The West Virginia state legislature has passed an important bill that will reduce false allegations of child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, and parental interference. Men and Women Against Discrimination (MAWAD) led the lobbying to get this passed. Bill 3065 is perhaps the first of its kind — a massive improvement over prior “wild...
Newspapers internationally reported that cellular telephone use increases the risk of brain tumors, citing the opinion of Vini Khurana, an Australian neurosurgeon. According to the Mobile Operators Association, Dr. Khurana’s conclusion “does not present a balanced analysis” and “reaches opposite conclusions to the World Health Organization and more than 30 other independent expert scientific...
I'm not sure if anything any public figure has ever said has surprised me less than the following. In a recent blog post, www.feministing.com editor Vanessa Valenti blogs live from the Women, Action & the Media conference at MIT. Vanessa writes: "Amanda Marcotte (pictured) talks about how a reproductive justice framework 'makes it easier to...
by Angry Harry MRAs (Men’s Rights Activists) need now to prepare for the horrors that are in store for them. Over the next two years or so they are going to see their countries continue to decline both economically and socially, and they are very likely to find themselves also having to deal with...
When I was a boy, I just could not sit still in class. I was very bored and active by nature, so I would rock my chair back, whisper and write notes to kids, even wander around the classroom–until the teacher yelled, “Martin, sit down!” This was decades ago. Today, I suspect I would...
From Ned Holstein, MD, MS, Executive Director of Fathers & Families: Ned Holstein: Major Progress Towards Shared Parenting Boston, MA-Fathers & Families has made major progress towards passage of shared parenting legislation in Massachusetts, and these gains can be exported to other states. Here are our major accomplishments: We demonstrated that ordinary people overwhelmingly support shared parenting...
Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting (RADAR) recently issued an alert of great importance pointing out how Avon’s sales representatives (of which Reese Witherspoon is the newest pitch-queen) are doing things tremendously damaging to women around the world. I was shocked to see an intelligent woman like Reese Witherspoon drumming war paint as the...
Note: This review was originally written for a library service called Tele-book in which people could call a special number to hear reviews read. I also used this book extensively in the article I wrote about the Jean Harris-Herman Tarnower case that appears at http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/harris/1.html. Very Much A Lady by Shana Alexander, author of...
Jonah Bloom, the editor of Advertising Age recently took an outrageous position backing advertising that either severely denigrates men, pictures them as subjects for sexual or social abuse, or portrays them as fools in a world of wonderful women. In his article �When It Comes to Whining About Ads, Father Knows Best�, Bloom makes...
Nobody should be surprised to see side-by-side headlines proclaiming that oil is hitting record prices while the dollar is dropping to new lows against foreign currencies. The pieces fit. As America is forced to expend ever more of its monetary supply in order to procure basic commodities from other countries, foreign powers gain greater...
China has confirmed that the newest generation of Long March rockets has been re-scheduled to enter use in 2014. Liang Xiaohong, Vice President of China’s Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, also confirmed that the Changzheng 5 design was built around pollution-free technologies. The rocket has been under development since 2002, and was initially said...
United States federal officials flushed billion of gallons of water into the Grand Canyon on Wednesday, in an experimental effort to distribute sediment throughout the river and restore the ecosystem to a more natural state. The water was released from two pipes in the controversial Glen Canyon Dam, which blocks the Colorado River and...
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...
By Alan Caruba For the last two days, March 2-4, I and about five hundred other people attended the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, including some of the world’s leading authorities on climatology, meteorology, economics, energy, and other fields of knowledge. It was an extraordinary event, held in New York and sponsored by...
Colonists were forced to house British soldiers. On MARCH 5, 1770, a crowd protested and in the confusion British soldiers fired, killing five, one being Crispus Attucks, the most famous African America who participated in the Revolution. Paul Revere’s popular engraving of the Boston Massacre fanned flames of anti-British sentiment. Joseph Warren, the President...
Background: California Lawyer magazine covered the Fathers' Rights Movement in the #2 story in its March issue--The Dad-Vocates by Bill Blum. The article quotes family law attorney David C. Stone, men's advocate Warren Farrell, Craig Candelore of the Men's Legal Center, myself, and others. In the article, Helen Grieco, executive director of the California chapter...
With wins in the state primaries of Vermont, Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island, Senator John McCain has gathered enough delegates to clinch the Republican Party’s nomination for President of the United States. President George W. Bush has invited McCain to the White House on Wednesday to show his support for the candidate. Meanwhile, McCain’s...
An unnamed male student has committed suicide by throwing himself out of a tenth floor window in Middlesbrough, England. The 24-year-old threw himself out of an open window in Middlesbrough Tower, the main building of the University of Teesside. The drop was 120 feet high. Police and ambulance were called to the scene at...
The implosion of a relationship between Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and journalist Rachel Marsden has resulted in controversy and international headlines. The Associated Press and ABC News have also reported on questionable activity by Wales involving Wikimedia Foundation expenses. The Wikimedia Foundation is a donor-supported non-profit organization which runs Wikipedia. Marsden had contacted Wales...
March 4, 2008 House Attempts to Expand List of “Mental Disorders†Covered by Employers Urge your Representative to Vote NO on the Mental Health Equity Act! Most Americans probably hear the phrase “more affordable health care†roll off the lips of certain presidential candidates on a daily basis, so why are Members of Congress...
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