Today at a whistle stop in Salem, New Hampshire, an alleged protester raised a sign saying “Iron My Shirt” while hollering the same idiotic slogan. I do not know anybody in the men’s movement who would resort to this level of idiocy. I do, however, know a few individuals hitting the whistle stops with...
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I began this blog in January of 2007, and it has been one of my primary projects over the past year. Before then I still wrote newspaper columns, did radio & TV, and did my weekly E-Newsletter, but I did not add content to the website daily as I do now. In judging the...
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Below are some recent articles and items of interest from Fathers & Families' latest News Digest.
Egypt weighs legality of divorce by text message (USA Today, 1-3-08)
Center contributing to falling divorce rate (Springfield News-Sun, 1-4-07)
Bring families together and keep them together (Woodtv.com, 1-4-08)
Lawyer: Delinquent child support online (Associated Press, 1-4-08)
Keeping joint custody cordial (KSFY.com, 1-4-08)
"I've...
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(Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton made headlines on Monday with a display of being close to tears while she campaigned in New Hampshire. Her friends in the media especially those on CNN attempted to put a positive spin on her demeanor. Perhaps Americans should refresh their memories of Bill and Hillary Clinton as more state...
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The first sunspot on The Sun of solar cycle 24 was announced on January 4, 2008. This sunspot is a precursor for the normal increase in activity which takes place during the 11-year solar cycles. “This sunspot is like the first robin of spring. In this case, it’s an early omen of solar storms...
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The National Fatherhood Summit was held January 4 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mike McCormick, Executive Director of the American Coalition for Fathers & Children, one of the Summit's organizers, provides the following update:
"The best word to describe what transpired at this event is WOW! This past Friday over seventy people gathered at Abundant Life Ministries...
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I was shocked and saddened as the story of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination suddenly popped up while browsing news at the dead of night on 27th December 2007. She was probably the only one able to put the house in order in Pakistan. Now that she is gone, it can well be the end of...
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Slide 4: “The role of natural selection in evolution is controversial among scientists (continued)”...
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You need to know about how in 1962 I was a half-wild country kid of sixteen in the wilds of King George Country, Virginia, and drove a derelict ’53 Chevy that shouldn’t even have started but in fact went places that would have terrified Rommel’s panzers at their brazenest. (You may think you don’t...
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Israel is gearing up for the visit of U.S. President George Bush this week. But as Robert Berger reports, the high-profile visit comes amid escalating tension between Israel and the Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel will welcome President Bush with “open arms.” Mr. Olmert told the Cabinet...
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Israel is gearing up for the visit of U.S. President George Bush this week. But as Robert Berger reports, the high-profile visit comes amid escalating tension between Israel and the Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel will welcome President Bush with “open arms.” Mr. Olmert told the Cabinet...
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A Piper PA-31 Navajo Chieftain owned and operated by Servant Air has crashed shortly after takeoff from Kodiak Island, Alaska, United States. Six people were killed and four others were rescued. The flight was a 100 mile scheduled domestic charter flight from Kodiak to Homer. Servant Air are a small local airline that serves...
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President Bush travels to the Middle East in the coming week in hopes of urging U.S. allies in the region to support Israeli-Palestinian peace talks The president’s first stop is Israel where he says he will encourage Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to move forward with peace talks they began...
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Election officials have declared Mikheil Saakashvili the winner of the Georgian presidential election, which occurred earlier than usual due to anti-government protests in November 2007. He garnered 52.8% of the vote, while the leading opposition candidate Levan Gachechiladze came in second with 27% of the vote. The election had been a controversial one, with...
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Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, from Tyler, Texas in the United States has been arrested after police found him possibly preparing to eat the body parts of his dead girlfriend, Jana Shearer aged 21. He was also charged with stabbing his ex-wife’s boyfriend, William Veasley, 42. According to reports, Shearer’s mother was told by McCuin...
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Ghana’s President John Kufuor is expected to travel to Kenya this week to help resolve the escalating violence that has plunged Kenya into a political crisis. This comes after Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki sent an envoy to brief the Ghanaian president, who is also chairman of the African Union on the current situation in...
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Ghana’s President John Kufuor is expected to travel to Kenya this week to help resolve the escalating violence that has plunged Kenya into a political crisis. This comes after Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki sent an envoy to brief the Ghanaian president, who is also chairman of the African Union on the current situation in...
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The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the use of lethal injection as a method for the imposition of the death penalty in the United States. Two men, Ralph Baze and Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr., who were convicted of murder in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and sentenced to death, sued...
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On the morning of January 4, 2008, while at the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, 19-year-old goalie Steve Mason received a phone call from Canada informing him that he was traded by the Ontario Hockey League’s London Knights to the Kitchener Rangers. In a press release Friday, Kitchener Rangers Head coach and General...
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I discussed the presidential primaries on Al-Jazeera's World News on Sunday, January 6. Like many, I think our primary system is very wasteful and inefficient, as well as being unfair to those of us who do not live in an early primary state. We don't have a complete video, but below are some of the...
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