When the Iraq war began nearly five years ago, tens of thousands of parents who serve in the Armed Forces expected hardship and sacrifice. However, they never expected that their children might be taken from them while they were deployed, or that their own government might jail them upon their return.
Military service sometimes costs...
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Below are some recent articles and items of interest from Fathers & Families' latest News Digest.
Paul McCartney attempts to settle Heather Mills divorce (TransWorldNews.com, 1-22-08)
Minimize the impact of divorce on your credit (San Louis Obispo Tribune, 1-22-08)
Shared Parenting Bill (WSAZ.com, 1-22-08)
Proposal helps deployed service members in custody cases (Associated Press, 1-23-08)
Man must pay child...
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The drawings above were 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. The website is a place where Kara says "children can share their divorce-related feelings anonymously and parents...
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Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf held talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London, reassuring his host that Pakistan will hold free and fair election next month and is ready to continue a sustained fight against terrorism and extremism. The visit has been widely called President Musharraf’s “charm offensive.” The Pakistani leader has held...
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President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or The Mormon Church, Gordon B. Hinckley, died at the age of 97 at 7pm MST on Sunday of “causes incident to age”, surrounded by family. President Hinckley led the church through a period of growth for 13 years, during which church membership grew...
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The United States Secret Service has evacuated the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C. after finding a suspicious package. Reports say the package was found on the grounds of the White House just outside the West Wing. One person has been arrested after the Secret Service says he made a “verbal...
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On June 2, 2006, I submitted a short, 175-word letter to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ), responding to the incomplete and one-sided discussion of the Kitzmiller ruling they published, ” Intelligent Judging — Evolution in the Classroom and the Courtroom ,” by George J. Annas ( NEJM...
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Background: I've previously discussed my views on the presidential race and the flaws in our primary system in several blog posts. These include: Glenn Discusses Presidential Primaries on Al-Jazeera (1/7/08); In Defense of Hillary Clinton's Crying (1/8/08); Of Course Richardson Needs to Bow Out--After All, 1.5% of the US Population Has Rejected Him (1/10/08);...
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Stephen King’s first published novel, Carrie, a book that launched his career as a horror writer extraordinaire, has recently been re-issued with a new introduction by King himself. What was it that made Carrie such a hit? Certainly it is an exciting tale told in a taut style. However, I think what makes this...
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Administrators for 711chan.org, one of the websites responsible for starting Project Chanology, a “raid” or attack against the Church of Scientology and their website, slowed down their “attack”. In an exclusive interview with Wikinews, an administrator of 711chan states that the will “probably stay away from the CoS .” “We’re probably just...
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In a recent column I theorized that the somewhat puzzling appeal of Barack Obama as a presidential candidate had to do with his admirers’ happy-headed fantasies of a return to something resembling the “Camelot” years of the JFK administration. I argued that Obama was being seen as a kind of 21st century, multicultural reincarnation...
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Wikinews has learned that a new entity calling itself The Regime used keylogging to gain an administrator password to 711chan.org, a site popular with the open vigilante group “Anonymous” that has recently been attacking Scientology online. At 9:57 p.m. (eastern time) the site 711chan.org, was replaced, allegedly by The Regime by the title Church...
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My recent His Side with Glenn Sacks radio commentary for KLAA AM 830 in Los Angeles discusses the testaments of two highly-successful women--actress Nicole Kidman and CBS television anchor Suzanne Rico--to the importance of the father-daughter bond.
To listen to the commentary, click here.
To learn more, see my blog posts Nicole Kidman: 'There comes a time when you're a daughter, that...
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