It's hard to get police to arrest a female offender on a domestic disturbance call, but if she's drunk, screams at the police officers, and the victim is a famous baseball player, you've got a decent chance. Former New York Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly is lucky his estranged wife blew it with her over-the-top...
My recent column Hillary Clinton Proposes Reforming Child Support System to Help Dads, co-authored with Mike McCormick, Executive Director of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, has, predictably, been the source of controversy within the shared parenting/fatherhood movement. After our column came out, a longtime men's activist circulated a letter questioning one of the...
Background: Recently New York State NOW president Marcia Pappas excoriated Ted Kennedy for his endorsement of Obama over Hillary. I criticized her for this, writing: "Ted Kennedy has been a huge advocate of women's and feminist issues for decades, but like a carping wife with a memory that never forgets, Pappas feels compelled to remind...
After spending millions of his own money, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has announced his intentions to “suspend” his presidential bid. Romney plans to say the following at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington: “If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern about crises in Chad, Kenya, and the Sudan. The U.N. chief is recently back from Africa where he attended the African Union summit in Ethiopia and met with leaders in Kenya. On rebel efforts to overthrow the government in Chad in recent days, the secretary-general welcomed...
In Kenya, the government and opposition have resumed talks on the dispute over the elections that sparked a month-long wave of violence. Relief officials say the humanitarian toll continues to rise and are calling for a speedy solution. Relief officials appealed to political leaders to stabilize security throughout Kenya as the number of people...
The White House is defending the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding in certain, rare circumstances when suspects are believed to have knowledge of an imminent threat. The Central Intelligence Agency now admits it used the technique roughly five years ago on three top terror suspects. White House spokesman Tony Fratto says...
Since winning the reality television series America’s Next Top Model in December 2006, CariDee English, a small-town girl from Fargo, North Dakota, was plucked from relative obscurity to be the new look for CoverGirl Cosmetics, the newest fresh face on the cover of Seventeen, and affiliated with the largest modeling agency in the world,...
A firm in Oxford, United Kingdom has recently released plans for a hypersonic passenger airplane able to travel at speeds up to Mach 5 with a range of 20,000 km. Reaction Engines of Oxfordshire says the A2 plane could be in service within 25 years, carrying 300 passengers at a top speed of almost...
The other day my dad told me that he remembered that Charlie Chaplin (pictured) had been a victim of paternity fraud during the 1940s. We looked it up and sure enough, it was true. According to Wikipedia: "Chaplin had a brief affair with Joan Barry (1920-1996) in 1942, whom he was considering for a starring...
I wrote a previous blog on the William J. Hetherington spousal rape case that can be found at http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/12/29/tentative-thoughts-on-the-william-j-hetherington-spousal-rape-case. It gives many specifics on this case and links to other articles with even more details. Michigan resident William J. Hetherington has been imprisoned for more than 20 years on evidence that was weak and...
When you ask a man on the street where revolutionary advanced robots are being developed, he is likely to name Japan and the United States. Japan is well known for such amazing mechanical creations as ASIMO and HRP, as well as robots that dance, engage in martial arts, transform, and play musical instruments. In...
First, I suppose I ought to explain the irony of the analogy I propose: Weevils, of the insect family Curculionidae, include approximately 40,000 species (Encyclopædia Britannica), but the most common association relates to those species which typically feed on grain. Biblically, stored grain was literally the lifeblood of society, and anything which threatened it...
by Jim Kouri. CPP Duncan Hunter, R-Calif, author of the fencing provisions of the Secure Fence Act of 2006, has introduced new legislation in the House of Representatives to require the construction of double-layered fencing along the U.S. border with Mexico within six months, according to a memo sent to the National Association of...
Why do today's men run from commitment - indefinitely delaying settling down in a marriage they take seriously, and having kids? Dr. Helen Smith asks whether they are indeed pampered eternal adolescents more interested in exploding toilets and video games...
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