Alonzo Spellman, a former National Football League player, was arrested Tuesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma after a twenty minute car chase with police. Officers used “spike sticks” that flattened three tires on Spellman’s car, but he refused to get out until officers fired pepper-spray pellets into the vehicle. Spellman was hospitalized and had to attend...
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Here’s a headline that’s like music to my ears: “John Edwards to Quit Presidential Race.” It’s the kind of news that makes me feel like getting up and dancing a jig. No more will we have to suffer his disingenuous pandering about “two Americas.” No more of his class warfare buncombe. No more of...
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Roger Clemens, future Hall of Famer, welcome to family court. No, Roger isn't getting divorced--in fact, former teammate Jose Canseco wrote that Clemens was very devoted and faithful to his wife Debbie during his baseball career. What I mean is this--Clemens has been accused in the Mitchell Report of using steroids. Clemens hotly denies this...
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Ladies, when was the last time you visited a nursing home? Did you wonder why nearly all the residents were women? The reason is simple – men meet their maker 5 years sooner than members of the fairer sex. It wasn’t always that way. Back in 1920, men and women had almost identical life...
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Two men who threatened members of the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Special Investigation Gang Unit were arrested here last Tuesday following a joint operation of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and officers from the Miami-Dade Police Department. Rudy Villanueva and Tony Logan, both of Miami, were arrested for violations of federal law. The arrests...
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Personal Essay A previous version of this was published in Georgia Writers News. I am attaching an addendum to it based on subsequent events. I am putting it up now because it is relevant to yesterday’s blog about the resonance of the novel and movie Carrie being because of Carrie’s depiction of the teased...
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"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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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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