Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, 19-year-old son of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, has been name as Co-Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party alongside his father Asif Ali Zardari. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (who changed his name from Bilawal Zardari after his mother’s death) is currently studying history at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Asif...
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PRESS RELEASE
12/28/07ÂÂ
For Immediate Release
National Fatherhood Summit
Jan. 4th 2008 Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids, Michigan - Release Date: 12/28/07
2008 National Fatherhood Summit - Jan 4th 2008 - 8:30am-4:30pm
Location: Abundant Life Ministries, 1725 Division SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Contact Information: Minister Ronald Smith 616-301-1515
Numerous elected officials, authors, religious leaders, family preservation organizations, experts, advocates and a Michigan District...
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Background: Those who suffer from child support enforcement's abuses and errors lead difficult and stressful lives. Sadly, child support enforcement abuses may have contributed to the recent heart attack and death of an English father.
According to the Equal Parenting Alliance, this month "36 year-old veteran soldier Lee Wilkins died while out running. He...
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China is into the classics, like Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol.” With Christmas just around the corner the Chinese government has personified Scrooge in its harassing of Christians. Contrary to some popular perceptions Christianity has long and deep roots in China – there are even claims that Christianity reached those shores in the 1st...
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I have just received the November issue of the magazine of the American Legion, in which I discover an article by one Ralph Peters, reminding me of why, having joined the Legion on impulse, I have never gone to the Post. The piece is entitled “Twelve Myths of 21st Century War.†A better title...
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While there is no conclusive answer to who killed former Pakistani prime minister Bhutto, so far the only claim of responsibility has come from an Al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, who posted the claim of responsibility on an Italian Web site. Al Qaeda posted the following message: “We terminated the most precious American asset...
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Science journalist John Horgan created a minor stir a decade ago with his book, The End of Science, arguing that the major science discoveries are all behind us. Now that was hardly a popular thesis. As he recently recalled, “One of my most memorable moments as a journalist occurred in December 1996, when I...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP A citizen of Ecuador was captured by the New York City Police Department and charged with rape, criminal sex act & endangering the welfare of a child. He was convicted of rape and sentenced to 10 years probation. The victim was a twelve year old girl. “ICE [Immigration and Customs...
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My recent His Side with Glenn Sacks radio commentary for KLAA AM 830 in Los Angeles defends the University of Maryland's decision to forbid campus feminist protesters from publicly naming alleged rapists during their "Clothesline Project"/Sexual Assault Awareness Week activities.
To listen to the commentary, click here.
To learn more, see my column U. of Maryland Correct to Deny...
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The San Francisco Zoo has admitted that the walls of the enclosure around their Siberian tiger exhibit are too short. On December 25, Tatiana, one of two Siberians at the Zoo, climbed the wall and attacked three people, killing one. Reports say that Tatiana used her front claws to grab on the observation ledge...
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Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in a suicide attack yesterday, has been buried in her ancestral home in the village of Garhi Khuda Bakhsh. Meanwhile, violence has erupted across the nation in protest to the 54-year-old opposition leader’s death. The Pakistani government has claimed to have evidence to suggest...
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The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has, we’re told, upended Washington’s foreign policy. “Our foreign policy has relied on her presence as a stabilizing force. . . . Without her, we will have to regroup,†explained Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) in the Washington Post. “It complicates life for the American government.†But in fact U.S....
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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 three bills Holstein cites are Massachusetts HB 113, HB 1396 and HB 92--to learn...
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I am currently researching the case of William J. Hetherington, a man who has served over twenty years in prison because he was convicted of raping his wife Linda during their separation. He maintains that the rape never occurred and his cause has found prominent champions such as Phyllis Schlafly and the National Coalition...
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On my blog and in my E-Newsletter last week I advised you of a plan by La Crosse County, Wisconsin to release all of its female prisoners. Many of you wrote letters about the plan to the La Crosse County Tribune and reporter Reid Magney, who wrote the story. The Tribune's recent editorial La...
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Background: If you have a daughter in the nine-year-old range, you're probably familiar with the Disney show Hannah Montana. My daughter often forces me to watch it with her. Well, "forces" isn't exactly accurate, since she snuggles up in my arms as we watch, which would probably make even going to the opera worth...
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More than 20 Southern California gang members awaiting release from area jails and state prisons are facing new criminal charges today as a part of “Operation Winter Warning,” an expanded effort to target incarcerated foreign national gang members for federal prosecution. Since the operation began three weeks ago, a total of 23 criminal alien...
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Background: According to the latest U.S. Government estimates, the average family in the highest income bracket (average income--$112,000 per year) spends $1,340 a month to raise each child. Yet some men are paying 20 times that much a month in child support. Most of this money is not going to the child, but instead...
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Have the Constitution’s checks and balances come unglued? The First Things website carries a provocative essay by Richard John Neuhaus. The essay explores the contention that, as Anti-Federalists feared in the 1787-89 Constitutional ratification debate, the judiciary has come to be the dominant power in the Federal government. Without exaggeration, it can be said...
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Someone needs to straighten the judge in the Dillon Cossey case out. The 14-year-old boy apparently planned a Columbine-style attack on a local school. Dillon Cossey apparently wasn't too close to carrying out the plan--for one, he didn't have ammunition. But the case's real shocker is this--Montgomery County Judge Paul Tressler put some of the...
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