Archive for January, 2008

About once a week I've devoted a post to a drawing taken from Kara Bishop's www.postcardsfromsplitsville.com. Bishop works with Children of Divorce, a class run by Tucson, Arizona-based Divorce Recovery. The class did an art project that included "sending away" the frustrations of divorce, and we've been posting the children's art. To see what... »

While the involuntary harvesting of human kidneys may have been relegated to urban legend in the Western world, a raid in India has shown the practice is real and has triggered an international manhunt. On January 24, police raided a clinic in Gurgaon, a satellite city of Delhi with two million inhabitants, and found that... »

A Chinese official says harsh winter weather is threatening food production and adding to inflationary pressures. Political pressure is also building on the government for its failure to anticipate and solve the problems. A top Chinese disaster relief official was quoted by Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post newspaper Thursday as calling it the worst... »

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his support for Arizona Senator John McCain’s presidential bid Thursday morning. Schwarzenegger called McCain “a great American hero and an extraordinary leader” and praised him for his ability to cross party lines. “I think Senator McCain has proven over and over again that he is reaching across the aisle to... »

Political columnist and media strategist Rachel Marsden is scheduled to be emceeing at February’s CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) conference being held in Washington, DC beginning on Thursday, February 7, 2008. “I will be emceeing at CPAC on Friday, Feb 8th, from 11:30-1pm.  But will be hanging out there all weekend,” said the beautiful... »

Well, the host probably doesn't want anybody yelling, but you get the idea. I will be appearing on Minister Ron Smith's Children Need Both Parents Call in Show this evening at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST. Robin Denison of Parental Alienation Awareness Organization (PAAO) is the co-host. To listen to the show, click here and... »

Sandra, a female reader, recently sent me the following letter in response to my blog post Divorced Dad Faces Jail for 'Crime' of Visiting His Little Daughter's Kindergarten: Abused children never seem to get taken from abusive parents enough of the time... but family law courts allow fathers to never see their children again based... »

My recent His Side with Glenn Sacks radio commentary for KLAA AM 830 in Los Angeles commends Michael McManus, the founder of Marriage Savers, for his increasingly vocal endorsement of Shared Parenting. This is in contrast to some Christian conservatives' meager efforts to defend marriage and fatherhood from the ravages of our current family law system. To listen to the commentary,... »

This is what will happen if America makes a left-wing multiculturalist its president. Barack Obama told a French magazine that if he is elected, he will hold a summit with Muslim countries in order to try and improve the United States’ image around the world. Hmm, this sounds vaguely familiar. Oh yeah, now... »

An average of national polls currently shows Hillary Clinton slightly behind John McCain (show data) and Barack Obama slightly ahead (show data). But that isn’t the whole story on the Obama electability advantage. Right leaning voters are far less motivated than the left. (related article) Hillary Clinton would change that. A newly released DVD, “Hillary... »

I have been accused of seeing things in woman=good and man=bad terms. This criticism is in some respects valid. I have seen tendencies in my writing to see the sexes in these terms. However, I have often written about evil women. One of those evil women was Velma Barfield, a serial poisoner who was eventually... »

Through the pessimistically, penumbrous pen of Parag Khanna, the New York Times has declared that the U.S.A. is finished. Yes, we have lost our “global hegemony” and we will find that by 2016, “America’s standing in the world remains in steady decline.” Boy, it looks bad the for the good ‘ol U.S. of A.,... »

"When I began junior high, I was shy, naive, and nerdy. I loved school. I enjoyed math games. I completely failed to notice that the other girls were not wearing plaid shirts and corduroy pants like the ones that my mom picked out for me. "As a result of these 'unfortunate' circumstances and my... »

Irrespective of all the in-depth political analysis that deals far too specifically with each candidate’s professed policies and appeal to voters, the bulk of this campaign season is primarily being driven on both sides by pragmatism born of fear. The base of each party is currently motivated not by any inspired support for one or... »

Former United States Senator John Edwards announced today that he is quitting the United States presidential election. Edwards made this announcement during a speech in New Orleans, Louisiana, that was scheduled for 1:00 p.m. EST (UTC-5) today. This decision comes after Edwards lost his home state of South Carolina to Barack Obama. “Today, I am suspending... »

The opposition party of Zimbabwe, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has announced that it wishes for constitutional reform to take place before the planned March election. The party has warned that they may boycott the planned elections, as well as saying in a press release that they believe the current election to be... »

United States Senator John McCain has won the State of Florida’s Republican Party primary election, edging out former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney by five percent. One time GOP front-runner Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who placed a lagging third in Florida, the state he based his campaign on, dropped out of the... »

The following are remarks by US Amb Robert Blake at a vocational training center in Sri Lanka. The comments section following the article below are especially interesting because they chronicle a history of communications to this publication by some parties apparently involved in Sri Lanka’s civil conflict. Dr. A.T.Ariyaratne, Mr. Arumainayaham, Mr. Careem, Ms.... »

Credit Indianapolis Star cartoonist Gary Varvel for this so-true-it's-painful depiction of the fatherless modern American family. The picture in the upper left of the album is the saddest of all. Ouch. »

"Research shows that domestic violence, child abuse or child sexual abuse are all patterns of behaviors. No one wakes up one morning and begins to beat their spouse or children. There is a pattern of behavior that happens over time. When time is spent looking for these patterns of behavior it becomes very clear... »