domestic violence or sexual abuse, wrote me recently concerning the Domestic Violence Benchbook used for judges in the state of New Mexico. It is put out by the Rozier E. Sanchez Judicial Education Center of New Mexico, which was established...
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The dream of most immigrants – at least when arriving to Spain – isn’t to stay here. Rather its to strike it rich and then move back home. Striking it rich is relative, given that in many of the countries these people come from the monthly salary can be around 200 dollars. But with...
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Background: For fathers and the children who love them and need them, Massachusetts sometimes looks a lot like feminist hell. In this series, Ned Holstein, Executive Director of Fathers & Families, points to four um...problematic...Massachusetts family law bills.
The first two bills Holstein cites are Massachusetts HB 113 and HB 1396--to learn more, see...
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been killed in a suicide attack as she was leaving a political rally in the city of Rawalpindi. At least 20 people died in the attack, local reports say. The attack has been condemned internationally. Several reports from witnesses say Bhutto was hit once in the neck...
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Zoo officials are now saying that a Siberian tiger that escaped her enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco, California on December 25, killing one and severely injuring two humans in the Terrace cafe, may have climbed or jumped over the walls that kept the tiger inside her habitat. “The animal appears...
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Israel has announced two new housing projects in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, continuing to expand its settlements. Officials have stated that a bill to be approved by parliament this week, would set aside $25 million for the expansion of development projects in Har Homa and Maale Adumim. The bill would create 500...
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On Wednesday, United States President George W. Bush signed into law a US$555 billion appropriation bill, called the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (aka H.R. 2764). The bill will keep government agencies running through September 2008. It also includes US$70 billion, which will fund the military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan well into 2008. The...
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Six people were found shot to death inside a home in Carnation, a city near Seattle, Washington in the United States. According to the information officer for the King County sheriff’s department, John Urquhart, they were victims of “homicidal violence.” Investigators have ruled out murder-suicide. The deaths are said to have occurred on Christmas...
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Heavy rains in western Indonesia have triggered landslides across the region that have killed dozens of people. Meanwhile, other areas were devastated by major flooding, with water reaching two meters high in some locations. Search and rescue chief Eko Prayitno in Java told reporters that police, solders and volunteers were working together to attempt...
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Officials say that Turkish warplanes have bombed suspected Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq for the fourth time in five days. There is no information on whether there were any casualties. The Turkish military says the aircraft hit eight caves and hideouts used by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels Wednesday in Iraq’s Dahuk Governorate....
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A Chadian court today sentenced six French aid workers to eight years of hard labor for their role in a plot to kidnap 103 African children and fly them to France. The four men and two women have been in custody since October 25. They were also ordered to pay damages for each of...
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I'm not sure why, but I often get letters from women asking me how to handle issues with their husbands or ex-husbands. In most cases, I do not feel qualified to answer these letters. I am not a mental health professional, and I have no training in these areas. Occasionally, however, there are letters that...
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The Duke lacrosse case represents an enduring failure of the American mainstream media. Not only did the New York Times, CNN, USA Today, and other outlets neglect their duty to provide balanced and factual coverage of the case. Worse, they became the public relations arm of a sleazy prosecutor named Michael Nifong. As so...
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Four Venezuelans and an Uruguayan national were charged on December 20 by a federal grand jury on charges of acting and conspiring to act as agents of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (“Venezuela”) within the United States, without prior notification to the Attorney General of the United States, as required by law. R. Alexander...
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Background: Feminists often portray the pre-feminist (pre-1970) era as one in which women were not valued or seen as being fully human. To cite one example of thousands, recently the National Organization for Women wrote on their website: "Are women human? Do women deserve full human rights? The U.S. Senate isn't sure."
My belief is that...
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