Background: I've little sympathy for Debra Lafave (pictured), who at 23 statutorily raped a 14-year-old boy. She got the female sentencing discount and did not go to jail because she's a woman. That being said, the recent media furor over her seems rather petty.
In screaming headlines the New York Post reports in EX-TEACHER...
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The Lakota Freedom Delegation, which in December declared that the Lakota people were withdrawing from their treaties with the United States and reasserting their sovereignty as an independent state, is acting without the support of the Treaty Council, the tradional government of the Lakota, Wikinews has learned. Wikinews spoke with Floyd Looks-For-Buffalo Hand, an...
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The Lakota Freedom Delegation, which in December declared that the Lakota people were withdrawing from their treaties with the United States and reasserting their sovereignty as an independent state, is acting without the support of the Treaty Council, the tradional government of the Lakota, Wikinews has learned. Wikinews spoke with Floyd Looks-For-Buffalo Hand, an...
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Kenya’s political opposition says mediation efforts with the government over Kenya’s flawed December elections have collapsed and the opposition is now calling for mass rallies across the country next week. Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Secretary-General Anyang Nyongo called for Kenyans in towns around Kenya to gather for three days of protests next week, in...
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When Attorney General Janet Reno deployed federal law enforcement agencies to Waco, Texas to arrest the Branch Davidian leader David Koresh, one of the the tactics used was to constantly blast loud music 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Eventually, men, women and children died from a brutal attack by their own...
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This CarMax TV commercial actually portrays a father positively and a female negatively.
No, that's not a misprint.
It's actually, for once, man good/woman bad.
Is this legal?ÂÂ
To watch the commercial, click here or see below.
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Snow has fallen in Baghdad, Iraq for the first time in approximately 100 years. Although Baghdad sometimes sees hail and sleet, snow has not been seen in memory. Snow was also recorded in the western and central parts of the country, where it is also very unusual, and in the Kurdish north, which is...
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One of the leaders of the Islamist Hamas movement on Friday said President Bush’s visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories would only end up hurting Palestinians. Hamas militants and their supporters in the Gaza Strip staged noisy demonstrations over the past few days as President Bush held talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials,...
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"Women and their opinions are often not taken seriously...in my profession, powerful women are very few and very far between. Unfortunately, 90% of the successful women in the 40 and 50-something generations in my field are criticized all of the time, in personal and extremely offensive ways.
"Many men claim that this is not...
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It’s not often that it snows in Baghdad. In fact, no one can remember the last time it happened. But just because it has now snowed in Baghdad for the first time in anyone’s memory doesn’t mean that global warming isn’t raging on unabated, killjoy climate experts are rushing to tell us. Don’t let...
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By Bruce Pannier If the world needed reminding of the ongoing threat posed by nuclear materials left unsecured and scattered across the former Soviet Union, it’s got it now. On January 9, Kyrgyz officials announced that they had taken possession of a small load of a radioactive substance discovered aboard a train bound for...
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By Ron Synovitz For years, Afghan officials including President Hamid Karzai have extended an olive branch to moderate Taliban to lay down their arms and back the government. But their overtures have been largely rejected — until now. On January 7, the Afghan government announced that a former Taliban commander who switched sides before...
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By Bruce Pannier Five convicted criminals in southeastern Iran have received the seldom-used form of punishment of amputation. The amputation sentences were carried out in Zahedan, the capital of Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province. The five men were found guilty of armed robbery, hostage taking, and firing at police, though officially they were convicted of...
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PBS observes that the famous 19th century naturalist, T.H. Huxley, declared that “evolution excludes creation and...
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I was recently contacted by a reporter who is looking for fathers who fit any of the following three profiles:
1) Fathers who married their pregnant girlfriends or lovers in part to protect their parental rights, but upon divorce discovered that their parental rights weren't truly protected anyway.
2) You impregnated your girlfriend or lover but you did...
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Many of the presidential candidates are running on the promise of change. Some are saying they will make more changes than the others. Is this a good thing? No! Change causes trouble! Think about it. Most of the problems we have today were caused by changes we made in the past. We changed the...
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The maverick attorneys at Judicial Watch, a public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, recently released their list of Washington DC’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians of 2007.â€Â The list being circulated in alphabetical order includes several presidential candidates such as Hillary Clinton, Rudy Guiliani and Barack Obama. The list also includes...
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There's a double standard in our society when it comes to sexual abuse, writes Dr. Helen Smith, who reminds readers of the fact that many choose to overlook: women also commit sexual offenses against children....
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