"My own father, Randolph, was born in 1915, in Athens, Georgia. He does not know his biological father, and various men passed in and out of his and his mother's life.
"At age 13, my father came home one day and, according to his mother's boyfriend, 'made too much noise.' My father and the...
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Two people, a nine year old boy and a 23-year-old woman from Jakarta in Indonesia, have died from the H5N1 Avian Flu virus marking the country’s 100th death from the disease. Both died on Sunday, January 27. “The woman died yesterday, but we just received the results that she’s positive with bird flu. The...
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"We've all witnessed scenarios where, on the playground little girls are being taunted by little boys while both girls and boys stand idle, afraid to speak up or even cheering. Or, in the workplace males tease young and older female co-workers; make obscene gestures, inappropriate comments, laughing and expecting (often correctly) that everyone will...
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President Bush has delivered his final State of the Union Address to Congress and the American people. In the speech he urged the American public to support his Iraq policies and called on other politicians to take action to boost the U.S. economy. For the seventh and final time, George W. Bush walked to...
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The Internet-based group “Anonymous” released a new video on YouTube Monday, announcing international protests outside Church of Scientology centers set for February 10. The video “Call to Action” uses the same computer synthesized voice as a previous video titled “Message to Scientology”, which was posted to YouTube last Monday. The “Message to Scientology” video...
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Regarding the new Bush Administration tax cutting stimulus package, professor George Reisman warns, Today, we have a credit crisis emanating from the collapse of the real estate bubble that the Fed launched in order to cope with the effects of the collapse of the stock market bubble that it had launched only a few...
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Cartoonist Lynn Johnston makes a prescient point about marriage in the For Better or For Worse cartoon above. It reminds me a bit of the line Bruce Springsteen wrote in the song he penned about his divorce:
"But for you, dear, my best was never good enough."
Thanks to Jim, a reader, for sending it.
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Liberty Counsel. Long Beach, CA – The Long Beach District School Board has approved a settlement agreement with Christopher Rand, a high school student who was denied credit for community service hours he completed at his church. Chris has now received full credit for the hours. The district administration also rewrote its community service...
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Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera Pineda, a/k/a Simon Trinidad, a senior member of the US State Department-designated foreign terrorist group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, was sentenced to a prison term of 60 years by a federal judge in Washington, DC on Monday for his role in a conspiracy to engage in the...
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I doubt many in the men's and fathers' movement feel this way, but there are occasions when our feminist opponents do something so embarrassing that I end up feeling a little sorry for them. Such is the case with New York State NOW's reaction to Ted Kennedy's recent endorsement of Obama over Hillary.
According to...
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