We live on a one acre lot, part of which used to be used for horses, so when my nine-year-old daughter is playing outside and I want to check on her, it can be a little time-consuming. For years and years we've had a shouted, long-distance dialogue that always goes exactly like this:
Me: Sweetheart?
My...
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Reidar Hjermann, Norway's ombudsman for children, is now pushing one of vindictive divorced or separated mothers' greatest hits--that shared parenting is bad for kids because it's "inconvenient." According to this recent Norwegian newspaper article:
"'Children need individually tailored solutions,' ombudsman Reidar Hjermann told newspaper Aftenposten on Wednesday. He thinks that splitting their time between their...
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From my co-authored column ‘Sperm Theft’ Ruling a Step Forward for Men’s Reproductive Rights (Houston Chronicle, 3/6/05):
"All’s fair in love, war, and paternity cases. When child support is sought, there is scarcely any deceit that courts won’t push aside under the “best interests of the child†test.
"Courts have ruled that boys who were statutorily...
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Duncan Hunter is an American politician who has been a Republican member of the House of Representatives since 1981 from California’s 52nd congressional district in northern and eastern San Diego. It was previously numbered the 42nd District from 1981 to 1983 and then the 45th District from 1983 to 1993. Hunter was the chairman...
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Officials in Pakistan say parliamentary elections will be delayed until next month. VOA correspondent Nancy-Amelia Collins in Islamabad reports the Pakistan Election Commission says the delay is due to the destruction of election offices and materials in violence that broke out last week after Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. Chief election commissioner Qazi Mohammed Farooq says...
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A cold air mass, dropping high pressure and brisk winds from Canada, has enveloped the entire eastern seaboard of the United States. An unlikely casualty of the frigid temperatures is the state of Florida, which will drop below freezing across nearly the entire peninsula tonight. The widespread advisories and cold air mark the first...
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In Boybashing in Abstinence Education (Part I), I criticized abstinence educator Darren Washington who, at the Eighth Annual Abstinence Clearinghouse Conference, told young women:
"Your body is a wrapped lollipop. When you have sex with a man, he unwraps your lollipop and sucks on it. It may feel great at the time, but, unfortunately, when...
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As noted in the Introduction, PBS asserts that the data “unequivocally†support the view that “volution...
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When you see a headline like “Pope’s exorcist squads will wage war on Satan,” you have to wonder who, if anybody, is running the PR department down at the Vatican. Granted, this particular headline, which appeared in Britain’s Daily Mail, is a wee bit sensational, but that’s what the Brit broadsheets tend to do...
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When you see a headline like “Pope’s exorcist squads will wage war on Satan,” you have to wonder who, if anybody, is running the PR department down at the Vatican. Granted, this particular headline, which appeared in Britain’s Daily Mail, is a wee bit sensational, but that’s what the Brit broadsheets tend to do...
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Officials with the Homeland Security Department’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that deportation officers assigned to the Baltimore Office made a record number of arrests in fiscal year 2007. The Baltimore Field Office area of responsibility covers all of Maryland. In the Baltimore Field Office, there were 924 arrests made in FY 2007 —...
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