Background: The historic, one-of-a-kind conference “From Ideology to Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Intervention in Domestic Violence” was held in Sacramento, California February 15-16 and was a major success. The conference was sponsored by the California Alliance for Families and Children and featured leading domestic violence authorities from around the world.
Many of these researchers are [...]

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Background: I discussed the recent controversy over the feminist “1 in 4 college women are raped” myth, see my recent blog post ‘It’s a lonely job, working the phones at a college rape crisis center…you wait for the casualties to show up but no one calls’. I noted that “the ladies at www.Feministing.com have responded with boiling [...]

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I’ve decided to run a mock campaign for president again as a forum to talk about public policy. Every four years I look for a candidate who understands economics, only to find politicians instead. My political bias, like many economists, leans toward freedom. The unintended consequences of much of our legislation result in great harm [...]

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Background: The Boston Globe recently discussed Fathers & Families’ shared parenting bill at great length in their editorial A fair role for fathers. While the Globe did not endorse the bill, the editorial essentially agrees with the main arguments behind shared parenting. Ned Holstein, MD, MS, Executive Director of Fathers & Families, responded to the [...]

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FEBRUARY 29 is Leap Day. In 45 B.C., Julius Caesar replaced the calendars used throughout the Roman Empire based on the moon’s cycles with a calendar based on the sun, having 365 days and a “leap” day every 4th year. It was modified by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to omit leap days in years [...]

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Iraqi officials say the government has approved the death sentence for “Chemical Ali,” a cousin of Saddam Hussein, who is widely known for his role in poison gas attacks on Kurds in Iraq. It is expected that the execution will be carried within a month.
Iraqi officials said Friday the presidency council approved the execution of [...]

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Last weekend, “Saturday Night Live” did a skit about a CNN debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Problem was, the only African-American male cast member they had available couldn’t reasonably portray Obama because he has a very different body type and it just wouldn’t have worked.
So, do you know what they did? [...]

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FEBRUARY 29 is Leap Day. In 45 B.C., Julius Caesar replaced the calendars used throughout the Roman Empire based on the moon’s cycles with a calendar based on the sun, having 365 days and a “leap” day every 4th year. It was modified by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to omit leap days in years [...]

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In the music video “Do It Well,” singer Jennifer Lopez packs all of the following into a 3 minute, 17 second video:
She pushes a man down a flight of stairs
She kicks a man in the head
She wraps a man’s arm behind his back and shoves him
She hits a man in the head (twice)
She kicks a man
She throws [...]

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